UK authorities say they want to deport 9 men caught up in terror raids

September 22nd, 2009 LA-area street gang targeted by massive raidsLOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 federal and local law enforcement officials are carrying out raids around the Los Angeles area Tuesday, targeting a street gang accused of everything from drug dealing to murder. About 1,300 officers and agents began going door to door before dawn.

September 7th, 2009 UK report: Gov't releases terror suspectLONDON — Britain's Home Office has released a man from a house-arrest style program only weeks before a hearing in which the government might have been forced to disclose the intelligence that led to his arrest, a newspaper reported Monday. The Times of London said the man — a Libyan-British dual national identified only as AF — was released last week.

August 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - The state food department has seized pulses worth Rs.100 million (Rs.10 crore) during overnight raids in this Chhattisgarh capital, an official said Sunday. In a drive against hoarders, raids were conducted in four locations in Raipur district Saturday night.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - British authorities have denied bail to Pakistani students detained earlier this year on national security grounds in simultaneous raids conducted across the country. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission after hearing the bail pleas of two students, Muhammad Ramazan and Ahmad Faraz at the Royal Courts of Justice here, refused to grant bail in all seven cases levied against them, The Daily Times reports.

July 30th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE LUCKNOW - Officials conducting raids to recover spurious liquor in Uttar Pradesh had to leave the exercise midway when some women involved in the illegal business reportedly stripped off in front of them, officials said Thursday. Acting on a tip-off that several illicit liquor manufacturing units were running in Devidas village of Muzaffarnagar district, a 25 member team of the excise department went there to conduct raids Wednesday evening.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistani students, who were arrested earlier this year on national security grounds in simultaneous raids conducted across Britain, have now decided to launch a legal battle against the British authorities, as they (authorities) have failed to table any substantial evidence against them. One of the two students, Janas Khan, who was released from prison on Saturday after terrorism charges against them were dropped, said he is 'angry and shocked' by the British Government's treatment, and that he would take the concerned authorities to the court of law for arresting him without having enough proof.

June 11th, 2009 Italian police arrest 6 in anti-terror raidsROME — Italian police arrested six people Thursday in raids on a group of suspected radical leftists who were allegedly planning a terror attack, authorities said. The Interior Ministry said the group was preparing an attack in La Maddalena, an island off Sardinia that had originally been selected to host the Group of Eight summit next month.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - The British authorities have agreed to release and deport Pakistan student, Tariq-ur-Rehman, who was arrested in the terror raids carried out on May 8. The Nation reports that Rehman is being released after British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, agreed to withdraw the charges of threat to the national security labeled against him.

April 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has asked the British government not to deport its citizens who were rounded up on suspicion of links with terrorists, but were later released, as the UK Police could not produce evidence against them. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said students had to undergo a harsh time behind bars and now it is up to the UK Government to compensate the students.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A lawyer for the three Pakistani men facing deportation after being arrested in anti-terror raids earlier this month says his clients will fight to stay on in Britain. Mohammed Ayub says the men are in Britain lawfully on student visas, are not extremists and have done nothing wrong.

April 22nd, 2009 Britain frees 12 terror suspects detained in raidsLONDON — British police released the last of 12 suspects rounded up in a series of dramatic anti-terror raids earlier this month, failing to charge any of the men, authorities said Wednesday. The news was an embarrassment for British authorities, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who claimed at the time of their arrests that police had disrupted "a very big terrorist plot" that had been monitored "for some time." The arrests were rushed in part because a police commissioner inadvertently exposed details of the operation to a photographer outside the prime minister's office.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The British Government has been accused of dishonourable behaviour after nine Pakistanis out of 11 arrested in Easter terror raids were released without any charge. The Government said it would not be prosecuting the nine, but still wanted to deport them, following their apprehension in Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire earlier this month, The Telegraph reported.

April 14th, 2009 LONDON - A search of the homes of 11 terror suspects has revealed the presence of bags of sugar - a common ingredient used for making home-made bombs. According to The Sun, sugar can be mixed with chemicals to create an explosive for use in bombs and grenades.

April 14th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan may not accept UK's decision to deport 12 Pakistani students, who were arrested on alleged charges of being involved in the Manchester terror plot. Pakistan High Commission sources have said that Pakistan would like first to be informed on what charges these Pakistanis were arrested, the Dawn reports.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - Britain might eventually deport most of the 12 alleged Pakistani terrorists who were arrested from across the country last week. According to Times Online, officials in London and Islamabad said Britain has asked for an assurance from Pakistan over the treatment the arrested men would receive after they are deported.