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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. "
 
 
 
"After the first arrests in Pakistan some days ago, word went from Pakistan to the London plotters to move ahead quickly, a message intercepted by 'an <unidentified> intelligence agency,' a U.S. official disclosed on condition of anonymity. That prompted British police to move in ..."
 
 
 

OPERATION Overt was not supposed to come to the public's attention quite so soon.

British security agents had spent almost a year secretly monitoring the group of young Muslims accused of planning mass murder in the sky.

The targets had been narrowed from a "watch list" of more than 1000 potential terrorists.

Investigators silently watched as some of the men communicated via internet cafes and planted listening devices in at least four of the suspects' cars. An anti-terror squad trawled telephone records, emails and bank records.

Dozens of officers assigned to follow the suspects kept up an "unprecedented level of surveillance", Scotland Yard said.

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"There were suggestions American authorities, tipped off to impending raids in Britain and chasing leads in the US, jumped the gun and forced the hand of investigators in the UK.
 

"Some U.S. counterterrorism officials said plans originally were to allow the conspiracy to develop even further.  But U.S. and British investigators made a sudden decision this week to close down the operation after they became increasingly worried that there were other bombers they had been unable to locate or identify, U.S. officials said.

 

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=11&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=4147

The Bush administration today remained tight-lipped on the role played by US intelligence agencies in busting the suspected Al Qaeda plot to blow up several airliners over the Atlantic and its Pakistani links.

Washington also refused to comment on media reports that pressure was applied on Islamabad to make a "key arrest" that would eventually lead to a number of arrests in Britain.

"One of the things that we're doing, of course, is we're cooperating with the British authorities, and they're the lead in the investigation and subsequent prosecution and I dont want to say anything that might in any ways adversely affect the ongoning investigation. I'll wait for the British authorities to get that information out to the public," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a TV interview.

Elaborating on the co-operation between the US and British intelligence agencies, Gonzales said, "there were information, tips and leads within the US that the FBI, the Department of Justice, other law enforcement and intelligence agencies followed up on. The FBI had over 20 agents running down each of these leads,"

"It is true, after doing all of that work, that we don't believe, based on what we know, that there is an ongoing plot here in the US, but we shared everything that we learned about this plot with the British authorities. And we believe that our efforts were important, certainly instrumental in disrupting this current threat" he added.

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