The British police arrested 12 suspects Monday morning in what is purported to be a plot to stage Mumbai-like attacks across Britain in the holiday season. The names have not been published, but the suspects are described as males, aged between 17 and 28. They were arrested in London, Stoke, and Cardiff in Wales.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates, national head of counter-terrorism policing, termed the raid a large scale, pre-planned and intelligence-led operation involving "several forces".
The British Press claims that the arrests are related to an intelligence intercept in Pakistan. The BBC claimed that the suspects were part of an Al-Qaeda copycat plot to bomb unspecified British targets . Some of the suspects were said to have Bangladeshi origins (Muslim Bangladesh is the former East Pakistan).
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