Original Article Police kill terror suspect at London subway station Robert Barr Associated Press Jul. 22, 2005 08:39 AM LONDON - Plainclothes police chased a man in a thick coat through a subway station, wrestled him to the floor and shot him to death in front of stunned commuters Friday. Police said the shooting was "directly linked" to the investigations of the bomb attacks on London's transit system. Appealing for help from the public to capture the suspects, police released photographs of four men suspected of launching Thursday's second wave of terrorist attacks, saying they bore similarities to the July 7 bombings that claimed 56 lives. Thursday's bombs partly detonated and contained homemade explosives, police said. The photos, taken from closed-circuit TV cameras, showed one man wearing a dark shirt with "New York" across the front running through a subway station. Another was shown on the upper level of a double-decker bus, while the other two men were shown at separate subway stations. The man who was slain by officers at the Stockwell subway station around 10 a.m. "challenged and refused to obey police instructions," said Police Commissioner Ian Blair. "This shooting is directly linked to the ongoing and expanding anti-terrorist operation," he said. Witnesses said the man, who appeared to be South Asian, was hit multiple times. Passengers said a man ran onto a train at Stockwell station in south London. Witnesses said plainclothes police chased him, he tripped, and police then shot him. "They pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him. He's dead," witness Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp. "He looked like a cornered fox. He looked petrified." Britain is home to many immigrants from the South Asian countries of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, among others. Another witnesses, Anthony Larkin, told the BBC that the man appeared to have "a bomb belt and wires coming out." Police shouted "Get down! Get down!" he said, adding that "people were panicking and I heard shots being fired." Whitby, however, said the man did not appear to have been carrying anything but was wearing a thick coat that looked padded. Temperatures in overcast London on Friday were in the 70s. Police would not say which armed unit was involved. Ordinary police officers in London do not usually carry guns, but some special units do, and armed police have become a more common sight on the streets in recent years. Service on the Northern and Victoria subway lines, which pass through Stockwell, was suspended because of the shooting, police said. Stockwell is one station away from the Oval station, which was affected by Thursday's attacks. Scotland Yard said police were investigating a suspect package at Vauxhall, the next station along the Victoria line from Stockwell. Muslim leaders expressed concern at the shooting. Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said he had spoken to "jumpy and nervous" Muslims since the shooting. Authorities said Thursday's bombs, placed on three subway trains and a double-decker bus just like the July 7 attacks, had partly detonated and contained homemade explosives. Blair said they "bear similarities" to the July 7 attacks. Investigators searched for fingerprints, DNA and other forensic evidence connected to Thursday's attacks. The devices were either small or faulty, and authorities said the only person who needed medical attention was a person suffering an asthma attack. But Blair said the bombers' "intention must have been to kill. You don't do this with any other intention." The attacks targeted trains near the Oval, Warren Street and Shepherd's Bush stations. The double-decker bus had its windows blown out on Hackney Road in east London. The London transport agency said the three affected subway stations remained closed Friday, and service was suspended on all or part of several lines. A statement posted Friday on an Islamic Web site in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility for Thursday's attacks. The group, Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade, also claimed responsibility for the July 7 bombings. The statement's authenticity could not immediately be verified. Experts say the group has no proven history of attacks and said it had claimed responsibility for events in which it was unlikely to have played any role, such as the 2003 blackouts in the United States and London that resulted from technical problems. In recent months, it also has made threats that its operatives would strike in Europe if countries there did not withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. Michael Clarke, director of the Center for Defense Studies at King's College, London, said Thursday's attacks looked "very amateurish." "It looks like determined imitators who perhaps must have planned this a little while ago ... but it doesn't look quite like the same network behind it," Clarke told BBC radio. London newspapers reflected the city's volatile mood - part defiance, part anxiety. "Britain will not be beaten," vowed a front-page headline in the Daily Express. "Is this how we must now live?" asked the Daily Mirror over pictures of the attacks' aftermath. The Independent had a similar photo montage and the words: "City of Fear." Mia Clarkson, 24, defiantly said she refused to change her schedule. "You've got to keep living, don't you?" she said as she exited the Chancery Lane station after a trip from across town. Chidi O'Hanekwu, 23, said he found himself being "a bit more paranoid" on his commute. Saudi ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former head of Saudi intelligence and the incoming ambassador to the United States, said the attacks had "all the hallmarks" of al-Qaida. "The modus operandi, the sheer cowardice associated with them and the attacks on innocent civilians - these are all part and parcel of al-Qaida," he told BBC radio. Elsewhere in London, detectives investigating Thursday's explosions searched a building in the Harrow Road area of West Kilburn, although no arrests were made, Scotland Yard said. Police reportedly told residents to get inside their houses and then brought in a bomb disposal unit, including a remote vehicle, witnesses said. Also Friday, police said they were investigating an apparent attempt to set fire to the home of a man identified as one of the July 7 suicide bombers. Officers went to the home of Jermaine Lindsay in Aylesbury, 40 miles west of London, on Friday morning after reports of a gasoline smell in the street, Thames Valley Police said. They confirmed the presence of some kind of fuel. "The substance was found around the family home of the fourth London bomber, which is currently unoccupied," said Superintendent Carole Haveron. Police have identified Lindsay as the bomber who attacked a subway train between Russell Square and King's Cross on July 7. --- Associated Press reporter David Rising contributed to this report.