Contains specific locations for some raids as well as descriptions of a few of the suspects. --B
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1841778,00.html Plane plot investigators search houses Matt Weaver and agencies Thursday August 10, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Police were today searching a number of homes and businesses in London, High Wycombe and Birmingham after the arrest of 21 people in connection with the alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes leaving the UK. Houses were evacuated in High Wycombe around Walton Drive, where at least one person was arrested in one of a series of raids around the country last night. The home secretary, John Reid, said he believed all the "main players" in the plot were accounted for. The 21 suspects were being held in London's Paddington Green police station following the raids. The US homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, said the alleged plan to target passenger jets was "in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot". Mr Chertoff told a press conference in Washington, DC, that the plan had been to detonate liquid explosives on board "multiple commercial aircraft". He said it was alleged to involve carrying explosive material and detonating devices disguised as drinks, electronic devices and other "common objects". One of the homes raided included a flat in Walthamstow north-east London, which was stormed by about 20 officers. They rammed the front door to a house containing a number of flats in Forest Road, shortly before midnight last night, neighbours said. John Weir, 50, who lives opposite the terraced property, said plain clothed officers in unmarked cars silently lined up opposite the house before the raid. He said: "At about 10.30pm, unmarked police cars all lined up on the street and just sat there. About 11.50pm two vans came up the road and parked at either end of the street. Then about 20 officers - four of them were in uniform - ran up and bashed the door in." Mr Weir said officers headed upstairs to a first floor flat, which they proceeded to search by torchlight. He said: "The only lights they turned on were the ones just inside the front door. When they went upstairs they didn't turn any lights on and you could see the torches flashing as they started their search. They were swarming all over the place. "There must have been forensic officers there because I saw them taking tool boxes and lots of equipment in." Mr Weir said he believed two north African men had been living in the flat for about a month. He said: "I saw a couple of north African-looking men about three weeks ago. They were in their mid 30s. They were dressed quite normally in T-shirts and trousers. "I haven't seen them in the last couple of weeks. There is not often anyone there at that house." West Midlands police said two of those arrested were from Birmingham. They are believed to come from the Bordesley Green area, after homes were sealed off there last night. Forensic teams were searching the area. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
