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BY MAURICE SCARBOROUGH
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New worries over terrorism in Europe after British counter-terror police arrest 12 men for their alleged connection to a possible terrorist attack. Police arrested the men during raids that were carried out in the early morning, across several British cities including London.
We’re analyzing coverage from CNN, Sky News, ABC, and NPR.
Details on the operation are sketchy, as British police remain very tight-lipped, but CNN was able to dig up some information following the raid.
“The police aren’t really giving out much more information at all, I just talked to one source that said they are still trying to identify these men and there nationalities. There is some reporting here that they are perhaps Bangladeshi. Initially we were told they may have been Pakistani, I think the security services here are trying to find out exactly where they are from.”
Police did reveal- they don’t believe there to be any connection between this plot and the attack in Sweden earlier this month. Sky News takes a look at a few more of the details police are giving out.
“Well we’ve known about this operation in that these groups were under surveillance for many weeks. They are not considered to be part of the Mumbai-type plot that was a warning that came in from foreign intelligence services, that somewhere in Europe maybe struck with a multiple location shooting and grenade attack that we saw in Mubmai. This is a separate plot all together allegedly.”
On Good Morning America, one analyst talks about the idea that this plot could be linked to potential holiday attacks planned by Al Qaeda.
“The arrests the morning come as authorities in the US and Europe say they are tracking several new, what they call ‘threat streams,’ in other words intelligence from human and eletronic sources suggesting a holiday season attack is likely. US authorities warned local police departments last week that Al Qaeda may well seek to take advantage of the psychological impact of a holiday attack. “
But a writer for NPR says one anonymous British security official tells him the idea of a holiday attack in Europe is very unlikely.
“Those claims were rejected by both British and German officials, who insisted there are no specific threats to their countries over the festive period.”
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