In an uneasy parallel to Iraq, English Police search for a terrorist (poison gas) vest after shooting a terrorist suspect. As with Iraq, the world hopes they find it before it is used.
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London rocked by dawn terror raid
By Ben Taylor and David Williams in London
POLICE who shot a young Muslim in a dawn raid were looking for a "suicide vest" which was capable of pumping out poison gas.
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They feared terrorists could use it to attack the Tube network or a pub crowded for a World Cup football game.
More than 300 officers, many wearing chemical protection suits, swooped on a terraced house in London's East End.
The unprecedented operation followed weeks of surveillance based on "specific" intelligence.
As the wounded man, shot in the chest, lay under armed guard in hospital, chemical warfare specialists joined police, MI5 and forensic experts searching his terraced home.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an inquiry into the shooting, the first by Scotland Yard anti-terror officers since the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes last July.
Friends named the wounded man as 23-year-old Adbul Kahar Kalam, a science graduate who works for the Royal Mail.
His brother, Abdul Koyair Kalam, 20, a supermarket employee, was being held at the top-security Paddington Green police station in west London.
Both were being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.
The brothers lived with their parents and two sisters in Lansdown Rd, Forest Gate. The family come originally from Bangladesh. Police say MI5 believes there is "firm intelligence" of a vest which would emit a deadly vapour from a hidden capsule.
Last night, despite several hours of intensive searching, police had yet to discover any weapons, chemicals or evidence of a planned attack.
Police in dozens of vans had moved quietly into place around the house. They smashed down the front door of the house at 4am.
Armed police challenged two men at the top of the stairs, but they failed to comply with the shouted orders. One man was shot in the chest. There were suggestions last night that the police marksman's gun may have gone off accidentally during a scuffle.
The Sunday Telegraph
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