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August 20, 2005
This Doesn't Look Good for Sir Ian Blair
James Cusick of the Sunday Herald of Britain reported in the paper's August 21, 2005 edition that, "The head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, was not told for 24 hours that the young Brazilian shot and killed by his men on a London tube train was innocent and had no connection with bombings in the city, he said last night."
The Herald said, The astonishing claim suggests that Sir Ian was kept in the dark about the bungled shooting by senior officers inside the Met, or that the elite surveillance teams which tracked Jean Charles de Menezes took more than a day to discover the identity of the man they had killed by shooting him seven times in the head and once in the neck.
"Either option leaves confidence in both Sir Ian and his force at a critically low level," The Herald concluded. Here's more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 20, 2005 08:03 PM
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