DID you see this?
Hi Brit Guy.
I have found nothing in the media yet.
If I find something, I'll ping you on this thread.
Well. I've got up this morning after all the excitement and note the thread title has been changed to 'false alarm'. Which confirms nothing was in the papers. Quite frustrating as as a resident it would be nice to know why we have a helicoptor hovering overhead with a halogen beam lighting us up for so long at that time at night. However, I guess operational security means that the police will keep quiet (and also it may be that this operation prooved unsuccessful - in which case they wouldn't go to the media). The only reference I can find anywhere to any new activity in Birmingham is at this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4732951.stm
(which is dated a couple of ours before this incident)
Right the bottom they have the line: "Teams are also studying items seized from other addresses in London and Birmingham"
The 'other addresses' bit clearly meaning that not every raid makes the news! Sorry if I got anyone overly excited.....
Sounds like congrats are in order, Brit guy!
Seven more arrested in connection with failed London bombings
ASSOCIATED PRESS (from Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
Story last updated at 1:55 a.m. Monday, August 1, 2005
LONDON (AP) - Police arrested seven people Sunday during a raid on an apartment in southern England, bringing to 21 the number in custody in the relentless hunt for accomplices in the failed July 21 transit bombings.
Investigators determined to prevent further attacks also were probing possible ties between two of the bombing suspects and Saudi Arabia, British newspapers reported. Police were searching for anyone who may have recruited and directed the attackers and built the explosives.
Police arrested the six men and one woman during a search of two buildings in Brighton, on the southern coast, said a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity because her department does not allow her to give her name. So far, 18 people have been arrested in Britain and three in Italy.
(entire article at >>>>)
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/080105/wor_080105057.shtml