UK: 'Terror gang' may have been 'plotting to blow up shopping centre and nightclub'

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 9, 2009 | James Tozer

[Stoat]

Dramatic daylight terror raids on a university may have been linked to a plot to blow up a shopping centre or nightclub, police fear.

Students at Liverpool John Moores University watched in shock yesterday as two men were hauled outside and forced to the ground by armed police.
 

Witnesses said the duo  -  students at the university's Business School  -  were wearing combat trousers and hiking jackets, and claimed there were rumours of 'a bomb' on the premises. 

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The raid was one of a series carried out simultaneously across the North-West in which 12 suspects believed to be plotting a major terrorist bomb attack in Britain were seized. Most of the men are Pakistani nationals living in Britain on student visas.
 

Police believe possible targets were the Trafford Centre shopping centre in Manchester and a nightclub frequented by footballers.

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The other areas targeted included Cheetham Hill in north Manchester, where officers raided two houses looking for explosive material and seeking four men. An internet cafe was also searched.
 

In addition, a Homebase DIY store in Clitheroe, Lancashire, was raided by 100 officers, with shoppers looking on as two security guards were led away.

 

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[Stoat]

My apologies for the severe editing of this article...this was done in order to remain in compliance with Free Republic rules pertaining to the posting of articles from The Daily Mail.  Please click on the main article link to read the full story.

 

Armed officers take no chances as they immobilise a terror suspect in Liverpool

 

A suspect is bundled away in Cheetham Hill

 

Armed officers stand above a terror suspect in Liverpool

 

End of the raid: A student wearing a hiking jacket is placed in a van with his arms secured behind his back

 

Police at the scene of an address in Wavertree, Liverpool after a series of terror raids in the in the North West

 

A general view of the Cyber Net Cafe, Cheetham Hill, where two men were arrested

 

Police at an address where men were arrested in a series of anti-terror raids

[Stoat]

Most of the men are Pakistani nationals living in Britain on student visas.

 

 

'It was all pretty scary. It's frightening when there are armed police with machine guns everywhere and we did think our lives could be in danger.

[TornadoAlley3]

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related info here.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yet immigration and racial pandering no doubt continues unabated in the formerly great nation known as Britain.

[Stoat]

related info here

 

[WesternPacific]

I’m sure they will eventually find a UK judge that will release them.

[Stoat]

Irrepressible youths.

 

Indeed.

 

Senior detectives said they moved quickly following an 'imminent and credible' threat of an atrocity by an Al Qaeda linked group, including the construction of an explosive device, said to be a conventional bomb rather than a 'dirty' bomb incorporating nuclear material.

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'There was information which led us to believe that these men were planning something major.

[TSgt]

Islam is our friend!

Just ask the TOTUS!

[Stoat]

Islam is our friend!

Just ask the TOTUS!

The way that they have developed such a reputation for  respecting  and honoring the preexisting cultures that they move into, assimilate so well and go out of their way to eliminate the stereotype of Islamofascist extremism just makes me so proud, it brings tears to my eyes.

"sniffle"

 

Islam is our friend!

Just ask the TOTUS!

[bethybabes69]

So eloquently stated Stoat.

**wipes tears from eyes**

:)

[Stoat]

So eloquently stated Stoat.
 

Thank you so much, but I just can't help myself.  They are such wonderful people and have brought such goodness, peace and wisdom to the world.  And the wonderful way that they treat women, with such respect and courtesy!  I wish that my darned white American neighbors would move away and their houses would be purchased by some shadowy overseas investment corporation, then occupied by about ten twenty-something male muslims apiece.  There's already a mosque less than a mile from the stoat cave but I'm so sad that they don't broadcast the 'call to prayer' on loudspeakers at all hours of the day as they do in some American communities.  Such wonderful diversity it would bring!  And of course it would be wonderful to see them carrying crates with radiological warning stickers on them back and forth from windowless vans parked on the street....they're just doing worthwhile scientific experiments that will benefit America and all of humanity of course.

I just get so overwhelmed sometimes, thinking of all of those fine muslims

"sigh"

 

[bethybabes69]

LMAO, wonderful!

*claps hands*

[Stoat]

“snicker”

[blam]

Whose idea was it to allow these Muslim pigs into our civilized nations?

[Stoat]

Police believe possible targets were the Trafford Centre shopping centre in Manchester and a nightclub frequented by footballers.

 

Aerial view of Trafford Centre (shopping mall)

 

Trafford Centre

 

 

Trafford Centre

 

Trafford Centre

 

Trafford Centre

 

[Stoat]

Whose idea was it to allow these Muslim pigs into our civilized nations?

As to letting them in, we can, as usual, thank the Left for bullying anyone who dared object and shrilly crying "RACIST" at anyone who suggested that any nation has a right to restrict immigration and protect it's culture and borders.

The next time an islamofascist's bomb goes off in a shopping mall, killing hundreds or thousands of people we can thank white liberals as well as the culprits.

[manc]

I was in cheetham hill last year when I went over there and for years now it has been a place of anyone thinking are we in Pakistan or England

no surprise where they are form but of course the muslims will rally, they will carry on living in their enclaves, the police will be scared to do even traffic stops with them and then they will take to the streets to denounce these raids as racist

I just hope the coppers have got all the info on these people for the court or this will play into their hands again

[manc]

I’ve been ton the trafford centre many many times.
There is a prayer room there supposedly for just about anyone but of course there is Pakistani Muslims always around there.

So I decided to do my bit once and went in there , the looks I got from the pakistani were that of hatred but of course they did nothing to me as they realise I can look after myself plus they probably thought who the hell is this nutcase doing this right now.

One of them said you finished now and I said no, he wanted me to leave so they can have their 5 times a day bend overs.
I said well I will be here for some time and this place is for all.

bleieve me they were shocked and had no clue what to do.

incidently most people do not know their is a prayer room as it is right at the end and guess what next to the McDonald’s
LOL

[Wil H]

Whose idea was it to allow these Muslim pigs into our civilized nations?

The problem that the British have is that when Pakistan was part of their Empire they gave the population British passports and told them England was their "Motherland".

Now the Pakistanis can travel freely to the UK.