Reports: British Thwart Terror Attacks
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British security services thwarted planned Sept. 11-style terror attacks on Heathrow Airport and skyscrapers in Canary Wharf, a financial district of London, according to two media reports.
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LONDON, July 4 -- With eight suspects in last weekend's attempted car-bomb attacks in custody, all of them foreign doctors or other medical professionals, Britain reduced its terrorism threat level from critical to severe Wednesday and Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced more rigorous background...
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British security services believe they have thwarted Sept. 11-style attacks on targets including London's Heathrow Airport and financial center Canary Wharf, Britain's independent ITV News network reported on ...
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LONDON -- One day after foiling an alleged double car-bomb plot in London, Britain raised its terrorism threat assessment to its highest level yesterday after two men slammed a Jeep SUV into the departure doors of Glasgow airport, turning the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball.
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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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More than 2,000 home-grown al Qaeda  terrorists are plotting suicide attacks in Britain, the Sunday  Telegraph newspaper reported, citing a secret intelligence  document.
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The government is considering new tough anti-terrorism laws to prevent an al Qaeda attack including plans to target suspects even if they have not committed an offence, Home Secretary David Blunkett will say today.
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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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Antiterrorist police arrested four men in London, acting on information from a newspaper which claimed it had foiled a terror plot, officials said Saturday.
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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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LONDON, July 2 -- The suspected terrorist cell that allegedly attempted three car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last weekend was dominated by foreign-born physicians working in British hospitals, according to British officials and news reports.
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LONDON: The British government announced yesterday a range of new measures to fight global terrorism and organised crime, as Queen Elizabeth set out its new lawmaking agenda.
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Eight people have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws in the central English city of Birmingham, police said, while one report said a planned major terrorist plot had been foiled.
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Authorities in Britain have said they had thwarted a terrorist plot to wreak &quot;mass murder&quot; with the simultaneous mid-air bombings of planes to the United States, and ordered a maximum security alert that snarled air traffic around the world.
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Britain&#39;s anti-terrorism strategy faced  mounting criticism on Thursday after an embarrassing  announcement that three men suspected of planning attacks on  British or U.S. troops abroad had absconded.
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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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British police must charge or release on Tuesday nine men arrested earlier this month in anti-terrorism raids that followed a tipoff from an al Qaeda suspect in Pakistan and security alerts in the United States.