Jean de Menezes Inquest soon - UK'05 summer of terror questions remain.

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Sunday July 06, 2008 20:09

by justice 4 jean

Tomorrow July 7 will see the anniversary of a series of Terrorist events which occured in London and the UK in 2005. Apart from the list of dead and wounded the legacy of those events are continuing counter-terrorism laws and powers which were rushed through the UK's parliament at that time. To date there has been no official public inquiry into the Terrorist events from July 7th to July 22nd 2005.

The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes in Stockwell Tube station London on the 22nd of July 2005 has been scheduled for 22nd September 2008 at Southwark Coroner's Court to be presided over by High Court Judge Sir Michael Wright QC. The setting of the inquest date was originally adjourned pending completion of the Health & Safety trial against the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, which concluded in October 2007 with a guilty verdict.

The latest inquest date is yet another delay in the process of publically accounting for the circumstances in which the Brazilian was shot and re-examining the continued need for and continued use of counter-terrorism legislation which was proposed and some passed by the Blair government during the period from 7/7/05 - 7/8/05.

The CCTV evidence or lack of it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Mi...otage

the number of shots fired,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Gu...shots

the use of hollow tip "dumdum" bullets,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4443082.stm

the role of Mi5 or special forces in advising the Metropolitan police will all come up again for discussion. De Menezes death marked the end of the Summer of Terror and the implementation of the Cobra Security Committee's policies in London and the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/aug/04/july7.menezes

the question of effective training for officers engaged in Operation Kratos, the existence of a "shoot to Kill" policy and the legality of issuing hollow tip ammunition to police officers and the preparation of such bullets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Kratos

People used silly codes on IMC UK to react to observed activity by MI5 and the Metropolitan police in Stockwell at 10am on the morning of the day July 22, 2005. This thread appeared
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/319073.html after the de Menzes shooting had occured at 09h08 but before that event had become public knowledge. At lunchtime this thread on IMC ireland appeared http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71065

BBC Timeline
flash version http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7073125.stm
text version http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7050915.stm

the Stockwell one report may be read here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/08_11_07_sto...1.pdf