Palestinian related group arrested in UK terror alert

Sunday Telegraph:

All nine were seized by police travelling towards Preston close to junction 1 of the M65 at 9pm on Friday.

Photographs taken at the scene of last night's incident on the M65 appear to show two vans surrounded by police vehicles.

One van bears an image of the Palestinian flag on its side while the other has signs saying Stop Killing Children, Free Palestine, and From Blackburn (UK) to Gaza.

An aid convoy for Gaza, organised by George Galloway MP, was due to leave London today.

They were arrested in connection with terrorism offences but six were later released without charge.

The three men in still custody are aged 26, 29 and 36. Detectives would not confirm the ethnicity of the suspects or whether any explosives or weapons were found in the operation.

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Police said local officers with knowledge of the communities are deployed in and around the Burnley area where the searches are taking place and nearby residents will be receiving information in the form of a letter throughout the day.

Chief Superintendent Neil Smith, Divisional Commander for Pennine Division, said: "This is a very sensitive time for all our communities and we are working hard to ensure everyone is kept up to date with as much information as we can give.

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Got that? They want tell what ethnic identity the arrested men were but whatever community they were from will be "kept up to date." Everyone else will evidently be kept in the dark, even if they may have been the target of a terror attack.

My speculation based on the messages on the trucks is that the group arrested were Palestinians or supporters of that group. They also seem to support the Hamas death cult. But in the UK they seem determined not to be insensitive to the feelings of terrorist who may attack them.

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