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lockdown Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:15 PM
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20. Good old auntie beeb,
who fed so many of the Menezes lies in the first place. Got in half an hour back and saw this news on the Web, still not a peep on BBC News 24 in that time.

Here's video of the C4 report:

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=550

And a report in The Times, while I'm on:

The Brazilian electrician mistakenly killed by police in the aftermath of the second London bombings was being restrained by an officer before he was shot eight times as he was sitting on a Tube train, it emerged tonight.

Witness statements and photographs from an independent police investigation leaked to ITV News also show that Jean Charles de Menezes did not run away from police at Stockwell Tube station in South London and was wearing only a denim jacket before he was shot dead on July 22.

The evidence contradicts claims from the Metropolitan Police at the time that the Brazilian’s "clothing and his behaviour at the station added to their suspicions", that he vaulted the ticket barrier and was wearing a heavy overcoat, which could have concealed a bomb.

It also emerged that one of the undercover team keeping Senhor de Menezes’s home under surveillance was relieving himself instead of filming the operation, so officers could not tell if they had tracked down one of the alleged bombers.

...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1738370,00.html

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