Posted on 09/02/2006 4:23:20 AM PDT by Clive
LONDON, U.K. -- Police have arrested 14 people in anti-terrorism raids around London, saying Saturday they suspected the men had been involved in training and recruiting for terror.
The arrests late Friday and early Saturday were not linked to the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners or to the July 2005 bomb attacks on London's transport network, the capital's Metropolitan Police said. They declined to give details of what the suspects were believed to have done, other than saying they were arrested as part of an investigation into terror training and recruitment.
The raids followed months of surveillance and investigation, police said.
The 14 people, arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, were being held in central London, police said. Officers were searching an unspecified number of homes around the capital, they added.
Twelve of the arrests were made at a south London halal Chinese restaurant, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. About 40 officers raided the restaurant shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, when it was packed with diners, the BBC said. Police would not comment on that report.
In Manchester, northern England, police said they had arrested two people in an anti-terror investigation unrelated to the one in London. They said they had searched three houses in the Cheetham Hill area of the city and made the arrests at around 6 a.m.
Those actions were part of the same investigation that led to the Aug. 23 arrest of a terror suspect in Manchester and were not linked to the alleged airliner plot, police said. They declined to provide further details.
Police arrested 25 people in raids on Aug. 9-10 in an alleged plot to bomb as many as 10 planes flying from Britain to America. Fifteen of those have since been charged, five have been released and five are being held without charge.
Peter Clarke, head of Metropolitan Police anti-terror efforts, said police and intelligence agents were now attempting to track thousands of people believed to be directly or indirectly involved in terrorism, according to comments made public Friday.
The threat from homegrown terrorism is increasing in Britain, he told the BBC in an interview to be broadcast Sept. 3, an advance transcript said.
"What we've learnt since 9/11 is that the threat is not something that's simply coming from overseas into the United Kingdom," Clarke said. "What we've learned, and what we've seen all too graphically and all too murderously, is that we have a threat which is being generated here within the United Kingdom."
Round 'em up!
"London Halal Chinese" restaurant.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha
Clive... Google News has the humber up to 16 arrested...so the arrests must be ongoing as we speak.
More coffee.
14 down ... a million to go ...
One day we will wake up and truly understand the threat the Amish pose to the world. Animals!!!
"What...no Mu Shoo Pork?"
" a south London halal Chinese restaurant
Hmmm, OK."
Am I missing something?
Ah. It's probably more likely that they just like Chinese food to be honest. Don't think that the Chicoms have too much stake in Chinese restaurants in the UK. If they do, I've been funding them to a worrying extent ;)
The what?
Ah. The melting-pot burdens of ex-empire.
Congratulations for the vigilence and hard work of our neighbors across the pond and all of their unsung heroes.
A recent conversion...
What?? No roast pork and snow peas??
You have to hand it to the Brits. They are doing something. (after yrs. of inaction)
Don't see much action on our part, and we know terrorists are here.
As is normal in terrorism, the terrorists once again turn out to be of Pakistani origin.
Pakistani orgin individuals are surely the preffered footsoilders of Jihad :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6053923,00.html
Maybe we need some London Police advisors in Nashville. a premptive raid there might be productive.
"South Park"
The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0766090/
They saw it coming in 1998
I knew a Greek christian who made a few bucks shipping frozen halal chickens to Saudi Arabia.
I had Jewish colleagues in NYC who discovered a kosher Chinese restaurant.
You'll find kosher products in all US supermarkets.
It's simply business ... offer what will sell.
Besides it made it easier for the Brit cops to arrest these dirtbags.
What are the others, please?
Cheers!
Am I missing something?
Maybe you are.
Try reading this.
;-)
Cheers!
Britain, of all European nations, is showing some fight to save their country from Third World occupation. But it might be too little too late.
The only thing that will save Britain from suffering the same fate as the rest of Western Europe is to kick all of the Third World invaders out of the UK. Nothing else will save it from decline and fall.
If thats the measure of a nations decline, the US is already half way there....
Boy, this has got to be giving our Looney Liberal Left and their friends at the ACLU some sleepless nights. Whole new game in town - wonder when it will arrive on our shores? Not soon enough. The mosques should be listened in on IMHO.
The lunatic left, Democrats/Socialist, are intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Nice to see the boys can go halal Chinese, but there must be limits. I'm afraid barbecued pulled-pork sandwiches and frosty brewskies are going to keep me from being a Moslem forever.
Good for the Brits, who probably invented that old proverb:
A stitch in time saves nine.
Kung Pao/14 Islamofascist Kind is now being served with extra hot sauce.
GET SOME!!!
fyi
I expect that many are.
Arresting them is fine, but it's just a first step: at some point they/we are going to have to deal with them.
There's no rehabilitating them, no more than you can rehabilitate a cockroach.
It's time to start executing them; the only sure-fire way to prevent them from escaping or being used as bargaining chips in kidnap situations.
If they arrest all the imam's.. There is a better than good chance they are involved in terrorism..
Wow! halal chinese food.
No sweet and sour pork but you can order sweet and sour camel, I suppose......
They made it easy by all eating together in the same restaurant at the same time. Doh!
They are part of the notorious Imma Dumass terrorist group.
The Brits are doing a great job. Good for them. :O)
>>It's simply business ... offer what will sell.
Besides it made it easier for the Brit cops to arrest these dirtbags<<
Kind of leads you to wonder...if perhaps a few of these sorts of restaurants are MI5/MI6/New Scotland Yard storefronts - complete with the very latest gee-whiz gadgetry in electronic eavesdropping, multipoint video surveillance, and facial recognition software...maybe even RFID's in customer's copies of receipts...
Just thinking out loud and outside the box!
A.A.C.
"The Final Crusade has commenced - have you spied on your 'moderate mooselimb' neighbor today?
In the footage of the Chinese restaurant, watch for the little sign on the left depicting a map of Iran with a green, white and red flag in the middle.
I could tell you about a particular retail establishment in Manhattan ... but I'd have to kill you once I did that.
Thanks for the comment.
I had been thinking that and waiting and waiting for any sign of confidence in ourselves!
At least we know they're not connected to any alleged airliner plots.
Yeah, Bert. I knew that. I was laughing about the "London halal Chinese" phrase. English Imperialism bringing them a restaurant into their capitol of arab and Chinese compbinations. Not just a halal Islamic London establishment. Not just a Chinese food place.... But a London halal Chinese place. With what, melting pot-stickers? Kung Pao Falafel? Washed down with an alcohol-free Tsing Tao Best Bitter?
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