Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
CSM said:I haven't seen any politician, talking head, lib or Islamic condemnation of the alleged plots. Why haven't these suspects been tried and convicted in the media yet? I guess that sort of thing is only reserved for US military personnel.
The Times June 08, 2006
Briton wanted over Canada bomb plot arrested at Manchester airport
By Daniel McGrory, Andrew Norfolk and Michael Evans
A BRITON said to be a key figure in an alleged plot to bomb public buildings in Canada, including the Parliament, was arrested by counter-terrorist police as he stepped off a plane at Manchester airport.
The 21-year-old man had arrived from Canada, where security services claimed that he had been living alongside some of the 17 terror suspects arrested in Toronto at the weekend in one of the biggest operations in North America. Hours later police in West Yorkshire arrested a 16-year-old youth after documents and mobile phone records seized in Canada revealed a British link to the alleged gang of Muslim militants operating from their homes in the Toronto suburbs.
Canadian prosecutors have claimed that the plot involved taking over the Parliament building, holding MPs hostage and beheading Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister. They wanted to force Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
A security source told The Times yesterday: We believe that people living in the UK played a pivotal role in helping to organise this series of planned attacks.
The 21-year-old man was seized as he tried to leave the airport on Tuesday night. Scotland Yard officers were also present, but police say that no guns were used.
The suspect was born in Pakistan but is believed to have British citizenship and lived at a number of addresses in Dewsbury, the home town of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers. He is understood to have spent much of this year living in Toronto.
This is an example of the extremist soup we have in this country with lots of overlapping links, a security source said.
The security authorities said that the man arrested at Manchester airport was judged to be a pretty interesting line of investigation, and the 16-year-old was connected to him. The Canadians are expected to start extradition proceedings.
The sources said that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had uncovered the British connection to the alleged plot and put out an immediate alert when they discovered that one of the main suspects was leaving the country.
Police are still searching three properties and two streets in Savile Town, Dewsbury.
Residents said that the early-morning raids by police and forensic science experts, who forced their way into properties in Warren Street and South Street, evoked memories of the scenes last July after the suicide bombings on three Underground trains and a double-decker bus in London.
An American who held a British student visa has been remanded in custody on terror charges after being arrested at Heathrow.
Syed Hashmi, 26, is wanted by the FBI on a charge of supplying military equipment and currency to al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
He was arrested on Tuesday night carrying a large amount of cash as he tried to board a plane to Pakistan. Dressed in white Muslim robes, he appeared at a brief extradition hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London.
He was indicted on May 24 by a New York grand jury on charges of aiding al-Qaeda between January 1 and March 1, 2004.
