UK police thwart terrorism kidnap plot: media
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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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Police arrested eight people in a series of dawn raids in central England on Wednesday as part of a major counter-terrorism operation, police said.
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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 eight people in a series  of dawn raids in central England on Wednesday as part of a  major counter-terrorism operation, police said.
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The government has set up an elite anti-kidnap special forces unit in London, in part to deal with scenarios like those allegedly threatened by men arrested in Birmingham this week, sources said.
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UK police keep tabs on thousands of people who may be involved in terrorism, a senior officer says.
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British police detained one more person  on Tuesday in connection with last week's alleged plot to blow  up transatlantic airliners, as France's interior minister said  the threat of terrorism remained "high and permanent."
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British police said on Sunday they were holding four men under anti-terrorism legislation after a tip-off from a newspaper which said the suspects tried to buy explosives for a dirty bomb.
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British police believe they have arrested the main suspects in last week's al Qaeda-style bomb plot, some of whom appeared in intelligence databases on radical Islamists, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
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LONDON -- Police thwarted a major terrorist plot yesterday, discovering two Mercedes cars loaded with nails and canisters of propane and gasoline set to detonate and kill possibly hundreds in London's crowded theater and nightclub district.
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British police said Saturday they had  arrested four men under anti-terrorism legislation after a  tip-off from a newspaper which said the suspects tried to buy  explosives for a dirty bomb.
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British police are questioning nine men of mostly Pakistani origin arrested in connection with an alleged plot to stage an &quot;Iraq-style&quot; kidnapping and videotaped beheading of a British Muslim soldier.
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Authorities in London thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up an aircraft in mid-flight between Britain and the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, police said Thursday.
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Police in London have arrested four men and foiled a terror plot after a tip off from a London tabloid newspaper. The information to police was supplied by the News of the World, the Sunday tabloid which is Britain&#39;s largest-selling newspaper.
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Police arrested a man in central England  on Thursday under anti-terrorism laws.
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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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LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British police on Friday charged five men arrested in Birmingham last week with terrorism-related offenses, officially alleging for the first time that the men were plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier.