Horror on the Tube as marksmen close in

GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN
CHIEF NEWS CORRESPONDENT

TUBE passengers yesterday told of their horror after a man who police said was "directly linked" to the London bombings was shot dead on a train.

(Of course, this claim has since been retracted by police, who now admit this was an innocent man.)

It is understood the man, who was under surveillance by police, emerged from a nearby building.

(Actually, it is now known that it was the building, not the man, who was under surveillance. Gee, I hope this story wasn't published today ...)

But when he was challenged by plain clothes officers he ran off towards Stockwell Tube station in south London.

(According to the people who brought us "Iraq has WMD!!". The verdict is still out on what really happened, and CCTV images have not yet been brought forth to prove the official story.)

It was there that many passengers watched as the Asian male - who repeatedly failed to respond to police commands - was shot dead.

(A Brazillian man. And now several of the police accounts are in question. It is not known whether these unmarked, armed men made their identities known.)

The drama began at 10am when on the northbound track of the Northern Line, a train was about to pull up to the platform at Stockwell.

In the street, undercover police had been following a man from the direction of Brixton mosque. He started to run towards the station. The police gave chase.

About 20 police, some of them armed, rushed into the station. "They were carrying big black guns," said Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager.

"The next thing I saw was this guy jump over the barriers and the police officers were chasing after him and everyone was just shouting 'get out, get out'."

(It is now known that the man did not, as claimed, jump over the barriers. This calls the entire account into question, and the Burden of Proof is now on those making these claims.)

Down on the Northern Line platform, a train had pulled in.

Rob Lowe was sitting in the carriage when, he said, what would turn out to be a plain clothes police officer got on, looking around him. Suddenly the police officer shouted to a group on the opposite platform, who came running.

"The Tube was stationary and then a man came on who I presume now to be a plain clothes policeman, but at the time I didn't know who he was.

"He was looking quite shifty, getting up and sitting back down again. I felt a bit awkward around him. And then he seemed to shout at some people on the other platform who then all came rushing.

(What did he shout, I wonder? Who was he?)

"The Tube suddenly filled up with loads of people running down to the end of my carriage. Then I heard probably four or five loud bangs and saw a bit of smoke. More armed policemen appeared, telling us all to get out of the Tube and people started running off," he said.

(The still unidentified men shot the man EIGHT TIMES, once in the shoulder, and SEVEN TIMES IN THE HEAD, after he had already been apprehended.)

"It did look like there was somebody on the floor at the end. I didn't know whether it was a bag or a person - but then there were a lot of people around him and then I heard the bangs."

Mark Whitby was on the train when he heard people shouting "get down, get down" and an Asian man, heavily built and wearing a baseball cap and a thick padded jacket, ran on to the train, pursued by three plain clothes police officers, one of them carrying a handgun.

(A Brazillian man. I see you've read the "Talking Points" memo ... And it now appears that he was not wearing a bulky jacket.)

Mr Whitby said the young Asian man was shot five times at close range after he had jumped on a train.

(A Brazillian man. Shot EIGHT TIMES, seven rounds pumped into his head, after he was already lying on the ground, surrounded by "police".)

"An Asian guy ran on to the train. As he ran, he was hotly pursued by three plain clothes police officers."

(A Brazillian man. We still do not know who the other men were, or why they were after him.)

He said the man tripped and was also pushed to the floor, then one of the officers shot him five times.

(EIGHT TIMES, after he was already prone, surrounded by police.)

"One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand.

"They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it. He's dead, five shots, he's dead."

(Eight shots. SEVEN TO THE HEAD, and one to the shoulder.)

Mr Whitby said: "As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified."

(Perhaps this electrician had seen something he wasn't supposed to, and these intelligence operatives were out to silence him, before he blew this False Flag wide open. If they had been tailing him the whole time, why didn't they know where he was ... ?)

Mr Whitby said the man was wearing a baseball cap and a thick, padded jacket which he thought looked out of place due to the recent warm weather.

(You said that already. We now know that this is not true.)

"Maybe he might have had something concealed under there, I don't know."

(Under where? We now know that he had not been wearing a thick jacket. Nor were wires protruding from it, as the Government had initially claimed.)

He said he crouched down and ran from the station as fast as he could.

"I just was worried about bullets flying around. The other passengers were distraught. It was just mayhem, people were just getting off the Tube.

"I've never seen people move so fast in all my life. Absolute mayhem. It was a very, very distressing sight to watch, and to hear as well."

Another passenger, Chris Martin, was waiting to get on the train when a group of men burst on to the platform about 20 yards away from him.

"They came flying on to the platform and these guys just threw this man into the open doors of the train," he said.

(Where these men caught on camera? Who were they?)

Mr Martin thought it was three shots: "It sounded like a silencer gun going off, and then there was blind panic, with people shouting and screaming and just running away."

(A silencer. Interesting ...)

When Jason Dines, a fellow passenger, plucked up the courage to stand up, he could see someone lying on the floor and police standing around. He said: "There was a real wave of panic on my train, people were banging on the doors saying, you know, 'come on, open the doors, let us get off, we want to get off the train'.

(Actually, he didn't see police. He saw what he was later told were police. I'd like to know who they were.)

" There were people very, very shaken, a couple of people crying."

Anthony Larkin, another passenger, said he thought the shot man had been wearing a bomb belt. "I saw these police officers in uniform and out of uniform shouting 'get down, get down', and I saw this guy who appeared to have a bomb belt and wires coming out and people were panicking and I heard two shots being fired," he said.

(Yes, this was the original story put out by the Government that LIED about Iraq, but we now know this isn't true.)

Ben Anderson, in the next carriage, spoke of confusion and more shouting. "A lot of people were screaming. The first gunshot was fired and I started to run out of the Tube and up the stairs and then there were a lot of shots afterwards. Outside the police were everywhere, they cordoned off the area very quickly."

Such was the confusion that as the driver of the train tried to get to safety by fleeing down an underground tunnel, he was pursued by armed police who held a gun to his head before realising their mistake.

(Yes, he hadn't witnessed what the Brazillian man must have.)

Police moved quickly to shut off the station, and traffic approaching the area ground to a halt.

An ambulance and an air ambulance arrived, but the man who had been shot by the police was pronounced dead at the scene.

(With seven rounds to the head at close range, that is no surprise ...)

Nick Hardwick, chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said: "This morning's shooting at Stockwell Station is being referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission for investigation, in line with normal requirements under the Police Reform Act 2002.

(I hope they will refer to any existing surveillance images of the act in progress, and seek to identify all the men involved.)

"The IPCC independently investigates all fatal police shootings. In carrying out this investigation, the IPCC will ensure that nothing is done to hinder the urgent police priority of tracking down and bringing to justice those responsible for the recent London bombings and their vital work to prevent further outrages."

(Yes, as the "Talking Points" abvise, always make reference to the Government's Conspiracy Theory at the end of the story ...)