British police arrest 10 in terror sweep.
Ten people were arrested in Manchester, England today in a raid on a group suspected of involvement with terrorism. (*)
Special branch officers confirmed they had arrested nine men and one woman. Seven addresses were targeted and seven people arrested in Greater Manchester.
Three further people were arrested in the West Midlands, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire.
Those being questioned today are Iraqis, Kurds and north Africans.
Police said they would neither confirm not deny rumours about possible targets.
They got ten, but there are thousands of Al Qaeda operatives remaining in the UK alone.
“In the early 1990s MI5 was very slow to get to grips with al Qaida,” [ex–MI5 spy David] Shayler said in a TV interview.
“Despite repeated warnings they let in thousands of al Qaida members into this country who are all still here.
“Some of whom have gained British citizenship, which makes it very difficult to expel them.” Middlesbrough-born Shayler revealed his fears on the ITV1 Tyne Tees programme The Sunday Interview.
(‡) How can terrorist attacks be stopped if we don’t stop or at least reduce immigration?