Will the Islamophobia never end? “Terror police arrest five men and a woman in dramatic raids near Olympic Stadium just three weeks before the opening ceremony,” by Rob Cooper in the Daily Mail, July 5 (thanks to David):
Five men and a woman were arrested in a series of dramatic early morning terror raids across London today just three weeks before the Olympics.
Counter-terrorism police battered down the door of a house in Stratford, just one mile from where the Games are being held, and arrested two men who are believed to be brothers aged 24 and 26.
The 24-year-old suspect was Tasered during the raids but he did not require hospital treatment.
An 18-year-old was also arrested in Newham, east London, just three miles from the stadium, and three people – a 30-year-old woman and two men aged 29 and 21- were arrested in west London.
Police insisted the arrests are not linked to the Olympics but come as security is heightened across the capital.
Neighbours at the raid scene in Stratford said up to 60 police descended silently on the property at 4am before ‘blowing down’ the door and bursting in.
It is believed the two young men, who are British Muslims, live at the house with their sister and mother….