UK terror raid near Olympic Stadium, 6 arrests
LONDON (AP)
-- Armed British police carried out an early-morning raid on a
residential address near London's Olympic Park on Thursday, using smoke
grenades and a stun gun in what they called a pre-planned anti-terror
operation.
A total of six people were arrested
there and in separate raids in other parts of the capital, but Scotland
Yard said the operation was not linked to the upcoming games, due to
kick off on July 27.
Police didn't identify the suspects, who range in age from 18 to 30.
However
Mizanur Rahman, who is involved with a Muslim activist group, said all
those arrested were British Muslims. He said the three men taken into
custody in Stratford, the neighborhood that contains Olympic Park, were
brothers and claimed that one was a former police officer.
