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| Wednesday, 21 April 2004 |
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UK police foil soccer suicide bomb plot LONDON, Tuesday (Reuters) British police foiled a series of suicide bomb attacks at a Manchester United soccer match with the arrest of 10 people in anti-terror raids on Monday, the Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday. The paper quoted an unnamed police source as saying the suspects had bought tickets for seats around the club's 67,000-capacity stadium for their premier league match against Liverpool on Saturday. "The plot involved several individual bombers in separate parts of the stadium," the source told the paper. "If successful, any such attack would have caused absolute carnage." Ten people were held under anti-terror laws in a series of dawn raids involving 400 police across northern England on Monday. Police and the Home Office (Interior Ministry) declined to comment on the Sun's report. "We cannot get into a running commentary on the intelligence and information behind police and security service operations," a Home Office spokeswoman said. Assistant Chief Constable Dave Whatton, of Greater Manchester Police, said he was aware of "extensive speculation about possible targets". "As with any counter-terrorist operation, we will not confirm or deny any targets," he said in a statement. The Sun said the arrests were made after months of eavesdropping on mobile telephone calls and surveillance by British and American authorities. |
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