April 9, 2009 News
(UK) Police feared 'Al-Qaida terror attack' on UK was planned for Easter
-- "Sources say attack would have taken place by end of Easter weekend"
-- "Gordon Brown describes suspected plot as 'very big'"
-- "Police guard addresses raided by counterterrorism officers"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/al-qaida-terror-uk
--- Brown says terror plot is 'very big'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brown-says-terror-plot-is-very-big-1666369.html
--- PM Brown: "We know that there are links between terrorists in Britain and terrorists in Pakistan"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5131249/Gordon-Brown-defends-anti-terrorism-operation-after-resignation-of-Bob-Quick.html
(UK) 'Terror gang' may have been 'plotting to blow up shopping centre and nightclub'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168650/Terror-gang-plotting-blow-shopping-centre-nightclub.html
UK police arrest 11 Pakistanis in anti-terror raids [out of 12 arrested]
-- UK's Peter Fahy: "11 of them are Pakistani nationals. That is a matter of fact."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UK-police-arrest-11-Pakistanis-in-anti-terror-raids/articleshow/4381530.cms
-- UPI: most "on student visas"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/08/Dozen-anti-terror-arrests-made-in-Britain/UPI-10461239232631/
(UK) Anti-terror swoops follow months of surveillance
--- "Speculation that night clubs were among targets"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/09/anti-terror-operation-england
--- Security Leak Cost Terror Raid Cops 24 Hours
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Terror-Arrests-North-West-Police-Raids-But-Old-Trafford-Trafford-Shopping-Centre-Not-Targets/Article/200904215258652?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15258652_Terror_Arrests%3A_North_West_Police_Raids_But_Old_Trafford%2C_Trafford_Shopping_Centre_Not_Targets
--- Major MI5 operation against al-Qaeda endangered by security breach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6061914.ece
(UK) "suspects spoke with Afghan accents"
-- spoke with Pashtun dialect used on both sides of Afghan/Pakistan border
-- 6 or 7 suspects reportedly "worshiped at the nearby Al-Falah mosque"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127951/Terror-blunder-suspects-spoke-with-Afghan-accents.html
(UK) where the suspects were arrested
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127998/Terror-blunder-where-the-suspects-were-arrested.html
(UK) Liverpool students tell of fears as anti-terror police closed in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/09/uksecurity-terrorism
(UK) Police chief quits over blunder
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7991307.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6064547.ece
--- Britain's new top counterterrorism officer John Yates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/09/john-yates-metropolitan-police
(UK) British universities are 'real and serious' terrorism threat
-- "at least 48 campuses including Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of
Economics and Imperial College London had been infiltrated"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5127178/Terror-blunder-British-universities-are-real-and-serious-terrorism-threat.html
(UK) Jihadi Preaching in Tower Hamlets - Anwar Al Awlaki -- Islamic supremacists are heroes of "ummah"
-- Awlaki: "jihad must be part of our programme of revival and change in the Muslim world"
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/jihadi-preaching-in-tower-hamlets/
http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com/?p=83
http://www.alwasatiyyah.com/courses.php?courseID=5
http://www.mcb.org.uk/events/viewevent.php?id=1171&y=2009&m=4
http://www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/index.lasso?v=15
(UK) Anti and Pro Islamists on the Centre Left
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/04/09/anti-and-pro-islamists-on-the-centre-left/
(UK) Sharia law - Government remains indifferent
http://www.secularism.org.uk/sharia-law-government-remains-in.html
(UK) Hazma sons stole 1 million pounds worth of luxury cars to fund party lifestyle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168656/Hamza-sons-stole-1million-worth-luxury-cars-fund-party-lifestyle.html
