7 Islamic Extremists Arrested After Major UK Terror Plot Uncovered
- Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:32am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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LONDON (AP) — British police arrested a group of suspected Islamic extremists on Monday in one of the most significant counter-terror operations of the year.
Officers were also carrying out raids on several homes and a commercial property in the central city of Birmingham as part of the intelligence-led operation.
Although the plot was in its early stages and targets weren’t immediately known, British security officials said the threat appeared significant and involved Islamic extremists. Authorities said it didn’t appear that ongoing political conferences were the intended target.
West Midlands assistant police chief Marcus Beale said the suspects were arrested in or near their homes by unarmed police officers as part of a “large, pre-planned, intelligence-led counter terrorism operation.”
The Telegraph gives a map of where the arrests took place:
Six men were arrested overnight and were being held under anti-terror legislation. A woman was also arrested Monday morning for failing to disclose information. The suspects are aged between 22 and 32. All were described as being British residents, and police would not give any details about nationalities or ethnicity.
The threat level remained at “substantial” Monday.
“As more details emerge of this plot, the threat level may be reassessed,” according to a British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work and the ongoing investigation.
Britain lowered its assessment of a terrorist attack from “severe” to “substantial” in July. The current threat level means risk of an attack is a “strong possibility.”
There are five levels of threat, from low, meaning an attack is unlikely, to critical, meaning an attack is imminent. “Substantial” is the third level.
The threat level was last at critical in June 2007, following an attack on Glasgow Airport and failed car bombings in central London.
Last year, British authorities arrested 12 suspects in a large-scale terror attack aimed at attacking British landmarks and public spaces.
At least five of the men were of Bangladeshi origin. Some of their cases are still pending.
Europe has been the target of numerous terror plots by Islamist militants.
The deadliest was the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when shrapnel-filled bombs exploded, killing 191 people and wounding about 1,800.
In 2005, suicide bombers killed 52 rush-hour commuters in London aboard three subway trains and a bus. In 2006, U.S. and British intelligence officials thwarted one of the largest plots yet, a plan to explode nearly a dozen trans-Atlantic airliners.
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Comments (38)
Bill Wallace
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:26pmAgain, must be just that “small” amount of criminals, nothing to do with Islam itself, or the Koran.
Nope. Not them.
Can’t be. They claim they are a religion of peace, even though they are the most warring and bloodthirsty group in the world.
Report Post »nando nyc
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:08pmErick Stakelbeck has a great show on CBN. Regarding Jihad!
EDUCATE YORSELF NOW!
link below:
http://www.cbn.com/media/player/search.aspx?search=stakelbeckepisodes&t=k&parent=0
Report Post »PunditPawn
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:14amOh no! There goes Ron Paul’s campaign… I thought these terrorists were just confused, really nice people with a religion of peace?
Report Post »robert
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:15pm“There are five levels of threat, from low, meaning an attack is unlikely, to critical, meaning an attack is imminent. “Substantial” is the third level.”
“Substantial” is the designation that applies to ALL multicultural societies, because ALL multicultural societies are unstable and are comprised of people whose loyalties lie with the countries they left or their parents left. They’re always on the verge of rioting or violent upheaval, mostly because they don’t really fit in or belong.
In the case of Muslims, it is their religion also that alienates them from those governments they emigrate to throughout the West, in addition to their loyaltiy to their nations of origins.
With blacks it is their race that alienates them from mostly white, Western societies, because they place racial loyalties above all other things.
In short, any government foolish enough to import large numbers of people who are no more than malcontents is a country that is destroying itself from within.
It is the refusal to recognize this truth, or an inability to understand it, that disqualifies Western elites from governing over anybody including themselves.
Multiculturalism is unequivocally the precurser to civil war. We will soon see that, as has been the case for thousands of years involving many civilizations.
Report Post »uem
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 1:42pmThat’s not what Ron Paul said. He said that if we had not put the Shaw of Iran into power and helped him maintain that power, and if we had not put Saddam Hussein in power and helped him maintain that power, then the Arab world would not be as mad at us as they are.
Report Post »ThorLoser
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:57am“British police arrested a group of suspected Islamic extremists…”
The use of the adjectives “suspected, allegedly and perportedly” is getting out of control. I can understand using those terms to describe criminal activity where someone has been charged, yet innocence is assumed until proven otherwise. However, if you do not know for certain that they are in fact Islamic extremists, then it is a rumor, not news. Where does it end?
British police have reportedly arrested what some presumably unnamed sources have tentatively described as a group of suspected Islamic extremists…
They “are” something ot they “are not”, if you are reporting it and you don’t know (IE. have confirmation), then don’t include it.
Report Post »cactusjoe
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:54amWould not disclose Nationalities. Sure now everyone will blame the Irish !! LOL.
Report Post »Thank goodness our society is not that bad yet.
sissykatz
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 1:00pmCactusjoe
Now that was funny…….
Report Post »rbosque
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:37amThat’s right Britain! Keep importing more Muslims!
Report Post »What could possibly go wrong?
Moonage Daydreamer
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:37amHere is the link: http://americanislamicleadership.org/AILC_Response_MI
Report Post »Infidel49
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:16amNow, get the rope and finish the job.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:36amAs stated in the report these are SUSPECTS. Your attitude makes us no better than they are. We have the rule of law, we have innocent until proven guilty. Give that up and what have we got left to fight for? I know you only type these macho cliches in the basement to impress your little friends, but don’t post juvenile comments when the adults are talking. First sign of any terrorist and you’d wet yourself.
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:56amI wonder how many were muslims?
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:18amThats good news for them! But there is no end to those who will step into their shoes….so what to do? Will there ever be a day of world peace….not until God comes to judge the world and punish the wicked.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:55amThese seven should have been shot on sight and then send pretator drones to go destroy their families. You gotta out terrorise the terrorist.
Report Post »Sleazy Hippo
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:51amThe limeys are lucky we support them with our Intelligence files.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:40amYeah, and it’s so much better now that Americans have stopped funding Irish terrorists. Your 2 posts here don’t make any sense. You say there‘s no reliable source for information now and then you say we’re sharing it. Your knowledge of “intelligence” betrays a severe lack of it.
Report Post »Sleazy Hippo
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 3:03pmRep. King of NYC will not admit IRA support is dead.
We share what we have, it is just not any good if produced after 2008.
I know enough about our Trillion Dollar GWOT intelligence machine to know it has doubled in size in the past 8 years, envelops literally 18 federal agencies that are super funded without even talking about state, city, tribal and industrial fusion centers with police, emergency and first responders. Don’t get me started on payments for overseas HUMINT and operatives.
Then you can add NSA, CIA, NRO, and on & on.
Report Post »terrymccoy
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:35amExcellent article, thanks
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:24am“ the suspects were arrested in or near their homes by UNARMED police officers” Are you serious? Had one of those nitwits pulled a gun, the police would have to take cover, call HQ and have the supervisor bring them some guns from storage. Sure the British anti-terrorist unit is effective but take at least a gun to a bomb fight. Hang ‘em high.
Report Post »sabat56
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:23amarrested by unarmed police, whats the message in that statement?
Report Post »team1blazer
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:01amThis is WAR. Interogate, extract intel, eliminate threat. DONE
Report Post »Morris
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:30amWe have 35-Muslim training camps in our USA,The FBI knows all about these camps but due to their religion the FBI will not do anything about the camps???????
All of these camps are teaching Hate,Sharia-Law and Terrorism!
Report Post »And Dictator Barack Hussein Obama our Muslim-in-Cheif ,Just keeps signing his Executive orders
to bring more of his Chosen people into our USA every day!
Dictator Obamas last big Executive Orders was to bring into our America, 60,000 to 80,000
Muslims from Somalia, “WE THE PEOPLE” cannot afford to keep all of Dictator Obamas
chosen people,(GIVE THEM FOOD AND AID,LEAVE THEM IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY) We are
broke and cannot afford to keep all of Dictator Obamas chosen people!!!!!!!
America, This Obama Administration is the most CORRUPT INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION
THAT WE HAVE EVER VOTED INTO OFFICE, THIS ADMIN. IS OUT TO DESTROY OUR USA,
Dictator Obama wants to turn our America into a 3-Rd World Country,a MARXIST,SOCIALIST,
COMMUNIST,OPEN BORDERS,OPEN SOCIETY of the new Obama, “GLOBAL-NEW WORLD ORDER”, He must be stopped now, Obama is turning our country into a Dictatorship,and
Obama is working with the Muslim Brotherhood every day,Obama and George Soros are working
together to over throw our America,George Soros is spending Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
of his own Money to Destroy our America, They must be stopped,We must save our America!
America, IMPEACH THIS MUSLIM DICTATOR NOW,(CONGRESS WERE ARE YOU)????
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:01amThe once-great Britain has thrown the doors open to multiculturalism, sharia law, and unchecked immigration. Here is the result.
Report Post »GERATMO
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:55amJust another reminder that the threat is there and its real.
Report Post »Sleazy Hippo
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:50amAnother Cell bites the Dust.
They were using data we shared from the Bush administration – according to Vice President Cheney, the only reliable source for information was halted by Obama. The free world now depends wholly on pre-2008 renditions for their top secret information.
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:49amI’m sure they were just misunderstood. When they said they wanted to bomb the place, they meant to say the place was da-baum.
Report Post »charles dagwood
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:36amwere they middle class white americans? thats who we are looking for over here according to big sis.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:43amDagwood…….
Don’t worry, Big Sis(or BS, as I call her), has the TP extremists covered. I monitor their local monthly meets.
Did you know they have several different meetings?
There is the general ‘hate’ type, where all non-Whites are villified. These are actually laid-back affairs.
No guns are fired into the ceiling. Nothing!
The next type are the hate-the-political-appointments meetings. Everyone is hated who received an appointment. These are appalling!
Then are the ‘hate the black President’ meets. I don’t dare bring up the fact that he is half-White. They might kill me. There is a really nasty gr-grandmother that scares me. These have the highest level of anger.
Report Post »Rafterc4
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:31amToo bad they did not just wake up dead this morning?!?!?!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:16amOh those darn kids and their hilarious hijinxs.
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:59amThose Darn islamist extremists!!!!! I was really hoping it was a christian coalition this time with names like Peter and Paul… DAmnit!! why must every terrorist threat be against the established western civilized societies by Religious Cult oriented evil-doers? I get a kick out of the repeated cry by the mainstream media, for the Mian-stream Muslims to stand up and denounce and erradicate the “EXTEMIST” element of their religion…. 10 years after 9/ 11, Osama Bin Laden, hamas, al quieda, taliban, and Muslim brotherhood all became household names on the villainous side… We are STILL WAITING for the “kinder-gentler” muslims to still speak up and pronounce themslves PRO-AMERICAN, and anti-Violence/terrorism still waiting…………………….
Report Post »Moonage Daydreamer
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:28amThey are speaking out…
Quote: American Muslim leaders, we come together to defend the US Constitution, uphold religious pluralism, protect American security and cherish genuine diversity in the practice of our faith of Islam.
American Islamic Leadership Coalition represents true diversity of American Muslims: American Muslim leaders come together to defend the US Constitution and protect national security…
AILC is foundationally dedicated to protecting the principles of liberty and freedom for every American citizen and especially for the diverse voices within American Muslim communities. Its leadership seeks to bring the ideas of modernity, reform, diversity, and genuine pluralism to Muslims across North America. AILC is a broad coalition of diverse American Muslim leaders and organizations who strongly identify with the AILC’s core mission and principles.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:59amNow torture them for info and then execute them in public…you have my blessing.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:40amGood job Brits. They continue to foil these plots. Remember “The price for freedom is eternal vigilance” – Thomas Jefferson
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:43amThe British anti-terrorist police are some of the best in the world, same with their bomb disposal experts. It comes of spending over 30 years dealing with the IRA terrorists. Yet with all that experience they still don’t see a value in the body scanners…..
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