Damage limitation posted by Meaders

Well, whaddya know:

Brothers Abul Koyair, 20, and Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, who was shot in the raid, were freed without charge on Friday evening.

Both men had denied allegations of involvement in terrorism.

Met Police Authority member Murad Qureshi said mistakes were made, but police have defended the raid.

Pause a minute. We now live a country where, on the say-so of one so-called "informant" you can get shot at, dragged out of your home, arrested, smeared all over the press, and see your next-door-neighbours beaten. This is the stuff of witch-trials that the "war on terror" has produced.

Meanwhile, "community relations" are being repaired:

A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds.

The document, which has been seen by the Guardian, has caused outrage among ethnic minorities within the force, who have labelled it racist and proof that there is a gulf in understanding between the police force and the wider Muslim community. The document was written as an attempt to investigate why complaints of misconduct and corruption against Asian officers are 10 times higher than against their white colleagues.

I cannot, in light of the Forest Gate debacle, even begin to imagine why Asian police officers might receive more internal complaints than their white counterparts.