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"Lethal force on the streets of London": British police rehearse for the 2012 Olympics

by Cem Ertür
In the run up to the 2012 London Olympics, all the signs indicate that the British establishment is gearing up for another major false-flag incident.
Daily Mail, 28 April 2012

Daily Mail, 28 April 2012










The face of modern policing: This picture shows the specialist combat gear worn by the armed police units responding
to the siege in central London yesterday   (Daily Mail, 28 April 2012)









Armed police officers walk in Tottenham Court Road in central London April 27, 2012.  Police sent a hostage negotiator to an office block in central London and evacuated the area around the building after a man threw computer equipment from a fifth floor window on Friday.   REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Armed police officers walk in Tottenham Court Road in central London
April 27, 2012.   (REUTERS/Luke MacGregor)







The Independent, 17 March 2012

The Independent, 17 March 2011









Daily Express, 21 December 2011

 Daily Express, 21 December 2011


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"Lethal force on the streets of London": British police rehearse for the 2012 Olympics



[propaganda alert]

compiled by Cem Ertür

29 April 2012






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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136289/Tottenham-Court-Road-bomb-scare-reveals-police-team-preparing-London-2012-Olympics.html#ixzz1tNn8N28W


excerpts from: Chilling new face of police   (*)

Suicide bomb drama gives glimpse of paramilitary-style Olympic security

(*) title of the print edition

by David Williams, Colin Fernandez, Arthur Martin and Ian Drury, Daily Mail, 28 April 2012




Bristling with guns, his face masked, a police officer moves in on a suspected suicide bomber.

Just 91 days away from the start of the [London] Olympics, the dramatic scene gave a foretaste of what can be expected this summer after a man threatened to blow himself up in a busy office block.

Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked down over a wide area of London's West End.

Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building on Tottenham scrambled to an office block on Tottenham Court Road, one of the city's busiest shopping streets. [...]

Members of the [London] Metropolitan Police's CO19 firearms unit – several of them former soldiers – covered the windows and entrances with their weapons while others covertly entered the block. […]

Special forces soldiers based in London including the SAS had been put on alert while members of the RAF's [Royal Air Force] nuclear, biological and chemical warfare group was dispatched to the scene. […]



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Missiles stationed on residential roof for Olympics

The Army is set to station soldiers and high velocity surface-to-air missiles on top of a block of residential flats to ward off any airborne terror threats during the Olympics.

Sunday Telegraph, 29 April 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9234030/Missiles-stationed-on-residential-roof-for-Olympics.html




Revealed: Police plans to fire rubber bullets in London

Scotland Yard authorised the deployment of rubber bullets ready for use on the streets of London 22 times in the past two years, The Independent can reveal.

by Cahal Milmo, The Independent, 17 March 2012

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-police-plans-to-fire-rubber-bullets-in-london-7575904.html




Now police can shoot rioters

Police should be prepared to shoot arsonists during riots to save innocent lives, one of the UK’s senior officers has said.

by Giles Sheldrick and John Towney, Daily Express, 21 December 2011

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/291156/Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters-Now-police-can-shoot-rioters




Met Police to use Jean Charles De Menezes death bullets

The Metropolitan Police is to issue all its firearms officers with the type of ammunition used to kill Jean Charles De Menezes.

 
BBC, 11 May 2011
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13364365


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propaganda alerts:



"Mission accomplished": Le Figaro celebrates the extrajudicial execution of Mohamed Merah

by Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 23 March 2012

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/23/18709987.php




British government: 13,500 troops to be deployed for the London 2012 Olympics

by Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 16 December 2011

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/16/18702893.php




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