In addition to the laying of formal charges, the British police are also detailing items seized for the general public and dunderheads to peruse at their leisure:
Eleven people have been charged today in connection with an alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic aircraft as police revealed that they had found bomb-making equipment and martyrdom videos during their searches.In a highly unusual move, the head of Scotland’s Yard’s Anti-Terrorist branch detailed some of the items seized during the huge investigation that saw 23 people arrested on August 10 in London, Birmingham and Buckinghamshire.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said that in dozens of raids his officers had found the martyrdom videos, improvised explosives devices, suicide notes and wills of alleged co-conspirators and an annotated map of Afghanistan.
Video of the police press conference is here.
Posted by floridacracker at August 21, 2006 01:27 PM