The UK Terror Blunder: Media Spin?

by Amaad | April 13, 2009 at 11:42 am

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I already had my doubts about this whole operation, an experienced top anti terrorist officer makes a blunder by exposing secret documents to the media, he resigns with commendations and rewards. a group of foreign students are then arrested on suspicion of terror plot.
when I raised my doubts about this in the initial story I got a lesson on British Loyalty by someone who was too shy to use his/ her regular login and gave the sermon as (not verified). but now if I dont feel vindicated then what should I feel? Ashamed that figured out that this whole affair was a load of hot air?
if this was a media spin by the government then it was in a really bad taste. The future of a group of students who came to UK for good education by spending a lot of money and time has been denied from them.
this whole thing has only made the schools blowing Taliban happy.

Students to be deported

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Most of the Pakistani men arrested last week in an anti-terrorist operation will be deported rather than charged, senior counter-terrorism sources told The Times last night.

Officials in London and Islamabad said that Britain had begun seeking assurances about how the men would be treated if they were returned to Pakistan. “The British wanted to be reassured that if some of these men were deported they would not face torture,” an informed source in Pakistan said.

One of the 12 men detained, an 18-year-old, has been freed from anti-terrorist detention and is in the custody of immigration officials.

Investigators are concerned that they have not found any firm evidence linking the men to terrorist attack plans. A source close to the inquiry said: “There is already talk of coming up empty-handed and there is terrible infighting between the different forces involved.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...rticle60...

No Evidence of Terror Plot as initially claimed

Key intelligence that led to security officials fearing a terrorist cell was to launch a large-scale bomb attack on British soil came from MI6 operations targeting Pakistan, the Guardian has learned.

Sources with knowledge of the investigation say the intelligence, gathered first from abroad and then in Britain before Wednesday's raids, left counterterrorism officials believing there was too high a risk of an "imminent" attempt to bomb targets in Britain and cause mass casualties.

However, subsequent, intensive searches of at least 10 addresses linked to the suspected al-Qaida plot in northern Britain have so far failed to turn up any clear evidence of a terrorist conspiracy, despite the huge resources devoted to them.

Forty-eight hours after the arrests, sources close to the inquiry say no evidence has been found of bombs, bomb-making parts, precursor chemicals to make explosives, a bomb factory, weapons or ammunition

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/11...