Random Car Stop Lifts UK Terror Arrests to 13
No Links Between Arrests, Olympics Insist Officials
British police randomly stopped a vehicle they suspected of being “uninsured” earlier today, discovering guns and unspecified “other materials” hidden inside and sparking new arrests that led to more detainees accused of terrorism.
The arrests of seven people today comes just days after the arrests of six other people in London as part of a “counter-terror” sweep. Officials insist today’s arrests have nothing to do with the London arrests, and that neither has anything to do with the Olympic Games.
The seven people arrested today amounted to two unloaded pistols found in the car, while the other round is even less clear, centering mostly on one of them being a “Muslim convert” who had publicly criticized the Royal Family.
Everyone is being held of charges of “suspicion of preparing or instigating acts of terrorism,” but there is no indication so far that any of them actually planned to do anything specific. Britain insists that after the arrests the terror threat is “substantial.”
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MoT
July 6th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Ah! It becomes even clearer to me now. Being "uninsured", is now the pretext in which to search your vehicle or, in the future no doubt, pour over your personal medical history, in order to identify all you terrorists and other malcontents.
RParker
July 6th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Probably staged incidents just like the other phony "terror plots" cooked up by the FBI and evidently the British coppers to make work for themselves, justify their enormous "anti-terror" and "homeland security"(a real oxymoron!)budgets, and to create a climate of constant fear for them to continually expand their terroristic police state.
CanuckBC
July 7th, 2012 at 5:57 am
They are I think lucky not to be dead. Jean Charles de Menezes was a peaceful guy killed in London's Stockwell tube station on July 22, 2005 on suspition of being a terrorist. It is so ridiculous – British police found two unloaded pistols in a car. What if they were members of Syrian police being daily targetted by "freedom fighters" armed with far heavier stuff than two unloaded pistols. It looks like publicly criticizing British Royal family is much worse terrorism than publicly criticizing Syrian president, killing all who do not criticize him, or work for his government. In GB is terrorism even having tanned look like in case of Jean Charles or to be a Muslim convert.
@mrraven
July 7th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Starting to remind me of the movie Brazil.