Britain foils five attacks in past year : police
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British police have thwarted five   attacks in the past year, London's top counter-terrorism   commander said Tuesday.
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Police raided Internet cafes, money-transfer offices and long-distance phone call centers catering to Muslims and arrested 40 people in a crackdown linked to Britain's announcement it had thwarted an alleged terror plot, authorities said Friday.
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British police arrested a fifth person on Sunday after a fuel-filled jeep was rammed into Scotland's busiest airport, a terrorist attack that police said was linked to two failed car bombings in London.
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Britain -- which suffered its own terror carnage last year -- has marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in low-key fashion, amid growing questions about the country's leading role in the war on terror.
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Eight people have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws in Birmingham, police said, while one report said a planned major terrorist plot had been foiled.
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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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A British police officer stands outside an internet cafe in Birmingham. British police have charged a 36-year-old man with three terrorism offences following raids last week in the central English city of ...Comment
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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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The Metropolitan Police have made more counter-terrorism stops and searches in the last five months than in the whole of the previous year.
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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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Security services have thwarted a planned attack on London similar to the March 11 train bombings in Madrid by Islamic extremists, the British capital's police chief said on Thursday.
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Britain faces a 15-year battle against Islamist extremism, the country&#39;s new security adviser said Sunday as police were given more time to question five suspects over three failed car bombs.
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British police defused a bomb they discovered in a parked car in central London on Friday and launched a counter-terrorism investigation.
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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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Anti-terrorist police were granted a further five days yesterday to question four men arrested after a Sunday newspaper claimed they were plotting to detonate a chemical bomb in Britain or the US.
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A British television station and a newspaper are reporting that British security services believe they have thwarted several major attacks planned by terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden&#39;s al-Qaida organization.
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Police in Australia have questioned five foreign doctors and seized computers in raids connected with last week&#39;s car bomb attacks in Britain, authorities said Friday.