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London 2012 Olympics:
Muslim converts held over ‘Games plot’
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Michael Coren’s had enough of the lies. Jamal ud-Din needs to understand his T-shirt is promoting a lie.
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The Telegraph – Two Muslim converts have been
arrested in East London on suspicion of plotting an attack against the
London 2012 Olympic Games canoeing venue.
Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the arrests were based
on a tip-off after men were seen behaving suspiciously close to the
venue in Waltham Abbey, Hertfordshire on Monday.
Hertfordshire police officers began combing the banks after three men were seen in a dinghy on the River Lea.
The two men, aged 18 and 32, were arrested at separate residential
addresses in east London, by officers from the Metropolitan Police
Counter-Terrorism Command, at 7am on Thursday.
18-year-old Jamal ud-Din understood to be one of the arrested men
They were detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the
commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and held at a
central London police station. Officers were last night searching two
addresses in East London.
A friend of the arrested men named the 18-year-old as Jamal ud-Din
and said the older man was someone he knew only as “Zakariya.”
Mizanur Rahman, 29, said the arrests “might have had something to do
with the fact that they recently went canoeing” on the River Lea, a
branch of which runs through the Olympic site in east London.
“It’s just people trying to get into the Olympic spirit,” he said,
but he believed the authorities would try “painting it as jihad
training.”
Residents living in the Hazlemere marina, near the Olympic canoeing
venue, reported a significant police operation, involving up to 30
officers, had been launched after several men were seen behaving
suspiciously in a dinghy on Monday night.
It took detectives another two days before dawn raids were carried out in East London.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We can confirm that inquires were
carried out by Hertfordshire police who have been liaising with Met
police counter-terrorism command.
“At approximately 07:00 hrs today, Thursday June 28, officers from
the counter-terrorism command arrested two men under the Terrorism Act
2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts
of terrorism.
“The men were arrested at separate residential addresses in east
London. Both addresses are currently being searched under the Terrorism
Act 2000.”
The arrests come just under a month before the start of the Games, which open in London on July 27.
In one of the biggest vetting operations in 70 years, the backgrounds
of half-a-million people have been screened amid concerns the Games
remain threatened by terrorism.
Intelligence officials have reported an increase in chatter among
extremist groups but have said there was no specific or credible threat
targeting the Olympics.
The terror level is currently at substantial, a notch below severe. A substantial threat level indicates that an attack is astrong possibility.
Both MI5 and Scotland Yard have reportedly hundreds of investigations
“live”.
The main Olympic Park will be protected by the biggest
peacetime security operation ever seen in Britain.
The Daily Telegraph has reported that senior security
officials have become concerned that other sites around the country
could also become targets.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that a ring of ground-to-air
missile launchers could be deployed around London to protect Olympic
venues.
The security service is reported to be braced for a potential deluge
of information from foreign police forces and intelligence agencies.
In March, the director-general of MI5, Jonathan Evans, took the rare
step of briefing the whole Cabinet on the terrorism threat to the UK in
the run up to the Olympics.
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