Birmingham Man Arrested In Terrorism Probe
January 26 2010
British police arrested a man in Birmingham under the Terrorism Act early Tuesday morning, a day after the nation's terror alert was raised from "substantial" to "severe," the Wall Street Journal reports.
Officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit arrested the 30-year-old suspect from the Sparkhill area of Birmingham for possessing material likely to be of use to a terrorist and for "distributing terrorist publications," according to a police statement.
The man's...
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