Saturday, July 23, 2005

The Brits are giving me hope

First there's this, money quote being:
"Under secret guidelines codenamed Operation Kratos, armed officers were instructed that they should shoot to kill suspected suicide bombers. “The most effective way of dealing with someone with explosives is to shoot them in the head,” said the officer.

S019 commanders also sent armed teams onto the streets of London in four Jankel armoured vehicles, bought by Scotland Yard last year for this eventuality. The vehicles are designed to protect their passengers from the impact of a suicide bomb blast.

Inside each vehicle were marksmen and women from the elite 72-man cadre of Specialist Firearms Officers (SFOs). The SFOs are divided into six teams of 12 which have been given different colour-coded names.
They are armed with Glock pistols, Heckler & Koch MP5 semi-automatic machineguns and G3 short-barreled rifles, which are small enough to be carried discreetly in a shoulder holsters. The rifles, equipped with “red dot” sights, use “frangible” ammunition that releases all its energy in the target’s body, instead of passing through it and endangering nearby civilians. "

Interesting that a government that will throw you in jail if you hurt someone who attacks you in your home will have plans waiting for 'you think he's a bomber, kill him'. Hypocritical as hell, but at least they did have a plan for it.

Second thing is this:
"Upstairs in the station, a passenger, Paul Martin, saw "a guy being chased. It was completely crazy. People were trying to drop him, to rugby tackle him," he told The Guardian."

So they're actually acting, this is good. Now if they'll start deporting the jihadis("I don't care what they'll do to him in Jordan, ship him out!"), and stop harassing people for acting in self-defense, they'll be well on their way.

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