[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]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225327/posts

related info here.

[TSgt]

Islam is our friend!

Just ask the TOTUS!

[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

 

[Cindy]

Thanks to Steelfish for this related thread.

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226038/posts

Al-Qaeda Terror Plot To Bomb Easter Shoppers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5133535/Al-Qaeda-terror-plot-to-bomb-Easter-shoppers.html ^ | April 09, 2009
Posted on April 9, 2009 6:38:39 PM PDT by Steelfish

Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers

An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an “Easter spectacular” of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent 09 Apr 2009

Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the arrests of 12 men in the north west of England on Wednesday were linked to a suspected plan to launch a devastating attack this weekend.

Some of the suspects were watched by MI5 agents as they filmed themselves outside the Trafford Centre on the edge of Manchester, the Arndale Centre in the city centre, and the nearby St Ann’s Square.

Police were forced to round up the alleged plotters after they were overheard discussing dates, understood to include the Easter bank holiday, one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.

“It could have been the next few days and they were talking about 10 days at the outside,” one source said. “We had to act.” Police are now engaged in a search for an alleged bomb factory, where explosives might have been assembled.

If such a plot was carried out, it would almost certainly have been Britain’s worst terrorist attack, with the potential to cause more deaths than the suicide attacks of July 7, 2005, when 52 people were murdered.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

Note: Videos, photos and other items of interest included with this article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8688501.stm

SNIPPET: “’Al-Qaeda ringleader’ wins appeal against deportation”

SNIPPET: “The alleged leader of an al-Qaeda plot to bomb targets in north-west England has won his appeal against deportation.

A special immigration court said Abid Naseer was an al-Qaeda operative - but could not be deported because he faced torture or death back home in Pakistan.

Mr Naseer, 23, was one of 10 Pakistani men arrested last April as part of a massive counter-terrorism operation in Liverpool and Manchester.

Student Ahmad Faraz Khan, also 23, won his appeal on similar grounds.
The security services believed the men were planning to attack within days of their arrest, but neither was charged.”

SNIPPET: “But Abdul Wahab Khan, 27, and Tariq Ur Rehman, 38, who were also arrested at the time, lost their deportation appeals.

They had already returned to Pakistan.

Mr Justice Mitting said they were committed Islamists who knew of Mr Naseer’s plan.”