Current as of: Saturday - 12 August 2006 GMT The Current Time is: 03:44 GMT
0105: (Update with details) Pakistani officials stated that two Britons of Pakistani decent were arrested last week - about eight to ten days ago - in a coordinated operation to foil a plot to blow up Transatlantic airliners. The detainees were from Karachi and Lahore.
The Pakistan Daily Times has a disturbing news item, ignored in Britain's mainstream media, which casts further doubt about the integrity of some of the Muslim charities in Britain.
We reported that 24 suspects had been arrested in Britain in connection with the AKI reported that Pakistani authorities announced that two British citizens were recently arrested in Pakistan, in connection with the plot. "The two British citizens were arrested 8-10 days ago, one in Karachi and the other in Lahore," a statement claimed. The men had travelled to Pakistan from Britain, and had already made their farewell martyrdom tapes.
Now the Daily Times reveals that the two men, and also a third man of Kashmiri origin who lived in Islamabad, received large donations from a British charity. These donations were to be used for financing the plot to bring down the planes with liquid explosives.
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EXCELLENT FIND Oorang! Ties in with current events pretty well doesn't it?
Yep, I think I first started hearing about the 2 guys in Dawn or one of those interesting sites. Apparently, the Pakistanis have 17 in custody last I heard, but I thnk only 2 are British Pakistanis.
Snip: More than 70 anti-terrorist investigations involving more than 100 suspected Islamic extremists are under way in Britain in an operation unmatched even at the height of the Irish Republican Army's mainland campaign.
The home secretary, John Reid, confirmed yesterday that police and security services were aware of about 24 "major conspiracies."
Terrorist dossier incriminates students
Snip: A collection of extremist Islamist literature distributed from Muslims associated with a university in north London implicates students from the area, it has been claimed.
The dossier, according to a report published in today's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, comprises advice on how to conduct terrorist operations by avoiding security services and incites Muslims to jihad.
A cassette tape produced by disbanded terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun was also found in the headquarters of the Islamic Society at the London Metropolitan University.
Crucially, Waheed Zaman, one of those arrested under suspicion of terrorism in the plot to blow up aircraft traveling across the Atlantic on Thursday, was president of that group.
Government loses 24,000 ID passes
Snip: MORE than 24,500 government security passes giving access to military sites and sensitive Whitehall offices have gone missing in the past three years, fuelling fears about the British state's vulnerability to terrorism.
The startling number of government identity documents unaccounted for has been revealed in a series of internal audits conducted by Whitehall departments and seen by The Scotsman.
Since last week's foiling of an alleged UK terrorist plot to bomb US-bound airliners, all government facilities have been placed at a high state of alert, and opposition MPs said the loss of so many security passes was deeply troubling.
The majority of the missing security passes were issued by the Ministry of Defence to members of the armed forces. In all, the MoD has lost track of 22,731 forces passes since the start of 2004. More than 4,600 military passes have gone missing since the start of this year alone.
The MoD's civilian staff are also understood to have lost hundreds of identity passes, but the ministry has admitted it does not keep a count of how many of its civilian ID cards have been lost.