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November 28, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/international/europe/28BRIT.html

Raids in Britain Catch 2 Terrorism Suspects

(New York Times) - British authorities arrested two suspected terrorists in separate raids on Thursday and said one of them was believed to be connected to "the network of al-Qaeda groups." One of the detainees, a 24-year-old British man of Asian heritage who was seized in Gloucester, had links to Richard Reid, the British "shoe bomber." Three streets around the suspect's home in Gloucester were sealed off, and over 100 people were evacuated from the area because the police feared that the man might have hidden explosives in the neighborhood. The arrests followed warnings by the police that a terror attack might be planned for Britain and an increase in the authorities' assessment of the level of the threat of an attack from "significant" to "severe general," the second-highest level.

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