Four arrested during terror raids (UK)

[maddezmom]

Source: BBC

Four men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after raids in Manchester and Bolton.

Greater Manchester Police have said armed officers were not used in the operation, which took place at about 0400 GMT.

About 40 officers were involved in the raids on three addresses in Manchester and one in Bolton and more arrests could follow later, police said.

The arrests were related to an alleged overseas threat.

There was no imminent terrorist danger to the Greater Manchester area, police said.




Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8361758.stm

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perhaps related to this?

Terror suspect arrested in Pamplona, Spain

In a case of international police collaboration, Spanish police arrested an Algerian national suspected to be involved in an international racquet to fund terror cells in Algeria. This arrest is one amongst the series of ten arrests made so far in Austria, Spain, Italy and France. More arrests are expected to occur in the coming days as the network is believed to be extended to the U.K. and Switzerland.

The Internal Ministry of Spain said that an estimated 1 million Euros were obtained through robberies in the past three years. The money was funneled to Algeria in packets of 100,000 Euros, which is the legal limit to escape detection.

more: http://www.spanishnews.es/20091115-terror-suspect-arrested-in-pamplona-spain/id=1585/

[Moosepoop]

1. "armed officers were not used in the raids."

Wow. They sure do things differently over there! Can you imagine "terror raids" here conducted with unarmed officers?