Police in Britain were accused today of bungling after staging a huge raid in search of a chemical bomb and shooting a suspect - but then being forced to free him and his brother without charge within days.
No bomb was found in the search of the house in the ethnically mixed area of Forest Gate in east London. The brothers arrested there, Muslims aged 20 and 23, were released on last night.
Murad Qureshi, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority said Scotland Yard had to learn from "a series of mistakes" made in the raid.
"They cover everything from the collection of intelligence and how you corroborate that ... through to how the suspects are actually dealt with, particularly in this case how we find ourselves with one of the brothers shot," he told BBC radio.
More than 250 officers took part in the raid on June 2nd, which Muslim groups have slammed as heavy-handed.
The Metropolitan Police face another embarrassing Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry into the shooting of a suspect during an anti-terrorism operation.
Police shot dead a Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, in the weeks after last July's bomb attacks on the capital after wrongly identified him as a suicide bomber.
Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said on Saturday police needed to acknowledge they had made errors in the Forest Gate raid to prevent extremist groups exploiting resentment in the Muslim community.