By HANNAH K. STRANGE
UPI UK Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Police were wrong to secretly ...
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His comments came as the Metropolitan Police sank further into controversy over the mistaken killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian who was mistaken for a suicide bomber in the aftermath of the July attacks.It emerged Wednesday police shot de Menezes with bullets that rupture inside the body and are banned under international warfare conventions.
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Few in Britain were aware that the Metropolitan Police had adopted the policy until the killing of de Menezes, shot by plain clothes police eight times at close range on a busy underground train on July 22.

It later emerged the policy, named Operation Kratos, had been adopted a year earlier, after advice from Israeli security forces on how to deal with suicide bombers .
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