London underground overkill

Crikey, according to radio reports based on eye-witness accounts, the cops in London held down a suspect at Stockwell Tube station and pumped five bullets into him because he posed a "potential threat". He only got off lightly because he didn't pose an "actual threat".

If we'd try to bring about a global religious war to wreck the lives of coming generations, could we have cast three better buffoons to organise it than Bush, Blair and Howard?