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British Police Find and Destroy Chemicals, Homemade Explosives in Home Europe - United Kingdom 21 Dec 2005 - MIPT Printer Friendly Email Article Police found chemicals and evidence of homemade explosive devices at a home in northern England and destroyed them with four controlled explosions on Wednesday. Police also arrested a 17-year-old boy at the home in the town of Haslingden and evacuated residents from nearby houses before conducting the four blasts at around 1 a.m., said Neil Smith, the superintendent of the Lancashire county constabulary. Acting on a tip received in an anonymous letter, police arrived at the home in Haslingden, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of London, at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday with a search warrant, found the materials and evacuated the area, Smith said. "The bomb disposal units are experts at deciding what part of such materials need to be kept for evidence and what needs to destroyed," he said. The youth, who cannot be identified under British law because of his age, was being questioned at a local police station and had not been charged, Smith said. An investigation was under way, but Smith said the incident may not be terrorist related since the youth is a chemistry student who lives at the house with his parents. About 40 residents were taken from their homes to a local leisure center while the explosions were conducted, but some were returning home at about 8 a.m. Since a suicide attack by four British men carrying bombs killed 52 commuters on London's transport system on July 7, Britain's government, intelligence services and anti-terrorist police have been trying to find and stop terrorist cells before they strike. On Tuesday, police arrested a suspect in a failed terrorist bombing on London's transit system on July 21, officials said. The man was arrested at Gatwick Airport as he got off a flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, London's Metropolitan Police said. They said the 23-year-old man, who was not identified, was suspected of committing, preparing or instigating terrorism acts and was being questioned. A total of 15 people have been charged in connection with the July 21 plot to attack three subway trains and a double-decker bus, which failed when the bombs failed to detonate. Copyright AP 2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/U6CDDD/izNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
