{"id":2527,"date":"2005-07-22T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2018-02-12T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:02:58","slug":"that-will-play-well-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/that-will-play-well-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"That Will Play Well In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/\/article\/20050722\/D8BGKEE00.html?PG=home&#038;SEC=news\" target=\"_new\">AP account<\/a> of this morning&#8217;s shooting in the London underground:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plainclothes police chased a man in a thick coat through a subway station, <b>wrestled him to the floor of a train car and shot him to death<\/b> in front of stunned commuters Friday, witnesses said. Police said the shooting was &#8220;directly linked&#8221; to the investigations of the bomb attacks on London&#8217;s transit system.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Execution style.  That differs from other accounts, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/skynews\/article\/0,,30000-1189920,00.html\" target=\"_new\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt Stockwell Station, armed officers opened fire on the suspect after he hurdled a ticket barrier and raced along a platform.<\/p>\n<p>Police screamed at passengers to evacuate and are thought to have shot the suspect as he stumbled on to a train.<\/p>\n<p>Alarmed onlookers said they saw up to 10 plain-clothed officers chasing an Asian-looking man before opening fire.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair said the shooting was &#8220;directly linked&#8221; to ongoing anti-terrorist invetigations in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>He said the man had failed to comply with instructions from police before he was shot dead. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds a little less <i>Western police are gangstas shooting Muslims for sport<\/i>, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an AP account of this morning&#8217;s shooting in the London underground: Plainclothes police chased a man in a thick coat through a subway station, wrestled him to the floor of a train car and shot him to death in front of stunned commuters Friday, witnesses said. Police said the shooting was &#8220;directly linked&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19507,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}