Last week’s dramatic anti-terror raids in north-west England in which nearly a dozen Pakistani nationals, living in Britain on student visas, were arrested for allegedly plotting what Prime Minister Gordon Brown breathlessly described as a “very big” attack was — it now increasingly appears — prompted by half-baked intelligence based on “fragments” of chatter and some intercepts.
Other so-called “leads” included sightings of some of the alleged suspects taking photographs of a fashionable shopping centre and a popular nightclub in Manchester. They were also apparently overheard discussing certain dates that led the MI5 sleuths to jump to the conclusion that not only an attack was being planned but that it was “imminent”— and indeed even dates had been settled.
The media quoted anonymous “sources” as saying that a “devastating” attack might have been planned for the Easter weekend. One newspaper dubbed it an “Easter spectacular.”
Yet, no hard evidence has surfaced so far despite extensive searches and there is a growing sense that it could all end up in a wild-goose chase. The much-talked about “bomb factory” where, it was claimed, the Pakistanis were assembling explosives remains elusive; and the computers seized from their homes have failed to yield anything incriminating until now.
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