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==Investigation and arrests==
[[Image:New scotland yard.jpg|thumb|150px|Scotland Yard in London]]
Police said they had been observing this plot for months, and that the "investigation reached a critical point [on [[August 9]], [[2006]]] when the decision was made to take urgent action in order to disrupt what we believe was being planned."<ref name="BBC-statements"/> An undercover British agent had previously infiltrated the group, according to American government sources.<ref name="CNN">{{cite web|author=CNN.com|title=Agent infiltrated terror cell, U.S. says|publisher=CNN|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/08/10/us.security/index.html}}</ref> U.S. sources stated that suspects received a coded message which advised, "Do your attacks now,". [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/12/terror.plot/index.html]
Twenty-four people were arrested, 22 of them of Pakistani and one each of Iranian and Bangladeshi descent.<ref name ="spiegel-origin">{{cite web|author=Der Spiegel|title=Terroralarm in London|publisher=Der Spiegel|accessdate=August 11|accessyear=2006|url=http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,431153,00.html}}</ref> One of the twenty-four has been released without charge.<ref name ="BBC-threatlevel">{{cite web|author=BBC News|title= UK threat level remains critical|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=August 11|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4783141.stm}}</ref> The [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] (DHS) believes that there could have been as many as 50 people involved.<ref name name="CNN-TV">CNN (US TV)</ref> Arrests were made in [[London]], [[Birmingham]], and [[High Wycombe]] in Buckinghamshire in an overnight operation. Two of the arrests were made in the Birmingham area, where firearms officers were not involved, and four were made in [[High Wycombe]].<ref name ="BBC-suspects">{{cite web|author=BBC News|title=Night-time swoops on suspects|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4779539.stm}}</ref> The [[BBC]] has reported that the key suspects involved in the plot are British born,<ref name="BBC-disrupted"/> and that three of the suspects are recent [[Religious conversion|converts]] to Islam.<ref name="TIME-converts">{{cite web|author=Jumana Farouky, TIME Magazine|title=Profiling the Suspects: Converts to Islam|publisher=BBC|accessdate=August 11|accessyear=2006|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1225687,00.html}}</ref><ref name ="BBC-suspects2">{{cite web|author=BBC News|title=Who are the terror plot suspects?|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=August 11|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4783215.stm}}</ref> Nasir Ahmed, a member of the [[House of Lords]], said that he had been told by the police that 21 of those arrested were British [[Muslim]]s.<ref>{{cite web|author=''[[The New York Times]]''|title=British Authorities Say Plot to Blow Up Airliners Was Foiled|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/world/europe/11terrorcnd.html?hp&ex=1155268800&en=13f881599701f2d5&ei=5094&partner=homepage}}</ref> Other sources, citing [[Nicolas Sarkozy]], say most of them were Pakistani citizens.<ref name ="spiegel-origin"> According to [[ABC News]], two arrests in [[Pakistan]] may have significantly increased the pace of the investigation.<ref name ="ABC News">{{cite web|author=ABC News|title=The Anatomy of a Foiled Plot in London|publisher=ABC News|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/the_anatomy_of_.html}}</ref> (These claims are not necessarily contradictory; it is possible to be [[Multiple citizenship|both]].) In a press conference, British [[Home Secretary]] [[John Reid (UK politician)|John Reid]] stated that he believed the key suspects in the plot are in custody but does not rule out additional arrests.<ref>{{cite web|author=BBC.com|title= Police probe flights terror plot|publisher=BBC|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4780815.stm}}</ref> British police are searching for five additional suspects.<ref name ="BBC-assets">{{cite web|author=BBC News|title=Assets of terror suspects frozen|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=August 11|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4782347.stm}}</ref>
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