It judged that the officers had genuinely believed Mr de Menezes to be a suicide-bomber intent on destroying the Tube train.
According to The Observer, which said it obtained a leaked copy of the report, the attacks were "a simple and inexpensive plot" organized and executed by four British suicide bombers intent on martyrdom.
Elders in the area said they believed that the suicide bomber's intent was to erode confidence in the group and to make the area more vulnerable to insurgent infiltration.
FAVORITE REGIONAL MYSTERY In SHOCK WAVE (Putnam, $27.95), John Sandford drags Virgil Flowers away from an all-girls volleyball tournament and dispatches him to Butternut Falls, where a bomber is intent on keeping out a big-box store.
But above all, "Something to Tell You" is a raucous love song to London and everything it stands for — everything the July 7 bombers were intent on destroying.
Another man, an impoverished Irish immigrant in London, is recruited as a bomber by militants intent on finding someone to redo a hit job gone tragically awry; they appeal to his rage against a cruel, exploitative boss and to his dreams of heroism and distinction.
The softest of targets is destroyed by bombers or gunmen intent on killing themselves along with their enemies as a demonstration of religious faith.
Both officers were repeatedly questioned about how Iraqi troops were supposed to indicate that they wanted to give up, when allied bombers were still intent on hitting them the moment they emerged from their bunkers.
As our plane flew low up the Thames estuary, it was hard not to think of bombers flying from Germany to bomb London or British bombers flying to Hamburg, intent on destroying infrastructure, homes and people.
"They knew he was a bomber, and they knew his intent," Mr. Foulkes said.
