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...Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters' planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME. In the two or three days before the arrests, the cell was going operational, and authorities were pressed into action. MI5 and Scotland Yard agents tracked the plotters from the ground, while a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group's communications. Most of the suspects are second- or third-generation British citizens of Pakistani descent whose...
...travelers dumping their cosmetics and other liquid items into trash cans had just subsided when passengers from United flight 923 began trickling into the airport. Their flight was the first to arrive at Dulles from London's Heathrow Airport since super-strict new regulations had gone into effect in Britain in the wake of the thwarted terror plot. Approximately 200 people were aboard the plane, many of them Americans returning from vacation...
With 24 people in custody in Britain and five more at large, the British police have been careful to point out that the latest foiled terrorist plot wasn't the work of any one community, but a small group of criminals. According to reports, some of the suspects rounded up last night have connections to Pakistan - one senior Pakistan official told TIME that nine men have been arrested in Pakistan over the past few days in connection to the plot. And French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in a press conference today that the "team of terrorists appears...
...five men charged with planning the failed July 21 operation - where four small explosions shut down the London transport system - also lived and worked in Britain. "The enemy within is the most daunting, because you don't have people crossing borders, which would make them easier to detect, since they're already integrated and often in very tight communities" says Will Geddes, managing director of ICP Group, an international security consultancy. "The more extreme groups tend to isolate themselves. I hate to draw this analogy, but it's a bit like with pedophile rings. They remain in their own isolated...
...challenge in containing and eventually squashing homegrown terror is to identify those groups without alienating the people who live and work alongside them. Earlier this week, Britain's most senior Muslim police officer complained that tougher anti-terrorism tactics were discriminating against the country's Muslims, further increasing tensions that have been rising since 9/11. "There is a real risk of criminalizing minority communities," said Tarique Ghaffur, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner. "The impact of [tough counter-terrorism tactics] will be that just at the time we need the confidence and trust of these communities, they may retreat inside themselves...