UK thwarts terrorism kidnap plot: source
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Police in central England arrested nine people in a major security swoop on Wednesday which a defense source said involved a plot to kidnap and possibly kill a Muslim British soldier.
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BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan. 31 -- British police arrested nine people Wednesday in a large counterterrorism sweep reported to involve an alleged Iraq-style plot to kidnap, torture and kill a Muslim soldier serving in the British army and post video of his execution on the Internet.
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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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The British government called fresh crisis talks Saturday after police foiled a potentially devastating double car bomb plot in central London which raised the spectre of new Al-Qaeda-inspired attacks in the capital.
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Counterterrorism police arrested nine men in an alleged kidnapping plot Wednesday _ a plan that reportedly involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier and broadcasting the killing on the Internet.Comment
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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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British anti-terror police question nine suspects over an alleged plot to kidnap a member of the armed forces.
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LONDON: There is little doubt that terrorists will attempt to carry out an attack in Britain, a senior government minister said yesterday, speaking in the wake of Russia's school siege that ended in a ...
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Security experts were considering  reducing Britain&#39;s &quot;critical&quot; terrorist threat level on  Wednesday as a police source said they believed the main people  suspected of an al-Qaeda style bomb plot had been arrested.
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Britain &quot;will not allow terrorists to undermine the British way of life,&quot; a Downing Street spokesman told AFP in response to a chilling threat from Al-Qaeda.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. LONDON, Great Britain (UK) -- Britain foiled an Al-Qaeda plot to fly planes into Heathrow Airport and London&#39;s
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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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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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Two men arrested last week in connection with a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier were released without charges early Wednesday, police said.
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Eight people are arrested in Birmingham after anti-terror raids targeting what sources say was a kidnap plot.
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A terror attack in London on the scale of the Madrid bombings has been thwarted, says the Met Police Commissioner.
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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.