From Creeping Sharia:
12 “men” arrested in UK terrorism plot
Posted on December 20, 2010 by creeping
A one-off, large-scale terror attack. What kind of “men” would plot such a thing? via Associated Press.
LONDON (AP) — British police on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack – the biggest anti-terrorist sweep since April 2009, when 12 men were detained over an alleged al-Qaida bomb plot in the northern city of Manchester.
Police who swooped in on the men’s houses early in the morning were unarmed, suggesting any planned attack was not imminent.
The men were arrested in London, the Welsh city of Cardiff and the English cities of Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent.
The plot was directed at targets inside the United Kingdom but counterterrorism officials declined to give more details.
“The operation is in its early stages so we are unable to go into detail at this time,” said John Yates, Britain’s senior counterterrorism police officer.
Officers said the men range in age from 17 to 28. Police have up to 28 days to question them before they must be charged or released.
Another government official on Monday downplayed reports that the latest raids in Britain were part of larger terror concerns across Europe.
“Although serious, we believe this raid may have been a one-off and not necessarily related to larger European terror plot concerns,” said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
British police said Monday’s raids and the number of arrests across the U.K. showed that the suspects were planning something big.
“This is a large scale, pre-planned and intelligence-led operation involving several forces,” Yates said.
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No mention of Islam, Muslim, or jihad. The media is now well conditioned by jihadists and their “moderate” Muslim counterparts to preemptively apply sharia law
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