THIRD WAVE?
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THIRD WAVE?
liverpool station evacuated,details sketchy????
reports are all fucked up,raids going on everywhere.
i hope the suspects dont run,wait,run run run.
raids are in the Notting Hill are,super rich,very nice area.
so much for the poor oppressed theory.
Police Raid West London Home in 7/21 Case
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
LONDON - Heavily armed police wearing gas masks and reportedly using stun grenades raided a west London apartment block Friday, seeking suspects in the failed July 21 transit bombings, and British media reported at least one arrest.
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Britain's Press Association reported that police have made a number of arrests in the operation being carried out in at least two locations in Notting Hill about a quarter-mile apart.
Police were involved in a standoff with at least one man in an apartment, pointing assault weapons and pistols at the home, a witness said. Police wearing black balaclavas and body armor surrounded the building.
"They're asking him to leave the flat. They've been saying this for 25 minutes to half an hour," a witness identified as Lisa Davis told Sky News.
Police went door to door in the chic neighborhood, famous for its weekend street market, and told people to evacuate.
"I heard six loud bangs, which I found out from a policeman were stun grenades I believe, and then I heard two shots," witness Patrick Ball said. "The noise that I heard was an extremely loud bang."
Police confirmed that "an armed operation is currently in progress" but said it was in the "very early stages." The area is near west London's Little Wormwood Scrubs park, where police on Saturday found a fifth bomb in a dark backpack.
Two small explosions in the area could be heard on video broadcast by Sky News. Helicopters buzzed overhead and police cordoned off a number of streets, and said one person had been arrested. A female witness told CNN she saw several people being taken into custody.
"We've had loads of police cars flying up," said John Athanasiou, who works at a nearby estate agency. "There's been a helicopter overhead as well."
Witnesses also reported seeing heavily armed police, some wearing gas masks and others in forensic bodysuits. Some officers were seen wearing ski masks.
One of the four men suspected of carrying out the July 21 attacks on London's Tube and a bus was arrested in Birmingham, central England, on Wednesday. Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, was being questioned at a top-security police station in London.
Two weeks before the failed July 21 attacks, attacks on three other subway lines and another bus killed 56 people, including four suicide bombers.
Meanwhile, a police watchdog group investigated the killing of a Brazilian electrician, who was shot to death by officers who believed he was a suicide bomber.
Investigators from the Independent Police Complaints Commission appealed for witnesses who were at Stockwell subway station in south London where Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot eight times â?? seven times to the head on July 22.
Menezes' funeral is being held Friday in Gonzaga, Brazil, where he was born. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales will attend a Mass for Menezes at Westminster Cathedral in central London Friday evening.
One of the Tube stations closed after the July 7 attacks reopened Friday. Several bouquets of flowers lay at the entrance to the Edgware Road station in a tribute to the seven people killed there. But passenger numbers were visibly down â?? a sign of nervousness among Londoners despite a huge police operation to catch the terrorists.
"I felt a bit nervous coming through the tunnel just then and this morning my mum gave me a look as though she was never going to see me again," said commuter Jasmine Chandhoke, 22. "Everyone was being incredibly vigilant on the train, checking each other's bags."
Scotland Yard police headquarters declined to comment on the arrest in Zambia of a British man sought in connection with the July 7 bombings.
British investigators reportedly believe Haroon Rashid Aswat, 31, had been in telephone contact with some of the four suicide attackers who carried out the July 7 attacks.
The British Foreign Office said it was seeking access to a Briton reportedly detained in Zambia but would not identify him.
In Britain, police have 20 people in custody in connection with the July 21 attacks, and as part of what Commissioner Blair has described as "the largest investigation the Met (Metropolitan police) has ever mounted."
Omar is a Somali citizen with British residency suspected of carrying out the failed attack at the Warren Street subway station. He was being questioned at a high security police station in London.
He was arrested Wednesday in a dramatic raid in Birmingham when anti-terrorist officers subdued him with a stun gun.
At least the blasts were from stun gernades. Sounds like they're cleaning things up a bit!!
good,they should step it up alot more.