Officer: U.K. Police Thwart Terror Attack
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Police have prevented terrorists from launching an attack on London on the scale of the Madrid train bombings, Britain's most senior police officer said Thursday.
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Police arrested a man in central England  on Thursday under anti-terrorism laws.
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British police are currently trying to monitor &quot;thousands&quot; of potential security suspects, the head of the anti-terrorism unit at London's Metropolitan Police said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday.
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September 11-style terror attacks on the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf were thwarted, it emerged today ahead of the Queen&#39;s Speech, which will focus on security.
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Police and intelligence agencies have prevented international terrorists from striking Britain by disrupting their planned attacks, but the danger isn't over and the need to stay vigilant remains, top security officials said Sunday.
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British police arrested eight people in a major anti-terrorism swoop on Wednesday which media reports said had thwarted a plot to kidnap a young man and carry out an "Iraq-style" execution.
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British police said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot, possibly just days away, to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands. Chilling accounts leaked by investigators described a plan on the scale of 9/11 that would use liquid explosives concealed as sports drink bottles and common electronic devices to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike.
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BIRMINGHAM, England -- Police foiled a major kidnapping plot, the first of its kind in Britain, with the arrests yesterday of nine terror suspects who reportedly planned to torture and behead a British Muslim soldier and broadcast the killing on the Internet.
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British police carried out a major nationwide anti-terrorism operation on Wednesday, arresting eight people in a series of dawn raids which media reports said had thwarted a significant planned attack.
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British police have thwarted a major terrorist plot to blow up aircraft flying between Britain and the United States, Scotland Yard said.
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Three terrorist suspects were in police custody Sunday and a fourth man was under guard in a hospital after a flaming jeep crashed into a Scottish airport and two car bomb plots were foiled in central London.
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Police have prevented a terrorism attack in London that would have been on the scale of the Madrid bombings last March 11, the British capital's outgoing police chief said.
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British police said on Friday they had defused a suspected bomb in central London.
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A fifth individual was today arrested in connection with the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow, as the government raised the terror alert to its highest level.
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Four men have been arrested by police in London on suspicion of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism. Three men were held after officers from the Metropolitan Police&#39;s anti-terrorist branch
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Two men were detained in northern England under anti-terror legislation, police said Tuesday, although it was not immediately clear if the arrests were linked to failed attacks in London and Glasgow.
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Britain's security forces have foiled planned terrorist attacks but the country is as much at risk as a year ago, the interior minister said on Tuesday.