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London, 10 London (AKI) - Pakistan's intelligence agencies were involved helping the British authorities foil a terror plot to blow up several passenger planes between Britain and the United States, highly placed sources in Pakistan told Britain's Times newspaper on Thursday. The agencies have been working closely with British anti-terror police, monitoring "for some time," the activities of suspected terrorists, many of whom have links with Pakistan-based Islamist militant groups" the Times said. Following overnight raids in the capital London, the Midlands and the Thames Valley, British police have arrested 21 people in connection with the plot to bring down...

PRAGUE, August 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The British authorities are in no doubt -- after an operation lasting several months, the security services have foiled an imminent terrorist attack. British Home Secretary John Reid said the security services had raised the threat level from "severe" to "critical," the highest possible level, which, according to the website of MI5, the British Security Service, means an attack is expected soon. "The police, with the full knowledge of ministers, have carried out a major counterterrorism operation to disrupt what we believe to be a major threat to the United Kingdom and international partners,"...