[lbo-talk] Shot dead in London

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
><http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=12283>
>
>>    The "shoot to kill" policy appears to have been discreetly introduced 
>>into anti-terrorist procedures in 2003, after then-Metropolitan Police 
>>Commissioner Lord Stevens sent teams to both Israel and Sri Lanka to study 
>>how they dealt with suicide bombers.

Counterterrorist tips from Israel?  That's like getting advice on 
epidemiology from Typhoid Mary.

Carl