It would be incredibly simple: Recruit would-be jihadis, not to become actual suicide bombers, but to act as phony ones and force the police to kill them (presumably delivering them to paradise, with the 72 virgins and all that, just as surely as a real bomber). Without carrying actual bombs it would be much harder to trace these “suicide non-bombers” to a terrorist network, so it would appear to the British public and to the world that the get-tough policy is killing innocents, thus causing mounting pressure on the British police to back off.

Of course, this would also make for a good decoy tactic – preoccupy the police with a host of fake bombers to make it harder for them to respond to a real bomber operating at the same time.

Obviously wearing a heavy coat and carrying a rucksack did him no favours and led to the whole episode. Asylum is blamed in the UK for breeding terrorism by the public at large and always defended by the government as nonesense.

Its a bit of a coincdence that he was seen leaving these flats and heading towards the tube. I think there is more to this story than we may realise.

The fact that he had no form, doesn’t tell the whole picture.

They may also have been SAS invloved as their policy is shoot to kill and asked questions later. That was their policy when dealing with the IRA.

It just shows how panicky and sensitive the whole situation is down there for both police and the public.

Apparently the guy was just an electrician, so it remains to be seen whether or not he knew any English. One would have to think he knew some rudimentary language skill. Enough to understand “Stop!” However, he may not have known what was going on. He also may not have known exactly what was happening in his own city, although my gut tells me he had to know.

Having said that, I agree that the guy should have known better and fully grasped the time and place he was living in. It certainly doesn’t make it any less sad in my eyes, but I can understand if people don’t have much pity for the guy.

But then I thought that he had the opportunity to stay where he was when the police shouted him to him to do so. He ran and his fate was sealed. The ploice have a job to do here and can’t take risks.

It also emerges that the guy had terrorist links. It can’t be easy for the guy who had to pull the trigger, but he had his orders and did his job well in protecting innocents from what he thought was a guy entering a tube station with a rucksack full of explosives, on his way to do harm.

So my prayer goes to the victims of 7/7 and not this dirtbag. Stay on the side of the police here, lets not start showing terrorists or its supporters sympathy here, remenber we are at war and its dirty.