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Jeremy
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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 Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:51 pm Police Quiz Terror Suspects (In Britain) |
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| AOL News wrote: | Thirteen arrests have been made in an anti-terror operation
Anti-terrorist police are questioning 12 suspected terrorists following their arrests in a series of nationwide raids.
Police swooped in a planned operation as part of their enquiries into "alleged international terrorism".
The men, all aged in their twenties and thirties, were seized on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Yesterday's arrests - led by the Met - were in north west London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Lancashire.
Scotland Yard has refused to discuss whether the raids were linked to the seizure of computer files from al Qaida suspects captured in Pakistan.
The suspects were due to be taken to a central London police station and will be interviewed by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Anti-Terrorist Branch.
A statement from the Met said that the raids were part of a "pre-planned, ongoing intelligence-led operation".
It said the operation was "part of continuing and extensive enquiries by police and the security services into alleged international terrorism".
According to the Met, searches of homes in London, Bushey, Luton and Blackburn were expected to take some time to complete.
The arrests come as Prime Minister Tony Blair came under pressure to spell out the level of the terrorist threat in Britain, as a massive security operation continued in US cities.
America is on heightened alert following the discovery of documents in Pakistan, which apparently mention potential targets for attack both in the US and Britain. |
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Kyre
Commodore
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| Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:16 pm |
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As far as I know, the targets in the UK are actually American companies (banks?).
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
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Location: North East England
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| Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:02 pm |
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Possibly. I don't know if this is related or anything but there were quite a lot more police around and in the Metrocentre today (the largest shopping centre in the UK, soon to be the biggest in Europe (again)).
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
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| Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:18 pm |
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Things are being done, and that's good.
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