Chemical, biological, weapons, i London?

[Ian Gentles]

Police raided at property this morning in East London, one man was shot in the raid. Police wore biological protection suits. They say the raid was after very good intelligence and weeks of surveilance. Sadly cries are going out as to why the ere poor man got shot, even i just in the shoulder. Some feel they were preparing a suicide mission for London itself. Both captured as described as young very religeos muslims! If this is all accurate, its very scarey indeed!

[Carsten Schermuly]

I pray, the sokker / football championship, beginning next week in Germany, will pass without any terror act. Never before have been mobilized so many security powers for a sport event like now. For Germany a cesura was done in 1972 while olympic games in Munich, Bavaria. Since that sport got a second face - the face of war in background.

[Paul Whitaker]

Police raided at property this morning in East London, one man was shot in the raid. Police wore biological protection suits. They say the raid was after very good intelligence and weeks of surveilance. Sadly cries are going out as to why the ere poor man got shot, even i just in the shoulder. Some feel they were preparing a suicide mission for London itself. Both captured as described as young very religeos muslims! If this is all accurate, its very scarey indeed!
Two arrested in London raid, police shoot one suspect Jun 02 2:11 PM US/Eastern Email this story

British police shot and injured one man and arrested a second in a major anti-terrorist raid on a house in east London following suspicions that it was being used to make chemical weapons.

Police sources told Sky News they expected to find a chemical bomb of some kind at the house, while the Press Association news agency said the dawn swoop followed intelligence about a suspected plot on British soil.

BBC television named them as Abdul Jalal and Abdul Kahar, without giving sources. It said both men were of Bangladeshi origin. One worked for postal firm Royal Mail and was said to be religious.

London's Metropolitan Police refused to comment on the men's identities and reports about chemical weapons.

But Peter Clarke, the head of the force's anti-terrorist branch, said: "The intelligence was such that it demanded an intensive investigation and response."

He added: "We planned an operation that was designed to mitigate any threat to the public either from firearms or from any hazardous substances."

Anti-terror officers worked closely with other agencies, including the Security Service and the Health Protection Agency (HPA), to plan the swoop.

The HPA has responsibilities for public safety when hazards involving chemicals, poisons or radiation occur.

Highlighting the significance of the raid, Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is in Italy, was informed about the plan beforehand, a spokeswoman from his Downing Street office said.

Police, however, said the operation had no link to the deadly bombings last July on the London transport network which left 56 people dead, including the four suicide bombers.

A large number of officers, 250 according to the BBC, stormed the house in the Forest Gate area at 4:00 am (0300 GMT), where police fired a single shot.

A neighbour said he saw a man wearing a bloodstained T-shirt being carried out of the property on Lansdown Road. He was reportedly shot in the shoulder.

The injured man, 23, whose wounds were not life-threatening, was taken to the Royal London Hospital, where he was later arrested on suspicion of being involved in plotting "acts of terrorism", police said.

Angry at the shooting, about 20 Asian men gathered outside the hospital gate to protest.

A 21-year-old man, who did not want to be named, said: "Going into someone's house and shooting them in front of their mum, that's not right is it?

"Just because they have got a beard doesn't mean to say you can shoot them."

Another man, aged 23, who also requested anonymity, told Press Association that the injured suspect was a "straightforward guy" who worked for the Royal Mail postal service.

The second man arrested in the raid, aged 20, was being held at a high-security police station in central London. Reports said the two men were brothers.

More than 12 hours after the raid began, scores of officers in protective clothing were still at the scene, where a number of cordons were in place and roads closed. Tents and scaffolding were erected in front of the raided house.

A five-mile (eight-kilometre) air exclusion zone was in force overhead.

Clarke said officers were conducting a thorough investigation to prove or disprove the "specific intelligence" which prompted the raid.

"One part of it will be a painstaking search of the premises in Lansdown Road," he said, underlining that this may take several days.

Several other people who were in the house at the time of the raid were moved out but not arrested.

The area has a large number of Bengali and Pakistani families who have lived there for some time and a recent influx of people from eastern Europe, said Salim Mala, 42, who runs a shop close to one of the police cordons.

Meanwhile, the Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation into the shooting of the 23-year-old man.

British police were heavily criticized for shooting dead an innocent Brazilian on a subway train in London last July as part of an anti-terrorist operation mounted in the aftermath of the London bombings.

[Carsten Schermuly]

where is the strong man to make islam and catholicism an end?

[Ian Gentles]

I pray, the sokker / football championship, beginning next week in Germany, will pass without any terror act. Never before have been mobilized so many security powers for a sport event like now. For Germany a cesura was done in 1972 while olympic games in Munich, Bavaria. Since that sport got a second face - the face of war in background.

Yes, it could obviously be a target!

[Ian Gentles]

We have a Christian Centre on that road, pray for our staff as they work with the comminity, and that opportunities may come for spreading the gospel!

[Carsten Schermuly]

It is no more a national question. What will happen in London or on any other place in the world touches us the very same way as it will happen in one of our german towns. Interests for peace do base not on national law and order because terror is a world wide war. Everybody is touched. Everybody is involved in the unwanted war. Permanently - without a pause.

[Carsten Schermuly]

We have a Christian Centre on that road, pray for our staff as they work with the comminity, and that opportunities may come for spreading the gospel!Thank you! That is very nice to hear!
The same way we think too.
We watch TV what happens in Iraq and listen to the commentaries, sounding, it were unright, done by the US Army. Is it really unright? Can we trust in journalists? Do we know what was decisional to act? Is Mr. Rumsfeld really the ugly man alkind will point to? Who knows?
Solidarity is needed and to pray for another is the best what ever we can do. Politic is not made by men - it is the hand of the Lord, that moves the world.

[Ian Gentles]

It is no more a national question. What will happen in London or on any other place in the world touches us the very same way as it will happen in one of our german towns. Interests for peace do base not on national law and order because terror is a world wide war. Everybody is touched. Everybody is involved in the unwanted war. Permanently - without a pause.

I couldent have said it better!