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LONDON (AFP) - Four men arrested in a vast anti-terrorist sweep by British police were charged with seeking to fund terrorist activities and make bombs and firearms, police said. The four, aged between 23 and 26, were to appear in court on Tuesday to be formally charged, a police spokesman said. "The charges against them relate to allegedly obtaining and possessing money to fund terrorism or possessing articles or material which provide instruction or training to make firearms or explosives," the spokesman said. "The offences are alleged to have taken place on or before December 2." He said two of...

(CBS/AP) Sources tell CBS News that British police have foiled a plot to blow up an airliner en route from London's Heathrow Airport to the U.S. Sajid Badat, a Pakistani Briton, was arrested in his hometown of Gloucester last week during a series of police raids across Britain. Badat, 24, was charged Wednesday with conspiring with Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe bomber," and "others unknown" to cause an explosion "likely to endanger life" between September 1, 2001 and November 28, 2003. He is also charged with two lesser offenses of "possessing explosives." Shortly after the arrest, Home Secretary David Blunkett...