British airline bomb probe rumbles on as government confirms previous threats
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Britain said it had thwarted &quot;at least&quot; four major terror attacks since the July 7 bombings in London last year, as police probed the latest alleged plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets.
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British Airways said on Wednesday that "very low traces" of a radioactive substance had been found on two of its aircraft being examined in a police probe into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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British Airways has warned up to 33,000 customers that it has found traces on board two planes of the radiactive poison linked to ex Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, as his inquest was set to start.
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Britain lowered its terrorism threat level from the highest category on Wednesday and sources close to the investigation of last week's bomb plot said police now think they have caught the main suspects.
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LONDON -- With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, police sharply escalated their hunt yesterday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. Officers raided homes in three cities and arrested another suspect, bringing the total to five, including at least one identified ...
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British police said on Friday they had detained a man who claimed to have sent one of a series of letter bombs to hit the country in past weeks but added that they continue to investigate a number of other leads.
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British police arrested 21 people and   ordered tough security measures on Thursday that brought chaos   to airports, saying they had foiled a plot to blow up several   aircraft flying over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Britain is monitoring five planes for radiation in an ever widening probe into the poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow.
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British police were granted a final   seven days on Wednesday to question five British Muslim men   suspected of being involved in a plot to blow up U.S.-bound   airliners using liquid explosives.
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British scientists are monitoring a fourth aircraft for possible radioactive contamination as part of a police probe into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, interior minister John Reid said on Thursday.
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Dutch police have given the &quot;all-clear&quot; to a British Airways flight from Berlin to London which was diverted to Amsterdam&#39;s Schiphol airport with a Dutch fighter jet escort because of a bomb threat.
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Police are given more time to quiz five people being held over the suspected UK car bombing attempts.
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Air passengers departing from British airports face long-term hand baggage restrictions in the wake of a foiled alleged terror plot that involved blowing up US-bound passenger jets two weeks ago, newspapers reported.
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Two more suspects have been charged in Britain in connection with the alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets in early August, while another has been released, a British police spokesman told AFP.
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A Singapore Airlines plane flying from Frankfurt to New York was diverted to a British airport following a bomb threat that security officials said might have been a hoax.
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On Thursday, British police said they had foiled a plot to  blow up aircraft mid-flight between Britain and the United  States in what Washington said might have been an attempted al  Qaeda operation.
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British Airways has said that the disruption caused by increased security at airports after the foiling of an alleged terror plot last month cost the company about 40 million pounds.