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To: Sully- who started this subject	11/28/2003 4:25:32 PM
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Britain Detains Terror Suspects By Michael Holden Retuers Thursday, November 27, 2003; 8:33 AM LONDON -- British police hunting for international terrorists detained two men on Thursday, one of whom is believed to have connections with al Qaeda and whose arrest "could be pretty big" according to a security source. Officers from Britain's anti-terror branch arrested a 24-year-old man in the western town of Gloucester and said they had evacuated the surrounding area in case they found explosives. "It could be pretty big in the sense that if we find what we suspect we are looking for, then we have got something big," a security source told Reuters. A police spokeswoman said the man had been arrested on "suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." He has been taken to a police station in nearby Wiltshire. Home Secretary (Interior Minister) David Blunkett said: "It is believed by the security and special branch services that this man has connections with the network of al Qaeda groups. "We would not have taken these steps if we didn't believe that this individual posed a very real threat to the life and liberty of our country," he told BBC television. The source said Thursday's operation was the culmination of months of investigation, but declined to comment on what police suspected the man was planning. Officers were also searching two addresses in the northern town of Blackburn in connection with the arrest of the 24-year-old, believed to be a British-born Muslim. A 39-year-old man was also arrested by anti-terror police on Thursday in the northern city of Manchester, Scotland Yard said. However the source said this arrest was unconnected to the operation in Gloucester. Britain's most senior police officer Sir John Stevens said last week that London would be on high terror alert for the foreseeable future after previously warning that an attack on the U.K. was almost inevitable. Earlier this month, security services were moved to a heightened state of alert after they received warnings of a possible attack by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group, blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. (additional reporting by Paul Majendie) washingtonpost.com

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