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Suspects in British custody were plotting terror attacks
 LONDON: Ten men being held by British anti-terror police on Sunday were plotting a follow-up terror strikes to the July 7 attacks in London, newspapers reported on Sunday. The men were nabbed in dawn raids at three addresses across England on Saturday but police said they were not linked to the deadly July 7 blasts, not the failed July 21 repeat, on the British capital's transport network. The Sunday Times said they were thought to be planning multiple car bombings against targets across the country, using conventional explosives packed into cars and driven into crowded city centres. The newspaper also said they were linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the frontman in Iraq of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network. The News of the World said they posed an imminent threat and were plotting another strike on London. "There is intelligence to suggest that they were planning some sort of attack in the UK," a senior counter-terrorism source told Times. "Things have changed since July 7. There was no way with the intelligence we had that we could let these people carry on doing the sort of thing we think they were planning to do." A British official told the newspaper. Posted by: Fred 2005-10-10 |
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