Terror arrests in London
July 5, 2012British police carried out a string of raids in London on Thursday morning, arresting six men aged 18 to 30. Scotland Yard referred to the action as a pre-planned anti-terror operation, also saying that the arrests were not connected to the Olympic Games, which begin on July 27 in London.
Police did not identify the six people arrested, saying they were all taken to a police station in south-east London.
To the north of London, in an incident the police said was unrelated, a stretch of the busy M6 motorway was closed near Birmingham on Thursday. The incident took place at a toll station on the motorway near England's second city. Police cleared a bus carrying 48 passengers, arresting one of them, apparently after a passenger was acting suspiciously on board. Subsequently, however, the police issued a statement concluding that "no-one is being treated as a suspect after armed police evacuated a coach on the M6."
Police in the UK are on high alert ahead of the Olympic Games, though intelligence officials have said that no specific or credible terror threats have been identified that are connected to the Games.
msh/sej (AP, dpa, Reuters)