Daily Mail, 28 April 2012
The
face of modern policing: This picture shows the specialist combat gear
worn by the armed police units responding
to the siege in central London yesterday (Daily
Mail, 28 April 2012)
Armed
police officers walk in Tottenham Court Road in central London
April 27, 2012. (REUTERS/Luke MacGregor)
The Independent, 17 March 2011
Daily
Express, 21 December 2011
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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/29/18712326.php
"Lethal
force on the streets of London": British police rehearse for the 2012
Olympics
[propaganda
alert]
compiled
by Cem Ertür
29
April 2012
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136289/Tottenham-Court-Road-bomb-scare-reveals-police-team-preparing-London-2012-Olympics.html#ixzz1tNn8N28W
excerpts
from:
Chilling new face of police (*)
Suicide bomb drama
gives glimpse of paramilitary-style Olympic security
(*)
title of the print edition
by
David Williams, Colin Fernandez, Arthur Martin and Ian Drury, Daily
Mail, 28 April 2012
Bristling
with guns, his face masked, a police officer moves in on a suspected
suicide bomber.
Just 91 days away from the start of the [London] Olympics, the dramatic
scene gave a foretaste of what can be expected this summer after a man
threatened to blow himself up in a busy office block.
Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked
down over a wide area of London's West End.
Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare
specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building
on Tottenham scrambled to an office block on Tottenham Court Road, one
of the city's busiest shopping streets. [...]
Members of the [London] Metropolitan Police's CO19 firearms unit
– several of them former soldiers – covered the
windows and entrances with their weapons while others covertly entered
the block. […]
Special forces soldiers based in London including the SAS had been put
on alert while members of the RAF's [Royal Air Force] nuclear,
biological and chemical warfare group was dispatched to the scene.
[…]
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related
news:
Missiles
stationed on residential roof for Olympics
The
Army is set to station soldiers and high velocity surface-to-air
missiles on top of a block of residential flats to ward off any
airborne terror threats during the Olympics.
Sunday
Telegraph, 29 April 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9234030/Missiles-stationed-on-residential-roof-for-Olympics.html
Revealed:
Police plans to fire rubber bullets in London
Scotland Yard authorised the
deployment of rubber bullets ready for use on the streets of London 22
times in the past two years, The Independent can reveal.
by
Cahal Milmo, The Independent, 17 March 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-police-plans-to-fire-rubber-bullets-in-london-7575904.html
Now
police can shoot rioters
Police
should be prepared to shoot arsonists during riots to save innocent
lives, one of the UK’s senior officers has said.
by
Giles Sheldrick and John Towney, Daily Express, 21 December 2011
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/291156/Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters
Met
Police to use Jean Charles De Menezes death bullets
The Metropolitan Police is to issue all its firearms officers with the
type of ammunition used to kill Jean Charles De Menezes.
BBC,
11 May 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13364365
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propaganda
alerts:
"Mission
accomplished": Le Figaro celebrates the extrajudicial execution of
Mohamed Merah
by
Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 23
March 2012
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/23/18709987.php
British
government: 13,500 troops to be deployed for the London 2012 Olympics
by
Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 16
December 2011
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/16/18702893.php
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