Brits Foil Far Right Plot to Bomb Mosques
It hasn’t gotten much notice in US media, but last week British police foiled an international plot by far right groups to smuggle weapons into Britain and launch attacks on mosques.
AN ALLEGED Neo Nazi plot to flood Britain with guns and explosives has been foiled by anti terror police set up to combat al-Qaeda.
Detectives recovered pipe bombs and rocket launchers after an investigation which showed the “growing threat” of the far right, a senior officer revealed. Two men have been charged and further suspects identified in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, West Yorkshire chief constable Sir Norman Bettison said.
The case was handled by the North East Regional Counter Terrorism Unit, based in Leeds, where the 7/7 bombers plotted their suicide attacks.
Senior counter terrorism sources told the Mirror the Leeds CTU is currently investigating “just as many” far right plots as al-Qaeda conspiracies.
More details in the Daily Mail: Far-Right extremists ‘are plotting spectacular terrorist attack in UK’.
Last weekend it was revealed that a network of suspected extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter- terrorism detectives.
Thirty-two people were questioned by police and 22 properties were raided over an alleged plot to bomb mosques.
It was the biggest terrorist arms haul since the IRA mainland bombings in the 1990s.
Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire, said: ‘The big bad wolf is still the Al-Qaeda threat.
‘But my people are knocking over right-wing extremists quite regularly. We are interdicting it so that it doesn’t first emerge into the public eye out of a critical incident like an explosion.’
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