British police have shot a Muslim man in an anti-terrorism raid, but if all you read are reports from al-Reuters, you might never know there’s a connection to Islam:
British anti-terrorist police, backed up by the bomb squad and officers in protective suits, shot a man in a dawn raid on a house in east London on Friday.
Scotland Yard said the 23-year-old man was wounded after more than 250 officers, acting on intelligence, staged the raid, one of the biggest since last July’s suicide bombings on the capital’s transport system. "During the operation, a man was shot by police and has been taken to a nearby hospital," a statement said.
No details about the shot man or what had provoked the raid were given. The man was arrested in hospital on suspicion of "the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism," police said. A 20-year-old man was also arrested at the scene and was taken to a central London police station for questioning.
The shooting incident has been routinely referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, who said the man’s injuries were not life-threatening and one shot had been fired. Police said the operation followed close liaison between security services and the Health Protection Agency, a body charged with guarding against infectious diseases.
And two Ministry of Defence scientists - one male and one female - who are working on producing a vaccine for bubonic plague have been called to the house to check for plague spores. 'We were told on Friday that we were needed to check the house because of our expertise on the plague project,' said the male scientist. 'We were told to drop everything, pack a bag and stand by to be driven to London.'
Sky News, citing unnamed sources, said the raided house had been a suspected bomb factory.
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