The chilling (and balaclava-clad) face of modern British policing: London siege reveals armed-to-the-teeth team preparing for the Olympic Games

The chilling (and balaclava-clad) face of modern British policing: London siege reveals armed-to-the-teeth team preparing for the Olympic Games

By David Williams, Colin Fernandez, Arthur Martin and Ian Drury

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Bristling with guns, his face masked, a police officer moves in on a suspected suicide bomber.

Just 91 days away from the start of the Olympics, the dramatic scene gave a foretaste of what can be expected this summer after a man threatened to blow himself up in a busy office block.

Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked down over a wide area of London's West End.

Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building on Tottenham scrambled to an office block on Tottenham Court Road, one of the city's busiest shopping streets.

The face of modern policing: This picture shows the specialist combat gear worn by the armed police units responding to the siege in central London yesterday

The face of modern policing: This picture shows the specialist combat gear worn by the armed police units responding to the siege in central London yesterday

As marksmen took up positions on rooftops, office workers were banished from their buildings while others were trapped as the man with canisters strapped to his body yelled that he would 'blow everybody up'.

For three hours, as negotiators spoke with the man, named last night as 49-year-old Michael Green from Hemel Hempstead, terrified office workers and children were held back behind police cordons.

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Comment by Amaterasu Solar on April 29, 2012 at 8:36am

Not Your friendly neighborhood bobby who prided Him/HerSelf in carrying nothing but a club as a weapon...

Comment by DTOM on April 28, 2012 at 7:20am

I'm calling 'False Flag' on this...this is part of the final push and 'justification' of the the 'you need us' UK police state, and to ensure the sheep don't question the fact that paramilitary operations by unidentifiable and unaccountable individuals unifomed and plainclothes - are the norm.

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