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UK jury not allowed to find police guilty of murdering innocent man
Jean Charles de Menezes ridiculous British Coroners Inquiry
December 12, 2008
After a three-month hearing costing an estimated £6 million, jurors rejected a verdict that the innocent Brazilian had been killed lawfully by police.
The jury returned an ambiguous, open verdict — their only option beside 'police lawfully killed' that the jury were allowed after the coroner ruled they could not find that Mr de Menezes was illegally shot dead by officers.
Illuminati IPCC clears Menezes police again
October 2, 2009
Those who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes will not face disciplinary action, the Illuminati Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says.
The IPCC 'reviewing' its original decision following last year's inquest into the shooting at Stockwell Tube station in south London in July 2005.
Jean Charles de Menezes, shot and killed by British police. UK jury not allowed to find police guilty of murdering innocent man Jean Charles de Menezes ridiculous British Coroners Inquiry December 12, 2008 After a three-month hearing costing an estimated £6 million, jurors rejected a verdict that the innocent Brazilian had been killed lawfully by police. The jury returned an ambiguous, open verdict — their only option beside 'police lawfully killed' that the jury were allowed after the coroner ruled they could not find that Mr de Menezes was illegally shot dead by officers. Illuminati IPCC clears Menezes police again October 2, 2009 Those who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes will not face disciplinary action, the Illuminati Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says. The IPCC 'reviewing' its original decision following last year's inquest into the shooting at Stockwell Tube station in south London in July 2005.
Jean Charles de Menezes
witnesses say police gave no warning
A couple sitting opposite Jean Charles de Menezes said that they never heard undercover police identify themselves before they shot the innocent Brazilian, an inquest heard today.
Ralph Livock was travelling with his girlfriend Rachel Wilson when they saw several men with guns board the train at Stockwell Tube station and move towards Mr de Menezes with their weapons raised.
They said that they had no idea if the men were pranksters, police or terrorists and realised the severity of the situation only when the shooting started and Ms Wilson found that she was covered in blood.
Never heard 'armed police'
At no time, they said, did they hear anyone shout "armed police", contradicting accounts from other armed officers that they had identified themselves.
The couple were sitting on the train reading about how four failed suicide bombers had targeted London's transport network the day before — July 21, 2005 — when the plain-clothed officers boarded the train.
Mr Livock, asked if any of the officers identified themselves, said: "Absolutely not.   On the television you see people with police caps or jackets. There was nothing like that."
"One of my initial thoughts was that it was all a game and they were a group of lads who were just having a laugh, a very bad-taste laugh, but just having a game on the Tube because they were dressed in jeans and T-shirts but with firearms.
"We had no idea whether they were police, whether they were terrorists, whether they were somebody else, we just had no idea.
Man in front fired into Mr de Menezes's head
"The thing that had me realise it was not a group of lads playing around or something else happening was when the first shot was fired.   The man in the front fired into Mr de Menezes's head and at the stage it gets confusing in my mind."
Ms Wilson said: "I thought they were messing around and then I thought they were terrorists and it was only when I left the carriage and somebody moved me gently out of the way that I realised they were good guys."
Asked when she realised it was more serious than people playing a game she told Southwark Coroners court, sitting at the Oval:  "When I looked down and there was blood on my hands."
She said that she sat still hoping that the men with guns would not notice her.
Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, left, was criticised for failing as it is stated by the police to tell his boss, Sir Ian Blair, right, of officers’ fears that they had killed an innocent man. UK jury not allowed to find police guilty of murdering innocent man Jean Charles de Menezes ridiculous British Coroners Inquiry December 12, 2008 After a three-month hearing costing an estimated £6 million, jurors rejected a verdict that the innocent Brazilian had been killed lawfully by police. The jury returned an ambiguous, open verdict — their only option beside 'police lawfully killed' that the jury were allowed after the coroner ruled they could not find that Mr de Menezes was illegally shot dead by officers. Illuminati IPCC clears Menezes police again October 2, 2009 Those who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes will not face disciplinary action, the Illuminati Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says. The IPCC 'reviewing' its original decision following last year's inquest into the shooting at Stockwell Tube station in south London in July 2005. Photo: Leon Neal/The Times
It is stated by British police, that Blair, the top man in charge, did not know of killing, was not involved in lies.
Mr de Menezes looked like he was waiting for somebody to tell him what was going on
Mr Livock said that when the armed men appeared Mr de Menezes did not look scared.
"Mr de Menezes was looking as if he was, I hesitate to say confused, that's not really right, he was looking as if he was expecting somebody to say something, he didn't look frightened, he looked like he was waiting for somebody to tell him what was going on."
Contrary to what the armed officers told the court he said that he did not see the 27-year-old electrician get out of his seat and walk towards the officers.
"My recollection is that I didn't see him doing anything other than sitting," he said.
He added that he remembered Mr de Menezes reached towards the top of his trousers and then the shooting started.
Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head at point-blank range after being mistaken for a failed suicide bomber.
As Mr Livock got off the train he heard more shooting, he said.
He looked round and saw Mr de Menezes "slumped" in his seat and there was a lot of blood.
Jean Charles de Menezes body, shot and killed by British police. A couple sitting opposite Jean Charles de Menezes said that they never heard undercover police identify themselves before they shot the innocent Brazilian, an inquest heard today. Ralph Livock was travelling with his girlfriend Rachel Wilson when they saw several men with guns board the train at Stockwell Tube station and move towards Mr de Menezes with their weapons raised. They said that they had no idea if the men were pranksters, police or terrorists and realised the severity of the situation only when the shooting started and Ms Wilson found that she was covered in blood. At no time, they said, did they hear anyone shout 'armed police', contradicting accounts from other armed officers that they had identified themselves. The couple were sitting on the train reading about how four failed suicide bombers had targeted London's transport network the day before — July 21, 2005 — when the plain-clothed officers boarded the train. Mr Livock, asked if any of the officers identified themselves, said: 'Absolutely not. On the television you see people with police caps or jackets. There was nothing like that.' 'One of my initial thoughts was that it was all a game and they were a group of lads who were just having a laugh, a very bad-taste laugh, but just having a game on the Tube because they were dressed in jeans and T-shirts but with firearms. 'We had no idea whether they were police, whether they were terrorists, whether they were somebody else, we just had no idea. 'The thing that had me realise it was not a group of lads playing around or something else happening was when the first shot was fired. The man in the front fired into Mr de Menezes's head and at the stage it gets confusing in my mind.' Ms Wilson said: 'I thought they were messing around and then I thought they were terrorists and it was only when I left the carriage and somebody moved me gently out of the way that I realised they were good guys.' Asked when she realised it was more serious than people playing a game she told Southwark Coroners court, sitting at the Oval: 'When I looked down and there was blood on my hands.' She said that she sat still hoping that the men with guns would not notice her. Mr Livock said that when the armed men appeared Mr de Menezes did not look scared. 'Mr de Menezes was looking as if he was, I hesitate to say confused, that's not really right, he was looking as if he was expecting somebody to say something, he didn't look frightened, he looked like he was waiting for somebody to tell him what was going on.' Contrary to what the armed officers told the court he said that he did not see the 27-year-old electrician get out of his seat and walk towards the officers. 'My recollection is that I didn't see him doing anything other than sitting,' he said.
Passengers ran on to a Victoria Line train before getting off at Pimlico.
They tried to get a member of staff to call police but he wanted to know why.
Mr Livock said: "He wanted reasons why he should call police and it was not until I showed him that Rachel was covered in blood that he tired to get hold of the police."
But he could not get through, the inquest heard, so the group of seven or eight witnesses went to a nearby pub and the landlord called the police.
Mr Livock said that officers interviewed them while other members of the public sat around drinking.
A third passenger, Wesley Merrill, told the hearing that he saw some officers wearing police hats.
Speaking outside the court Mr de Menezes's mother, Maria Otone de Menezes, 63, said:  "None of the passengers heard the police give any warning or described Jean's actions as aggressive.
"It has been painful to me when police have implied he acted in a manner that contributed to his death."
Adam Fresco and Hannah Strange – Times Online October 30, 2008
Britain Real Police State
Comment – Times Online, October 30, 2008
De Menezes killing was an execution, pure and simple.
The fact that we have only just heard from these two eyewitnesses suggests that British police have been trying to cover-up what was essentially a murder; as is the fact that their evidence completely contradicts earlier police accounts.
That it has taken more than three years for these accounts to reach the public domain is another indication that the authorities are trying to suppress the truth about what really happened on July 22, 2005.
This whole episode bears the hallmarks of the actions of a totalitarian state; as does the arrest of a cameraman who had tried to film the police marksmen a few days earlier.
Make no mistake: Britain is in the process of becoming a real police state.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Menezes CCTV shows armed police
CCTV image of firearms officer in Stockwell Tube station Firearms police shown at Stockwell Tube station
Firearms police shown at Stockwell Tube station
Armed police in pursuit of Jean Charles de Menezes have been seen in CCTV images shown to an Old Bailey court.
Firearms officers, including the two who shot dead Mr de Menezes on 22 July 2005, are seen entering Stockwell Tube station minutes behind the victim.
A surveillance officer said he had been shocked to see armed officers, after there had been "no information that they would be part of the operation".
The Met Police denies breaking health and safety laws over the shooting.
The pictures show Mr de Menezes walking through ticket barriers at Stockwell Tube station shortly before he was shot dead.
Surveillance officers are seen following the 27-year-old Brazilian, with firearms officers seen arriving at speed minutes later.
One surveillance officer, codenamed Graham, said he had been in the foyer of the station when the armed officers arrived.
"I have a recollection of them shouting, vaulting, attempting to vault the barrier," he told the court.
"I was surprised. I was shocked," he added.
"From the briefing point of view, there had been no information that they would be part of the operation."
The CCTV images also show frightened commuters running from the scene.
I have a recollection of [armed officers] shouting, vaulting, attempting to vault the barrier
Surveillance officer 'Graham'
Tactics
Mr de Menezes was killed the day after the failed 21 July 2005 suicide bombings.
The Met says that, while Mr de Menezes's death was a tragic mistake, it was not a crime because officers thought they were dealing with a suicide bomber.
On Tuesday, the Old Bailey heard that police following Mr de Menezes may have suspected he was using counter-surveillance techniques when he left and got back on a bus.
Mr de Menezes had got off the bus in Brixton town centre and started walking towards the Underground station - but after 20 metres turned back when he saw the station was temporarily closed.
An undercover officer, codenamed Ivor, reported Mr de Menezes's movements on his radio, but had not seen the Tube station was closed.
Ronald Thwaites QC, defending, told the court that given the officers did not know Brixton station was closed, it would have been "obvious" to suspect the suspect was using counter-surveillance tactics to lose someone who was tailing him.
The trial continues.
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 Shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed
From Times Online October 28, 2008
Officer stopped to reload gun while firing fatal shots at Jean Charles de Menezes
Adam Fresco, Crime Correspondent
One of the firearms officers who chased Jean Charles de Menezes onto a tube train told today how he had to reload his weapon as he fired at point blank range at the innocent Brazilian because his gun jammed.
As the officer, known as Charlie 2, began to describe the fatal moment when the electrician was shot he said he wanted to acknowledge how distressing the process was for the family.
"Can I take this opportunity to acknowledge the family because I am very well aware of what we are going to describe and this is distressing for me and I completely respect and understand how difficult this is for them," he said.
"I would like to say I am a father and if he were my son I would be utterly devastated.    And I would like to offer my condolences before I describe this thing that happened.”
The officer, who has been a specialist firearms officer for 17-years, told how he followed a colleague onto a northbound train at Stockwell tube station, believing they were following Hussain Osman, one of four failed suicide bombers who had tried to strike in London the day before, on July 21 2005.
Describing the moment he got onto the train and raised his gun he said:  "At this point I was convinced that this man was a suicide bomber and he was about to detonate a bomb and blow us all up.
"I had the honestly held belief that unless I acted immediately I and other persons present were about to die and I formed the opinion that I had to shoot this man in the head and kill him instantly to prevent any detonation."
Alongside him on the carriage was another firearms officer, known as Charlie 12 and a surveillance officer.
As Charlie 2 got onto the train Mr de Menezes got up from his seat and started walking towards them before the surveillance officer grabbed him and pushed him back down on his seat.
Charlie 2 raised his gun, he told the inquest sitting at the Oval cricket ground, but did not remember anyone identifying themselves as police officers.
From behind a screen he said: "I ran forward and reached over the top of the surveillance officer and I pushed him down.    I shouted 'armed police' and I held up the handgun to the head of the subject and I fired."
Asked why he shouted a warning at such a late stage he said it was out of training and to let members of the public know who he was.
Charlie 2, who said he did not hear any shots before he opened fire, said his gun jammed as he unloaded six shots. Mr Hilliard asked:  “Can you explain why you fired six shots?”    Charlie 2 replied:  “At the time I fired I believed that I, and everyone else, was about to die."
Jean Charles de Menezes body, shot and killed by British police. A couple sitting opposite Jean Charles de Menezes said that they never heard undercover police identify themselves before they shot the innocent Brazilian, an inquest heard today. Ralph Livock was travelling with his girlfriend Rachel Wilson when they saw several men with guns board the train at Stockwell Tube station and move towards Mr de Menezes with their weapons raised. They said that they had no idea if the men were pranksters, police or terrorists and realised the severity of the situation only when the shooting started and Ms Wilson found that she was covered in blood. At no time, they said, did they hear anyone shout 'armed police', contradicting accounts from other armed officers that they had identified themselves. The couple were sitting on the train reading about how four failed suicide bombers had targeted London's transport network the day before — July 21, 2005 — when the plain-clothed officers boarded the train. Mr Livock, asked if any of the officers identified themselves, said: 'Absolutely not. On the television you see people with police caps or jackets. There was nothing like that.' 'One of my initial thoughts was that it was all a game and they were a group of lads who were just having a laugh, a very bad-taste laugh, but just having a game on the Tube because they were dressed in jeans and T-shirts but with firearms. 'We had no idea whether they were police, whether they were terrorists, whether they were somebody else, we just had no idea. 'The thing that had me realise it was not a group of lads playing around or something else happening was when the first shot was fired. The man in the front fired into Mr de Menezes's head and at the stage it gets confusing in my mind.' Ms Wilson said: 'I thought they were messing around and then I thought they were terrorists and it was only when I left the carriage and somebody moved me gently out of the way that I realised they were good guys.' Asked when she realised it was more serious than people playing a game she told Southwark Coroners court, sitting at the Oval: 'When I looked down and there was blood on my hands.' She said that she sat still hoping that the men with guns would not notice her. Mr Livock said that when the armed men appeared Mr de Menezes did not look scared. 'Mr de Menezes was looking as if he was, I hesitate to say confused, that's not really right, he was looking as if he was expecting somebody to say something, he didn't look frightened, he looked like he was waiting for somebody to tell him what was going on.' Contrary to what the armed officers told the court he said that he did not see the 27-year-old electrician get out of his seat and walk towards the officers. 'My recollection is that I didn't see him doing anything other than sitting,' he said.
The court has heard that Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head.
Asked why he put the gun to his head he said: "I was so close because I didn't want to shoot the surveillance officer.   He was between me and the subject.   I knew C12 was there, I knew that there were members of the public on the Tube and I just could not afford to miss.   That's why I got so close."
The officer, who said he had never before fired at a suspect, then described getting a stoppage on his gun that he had to clear.
"The important thing here is to remain calm," he said before telling how he corrected the problem.
The coroner said, Sir Michael Wright, said:  "So, you had to actually reload the gun manually?"
"Yes sir, I cleared the stoppage manually and then carried on firing.
"At the time I fired I believed that I and everybody else was about to die.   From my position - I am sorry, this is not pleasant what I am describing - I knew I could not access the brain stem and could not be certain that I could achieve instant incapacitation with one shot so I had to make sure that life was extinct.
"Because I had had a stoppage I was not sure if I had lost any rounds in the process."
After the shooting he shouted for everyone to get out and was covered in blood.
"I put on my police cap and noticed that I had blood on my gun, on my hands, on my arms, my face and all over my clothes."
When he learnt he had shot an innocent man the next day he told the inquest that he was "deeply shocked" and it was against everything he had trained for and the fact that he had killed an innocent man was something that he thought about every day.
“Only God knows the pain I am feeling.   He [Metropolitan Police Commissioner Blair] should be arrested.”
Maria Otone de Menezes — Mother of Jean Charles
“We were told that CCTV [closed—circuit television] tapes given to the police were not working.
The police are lying.
They emptied the tapes.
We are very upset about that lie.
Inside Stockwell station, we saw more than nine cameras,”
Giovanni da Silva — Brother
Bullet banned in warfare
under international law
London Police Stalled Probe Into Shooting
By Mary Jordan
 Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, August 19, 2005; Page A13
UK Police State Systemic killing - Menezes surveillance coverup - Shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed. MURDERING US Andre Dantas Correia, a Brazilian, kneels by tributes for compatriot Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell subway station in London. Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by British police who said they ' mistakenly ' thought he was a suicide bomber. He was killed with a type of bullet banned in warfare under international law. The London metropolitan police resisted and delayed an independent investigation into why their officers shot an innocent man seven times in the head on a subway car last month, the official police oversight commission announced Thursday, adding to growing criticism of Scotland Yard. Photo: Paul Hackett — Reuters
Andre Dantas Correia, a Brazilian, kneels by tributes for compatriot Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell subway station in London.
(By Paul Hackett — Reuters)
LONDON, Aug. 18 — The London metropolitan police resisted and delayed an independent investigation into why their officers shot an innocent man seven times in the head on a subway car last month, the official police oversight commission announced Thursday, adding to growing criticism of Scotland Yard.
Officials from the Independent Police Complaints Commission, established in 2004 to restore public confidence after a series of high-profile deaths of minority suspects in police custody, said they hoped to make up "lost ground" and soon tell the public why Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, an electrician from Brazil, was killed July 22.
Immediately after the shooting, Ian Blair, the city's police commissioner, said Menezes "was directly linked to the ongoing and expanding antiterrorist operation."  But the following day, Blair said that was not the case.  He expressed his "deepest regrets" and accepted "full responsibility" for the death.
In explaining why de Menezes had been shot, police initially issued a statement saying "his clothing and his behavior at the station added to suspicions" they had about him being a potential suicide bomber.  He was shot the day after a failed bombing on the London subway system and two weeks after a bomb attack July 7 on the transit system killed 56 people, including four presumed bombers, and wounded 700 others.
That police statement reinforced widely published reports that eyewitnesses said de Menezes had jumped over the turnstile at Stockwell subway station and was wearing a padded jacket despite warm weather.  But Blair said Thursday that those reports had never been confirmed by the police.
"We have been as responsible as we could be in a very fast-moving scenario," the commissioner said, urging people to see de Menezes' "tragic" death in the context of "the largest criminal inquiry in English history."
But according to new police documents, witness statements and photographs aired this week on ITV News, de Menezes, contrary to the impression given by police, walked slowly into the train station and was wearing a lightweight denim jacket.
The new documents leaked to the television station indicated he was already being restrained by one officer when he was shot dead by another.  The BBC reported Thursday night that a staff member of the police oversight commission had been suspended after an investigation into the source of the leaked documents.
Blair told BBC radio Thursday that there was no coverup involved and that he had no intention of resigning, as some have suggested.  His office issued a statement saying that immediately after the shooting, Blair intended that "the terrorist investigation take precedence" over any investigation into the shooting.
On the morning of de Menezes' death, several police surveillance teams were watching the apartment block where he lived because one of the suspected bombers in the failed July 21 attacks, Hamdi Issac, was believed to be living there.  Issac has since been arrested in Rome.
A British officer manning a surveillance camera failed to get footage of de Menezes because the officer had gone to use the toilet, according to the leaked documents.  Had there been a clear photo of de Menezes, police might have been able to see that he did not look like Issac, who was born in Ethiopia.
Gareth Peirce, one of the lawyers for the dead man's family, called the investigation into the shooting a "chaotic mess."  At a news conference, she said the family had asked the commission to find out "how much is incompetence, negligence or gross negligence and how much of it is something sinister."  By British law, if a person dies in police custody, the investigation is to be turned over to the watchdog group.  Analysts said that should occur within 24 hours.  But de Menezes' lawyers said several days were lost as Scotland Yard resisted efforts by the oversight commission, saying "unprecedented" circumstances were involved in the bombings investigation.
John Wadham, deputy chairman of the commission, told reporters Thursday that the police "initially resisted us taking on the investigation, but we overcame that.  It was an important victory for our independence.  This dispute has caused delay in us taking over the investigation, but we have worked hard to recover the lost ground."
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Sun Jan 29, 2006
London police 'faked evidence' on shot Brazilian: report
LONDON (AFP) — Undercover London police officers faked vital evidence to cover up their fatal role in the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, mistaken for a suicide bomber, a newspaper has alleged.
Special Branch officers from London's Metropolitan Police tried to change a surveillance log detailing the electrician's movements to hide the fact that they had wrongly identified him, the News of the World weekly claimed.
De Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head on a London Underground train at Stockwell station in south London.
He was killed on July 22 last year, the day after an alleged attempt to replicate the July 7 attacks by four suspected suicide bombers which killed 52 innocent Underground and bus commuters.
The alleged cover-up meant the blame for the tragedy would have been pinned on senior Met Police commanders or the armed police who fired the bullets -- leaving them open to murder charges, the newspaper said.
The revelations are apparently contained in the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)'s report into the death, which was delivered to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) 10 days ago.
A Special Branch officer mistakenly reported that De Menezes was Hussein Osman, 27, who is facing charges of conspiracy to murder in connection with the July 21 incident.
However, once they realised their fatal error, the log was altered to read that no positive identification had been made.
A government department source told the tabloid: "It says the log was actually tampered with in a major way.
"In particular the words AND and NOT were inserted about the Osman ID, so it read 'and it was not Osman' rather than 'it was Osman'."
The log was allegedly changed at a debriefing meeting 10 hours after the Brazilian was gunned down.
It had been produced by colleagues of the officers listening to the team's radio messages.
During the debriefing, the officers were allowed to check for errors and amend them — but crucially, the alterations were not explained and signed as they apparently should have been.
The newspaper quoted the IPCC report as reading: "This looks like an attempt to try and distance Special Branch from the decision (to shoot De Menezes)."
The source said: "It was blatant, it was clumsy.
"By doing that forgery they potentially made their colleagues back at the control room at central command at the Yard (police headquarters), and particularly their firearm officer colleagues, liable to be out in the dock for murder."
An IPCC spokesman said the organisation "would neither confirm nor deny" anything in the alleged leak.
"We do not comment on speculation," he said.
Asad Rehman, who represents the victim's family, said the alleged leak strengthened relatives' demands to see the report.
"From the family's perspective this is just one more in a long line in lies and deception surrounding the circumstances of Jean's death.
"It makes them more adamant to learn how and why he died.   The only way that can be done is by a full public inquiry.
"They are at the end of their tether in the manner the whole death has been treated.   There has been such a catalogue of disaster surrounding this case."
The IPCC investigates deaths with either direct or indirect police involvement as a matter of course.   The CPS handles criminal cases and is expected to take several months to decide whether to bring charges.
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New special forces unit tailed Brazilian
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday August 4, 2005
A new army special forces regiment was involved in the operation that led to the killing of an innocent man at Stockwell tube station in south London last week, the Guardian can reveal.
The Special Reconnaissance Regiment, set up in April to help combat international terrorism, was deployed in the surveillance operation which led to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, on July 22, according to Whitehall sources.
The revelation came as Scotland Yard announced the first charges in connection with the terror attacks in London.
Ismael Abdurahman of Kennington, south-east London, will appear before Bow Street magistrates today.  He will be charged with having information he knew or believed may be of material assistance in securing the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of another person in the UK for an offence involving the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
Yesterday Whitehall sources told the Guardian that soldiers of the Special Reconnaisance Regiment, modelled on an undercover unit that operated in Northern Ireland, was engaged in "low-level intelligence behind the scenes" when the Brazilian was shot.  There was "no direct military involvement in the shooting", the sources said.
It is believed to be the first time the new regiment was engaged in an operation.
The regiment absorbed 14th Intelligence Company, known as "14 Int", a plainclothes unit set up to gather intelligence covertly on suspect terrorists in Northern Ireland.  Its recruits are trained by the SAS.
Geoff Hoon, the then defence secretary, said the unit had been formed to meet a worldwide demand for "special reconnaissance capability".
Mr De Menezes was targeted because he was seen coming out of a three-storey block of nine flats, Corfe House in Tulse Hill, south London, identified as a building linked to the failed July 21 bombers.
He lived on the first floor with his two cousins, Vivian and Patricia.
Mr De Menezes was followed and seen boarding a No 2 bus, heading north towards Stockwell.  Boarding with him, it is understood, were several plainclothes officers.  Defence sources refuse to comment on suggestions that they may have been members of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.
Other officers followed the bus in vehicles.  When it became clear that Stockwell tube was his possible destination, a team of armed police officers in plain clothes were alerted.  They fired eight shots at Mr De Menezes at close range after the 27-year-old Brazilian ran on to a tube train.
A senior police officer was running the operation from Scotland Yard's "Gold Command".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is conducting an inquiry into the shooting.  It is certain to include the role of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, and also issues relating to the false identification of the victim, and whether CCTV pictures of the failed bombers were available at the time.
Another question is why the Brazilian — a suspected suicide bomber — was allowed to get on to a London bus when two buses had already been targeted.
      For extra details on the UK Special Forces:       
      British undercover operatives        
Jean Charles de Menezes. The prosecution say the police doctored an image of Jean Charles de Menezes for a composite picture comparing him with bomb plotter Hussain Osman. Old Bailey trial has been shown footage of Jean Charles de Menezes' final journey before he was shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed after being wrongly suspected of being a suicide bomber.
The prosecution say the police doctored an image of Jean Charles de Menezes for a composite picture comparing him with bomb plotter Hussain Osman.
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Jean Charles de Menezes image doctored by police. The defence said the image was to show identification problems.
The defence said the image was to show identification problems
 Menezes picture 'was manipulated'
Police have been accused of manipulating a photo of Jean Charles de Menezes so it could be compared to that of one of the 21/7 bomb plotters.
The image had been "stretched and sized" to form a composite image of the Brazilian and Hussain Osman to show the jury, prosecutors told the Old Bailey.
Mr de Menezes was shot dead after being wrongly identified as one of the men who targeted London's transport system.
The Metropolitan Police denies breaking health and safety laws.
Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head on a train at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005, after being wrongly identified as Osman.
The Met Police said the composite picture was created to illustrate the difficulties officers would have had in differentiating between the two men.
'Serious allegation'
But Clare Montgomery QC, prosecuting, told the court it had been altered "by either stretching or resizing so the face ceases to have its correct proportions".
Making the image brighter has changed the image
Michael George, forensics consultant
Forensics consultant Michael George told the court that the police composite appeared to have a "greater definition" than the two images used to produce it.
He produced an alternative composite, which was shown to the jury, in which the two faces had different skin tones and their mouths and noses were not aligned.
Ronald Thwaites QC, defending, asked Mr George whether there had been any manipulation "of the primary features of the face".
Mr George replied: "I don't believe there has been any... but making the image brighter has changed the image."
The court heard the composite was compiled using a 2001 identity card photograph of Mr de Menezes and a photo of Osman taken by police in Rome, where he was arrested.
Immigration records
Earlier, Mr Thwaites cross-examined immigration official Paul Roach over a counterfeit stamp found in the Brazilian's passport, asking if this meant he had been in the country illegally.
Mr Roach told the court Mr de Menezes first entered the country on 13 March 2002 and was given six months' leave to remain, before extending his stay, as a student, to 30 June 2003.
The next record was of him arriving in Ireland from France on 23 April 2005 but there was no notification of when he returned to the UK.
The court heard how as a person entering Britain from Ireland, he would have had an automatic three-month leave to remain which at the earliest would have run out on 23 July, the day after he was killed.
A counterfeit stamp found on his passport may only have been added after he entered the UK, Mr Roach said.
 Shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed
'Ivor' code name for undercover police involved in killing seen in background
Friday, 19 August 2005
Alessandro Pereira
Menezes' family calls for justice
Relatives of the Brazilian man killed by police on the Tube have demanded the resignation of London's top officer and the prosecution of those responsible.
They accused Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair of lying about aspects of the shooting, and of attempting a cover-up.
Sir Ian has "rejected utterly" the claims and said some of the disputed statements were never provided by his force. He has said he will not resign.
Mr Menezes was mistakenly shot as a suspected suicide bomber on 22 July.
Brazilian investigators are to fly to London next week for talks with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to clarify conflicting reports of how he died at Stockwell station.
The incident came a day after the failed 21 July attacks on the London Underground and a bus.
Investigation papers leaked to the media this week seemed to contradict initial police statements and eyewitness accounts of events.
And the IPCC has said Scotland Yard "initially resisted" the regulator's attempts to launch an investigation into the shooting.
Mr Menezes' cousin Alessandro Pereira said: "For three weeks we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how he was killed."
The police know Jean was innocent and yet they let my family suffer
Alessandro Pereira, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes
Speaking at a press conference near Stockwell station, Mr Pereira said: "I want Ian Blair to think how it felt having to ring Jean's mother and father... and tell them their son was dead, that he was killed in such a way.
"The police know Jean was innocent and yet they let my family suffer."
He said lies had been told about his cousin such as that he was a suspected terrorist, that he looked like a suicide bomber, that he was wearing a big jacket and that he ran from police.
But Sir Ian Blair has strongly defended his actions and those of his officers in the aftermath of the shooting.
In an interview with the London Evening Standard on Thursday, Sir Ian said people had to be careful about attributing statements to the police.
I am defending myself against an allegation that I did not act in good faith and I reject utterly the concept of a cover up
Sir Ian Blair, Met Police commissioner
"We have looked at what we have actually said about this incident.  The number of features about heavyweight coats or hopping over barriers have never been said or confirmed by the Metropolitan Police Service.
"I did say there were direct links to the investigation and that is because he [Mr Menezes] came out of the house that we had under surveillance."
The BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said he did not think Sir Ian's position was at risk, but he would have to "sit it out" and take the criticisms.
He said it was important to note where the calls for Sir Ian's resignation were not coming from — and pointed out that no such call had come from the government, London Mayor Ken Livingstone or his employer the Metropolitan Police Authority.
Calculated risks have to be taken, often by necessity in haste, and mistakes are therefore likely
Len Duvall, chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority
Graphic images
Yasmin Khan, from the Jean Charles de Menezes' Family Campaign, said the family had witnessed a "Laurel and Hardy police operation" in recent weeks.
She said there were three issues to consider, the first being the "shoot-to-kill policy", and the second the "incompetence of the police on the day".
"Thirdly the attempted cover-up and misleading by Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police and with government officials colluding with this," she said.
She urged supporters to attend a vigil to be held outside 10 Downing Street at 1800 BST (1700 GMT) on Monday.
Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), Len Duvall, said Mr Menezes' death was a "tragic loss" but added the officers involved would also be under "immense strain" and needed support.
Jean Charles de Menezes' body after he was shot dead
An image leaked to ITV shows Mr Menezes lying dead on the Tube
"The MPA will do everything in its power to ensure that whatever the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Mr de Menezes, the full facts and truth will be made known," he said.
Mr Duvall added London was facing an "unprecedented" potential threat to the safety of its inhabitants.
"This means calculated risks have to be taken, often by necessity in haste, and mistakes are therefore likely," he said.
Graphic photos of Mr Menezes' dead body lying on the floor of the Tube train have appeared in most of Brazil's newspapers.
The papers also reported claims from the leaked documents that the Brazilian electrician had not fled from police as initially claimed, nor had he hurdled a ticket barrier.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry said the press coverage had heightened the government's sense of indignation at the shooting.
Thursday, 18 August 2005
Jean Charles de Menezes
Mr Menezes was shot a day after the failed London bombings
Met 'resisted Tube death probe'
Scotland Yard "initially resisted" the investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has said.
The inquiry was not formally handed over to the IPCC until five days after the Brazilian was shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July.
Lawyers for Mr Menezes' family said vital evidence could have been lost.
Denying a cover-up and calls to resign, Met chief Sir Ian Blair said: "My job is to stay here looking after London."
Sources said a member of the IPCC secretarial staff had been suspended during an investigation into the source of the leaked papers.
'Extreme concern'
Mr Menezes was shot after police mistook him for a suicide bomber.  The shooting came a day after the failed 21 July attacks on the London underground and a bus.
The BBC has also learned the shooting was not captured on Stockwell Tube's CCTV because police officers had removed the cameras' disks for their investigation into the suicide bomb suspects who boarded the train at the same station the previous day.
A lawyer for the Menezes family, Gareth Peirce, is calling for a public inquiry into the case to sort out the "chaotic mess".
INVESTIGATION TIMELINE
Friday: IPCC called in
Monday: IPCC takes over the case from the Met
Wednesday: Formal legal handover completed
There are concerns the delay in beginning the investigation could hamper it
But Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair says he was atthe handover on Monday, and did not know why the probe was delayeduntil Wednesday

After meeting the IPCC she said: "We expressed our extreme concern that although they [the IPCC] have a statutory duty to investigate from the very moment of a fatal death at the hands of the state, they were not there."
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair wrote to the Home Office on the morning of Mr Menezes' death to make sure the terrorist investigation took precedence over any IPCC probe.
On Thursday, Sir Ian told BBC Radio Four's Talking Politics he would not have written the letter had he wanted to "cover something up".
"At that stage I and my officers thought the dead man was a suicide bomber and we were in the middle of the biggest counter-terrorist operation," he said.
He said he had written to ask the Home Office if it would be "wise to bring another set of investigators into the middle of that".
"Secondly, the IPCC has a duty — which I respect — to inform the family of everything they find and this is an investigation that involves secret intelligence," he added.
The investigation had been handed over to the IPCC "after we had considered those points" on the Monday after the shooting, as was appropriate in the "unique situation".
Sir Ian told the programme he knew nothing about allegations the IPCC inquiry had been delayed for a further two days.
Denim jacket
On the day of the shooting, a Scotland Yard spokesman had said that Mr Menezes' "clothing and his behaviour at the station added to [the officers'] suspicions".
This dispute has caused us delay in taking over the investigation
John Wadham
IPCC deputy chairman

But investigation papers, leaked to ITV News, suggest the Brazilian electrician was wearing a denim jacket and walked into the station, picked up a free newspaper, walked through ticket barriers and started to run only when he saw a train arriving.
The documents contradict initial eyewitness reports suggesting Mr Menezes had hurdled a barrier at Stockwell Tube station and was wearing a padded jacket.
But Sir Ian told Talking Politics those reports had never been confirmed by Metropolitan Police officers, who "do not spin".
Mr Menezes' "tragic" death had to be seen in the context of what was "the largest criminal inquiry in English history", Sir Ian told the programme.  "It is one death out of 57."
'Important victory'
The IPCC refused to comment on claims that a member of staff had been suspended over the leak.
But it said in a statement: "Both the IPCC and the Metropolitan Police Service recognise that the unauthorised disclosure of information cannot be ignored and must be addressed."
HAVE YOUR SAY
When the police fear the truth coming out, then we the people have much to fear
Bumble, Dartford, Kent

Its focus was on the "search for the truth", it added.
Earlier, the commission's deputy chairman John Wadham said Scotland Yard had "initially resisted us taking on the investigation — but we overcame that.  It was an important victory for our independence."
Mr Wadham said the IPCC was looking forward to meeting Mr Menezes' family and that he was confident he would be able to answer all their questions.
The inquiry was "making good progress" and should be completed within three to six months, Mr Wadham said.
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FEATURES AND ANALYSIS
Jean Charles de MenezesPower struggle?
Leaked details spark a row between the IPCC and Scotland Yard

BACKGROUND
 Shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed
Jean Charles de Menezes on escalator, followed by undercover police who killed him
Jean Charles de Menezes
Mr Menezes was shot a day after the failed London bombings
The family of the Brazilian electrician shot dead by police after the July 21 bombing attempt were pressured into meeting a senior Met police officer without their lawyers and offered just £15,000 compensation for the loss of their son, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
In an interview which flatly contradicts Scotland Yard's version of events, Jean Charles de Menezes' family told The Mail on Sunday how:
They were only summoned to the August 1 meeting with Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates the night before it took place — and despite pleading for more time so their lawyer could be present, were told it could not be delayed.
  • Mr Yates refused to answer any of their questions about how Jean Charles died — even though by this stage, ten days after the shooting, the Yard knew that initial reports that he had run from police were wrong.
  • The still heavily-sedated parents, who only speak Portuguese, were then handed a letter of which they have passed to The Mail on Sunday, offering them speedy payment of £15,000 'by way of compensation to you for the death of your son'.
  • When the family's London-based lawyers protested to the Met that they had been excluded from the meeting in Gonzaga, Brazil, they were wrongly told that they acted only 'for cousins in England and not the next of kin'.
    • Jean Charles's brother Giovani said last night: "They thought we were poor people, stupid people.  We may be poor but we are not that stupid.  We will not exchange money for my brother's life — but we will punish them."
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    The hearing takes place less than a mile from where Mr de Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station on July 22 2005.
    Photo: Chris Harris/The Times
    The revelations from the family directly contradict a Scotland Yard statement issued yesterday claiming that "the only discussions we have had so far with the family have been about initial expenses".
    They will instead spark claims that the force was trying to buy the family's silence as it became aware of the scale of its errors in Jean Charles's killing.
    The carefully worded letter spells out that the de Menezes family would retain the legal right to take further action against the Met, saying that taking the money "does not preclude you from taking legal proceedings against the police in future if you choose to do".
    It offers to pay the costs of allowing them to discuss it with a solicitor — and even suggests, without apparent irony, that "a solicitor in England would be best placed to advise you".
    Clumsily headed "Re: The death of Jean Charles de Menezes", it offers no explanation for the killing — nor does it at any point accept responsibility for it.
    'Police refused to answer questions about shooting'
    As well as couching the offer in highly legalistic terms, the letter makes a point of concluding: "Upon your acceptance of any offer made, I can arrange for payment to be made expeditiously' — reinforcing the point that the family could have the entire £15,000 at once if they went along with it."
    Peter Burbidge, a barrister and law lecturer at Westminster University, said of the police letter: "It's obviously to keep them sweet, to stop them making too much fuss.  It's moral hush money rather than legal hush money."
    The allegations will place further pressure on embattled Met chief Sir Ian Blair over his handling of the death of Jean Charles at Stockwell station on July 22.
    Last night Jean Charles's mother Maria, 59, revealed how she and her husband Matozinhos, 66, were pressurised into attending the meeting with Mr Yates.
    "The police did not even tell us they were sending this delegation," said Mrs de Menezes, blinking back tears.
    As the de Menezes family do not even have a phone, they had to rely on neighbours to pass messages.
    'Family pressured to meet without lawyers'
    "Neighbours told us they'd heard a report on TV and then a neighbour with a telephone passed a message that the meeting was the following day.  We were very confused," Mrs de Menezes added.
    Her other son Giovani said he begged the intermediary to ask the British police and ambassador to delay the meeting for a day or two 'so our lawyers could be present' but were informed that there could be no delay.
    "They said they only wanted to express their condolences and discuss funeral expenses."
    The following morning, with Mr and Mrs de Menezes still heavily sedated, they went to the town hall where they met a delegation consisting of Mr Yates, the British ambassador to Brazil, Peter Collecott, and a man introduced as an interpreter from the British embassy in Brasilia.
    The meeting was opened by the local mayor, who introduced the family to Mr Yates, Mr Collecott and the other officials.
    Mrs de Menezes said: "The policeman and the ambassador embraced each of us."  Spreading out her hands in a gesture of embarrassment she said she recalled this embrace as a moment of 'humiliation'.
    "This was the policeman whose men have killed my son," she said.  "But I suppose they believed it was appropriate behaviour, being polite."
    The family say they immediately tried to ask Mr Yates a barrage of questions about Jean's tragic death, saying that it seemed unnecessarily brutal.  But the British contingent hid behind the cloak of 'a continuing investigation'.
    "They made it clear that they were the important people who were in charge," said Giovani.
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    Maria de Menezes, his mother, has visited Britain several times to call for justice for her son
    Photo: Nick Ray/The Times
    By this stage, the Met was aware that — contrary to reports at the time — Jean Charles had not been wearing a bulky jacket and had not vaulted a ticket barrier.  But Mr Yates made no effort to inform the family that such reports were wrong.
    'Just £15,000 compensation'
    Giovani said: "He said he was sorry about the accident but he would not be able to answer any questions about it, because the case was under investigation.
    "My mother started crying and said she wanted the men who did this punished.  The policeman said: "We are going to do the investigation and if there is someone who is guilty, they will be punished.  By this time everyone in our family was crying.  Not the policeman.  He had a very serious expression."
    The family said the British contingent handed them a letter expressing 'profound condolences' from the British ambassador written in Portuguese, which said the shooting was 'a lamentable tragedy'.
    According to Giovani, Mr Yates then produced a second letter, written in English from the office of David Hamilton, the Met's Director of Legal Services, but signed on his behalf by Samantha Bird.  It made a series of offers — to pay the costs of shipping Jean's body home, air fares of 'close family members' who accompanied the coffin from the UK and 'reasonable' funeral costs.
    But most contentiously in the family's eyes, the letter offered a £15,000 ex gratia payment 'by way of compensation to you for the death of Jean Charles'.
    Mrs de Menezes said she started to weep uncontrollably.  "I thought it was disgusting for this policeman to be talking about money when my son was only just buried.  I did not like having to sit near such a man."
    Giovani added: "We did not understand what the offer of £15,000 was for because they told us at the beginning it was going to be about funeral expenses.  If we had a lawyer, they could have explained everything.
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    The de Menezes family have led a campaign to hold the Metropolitan Police legally accountable for Jean Charles de Menezes death.
    Photo: Richard Pohle/The Times
    'Fight for justice'
    "So I told the Englishman we could not accept anything in the letter.  We could only do that if our lawyer was present.  I was worried they were trying to get away with paying just £15,000 and I didn't know if that would cover everything and if it was some kind of compensation."
    The brother said there was no verbal pressure put on him to reconsider but he had felt considerable psychological pressure.
    "These are important people.  We felt we had to be polite.  I wanted to jump across the table and punch the policeman but I restrained myself.  It was not the time for putting a price on my brother's head.
    "We are poor people and we were not even sure if it was a good offer.  In Gonzaga, the average wage is 300 reals (£65) a month, but I used to work in a bank in Sao Paolo, so knew £15,000 might not sound so adequate.
    "I told them we would put everything in the hands of our lawyers.  But I can tell you that after learning this week how they have lied, we are not going to settle for £15,000."
    Giovani added: "Maybe they thought they could get away with this because we were very poor.  Now we are going to fight for justice even if it takes until the end of our lives.
    "We do not want money in exchange for Jean's life but we want to punish them — so we want a lot of money.  We are also concentrating on making sure these policemen go to prison.
    "The policeman said that the letter was about giving us money to help pay for the funeral."  Asked if Yates explained that the letter actually consisted of three parts — the first two concerning the expense of repatriating Jean Charles's body and funeral expenses, the third concerning formal compensation — Giovani repeatedly said: "No.  I suspected they were trying to get us to agree to something that might be to do with more than just funeral expenses, which is why I decided to put the matter in the hands of our lawyer.  I was mixed up, confused.
    'I still don't know if they were trying to trick us but if that is true it is humiliating, very humiliating that that is how they think of us."
    The family's London-based solicitors Birnberg Peirce said they had been acting for the family since July 22 and had protested to the Met.
    "The meeting afforded the family little time to start coming to terms with the death.  When raising concern with the Metropolitan police about the failure to consult, it was suggested the firm only acted for cousins in England and not the immediate next of kin."
    After the hour-long meeting, Yates told a brief Press conference: "We did not come here to talk about money.  We came to apologise."
    Mrs de Menezes said: "Now I know the real truth about why they killed him, I am so hurt I can't sleep.  First they killed my son but now they are killing me.  I take sleeping pills but still I wake in the night shaking."
    Giovani added: "When Jean came home in his coffin, they had bandaged the top of his head.  My mother screamed and screamed.  Why did they have to use this many bullets?  Was it revenge because they thought he was one of the bombers?  Was it really hatred that was so intense?"
    Mrs de Menezes added: "The policemen must have been blind.  My son was white.  The man they were after was a black man.
    "The London bombers' women wore veils.  My son's last girlfriend wore jeans and tops.  My son didn't hate Britain.  He loved it.  He sent me a Union Jack and a snow shake with the Houses of Parliament.  I was so proud of him for making a new life there.  When he was growing up, we were so poor that we couldn't afford to buy him shoes.
    "He had to go barefoot.  We had nothing — no car, no electricity.  We used a horse for transport or walked, but we were happy."
    Jean Charles's father told how his son had never forgotten his family and had helped build their tiny concrete bungalow home.
    He said: 'We lived in a very ramshackle house, really just a shanty.
    "Jean Charles and his brother brought back the money to build this house and after they put it up three years ago, Jean Charles installed the electricity for us and neighbours.
    "We had a lunch to celebrate switching on the electricity and then we put music on the new stereo they'd bought us and we all danced.  Any money Jean Charles ever had over, he sent to us.  You couldn't ask for a better son."
    Mrs de Menezes added: "The money we want cannot bring back my son but I hope it will make the police think twice before they shoot another mother's innocent son."
    A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said last night: "We can confirm a letter signed by Metropolitan Police solicitors has been passed to representatives of Mr de Menezes family which provides a £15,000 an ex gratia payment.
    "The letter is very specific that this sum does not inhibit any future claim the family may have against the Metropolitan Police service and this point was reiterated at the meeting.
    "The reason for DAC John Yates' visit was explained to the family and it was made clear that as the IPCC were investigating the incident he would not be able to comment at all on the circumstances leading up to Jean Charles's death.
    "All the arrangements for the meeting were made by representatives of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry."
          Mail on Sunday    21st August 2005      
              
    Slain Brazilian's family slam London police
     By Gibby Zobel in London
    Sunday 13 November 2005
     
    Jean Charles de Menezes was hit by a total of eight bullets
    A report issued by the London Metropolitan Police boasting their shoot-to-kill policy as the best in the world has shocked the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was killed by an undercover unit in late July.
    The report, titled Suicide Terrorism, revealed the existence of Operation Kratos, a shoot-to-kill policy which had been developed in secret since the 7 July bombings in London which killed 52 people.
    Presented to the Metropolitan Police Authority on 27 October, the report stated: "Globally there is no agency with a more carefully researched and proportionate policy."
    The report continued: "Any tactics deployed have to involve officers acting covertly to retain the element of surprise.
    "Also, the tactics had to ensure immediate incapacitation to eradicate any opportunity for the bomber to cause the [explosive] device to function.
    "It should be noted that there is no legal requirement for an officer to give a verbal challenge before firing."
    But for the family of Brazilian worker Jean Charles de Menezes who was shot and killed by undercover police in London on 22 July, the report adds insult to injury.
    "No one knew there was a shoot-to-kill policy. You don't kill suspects. The Brazilian nation is a nation of peace," De Menezes' brother, Giovanni, said upon the de Menezes family's return from an emotionally draining two-week visit to London.
    "We want justice and will do everything for justice."
    The family had been hoping to find answers to their son's killing but returned home empty-handed.
    Mistaken identity
    De Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, was shot dead by police on an underground train in London after he had been mistakenly identified as Ethiopian-born Hussain Osman, a suspected bomber, because of what the authorities referred to as his "Mongolian eyes".
    Jean Charles had been mistaken
    for an Ethiopian bomber    		 
    De Menezes was on his way to work when he was followed by an undercover surveillance team.
    As he boarded an underground train at the Stockwell station in London, plain-clothes officers confronted him but made no motion to arrest him.
    Within a 30-second blitz of gunfire which shocked other passengers, de Menezes had been shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder. Three bullets missed him.
    Such use of lethal force is defended by the police review.
    The report says: "HM Government scientists state that the use of baton guns, Taser, or firearms that impact on this [explosive] material will cause it to detonate.
    "These materials are so sensitive that the heat from a camera flash bulb or torch bulb will cause them to detonate.
    "Therefore, tactics have to be available that will not impact on the explosive."
    In addition, the policy has been expanded "to cover a great range of operation circumstances" including domestic violence, stalking and kidnap, according to the author of the review, Steve House, Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police.
    De Menezes investigation
    The review was made public as the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) continued its investigation into the shooting of De Menezes.
    Three investigators dispatched by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice to look into the legal procedures following the case said they found "questionable behaviour" in the Metropolitan police's conduct but otherwise retained a diplomatic stance.
    The bereaved parents, Maria Otone de Menezes and Matozinhos de Menezes and Jean's brother Giovanni da Silva met with investigators during their fortnight stay in the capital in September.
    However, they refused to meet with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair who they called on to resign.
    The commissioner attempted to block an independent investigation into the shooting in a letter to the Home Office's most senior civil servant, written just two hours after the killing.
    He claims to have not known De Menezes was not a suspected bomber for 24 hours.
    Retracing final steps
    "In my opinion, the chief of police is very wrong. A human being needs to be respected and treated as a citizen in any country in the world," Maria Otone de Menezes told Aljazeera.net
    "Only God knows the pain I am feeling. He [Sir Ian Blair] should be arrested."
     
    Jean Charles' mother (C) says
    only God knows her pain
    In an effort to determine what happened, the family retraced Jean Charles' final steps as he left his flat in Tulse Hill, south London, and took a bus to Stockwell underground station.
    There, he descended on to the platform and sat in the train carriage before police shot him dead.
    "We were told that CCTV [closed-circuit television] tapes given to the police were not working. The police are lying. They emptied the tapes. We are very upset about that lie. Inside Stockwell station, we saw more than nine cameras," said Giovanni de Menezes.
    Jean Charles' cousin, Patricia da Silva Armani, says the family is only seeking justice and an explanation of how the police could have made such a fatal mistake.
    "We are convinced that the police are withholding many things. I think it is absurd. I don't accept that the cameras were not working," Da Silva Armani says.
    "I don't think that they are being honest with us."
    Civil rights campaign
    The family, together with lawyers and civil rights activists, officially launched the Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign at the London School of Economics on 13 October.
    Their campaign has received much support and backing from families of other victims alleged to have been wrongfully killed by police.
    Gareth Peirce of law firm Birnberg Peirce and Partners, who are representing the De Menezes family, said: "If you examine the statistics of how many police who have killed members of the public have ever been prosecuted to a conviction, the statistics would show that it is an almost invisible number."
    But Peirce, a civil rights solicitor, held out hope someone in the police force could come forward with information.
    "Police appear to be speaking to the press about each other and therefore there may be a situation where what has been said that is not correct is exposed by fellow officers.
    "We await with interest to see if this is a different process than many others that have disappointed many bereaved families in the past," she said.
              Aljazeera
     Shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed
    Commuters ran from platforms, ordered to leave by police involved in killing
    Contrary to what the officers told the court, Mr Livock said that he did not see the 27-year-old electrician get up and walk towards the officers.
    “My recollection is that I didn’t see him doing anything other than sitting,” he said.
    Asked if any had identified themselves, Mr Livock said:  “Absolutely not.
    		Bullet banned in warfare
    under international law
    Friday, 12 December 2008
    Open verdict at Menezes inquest
    The jury has returned an open verdict at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, whom police mistook for a suicide bomber.
    Reaction to verdict from family members, police and IPCC The killling of Jean Charles de Menezes in the tube train after he was shot by police officers at Stockwell Tube station. Shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed.
    Reaction to verdict from family members, police and IPCC
    It rejected the police account Mr de Menezes was killed lawfully by two officers who shot him seven times at Stockwell Tube in south London.
    His mother, Maria Otone de Menezes, said she was very happy and felt "reborn" after hearing the verdict.
    The Metropolitan Police said the Brazilian's death was a tragic mistake.
    After the verdict was announced the de Menezes family lawyer said officers should be investigated for perjury - a call immediately rejected by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
    The inquest jury was given the choice of two possible verdicts, but chose to reject the option that Mr Menezes was killed lawfully by the police.
    Earlier in the inquest the jury was instructed not to return a verdict of unlawful killing.
    'Feel reborn'
    The 10 jury members were asked 12 specific questions about whether or not a series of events on 22 July 2005 contributed to the 27-year-old's death.
    We have spoken to the
    whole family in Brazil and
    they like us are vindicated
    by the jury's verdict
    Patricia da Silva Armani
    Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes
    After a week of deliberations, a majority of eight to two returned an open verdict and said they did not believe officers had shouted "armed police" before opening fire.
    They said they believed Mr de Menezes had stood up from his seat before being shot. However they did not believe he had moved towards the first officer who opened fire.
    They also rejected that Mr de Menezes' innocent behaviour had increased suspicions.
    Mrs de Menezes said in a message sent from her home in Brazil: "I am very happy with the verdict. Since the moment the coroner ruled out unlawful killing, I was feeling very sad. But today I feel reborn."
    Mr de Menezes' cousin Patricia da Silva Armani, speaking in London, said: "Today is an important day for our family. We have spoken to the whole family in Brazil and they like us are vindicated by the jury's verdict.
    "It's clear the jury would have reached an unlawful killing verdict if they had not been gagged by the coroner.
    "Mistakes of the police are now clear. Action must be taken against the officers responsible."
    'Shocking tragedy'
    Following the verdict, the Acting Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said Mr de Menezes' death had been a "most terrible mistake", which he "deeply regretted".
    "He was an innocent man and we must accept full responsibility for his death," he said.
    Jean Charles de Menezes Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police on a Tube train at Stockwell
    Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead on a Tube train at Stockwell
    He said the force now had to "learn from events to minimise the chances of this ever happening again".
    Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the death was "a profoundly shocking tragedy".
    "What we have learnt from the accounts of the tragic events that day reminds us all of the extremely demanding circumstances under which the police work to protect us from further terrorist attack," she added.
    Coroner Sir Michael Wright, who presided over the three-month inquest held at the Oval cricket ground in London, had previously said the facts did not justify allowing the jury to consider an unlawful killing.
    Throughout the inquest, Metropolitan Police officers told the hearings they honestly believed the Brazilian was one of the four failed bombers who attempted to strike London on 21 July 2005.
    But Mr de Menezes' family and supporters challenged this version of events.
    They said they wanted answers to why surveillance officers could not identify the man they were following - and why two specialist officers shot the electrician at close range.
    'Numerous obstacles'
    De Menezes family lawyer Harriet Wistrich said the police officers who claimed to have shouted warnings before firing should be investigated for possible perjury.
    "There was certainly evidence of perjury by certain officers and the CPS should look at it again at this stage and I am sure they will," she said.
    The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Ms Wistrich was incorrect.
    A spokesman said: "It is wrong to construe that there has been possible perjury from the findings of the jury because they were asked to decide on the balance of probability.
    "The jury could not indicate whether they believed certain witnesses were mistaken or lied."
    Asad Rehman, of the Justice4Jean campaign, said the jury had been "gagged" by not being able to return a verdict of unlawful killing.
    "There were numerous obstacles placed in the path of that jury. The coroner failed to resist the incredible pressure put on him by the five separate police legal teams and the jury was prevented from considering all the verdicts including unlawful killing," he said.
    'Proportionate actions'
    Police Federation chairman Paul McKeever said the verdict marked the end of "a long and traumatic inquiry" for the de Menezes family and the police.
    "The officers involved in this incident believed their actions were proportionate and necessary from the information available to them at the time," he said.
    THE JURY'S KEY ANSWERS
    Did officers shout 'armed police'?NO
    Did Mr de Menezes move towards officers? NO
    Did difficulty in identifying the man under surveillance lead to his death? NO
    Did the behaviour of Mr de Menezes increasing suspicion among officers lead to his death? NO

    Chief Constable Ken Jones, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the officers were "breaking new ground in their determination to confront men believed to be intent on mass murder".
    "They went forward and did what they sincerely believed to be right to protect us. They went forward believing that, at any moment, they might be killed," he said.
    IPCC chairman Nick Hardwick described Mr de Menezes' death as "truly shocking", adding that police needed to make operational changes.
    Judicial review
    The de Menezes family called on the CPS to re-examine the case to see whether a criminal prosecution could be brought.
    They also want the IPCC to review their inquiry into the death in respect of disciplinary action against police officers and are calling on the home secretary to suspend the "shoot-to-kill" policy.
    They plan to apply for judicial review of the coroner's decision not to offer the jury the option of returning a verdict of unlawful killing.
    The CPS, which decided in 2006 that no police officers should face criminal prosecution over the killing, said it would "consider the verdicts and any fresh evidence very carefully and decide whether we need to review our decision".
    The coroner will write to the acting commissioner, the home secretary and the Metropolitan Police Authority to raise issues over police practices.
    MMVIII
    A patch of pavement outside Stockwell tube station has been turned into an unofficial shrine for the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. The de Menezes family have led a campaign to hold the Metropolitan Police legally accountable for his death. UK Police State Systemic killing - Menezes surveillance coverup Jean Charles de Menezes, shot in the head seven times and once in the shoulder by armed police and killed by British police. UK jury not allowed to find police guilty of murdering innocent man Jean Charles de Menezes ridiculous British Coroners Inquiry After a three-month hearing costing an estimated £6 million, jurors rejected a verdict that the innocent Brazilian had been killed lawfully by police. The jury returned an ambiguous, open verdict — their only option beside 'police lawfully killed' that the jury were allowed after the coroner ruled they could not find that Mr de Menezes was illegally shot dead by officers. Illuminati IPCC clears Menezes police again Those who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes will not face disciplinary action, the Illuminati Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says. The IPCC 'reviewing' its original decision following last year's inquest into the shooting at Stockwell Tube station in south London in July 2005. He was killed with a type of bullet banned in warfare under international law. The London metropolitan police resisted and delayed an independent investigation into why their officers shot an innocent man seven times in the head on a subway car last month, the official police oversight commission announced Thursday, adding to growing criticism of Scotland Yard. Photo: Richard Pohle/The Times
    A patch of pavement outside Stockwell tube station has been turned into an unofficial shrine for the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes.
    Photo: Michael Crabtree/The Times
    I think there were about 15 shots
    Driver of De Menezes train thought police were terrorists
    Peter Walker and agencies
    Tuesday November 04 2008
    The driver of the underground train on which Jean Charles de Menezes was killed believed the police who shot dead the young Brazilian were terrorists, an inquest heard today.
    Quincy Akpesiri Oji ran across live tracks into a tunnel to escape from the police, who he believed were "fanatics" shooting at passengers.
    "I got to the Stockwell tube station just before 10am," Akpesiri Oji said in a statement read to the inquest into de Menezes's death. "When I got there the light was red.   This was unusual.
    "I then heard people screaming and I looked at the monitor at the front of the train.   I heard gunshots.   There were about 15 of them.   I think there were about 15 shots.
    "I saw one of the men with a large gun shooting and I thought they were fanatics and they were shooting at people on the carriage.   I have run into the dark tunnel."
    The driver spoke of his fear, saying that the tracks were live and trains were approaching nearby.
    He added:  "I stood there with my back against the wall for about 20 seconds.   Someone flashed a light into the tunnel.   I said, 'Please do not shoot — I am the driver.'"
    De Menezes was shot seven times in the head shortly after he got onto the train at Stockwell station in south London early on July 22, 2005.
    Police killed the 27-year-old, mistakenly believing he was Hussein Osman, one of a group of would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to set off bombs on a number of tube trains and a bus the previous day.
    Police involved in the operation have told the inquest — being held at Oval cricket ground, near Stockwell — that they had shouted warnings to de Menezes, identifying themselves.   One officer said the Brazilian then stood up and walked towards them, prompting fears he was about to detonate a bomb.
    However, a series of passengers travelling on the carriage where de Menezes was shot have contradicted this account, saying they heard no warnings and that de Menezes gave no significant reaction to the policemen's arrival.
    One passenger, Anna Dunwoodie, said yesterday that the young electrician appeared calm as a gun was held to his head.   She was "very, very clear" officers did not shout any warnings before shooting him dead.
    Later, the inquest heard from a scientific expert who said de Menezes had taken cocaine less than 12 hours before his death but added that it was impossible to know whether this might have affected his behaviour.
    Explaining the possible effect of trace amounts of cocaine in de Menezes's system, Graham Mould, a drugs expert at Royal Surrey County Hospital, said the Brazilian could have been in a state of "dysphoria", meaning depressed or anxious.
    "There may have been an element of agitation as well," he said.   "Whether this would lead to unusual behaviour which caused the police to act as they did, I would suggest, is difficult to say."
    Another expert, Dr Franco Tomei, explained that tests showed de Menezes was killed as he was pinned down to his seat.
    "When the shots were first sustained, Jean Charles was probably pushed over on his left side.   His head would have been horizontal," he said, adding that a single bullet would have been enough to incapacitate him in that position.
    Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2008
    UK jury not allowed to find police guilty of murdering innocent man
    Jean Charles de Menezes ridiculous British Coroners Inquiry
    December 12, 2008
    After a three-month hearing costing an estimated £6 million, jurors rejected a verdict that the innocent Brazilian had been killed lawfully by police.
    The jury returned an ambiguous, open verdict — their only option beside 'police lawfully killed' that the jury were allowed after the coroner ruled they could not find that Mr de Menezes was illegally shot dead by officers.
    Illuminati IPCC clears Menezes police again
    October 2, 2009
    Those who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes will not face disciplinary action, the Illuminati Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) says.
    The IPCC 'reviewing' its original decision following last year's inquest into the shooting at Stockwell Tube station in south London in July 2005.
    A man is dead.
    Nothing is done about the killing.
    Those at the top, the politicians and police upper hierarchy who set up police state lawlessness are not in prison.
    Nor are those who pull the guns, who would shoot a completely defenseless man dead.
    In Britain, the IPCC, an Illuminati tool, breath words for public consumption then in accustomed style do nothing but encourage from behind.
    People continue to get killed.
    These supposed 'protection services' commit more and more acts of violence upon people every day.
    In most countries these organizations are now out-of-control — the terrorizing by police, the terrorizing by related tools of those in power, grows.
    And people die, and disappear.

    Ludicrous Diversion — 7/7 London Bombings Documentary

    On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions.
    There were calls for an impartial inquiry which have been rejected by the British Labour govenment.
    Tony Blair described such an inquiry as a ‘ludicrous diversion’.
    What don’t they want us to find out?
    You probably think you know what happened that day.
    But you don’t.
           Ludicrous Diversion - 7/7 London Bombings Documentary      
           Click here     
           Last time we checked this was still allowed     
           Alex Jones Terrorstorm      
           America — from freedom to fascism      
           British undercover operatives      
           Fulton's military file quickly found its way onto the desks of the Intelligence Corps    
    Unspeakable grief and horror
    ÇáäÊÇÆÌ ÇáÃæáíÉ ááÍá ÇáÃãíÑßí ÇáÍÐÑ ááãÞÇæãÉ ÇáÚÑÇÞíÉ Ýí ÇáÝáæÌÉ (ÇáÌÒíÑÉ)
                            ...and the circus of deception killing continues...
    He says, "You are quite mad, Kewe"
    And of course I am.
    Why, I don't believe any of it — not the bloody body, not the bloody mind, not even the bloody Universe, or is it bloody multiverse.
    "It's all illusion," I say.   "Don't you know, my lad, my lassie.   The game!   The game, me girl, me boy!   Takes on interest, don't you know.   T'is me sport, till doest find a better!"
    Pssssst — but all this stuff is happening down here
    Let's change it!
     
           British Undercover Operatives         
           US Congress — too stupid or gullible, and have killed many.       
           I would suggest that any member of the US Congress who had voted       
           for it, should be barred from ever running for       
           any public office in America ever again!       
          Elegantly dressed statesmen constructing framework     

          that would allow them to kill quite a lot of people         
           Murder on Rucarb Street      
           What CNN never tells you      
            Using war to take and swallow Palestine land        
            The Israeli army arrived on our street at 2 am yesterday morning        
         Vandana Shiva  — India resistance and corporations     
          Coca-Cola and Plachimada — India photos      
           Ishaqi first massacre      
           Soldiers against the war      
           Humans and animals      
           — a chicken might be of value      
           Bush Wars          
           — When demons and criminals rule our world        
           — Lebanon images, 2006        
           The light of Israel was never very strong     
                —  Like the light of the West, it is out now         
            John Hagee          
          God's Army — Christian Fascism        
           Israel, chemical weapons and phosphorous bombs       
           New and unknown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces      
           Undetectable poison-needle gun for 'clean' assassinations       
           Greece and Britain kidnapp 28 Pakistanis         
            Abuse and torture of Afghan immigrants         
          Thessaloniki 7: Hungerstrikers' Determination Forces Their Release     
           Purple frog found in Western Ghats, India      
           A chubby amphibian with pointy snout tells story of continental break-up millions of years of evolution      
           World Wide Suicide —       
           Pearl Jam —        
           Dylan —        
           Israel takes revenge on UN troops        
           US soldiers sent to Iraq committing suicide       
           John Kerry's 1971 Speech Against the Vietnam War Before the United States Senate      
           US war veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide than ordinary civilians       
           If Only They'd Hissed Barack Obama —       
           US military —        
           Massacres and atrocities detailed —        
           From Israel, another view     
       US Fascism —
           Power, suffering,
               federal police,
                  anti-terrorism act,
                      protection of people and state —
           Seed destruction —       
           Terminator seeds —        
           Globalization —        
           Rich corporations destroying the environment         
            Children in danger        
            Victims of being accused of witchcraft        
            living on the streets         
           Multinational corporations, banks, plundering the rich natural resources        
            of the Democratic Republic of the Congo        

          Fire almost here       
          Work has intensified to a fever pitch      

           The role of the media in the second gulf war
    Comprehensive study of how we were deceived by the media with links and photos
    by New Zealand Editor Alastair Thompson         
            Bush v. Gore          
        — Appointment of U.S. President by the U.S. Supreme Court         
    Iraq — Death — Injury and Torture
    — Military industrial complex
    — Democracy in Thrall
           Guantanamo Hunger Strikers being tortured         
          US Federal Piechart Budget Anaylsis     
           American Politics using Iraq blood for oil      
           US Terror State      
           Danes and Cartoons         
           US used white phosphorus chemical and thermobaric fuel-air weapons      
           War Crimes — Fallujah — Graphic Images    
           Depleted Uranium — its use in Afghanistan, Iraq, Balkans      
           Photos of Iraq children being born deformed      
           A day of war — Iraq March 2003       
           Western Terror States: Canada, US, UK, France, Germany, Italy      
           Photos of Afghanistan people being killed and injured by NATO      
          AK-47 assault rifle      
           — copper-plated, steel-jacketed, high velocity cartridge      
           — bullets      
        International Gun Trade     
          Palestine children in prison    
          I Refused    
          Kept in arm and leg restraints    
          Youth prisons     
          Humiliation     
          Despair     
           Pictures of torture and Abu Ghraib         
            The whale had been hit.
                It was mortally wounded        
          Torture, Death    
          Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala    
          Iraq, US         
           Awful decision to allow brain-killing mercury to be injected into young children      
           Children — Thimerosal, Autism, Mercury    
          Cluster bombs killing injuring, Iraq, Lebanon       
          US new generation of landmines called Spider     
          Basra, Fallujah, Baghdad, Mosul...   US created Iraq — devastated cities      
           U.S. Debt      
           Escalating Military Spending — Income Redistribution in Disguise    
           Fake News          
          Iraq death squads — Badr, White Toyota Land Cruisers      
          Glock pistols, Interior Ministry memo      
          Salvador Option      
          Torture, Death    
          Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala    
          Iraq, US         
          Early Iraq war     
          Stories of the bombings     
          "When is it going to stop?"      
            "Please, please, please let it stop."     
           US Dention centers       
           Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America      
           State of the Union      
           US Congress — too stupid or gullible, and have killed many.       
           I would suggest that any member of the US Congress who had voted       
           for it, should be barred from ever running for       
           any public office in America ever again!       
           Iraq?     Vietnam?    Palestine?   —   We are the OCCUPIERS in Iraq.       
          Elegantly dressed statesmen constructing framework     
          that would allow them to kill quite a lot of people         
           Big melt warning for Arctic       
           Area covered by sea ice in Arctic shrunk for fourth consecutive year      
           Thermohaline shutdown inevitable       
          IRAN US Confrontation      
          American Democracy in Trouble — Al Gore     
          No longer possible to ignore the strangeness         
           al-Sadr City      
           More on al-Sadr — Aljazeera article      
          Global warming point of no return       
                 Has the Age of Chaos Begun?       
          Pay me I am not a criminal      
          Young Afghan boy sent to Guantanamo      
          CO2 record high levels in the atmosphere          
              Increases in carbon dioxide never exceeding 30 ppm in 1,000 years           
          — Now 30 ppm in last 17 years.           
          Highest for 800,000 years — Climate fear as carbon levels soar          
          Why I would not kill in war
           — Stories of former Conscientious Objectors        
          Some U.S. soldiers speak — Iraq Invasion       
            Siberia, Alaska        
            Dramatic permafrost melt — click here       
         Iraqi rebels turning to defeat United States     
          I am ready to sacrifice the rest of my family to defeat America. 
      And God willing we will defeat her      
           UK Terror State      
           Downing Street Memo — How Bush and Blair took us all for a ride      
           Blair, Brown, Campbell, Goldsmith, Hoon, Straw      
              Soot's effect on ice melt and glaciers          
              Melting glaciers Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Himalayas, Kilimanjaro...          
           US veteran Mothers against the war:       
           So anyway that filth-spewer and warmonger, George Bush       
           was speaking after the tragedy of the marines in Ohio...         
           But it happened to my brother      
           Police fired 41 shots — Acquitted of all charges       
           Police brutality continues     
           Suicide Bombing  Blair, Bush      
           Suicide Bombing is response to foreign occupation      
           Will stop once troops withdraw      
           Doris Colmes escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 — Patriot Act — Iraq photos      
           World Tribunal       
           War Crimes — Illegality of Preventive Attack       
           Unilateral Use of Force       
         "None of that spilling of secrets for crass political retribution       
           could have gone on without her knowledge and approval,       
           and thus complicity.      
         Little of it could have happened without her participation,       
          if not as a leaker herself,      
         at least with her direction and with her scripting."       
          Condoleezza Rice — Iraq — Rove       
           Simple Questions — Iraq June 2005 photos         
          Settlements — Trees — Jayyous — West Bank — Palestine        
           The real Ronald Reagan      
           US Terror State — Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, South Africa     
          Flag draped U.S. coffins      
          Children workers — Sweat shops — Unions           
           drinking the Kool-Aid — on the Death of Idealism       
          Loo!   Loo!   Lulu!   Loot! — New Orleans after Katrina        
          Coca-Cola and Plachimada, India        
          Deregulation, Accumulation of wealth       
          — India resistance and corporations       
          — India photos         
           USS Liberty  9/11?    Nuclear attack wiping out some city?       
           Napalm bomblets coating deck with flaming jelly      
           Bolivia — Indigenous Revolt Evo Morales President         
           Venezuela      
           The elections of Hugo Chávez    
        Haiti     
        —   Aristide   Preval   Privatization   Poor   —     
        UN troops and Massacre          
          India — Class war         
           Amazon destruction speeds up       
           Deforestation underestimated by at least 60%        
           Drought in the Amazon basin       
            Weather 2005        
           Mental Health disorders effecting returning US troops       
           US and  War — Interview with George Galloway       
           Most religious people are on the same side as most progressive people        
           Atomic bomb’s peculiar disease      
           Hiroshima, Nagasaki      
           — George Weller report      
          The Politics of Anti-Semitism      
          99 US Senators, 350 US House members attend AIPAC meeting     
         Zimbabwe Homeless — Demolition, clearance of homes     
          Porta Farm images       
          Democracy in the United States and most of the rest of the industrial West
          is therefore a false front on a rich man’s mansion, a sham in which people are 
          given a political vote but then clock in each day to an economic system where
          their entire lives are regimented by a small group of executives busily downsizing
          whatever workplace rights people had gained in centuries of struggle.
          Agent Orange — Vietnam     
          Cleft palates      
          Mentally challenged      
          Extra fingers toes     
           Global weather, environment and climate change      
           — Global youth climate movement      
         Ozone layer hits new depletion record     
          Why did you cut the trees down, grandma?      
           Listing of Iraq War — includes photos       
           I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created          
           Men who become Giants      
           South Africa — South African political emancipation    
           South Africa 1994 - 2006    
           World is actually running out of oil       
           British undercover operatives      
           Fulton's military file quickly found its way onto the desks of the Intelligence Corps    
           Corporate toadies — John Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton       
           March 2005 Anti-war photos         
           False memories — George Orwell wisdom      
           1984      
           One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution
           One makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship      
           The Negative Return Economy — a discourse on America’s black budget      
           Fascinating and lucrative    
           Black Budget?   What Black Budget?    
          With Bush's reinauguration, America now has the president it deserves      
           — Bush's reinauguration bash and the six children of Tal Afar      
          “When You Talk with God”      
          U.S. vote fraud continues     
           "A time comes when silence is betrayal."      
           Dr. Martin Luther King — War and Militarism    
           Torture techniques no surprise       
           Israel: A Call for Divestment — Palestine photos          
           Soot's effect on ice melt and glaciers      
           Washington State's Glaciers are Melting    
          Abu Ghraib soldier, Concientious Objector
    Aidan Delgado      
          Blair — WMD claims      
           UVC in the 10 to 290 nanometer band      
           UVB, 290 to 320 nanometers    
           UVA, 320 to 400 nanometers    
          The Empire      
           U.S. destructive, psychotic fantasy:    The War On Terror       
           — 500 'bunker buster' bombs         
           Ahmed and Asma, story of two children dying      
           — Lest we forget      
            Sudan — Darfur
            Pictures and arial views of destruction        
            Faith Fippinger        
            Book of Merlyn        
            2010 hottest first 6 months ever recorded         
            2005 hottest year on record,         
            2004 4th hottest,        
            2003 3rd hottest,        
            2001-2002 tied for 2nd.        
           The role of the media in the second gulf war
    Comprehensive study of how we were deceived by the media with links and photos
    by New Zealand Editor Alastair Thompson         
           Kalaallit Nunaat ( previously Greenland )      
           Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations    
           Remarkable climate stability of the Holocene these past 10,000 to 12,000 years    
            Rumi        

           Bush, Blair and their minions have committed a monstrous crime       
           and they know it       
    		  
     
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