UK police arrest 6 on terrorism charges
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July 6, 2012, Friday
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FIVE men and a woman suspected of preparing terrorist attacks were arrested during early morning police raids across London yesterday, police said.
Police said the operation was not linked to the Olympics, which start in London on July 27, but was part of a planned intelligence-led operation.
A security source said the London arrests were related to international Islamist militancy and were made at an early stage of plotting. It was not clear if any targets were identified.
During the raids, a 29-year-old man was arrested on a street in west London. The others, aged between 18 and 30, were detained at residential addresses.
A 24-year-old man was tasered by police with a stun gun during the operation.
Police said the six were arrested on suspicion of the "commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism."
Detectives were searching eight homes in east, west and north London, and one business address in east London.
In a separate and apparently unrelated incident, armed police closed both sides of a motorway near Birmingham, after reports of a man acting suspiciously on a bus heading for London.
Police said the operation was not linked to the Olympics, which start in London on July 27, but was part of a planned intelligence-led operation.
A security source said the London arrests were related to international Islamist militancy and were made at an early stage of plotting. It was not clear if any targets were identified.
During the raids, a 29-year-old man was arrested on a street in west London. The others, aged between 18 and 30, were detained at residential addresses.
A 24-year-old man was tasered by police with a stun gun during the operation.
Police said the six were arrested on suspicion of the "commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism."
Detectives were searching eight homes in east, west and north London, and one business address in east London.
In a separate and apparently unrelated incident, armed police closed both sides of a motorway near Birmingham, after reports of a man acting suspiciously on a bus heading for London.
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