5 men arrested on suspicion of terror near the sellafield nuclear plant...

[stokemaveric]

here we go.... Five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences at Sellafield nuclear power station

[MrMister]

Hmm...talk about "good" timing ?

Smell a little conspiracy in itself regarding the timing ...

[stokemaveric]

i guess it is steve...my guess is the police/security services will be a little jumpy....

[DTCwordfan]

well its good that they have been nailed, especially if they were up to no good.

[VHG]

>>>suspicion of terror

Well they were actually only taking pictures.

But who knows what they may have been planning.....

[MrMister]

Well if they had big beards and taking photos then that would be dodgy even though they could be still completely innocent....

[anotheoldgit]

Don't be scared to post the link even if it is from the Daily Mail.

It needed something like this for the authorities to sit up and take notice, of the enemy within, more power to their elbow.

Call it scare tactics if you must, but it is for the benefit of all of us.

[anotheoldgit]

The link
http://tinyurl.com/6l5ajl8

[what..the?]

I think the fact it was a group of young men (no women or family) and from london they don't sound like tourists why would they travel that far to visit there??

[rov1100]

Doesn't it make sense that if only 10% of the population in Pakistan side with the likes of Bin Laden then compared with Britain of the 2m Pakistan immigrants and their children then at least 200,000 will also have similar allegiances.

There must be a case for prohibiting any more immigrants from Pakistan or we could end up in the same situation as that divided country.

[MrMister]

The arrested were Brit Asian of Bangladeshi origin

[bookbinder]

It's better to arrest someone who turns out to be innocent, than to ignore someone who turns out to be not so innocent.

[AB Editor]

Link?

[rov1100]

MrMister is there a great deal of difference?

Bangladesh-Pakistan relations. Bangladesh had won its independence from Pakistan after waging the War of Liberation in 1971

[MrMister]

rov1100 - I'm not trying to prove you wrong in anyway.

I suppose if you want to call a "Bangladeshi" a "Pakistani" in this day and age is up to you matey...

[Snafu03]

nationalities make no difference. This is a war of ideologies. Being British born and bred makes no difference, allegiance is everything.

This is why western governments really need to wake up and take a close look at how to fight this war in terms of who we have living here, who we're letting in, the freedom of travel backwards and fowards between countries notorious for harbouring anti-west sentiments.

[what..the?]

Quote yahoo news: A police source said the men appeared to be "acting suspiciously near the perimeter of Sellafield" but refused to disclose further details.

[sp1814]

rov1100

I think the point that's being made is that your figures are based on the population of Pakistan, rather than Bangladesh.

Do you have figures to support your argument with regards to Bangladeshi support of Bin Laden?

Also, I would argue that you cannot extrapolate your figures with regards to support. If you think about the reasons why a family choose to emigrate, I suspect you'd find far fewer supporters of hard line extremism in the west, than you would in Pakistan (or even Bangladesh).

Just a thought.

[Answerprancer]

*A* link, you mean AOG (as opposed to *the* link).