An update on this story. "Fifth Arrest in Suspected Plot Against British Leaders," by Alan Cowell for the New York Times, August 27:
LONDON — British counterterrorism police officers investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man in central England on Tuesday, officials said Wednesday.
The arrest of the man, who was not identified, was the fifth in two weeks in an investigation centering on blue-collar towns in central and northwest England.
Two men were arrested earlier this month at the Manchester airport as they were about to board a flight to Finland. A third was seized in the northwestern town of Accrington. A fourth man, described by the Press Association news agency as “believed to be a white Muslim convert,” was also detained Tuesday in nearby Blackburn. The four men were all in their early 20s and were being held under counterterrorism laws permitting detention without charge or trial for limited periods.
According to British news reports, the suspected plot was related to calls on a British jihadist Web site last January by a previously unknown group identifying itself as Al Qaeda in Britain. But no concrete planning for an attack was under way, these reports said.
The Web site posting also urged the withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan and Iraq.
After the fifth arrest, which was made in Derby, the police said officers were searching a house there and were likely to continue the investigation for several days.
The suspected conspiracy is unusual because previous plots ascribed to Islamic militants have been aimed at mass targets rather than individuals.
Walid Phares saw the writing on the walls: http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/07/walid_phares_ji.html
Walid Phares saw the writing on the walls: http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/07/walid_phares_ji.html
Sorry for the duplicate post. Please delete the latter. Thank you.
"The suspected conspiracy is unusual because previous plots ascribed to Islamic militants have been aimed at mass targets rather than individuals."
not true...Islamic militants have often targeted individuals....see Daniel Pearl, Nickolas Berg, Catholic nuns, Christian pastors, journalists, rubber tree plantation workers, bicycle ice cream vendors, teachers, gays, policemen, politicians, market vendors and the list just goes on and on and on.....
Islamic militants just love to kill, everyone is fair game, but they do prefer Infidels...
Note the Finland connection.
This Derby scumbag was arrested in a house directly opposite mine.
The Derby connection is well documented...(the wild boar is still in the park though)..this same park has recently had a spate of "youth" attacks one of them on someone I know..The "youths" were apparently shouting "kill the whitey"
I had an argument with the victim who was attacked because he STILL refuses to see it as jihad..
It was the single most hilarious exchange i've had in my entire life.
The liberal mind truly knows no bounds.The denial and refusal to grasp even basic knowledge of the enemy is staggering.
I just hope when the time comes our U.S. cousins will help out the majority of us brits who have been left to the wolves whilst the elites have retired to the citadel and drawn up the bridge..
Anyway..
One of the Israeli pizza bombers was from Derby.I spoke about the "atmospherics" of the place changing 10 years ago.
No one listened and I was vilified...
Ho hum..
I'll endeavor to find out more on this perp and his cohorts and report back here.
I'm away at the moment but I'll see what I can pick up on the grapevine when I get back to Derby tommorow.
ovinesongs - take care. Keep us informed. The beauty of this website is that over time it's developed a network of 'Local Correspondents'.
However: i'm a bit worried about some details in your post - remember, the walls have ears.
dumbledoresarmy,
Thanks for the concern but you need not worry.I don't.
Whilst I have no problem with most people of all walks of life I do have a problem with the saracens that have invaded my country.I'm a 6ft biker with a chip on his shoulder and a chequered past.There's a saying I use a lot.
"you'd have to get up pretty early to catch me out...in fact you'd have to stay up all night."
On the case of the jihadi perp there's seems to be a conspiracy of silence.
I've not had the time or chance to put the feelers out but word is that it was a stealth operation to collar the scum sucker.
Of course the fuzz were probably being "sensitive" to the local community.
Well it used to be lovely brownstone type of area and very gentrified.
In fact the park is the first public park in Britain and was the model for central park in New York.
Now it's teeming with "youths" who think they own the place and the mosque has grown and grown in size.
On the plus side the new hindu temple has just been built a few streets away and the new influx of Polish immigrants has been a bulwark to the quite blindingly obvious muslim invasion.
Anyway,dumbledoresarmy.
Thanks again for the concern and I always enjoy your erudite and historically informative posts very much.
cheers