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varun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 07:05 PM
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Britain Arrests 8 Pakistanis in Connection to Bombing Plot
Maybe Musharraf's High Value Targets ended up in London :eyes:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36312-2004Mar30.html

By Glenn Frankel
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 30, 2004; 1:46 PM

LONDON, March 30 -- Police arrested eight men of Pakistani origin early Tuesday morning and seized more than half a ton of potential explosives from a self-storage container less than five miles from Heathrow international airport.

In what officials described as the largest anti-terrorist operation here since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington, more than 700 police and officers of the MI5 internal security service raided 24 homes and business premises in a ring of London suburbs and nearby areas. The eight men arrested, who range in age from 17 to 32 and are all British citizens, were taken for questioning Tuesday evening at two high-security police stations and held on suspicion of being involved in terrorism, according to a senior police official....
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