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Originally Posted by Phang
scotland yard have already said he was being tailed in connection with yesterday's bombings. what ever the exact details, they're working well within the 'shoot to kill' policy they've adopted in this regard, and in the very short term at least the 'shoot to kill' policy may well be neccessary because the second set of bombs has shown that this is not following the single-event pattern of 9/11, bali and madrid.
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Well that's all nice and interesting but...
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Originally Posted by New York Times
A witness who had been sitting on a Northern Line subway train at Stockwell station said the man had been pursued by plainclothes police officers who fired five shots at close range.
"I was sitting on the train,' Mark Whitby said. "I heard a lot of noise, people saying, 'Get out, get down.' I saw an Asian guy. He ran on to the train, he was hotly pursued by three plain clothes officers, one of them was wielding a black handgun. He half tripped. They pushed him to the floor and basically unloaded five shots into him."
As the man stumbled onto the train, Mr. Whitby told the BBC, "I looked at his face, he looked sort of left and right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, a cornered fox."
"He looked absolutely petrified and then he sort of tripped, but they were hotly pursuing him," he said. The police officers "couldn't have been any more than two or three feet behind him at this time and he half tripped and was half pushed to the floor and the policeman nearest to me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand."
"He held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him," Mr Whitby said. Some British reports said the man's heavy clothing may have persuaded police officers that he was carrying a suicide bomb.
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...doesn't portray the image of a shoot-to-kill-is-necessary kind of situation.
Edit: if they thought that he had some kind of remote device that might start an explosion that would make some sense, but can't they use tasers or something?