FOUR men were being quizzed by Scotland Yard anti-terror detectives last night after a series of dramatic swoops to foil a suspected Jihadi plot. All four – British-born from overseas family backgrounds – were held amid fears of a Kenyan mall-style attack in the United Kingdom. They were arrested in three locations in London by armed officers from the Yard’s SO15 counter terrorism command, assisted by MI5. The drama unfolded in Notting Hill, west London; Whitechapel, east London; and Peckham, south London, on Sunday evening. In Notting Hill, CCTV pictures captured the arrest of a 28-year-old man of Azerbaijani origin. He was wrestled to the ground as he left a Persian restaurant. One of the restaurant’s staff, Ramin Massodi, said police arrived in several cars and pushed the suspect up against a glass window. In Whitechapel police stopped two suspects’ black Mercedes with heavy duty Hatton rounds – ammunition used to pierce doors and burst tyres. Eye witness Catherine Delgado, 43, saw “five or six” police cars hemming a Mercedes in and heard two shots. Shakir Gani, 17, who watched the arrest from the fourth-floor balcony of his flat, said: “A man was dragged out of a black Mercedes car. “The road was blocked off by a Jaguar – I think that was a CID car – and behind the Merc was a black BMW which I also thought was CID.” Police held two 25-year-old men, one of them of Algerian origin and one of Turkish descent. In Peckham, they arrested a 29-year-old Briton of Pakistani origin. Scotland Yard said the suspects were held on the suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. All four are being held for questioning at the same south London police station. Six addresses and two vehicles were being searched last night.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:21:46 +0000
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