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UK arrests 5 in terror alert near nuclear site
(Reuters) - British police said on Tuesday they had arrested five men close to a nuclear reprocessing plant in northwest England under counter-terrorism laws.
The arrests were made after Prime Minister David Cameron urged Britain to remain vigilant against potential reprisals following the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by U.S. forces.
Police said they were unaware of any link between the arrests and bin Laden's death.
The men were arrested on Monday after officers conducted a stop check on a vehicle near the Sellafield site in Cumbria.
The men are all aged in their 20s and from London.
A spokesman for the police's North West Counter Terrorism Unit declined to comment on media reports the men had been filming the site.
"There were suspicions from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary that led to some arrests. There were some suspicions about them near to the perimeter fence," he said.
A police counter terrorism source said the arrests were not preplanned. "The local officers felt there was enough to arrest them. It's a case of seeing if there is anything to it."
Police held the men under section 41 of the Terrorism Act, which allows officers to arrest people suspected of terrorist offences and hold them for 48 hours without charge.
The men were being transferred to the northern English city of Manchester to be questioned by counter-terrorism officers.
Local police were alerted by officers from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, a specialist force which provides protection for civil nuclear licensed sites.
Fifty-two people were killed in London in 2005 when al-Qaeda inspired suicide bombers blew up underground trains and a bus.
The Sellafield site, in operation since the 1940s, includes a number of nuclear fuel reprocesssing facilities and waste treatment plants.
Sellafield is owned by Nuclear Management Partners, a consortium of American engineering company URS, British engineering firm Amec and French nuclear reactor maker Areva. It was operating as normal on Tuesday.
- Fbi And Australian Police Cooperate In Raid On Jihad Funding House
A joint operation between the FBI and Australian authorities has led to arrests at some jihad headquarters in Melbourne: THE counter-terrorism police units working with the FBI have dramatically expanded the war against home-grown Islamic extremism,...
- 'major London Terror Plot' Foiled By Police In Dramatic Armed Raids Across The Capital
From the London Evening Standard: Police smashed a suspected Islamist terror plot to attack London after four men were held by heavily-armed officers. The Met acted on intelligence that the men may have had access to firearms, prompting fears of an attack...
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The Blaze: Islamic Extremists Arrested After Major UK Terror Plot Uncovered Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:32am by Jonathon M. Seidl LONDON (AP) — British police arrested a group of suspected Islamic extremists on Monday in one of the most significant...
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