Britain Arrests 9 in Terrorist Kidnapping Plot(kidnap,torture,behead, broadcast over Internet)

NYT ^ | 02/01/07 | ALAN COWELL

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Britain Arrests 9 in Terrorist Kidnapping Plot

By ALAN COWELL

LONDON, Jan. 31 — The British police conducted a series of raids on Wednesday, arresting nine suspects on terrorism charges in what appeared to be a shift in the tactics of terrorism in Britain. The suspects are accused of devising a plot that included plans to kidnap, torture and behead a British Muslim soldier and broadcast video images of his killing on the Internet.

The arrests, in the central city of Birmingham, were part of what the authorities called a major operation involving hundreds of officers after months of preparation. Eight suspects were arrested in eight different homes, and a ninth was seized on a highway near the city, the police said. Four businesses were also searched.

“We are right at the foothills of a very major investigation for us,” Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw, the Birmingham police officer leading the inquiry, said at a news conference. He declined to describe any details of the case or identify the suspects by name.

However, the British news media have widely reported details of the supposed plot, which have not been officially denied. If true, the plan would be a marked departure from previous terrorist plots, like the July 7, 2005, London bombings, intended to cause mass fatalities using explosives.

Last August, for instance, British and American investigators said they averted a plot by terrorists to use liquid explosives to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners carrying hundreds of people. A plan of this kind would also support what counterterrorism experts have depicted as the central role of the Internet in modern insurgencies and conspiracies to broadcast propaganda and spread images. Web sites have been widely used to broadcast gruesome images of beheadings in Iraq and to spread militant Islamic views.

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Ping!

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The BBC, Rueters, and liberals will claim they are victims of British racist society that isn't multicultural enough.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The gave it to Arafat, so why not?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

whoops that was a mistake. Never mind.

[SevenofNine]

AHHH GULITY ROFL

HEY UK you done alot try get these people to assilmate sometime person don't want advice they end up in trouble

[RushCrush]

Is it just me or do the internet videos by Biden, Hillary Clinton and Obama (announcing their exploratory committees) seem like the only thing missing is a masked Islamic militant and a knife?

Not to mean I am a proponent of their beheadings, it just seems weird to me to see their videos online instead of a live news conference.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Kidnapping, torture, beheading, and videotaping the event is hardly a "new tactic" for these vermin.

Where has Alan Cowell been these past few years?

[RedCell]

So, are the guys they arrested Amish or what? The article doesn't mention anything about their background. OH! (smacks forehead)... this is the NYSlimes! Silly me. /s

[vimto]

News is that one of the men arrested owns and runs an Islamic bookshop.

Previous address: Gitmo Bay!

[prophetic]

If it happened in the USA I'm sure Kerry, Kennedy, Fine-Swine, Schumer, Clinton & Co would say that:

1) Its Bush Fault !!!

2) We need to be more understanding to these poor misunderstood and misguided people; and then proceed to give them several billion of our hard earned USA tax dollars to appease them.

[river rat]

Once again....Pakistani immigrants behaving "badly"..

The frequency in which Pakistani immigrants are involved in radical and murderous behavior -- is reaching epidemic levels..

How long before these apparently genetically inbred and predispositioned assholes are refused exit from their own Turd World " paradise...

Semper Fi

[jwparkerjr]

I would like to have seen the authorities infiltrate the group and arrange for them to kidnap the wrong person. Then, after the tape has been shown worldwide, announce that they person who was killed was not some hapless British soldier who happened to be a Muslim, but rather one of their own. How great to have heard his protestations that he was on their side as they hacked at his neck with a dull knife.

[mewzilla]

News is that one of the men arrested owns and runs an Islamic bookshop.

Previous address: Gitmo Bay!

Good gad. Not again.

[prairiebreeze]

What a steamin' pile of crapola in the last 5 paragraphs from the Slimes.

Muzzies howling about backlash and being afraid and cynical about these raids. Typical islam-supporting apologetic crap from the Slimes.

[Edgerunner]

Indeed, Salma Yaqoob, a member of the Birmingham City Council representing the antiwar Respect Party, said: “There’s a shock and disbelief that these arrests are being made in such a high-profile manner. People are very concerned about the social backlash.”

ie...more rioting by the ROP...more crap copy from the New York Slimes

[Edgerunner]

Indeed, Salma Yaqoob, a member of the Birmingham City Council representing the antiwar Respect Party, said: “There’s a shock and disbelief that these arrests are being made in such a high-profile manner. People are very concerned about the social backlash.”

ie...more rioting by the ROP...more crap copy from the New York Slimes

[livius]

Wonder if we'll ever see the previous address reported in the US media. I doubt it.

[cake_crumb]

3) "Conservatives" would say their civil rights are being violated, but that such a plot is more evidence of why we need to close the border with Mexico.