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Nine men appeared in a London court Monday charged with terrorism offenses, including plotting bombings in Britain, a week after they were arrested in pre-dawn raids. The men have been charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion, or explosions, "of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property" between October 1 and November 20 this year, police said. The suspects, who appeared at the Westminster Magistrates Court, also face charges of in-volvement in the preparation of an attack by having downloaded and researched methods and materials, and scouted potential targets. They were remanded in custody to appear at London's Old Bailey court January 14. The men - at least five of whom are of Bangladeshi origin - had also tested incendiary materials, police said. On December 20, police arrested a dozen suspects in England and Wales "on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK." Police swooped in Britain's second city Birmingham in the English West Midlands; in London; in the Welsh capital Cardiff; and in the central English town of Stoke-on-Trent. Three men were subsequently released. A bombing in the Swedish capital Stockholm earlier this month has heightened concerns in Britain because the man thought to have been the attacker lived in the town of Luton near London. It is also believed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian being held in the US on charges of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound passenger jet with explosives in his underwear a year ago, was radicalized while a student in London. AFP |
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