Police arrested five people William, Christopher, Ian, Trevor and Nigel...
near Sellafield Ltd.'s nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria, England, on suspicion of terrorism. Officers specializing in nuclear security stopped a vehicle close to the Sellafield site at 4:32 p.m. yesterday, according to a statement on Cumbria Constabulary's website. The search resulted in the arrests of five men from London under Section 41 of the U.K.'s Terrorism Act, police said.
The Sellafield plant is Britain's primary center for processing spent nuclear fuel and other cleanup work for the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The company was told of the arrests, and traffic to the site may be disrupted while the investigation proceeds, Andrew Pearson, a spokesman at the site in northern England, said today by telephone.
The U.K. is on "severe" alert for terrorism, and government leaders around the world predicted retaliation after U.S. commandos killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a May 1 raid in Pakistan.
The U.K. probe is being led by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, the police statement said. The suspects, all in their 20s, were taken to police custody in Carlisle overnight and are being transported to Manchester this morning, it said.
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For the next 48 or so hours, I expect there to be a LOT of arrests made around the world. "Hard drive" arrests or not, it's good to suggest that they are "hard drive" arrests.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
