'G20 terror plot' uncovered by police

[cali]

An alleged plot to disrupt the G20 summit in London has been uncovered after Devon and Cornwall police arrested five people under anti-terrorism laws.

The G20 Summit has been described by Scotland Yard as the capital's most challenging police operation in a decade Three men and two women, who were held by armed police in and around Plymouth, thought to be all British, are said to have been discovered with imitation firearms and what is thought to be a flare-gun. Suspected extremist material was also found.

But police have played down the suggestion that there may have been a plot to cause death or injuries, suggesting instead that the firearms which were allegedly seized were intended to cause “disruption”.


One source said: "The people have been held under Anti Terror laws and are being held at a police station in Cornwall.

"My information is that firearms have been found and political 'manuals'.

"It appears these people and their arrests are connected to the G20 summit in London this week.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5076245/G20-bomb-plot-uncovered-by-police.html


What the heck? Toy guns, a flare gun and supposedly extremist literature, and these people are being held under anti-terrorism laws?

[shadowknows69]

1. I wonder exactly what the "extremeist literature" is exactly?

[KharmaTrain]

2. I Was Wondering That As Well

Of course our corporate media will interpret that as some "Muslin extremist". Now wouldn't it be something if those being held were traced to the Aryan Nation or the CCC or another right wing group. You'd think bin Laden should be very happy to see the Western economy crumble...why attack now when your enemies continue to destroy themselves? I'm more concerned with those on the right who believe the bullshit about Obama "socializing" everything. I'm hearing a lot more hate speech coming out of my radio than I do from a bin Laden tape.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Only if they're actively trying to mislead - police have already said "no religious connection"

Detectives said the five, three men aged 16, 19 and 25 and the women both aged 20, were held between Friday and Sunday. Devon and Cornwall Police said their inquiries indicated there was "no religious agenda to the investigation."
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Earlier this year a Muslim convert Nicky Reilly was jailed for trying to carry out a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant in Exeter last May, but detectives said the latest investigation was totally unconnected and not linked to any religious group.

Police added that the arrests were also not thought to be part of any national or wider operation.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52T35F20090330

Imitation firearms, and the flare-gun, and this quote from the Telegraph article:

"It would seem they were in possession of material which would not have the potential for causing injury so much as disruption."

seems to point to maybe waving the guns around, setting off a flair, and at worst trying to cause a panic.

[drm604]

3. Even the police are suggesting that this was not a plot to cause death or injuries,

but they're holding them under anti-terrorism laws?

[cali]

4. personally, I think this sort of shit eggs on violence

it certainly doesn't defuse it.

[HereSince1628]

5. Oh dear, oh dear, there was going to be a disruption.

With "imitation guns." Suppose that means "toy" gun?

It's a world driven mad with fear regularly dosed out by security and intelligence agencies.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Oh Noes! Toys R Us is now enableing terrorists!

Will these corporate monsters stop at nothing to gain profit?

[gratuitous]

8. Whew! I feel so much safer now

A 16-year-old, three college-age persons, and a 25-year-old! That's plenty enough to cause Britain to soil its collective knickers anymore.

"We found this spoon, sir!" "Very good."