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Britain
UK bomb plot suspect 'arrested in Brisbane'
2007-07-03
British police have confirmed an eighth man has been detained but would not say where the man was arrested. But the Seven Network this morning reported the man was arrested in Brisbane.
When they say "the long arm of the law", they ain't kidding
Queensland Police Minister Judy Spence and Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson were being briefed on the arrest, Seven reported. British police said in a statement the man was arrested at an undisclosed location in connection with the investigation into the incidents in London and Glasgow. "He remains in custody," British police said.

The BBC reported the man was arrested overseas, but did not say in which country.
Bet he's got one of those real Aussie names, like Ahmed or Mohammad
Among the eight detained are two doctors, with police sources naming one as Bilal Abdulla, trained and qualified in Iraq in 2004, and the other, Mohammed Asha, qualified in Jordan the same year. Asha's wife is among the suspects being held, police said. Those arrested are linked to a plot to detonate two car bombs loaded with fuel, gas canisters and nails in London and an attack on Glasgow airport in Scotland over the weekend using a fuel-laden Jeep Cherokee.
Three of those detained had links to a hospital at Paisley, a town just outside Glasgow, the BBC reported.

Britain has seen a marked increase in terrorism-related attacks since the September 11 strikes on the United States and since it joined US forces in invading Iraq in 2003. However, previous assaults, including an attack on London's transport system in July 2005 which killed 52 people, have tended to involve radicalised, British-born Muslims, not educated attackers from overseas, security experts say.
Posted by:Steve

#1  "Britain has seen a marked increase in terrorism-related attacks since the September 11 strikes on the United States and since it joined US forces in invading Iraq in 2003 . . . "

Boy, where's Tony and his "hardline" approach when ya' need it? Wake up UK (Australia excepted).


Posted by: ex-lib   2007-07-03 14:53  

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