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Posted on 06/07/2006 6:14:46 PM PDT by blam
Students held in terror plot inquiry
By Paul Stokes
(Filed: 08/06/2006)
Two students were being detained in West Yorkshire under the Terrorism Act last night in connection with arrests in Canada over an alleged al-Qa'eda plot.
A 21-year-old man was arrested as he arrived at Manchester airport on his return from Canada on Tuesday night. He is a Bradford-based student of Pakistani origin. Police later searched three addresses in the city.
A 16-year-old college student was arrested in Dewsbury as part of the same operation shortly after 3pm yesterday. Premises in the town were searched.
Police say armed officers were not involved in either arrest and there is no connection with the Metropolitan Police investigation at Forest Gate, east London
Raids were carried out on two properties in Hanover Square in the Manningham area of Bradford at around midnight on Tuesday. Neighbours saw two vans and armed officers in the street as police first raided two houses using battering rams to smash in the doors.
Neighbours of one of the raided houses said the occupants had lived there for 20 to 25 years.
Hasanul Maab, 53, who lives on the street, said police brought out an elderly woman, her son and his wife during the raid. He said the elderly woman was a widow. "She has four or five sons and they come and go but she lives there alone as far as I know."
Sham Suddin Ahmed, 40, a funding manager, who lives on Hanover Square, said: "This is a close-knit community and generally a quiet and respectable square."
A terrace house in the Undercliffe area of Bradford was also raided between midnight and 1am.
John Khan, 23, a builder, who lives locally, said: "The people in that house weren't a well known family, so you never know what could have been happening."
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