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London cops kill ’would-be bomber’ at tube station

Hunt on for 4 suspects; mosque cordoned off; Muslims fear a shoot-to-kill policy

Agencies, London
Police shot to death a man wearing a thick coal at a subway station and cordoned off a mosque yesterday, a day after die city was hit by a second wave of tenor attacks in two weeks.
Metropolitan Police said the man died after being shot by officers at the Stockwell subway station in south London.
Passengers said they saw police pursuing a man who appeared to be
of Pakistani or Indian descent. Some said police pursued him into a subway car and shot him when he tripped.
But one witness said police ’’pushed him onto the floor and unloaded fiveshots into him."
"He looked like a cornered fox. He looked petrified," Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Commuter Teri Godly said she stood next to the man early on
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ongoing terrorist investigation, Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair said.
"The information I have available is that this shooting (in Stockwell station) is directly linked to the ongoing and expanding antiterrorist operation," Blair told reporters.
"As I understand the situation, the man was challenged and refused to obey police instructions," he said.
"I need to make clear that any death is deeply regrettable," he said, adding: "I can't go any further at this stage."
Witnesses said the man was not wearing a rucksack like the ones filled with explosives that were used in the July 7 attacks and again on Thursday.
Blair said the man, who has yet to be publicly identified, was declared dead at the scene after the London Ambulance Service and a helicopter ambulance were called in.
Meanwhile, police briefly threw a cordon around a mosque in east London yesterday, a day after apparent attempts to carry out suicide bombings in the British capital, BBC News 24 television reported.
Police had no immediate details on the situation at the mosque in east London on Whitechapel Road. But a Muslim leader said it was evacuated following a bomb threat.
Mohammed Abdul Bari, chairman of the East London Mosque, said the threat came in a telephone call yesterday morning. A bomb squad came was searching the premises.
Not long afterwards, it said the police had stood down, as the focus of attention remained on an underground subway station in south London where a man -- a would-be suicide bomber, according to reports -- was shot by police.
More than 6,000 people were expected for Friday afternoon prayers but there were only about a dozen people inside at the time of the threat.
Police are hunting up to four bombers who struck at London's bus and underground train network in an apparently failed bid to repeat the carnage of the July 7 blasts.
Forensics experts searched the three underground trains and double-decker bus that were hit by small, near-simultaneous explosions at lunchtime on Thursday. They were also examining the remains of the explosive devices in the hope of finding fingerprints or other clues to the identity of the bomb-makers.
Friday's newspapers focused on the "miraculous" escape by hundreds of commuters after the devices detonated without causing any injuries, in stark contrast to the deadly attacks two weeks ago that killed 56 people, including four bombers, and wounded 700."Our lucky day," said a banner headline in the Daily Mirror. "Four bombs, three trains, one bus, zero deaths."
But, any joy was tempered by the knowledge that the attackers had managed to elude police and were still at large.
"Four suicide bombers on loose," was the tabloid Sun's headline.
Passengers on at least two of the trains told of would-be bombers fleeing after the explosions, which police said might have been detonators going off but failing to trigger a bomb.
The explosions appeared to be an attempt to copy the July 7 attacks, when four young British Muslims detonated rucksack bombs in three packed trains and a bus at morning rush hour.
"They had the same pattern and the same objective," an unnamed anti-terrorism official told the Guardian newspaper.
Security experts said it was still unclear why the devices failed to explode properly. Police said the unexploded bombs were 'homemade'.
"It could be they weren't constructed properly, it could be the explosives exceeded the age of their usefulness, or it could have been just sloppy handling," said Jim Ludwiczak, president of Kentuckybased Blasting and Mining Consultants.
Another analyst, Professor Hans Michels, of Imperial College, London, told the Times newspaper it was "extremely improbable" that all four devices would have failed to explode.
"It may be that the object this time was not to kill people but to cause chaos," he said.
Police said yesterday that no one had been arrested in connection with the blasts. Two men were released without charge late on Thursday after being questioned, Scotland Yard said.
While the blasts caused no injuries, police said one passenger was treated in hospital for a suspected asthma attack.
Security analysts said the attacks could have been masterminded either by the same group responsible for the July 7 blasts or by less sophisticated sympathisers -- maybe young, disaffected Muslims.
"There is a resonance here," police chief Ian Blair said, but he cautioned it would take time to tell who was to blame.
An al-Qaeda-linked group said yesterday it carried out the latest London attacks, warning it will not relent until all "infidel" forces quit Iraq, according to an Internet statement.
"Our strikes in the heart of the British infidel capital are nothing more than a message to all European governments that we shall not relent until all infidel forces quit Iraq," the group known as the Brigades of Abu Hafs al-Masri said.
"This is a warning to all those who follow the policies of the president of infidel America," said the statement, whose authenticity could not be confirmed.
Meanwhile, British Muslims said
they feared police were operating under a "shoot to kill" policy after a man was gunned down at an Underground train station yesterday following a new wave of bomb attacks.
The Muslim Council of Britain called on police to explain why the Asian man, reported as a "suspected suicide bomber" by Sky News, was shot dead at Stockwell station in south London.
Police have confirmed that officers pursued and shot a man who was pronounced dead at the scene, but have offered no explanation for the shooting.
A Muslim Council spokesman said Muslims were "jumpy and nervous" and feared reprisal attacks.
"I have just had one phone call saying 'What if I was carrying a rucksack?'," said Inayat Bunglawala, referring to the rucksack bombs used in the London attacks.
"It's vital the police give a statement about what occurred (at Stockwell) and explain why the man was shot dead," Bunglawala said.
"We are getting phone calls from quite a lot of Muslims who are distressed about what may be a shoot-to-kill policy."
Witnesses told Sky News that police shot the man five times at close range after shouting at him to stop.
"There may well be reasons why the police felt it necessary to unload five shots into the man and shoot him dead, but they need to make those reasons clear," Bunglawala said.
Another report says, police yesterday sealed off the home of a Muslim convert identified as one of the suicide bombers who killed 56 people in London two weeks ago after a suspected attempt to burn the building. Officers were called to Germaine Lindsay's home in Aylesbury, a town just outside London, shortly after 6:30am after reports of a strong smell of petrol in the street, officers said.
A substance thought to be petrol or diesel was found and the area was sealed off, with houses adjoining Lindsay's former home evacuated, police said.
Lindsay, a 1 9-year-old Jamaican-born Briton who converted to Islam, blew himself up on a London Underground train on July 7, killing 26 people that day.