Let the rout continue. I imagine it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel once you start busting out the computers and past communications between terror cells and their masters.
LONDON — Police have arrested 14 people in anti-terrorism raids, saying Saturday they suspected the men had been involved in training and recruiting for terror.
The arrests in London late Friday and early Saturday were not linked to the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners or to the July 2005 bomb attacks on London’s transport network, the capital’s Metropolitan Police said. They declined to give details of what the suspects were believed to have done, other than saying they were arrested as part of an investigation into terror training and recruitment.
The raids followed months of surveillance and investigation, police said.
The 14 people, arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, were being held in central London, police said. Officers were searching an unspecified number of homes around the capital, they added.
It’s nice to know this is not related to the previous busts and that we are catching more and more of the bastards.
H/T goes to ProudToBeCanadian
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It’s one thing to grab them. It’s another to put them in jail.
In many terrorism cases, gathering evidence is chancy and difficult as terrorist groups, by their nature, are distrusting of outsiders. Unlike most criminal cases, it’s not possible to allow terrorists to bring their plans to fruition before apprehending them. To do so would mean putting innocent lives at hazard. The standards of evidence for criminal prosecution are so high, it makes convictions unlikely.
End result? The peacenik lefties point fingers, claiming the lack of convictions means the threat was overstated.
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Mac, I agree with you. But I think with the surveillance capabilities these days that more and more info is being gathered before the busts. I just cross my fingers that when they make the pop that they find info leading them to a few more groups. It truly is a terrorist network out there and snipping more and more nodes off will make us all safer.