A Dozen Suspects Arrested For Alleged U.K. Terror Plot
Posted December 20, 2010 10:39 am.
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A dozen men were rounded up by police and are being detained in Britain on suspicion of plotting a large-scale terrorist attack.
The arrests happened during early morning raids Monday at addresses in London, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and in the Welsh city of Cardiff. The suspects range in age from 17 to 28.
Authorities are remaining very tight-lipped about the investigation, but the alleged plot was directed at targets within the United Kingdom. A report suggests the alleged scheme wasn’t part of planned holiday season attacks, as captured insurgents in Iraq had suggested.
Both the British and German administrations insist there are no specific threats to their countries over the Christmas season. In October, the American State Department issued an advisory in October warning U.S. citizens living or traveling in Europe that terrorists were plotting attacks on a European city.
Earlier this month an apparent suicide bomber hit a popular shopping hub in Stockholm. Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly killed himself and injured two others on Dec. 11.
In 2006, British officials thwarted a plan to blow up nearly a dozen trans-Atlantic flights. In July 2005, suicide bombers targeted three subways trains and a bus, killing 52 people. And the Madrid train bombings in 2004 killed 191 people and wounded another 1,800.
With files from the Associated Press
