> What exactly were the London police thinking when they
> blew away that bombing-related suspect today?
I'm sure that will come out later, but if he was attempting to arm or activate explosives on his body, that's good enough reason to try to stop him from succeeding.
> Was the assumption that they would learn more from an autopsy
> than from questioning him?
If this was the case, you were having an autopsy anyway. Much better to have one than more-than-one . . .
/jordan