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Iraq style kidnapping comes to England (Thanks to Religion of Pieces):
Eight people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Birmingham in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap a member of the armed forces.
A number of addresses in the city have been sealed off after morning raids.
The operation, believed to have taken six months, involved police and security service MI5.
Senior security sources said a terror plot not aimed at mass casualties would mark "a different approach to terrorism in the UK".
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford said sources close to the investigation said the aim of the alleged plot was to kidnap a serving member of the armed forces, perhaps while they were on home leave.
Baswant Kant, who lives in Stratford Road, near the junction with Poplar Road, said about 55 police officers "turned up in white vans" in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
"They went into shops and restaurants along the road - a lot of people got arrested," he said.
Saqib Hussain, of Sparkhill, told BBC News he had visited the raided book shop many times and "had never seen any suspicions of terrorist activity".
Mohamed Barber told BBC News his cousin was one of the men arrested in Alum Rock.
"We can vouch for him he is innocent. He doesn't even have time to go to Friday prayers - that's how busy he is," he added.
Abdul Ghaffoor, a regular shopper at the general store, said he had never heard politics being discussed in the shop.
Public co-operation
Leaders at the Alum Rock Islamic Centre, the main mosque in the area, said the community was shocked at events, but urged calm and appealed to people to co-operate with the police investigation.
Ayub Pervaz, the mosque's president, said: "Our view is very clear. If people have broken the law they should be brought to justice.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Why do I say that?
Think about it, what is missing here?
Where is the usual anger from the Muslim community that the British police would have the audacity to invade the homes of decent Muslims and arrest them? Where are the claims of Islamophobia, and the veiled threats of these events causing further extremism in Muslim youth?
Remember, just days ago British police agreed to reveal ongoing investigations to Muslim community leaders before going in for the arrest.
I have a feeling the British police have been setup on this one.
Just you watch.
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Iraq style kidnapping comes to England (Thanks to Religion of Pieces):
Eight people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Birmingham in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap a member of the armed forces.
A number of addresses in the city have been sealed off after morning raids.
The operation, believed to have taken six months, involved police and security service MI5.
Senior security sources said a terror plot not aimed at mass casualties would mark "a different approach to terrorism in the UK".
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford said sources close to the investigation said the aim of the alleged plot was to kidnap a serving member of the armed forces, perhaps while they were on home leave.
Baswant Kant, who lives in Stratford Road, near the junction with Poplar Road, said about 55 police officers "turned up in white vans" in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
"They went into shops and restaurants along the road - a lot of people got arrested," he said.
Saqib Hussain, of Sparkhill, told BBC News he had visited the raided book shop many times and "had never seen any suspicions of terrorist activity".
Mohamed Barber told BBC News his cousin was one of the men arrested in Alum Rock.
"We can vouch for him he is innocent. He doesn't even have time to go to Friday prayers - that's how busy he is," he added.
Abdul Ghaffoor, a regular shopper at the general store, said he had never heard politics being discussed in the shop.
Public co-operation
Leaders at the Alum Rock Islamic Centre, the main mosque in the area, said the community was shocked at events, but urged calm and appealed to people to co-operate with the police investigation.
Ayub Pervaz, the mosque's president, said: "Our view is very clear. If people have broken the law they should be brought to justice.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Why do I say that?
Think about it, what is missing here?
Where is the usual anger from the Muslim community that the British police would have the audacity to invade the homes of decent Muslims and arrest them? Where are the claims of Islamophobia, and the veiled threats of these events causing further extremism in Muslim youth?
Remember, just days ago British police agreed to reveal ongoing investigations to Muslim community leaders before going in for the arrest.
I have a feeling the British police have been setup on this one.
Just you watch.
-
Report: Beheading Plot Disrupted After Police Arrest Four Islamic Terrorists in London The Blaze: LONDON (TheBlaze/AP) — Police in London have arrested four suspected Islamic terrorists in several raids throughout the British capital, and U.K....
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Having seen, by accident, a vid of the beheading of a western hostage this is a truly horrific plot. I was traumatised after watching the vid for about 2 days. It was truly horrible and not something I would want to see again. Courtsesy of BBC online:...
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I love it when I get to bring forward some positive news. In the UK, police have made it clear that their recent sting operation - on the Muslim gang who wanted to kidnap and behead a "British Muslim soldier" - was successful because two decent British...
- Muslim Community Consulted Before Arrests Were Announced
In a previous post, Scottsa noted that the British press does not seem to be able to figure out who might have been behind the plot to blow up all those jet airliners. Of course, we realize it is difficult, and in the early hours after a news story breaks...