Police get more time to quiz suspects
13 April 2012
Anti-terrorist detectives have been given another week to question nine men being held in connection with a plot to bomb Heathrow Airport.
The men, held in raids across Britain last Tuesday, are said to include a senior member of al Qaeda.
The British raids, described by security service sources as "highly significant", followed the arrest of a suspected al Qaeda computer expert in Pakistan. The nine men were among an original 13 held by police in swoops on homes in Willesden, Paddington, Bushey, Luton and Blackburn.
- Porter Goss, head of the US House of Representatives intelligence committee, has been chosen as director of the CIA by President George Bush. He replaces George Tenet.
