http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776623/posts
UPDATE (3:02)
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1249593,00.html
"Kidnap And Beheading Plot"
Updated: 10:55, Wednesday January 31, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The eight people arrested by terror police in Birmingham were allegedly planning an Iraq-style kidnapping and beheading, Sky News has learned.
Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt says they intended to post a video of the hostage being tortured and killed on the internet.
Their target was an unidentified man in his twenties who is now under police protection.
Brunt says he was picked out because of his job. It is not yet known what this was.
The suspects were detained under the Terrorism Act after a six-month surveillance operation involving officers from two forces.
More details will be given at a police briefing at 11.30am, followed by a press conference at 3pm. You can watch it live on Sky News online.
Sealed off road
Brunt said officers feared the alleged plot was "coming to fruition".
The fact it "would not have resulted in a mass casualties" suggested a "chilling new departure" in terror tactics.
The suspects had been tracked in a combined police operation led by the Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.
They were supported by officers from the West Midlands police and the Metropolitan Police.
Officers swooped on a number of addresses in the Sparkhill and Alum Rock areas of east Birmingham at 4am."
ON THE NET...
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=9
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP144707
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1447
January 31, 2007 No.1447
"Islamist Websites Monitor Project No. 57"
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP144407
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1444
January 30, 2007 No.1444
"Islamist Websites Monitor Project No. 56"