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Sat Feb 3 -

Birmingham UK:
SPY PLANE SEARCH - two
terrorist suspects still at large -

Flying above Birmingham...

*The aircraft can monitor computer and mobile telephone communications and long wave radios. The "spotter planes" are used to trace missing persons, escaped criminals and stolen cars and also for intelligence gathering. Other flights over the city were restricted to allow the plane access.*

Police have removed several bags full of computer equipment from the Blade internet cafe on Stratford Rd.

The police "handed out 5,000 leaflets, translated into Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali and Urdu, in an attempt to keep a lid on simmering anxieties."
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Dr Mohammed Naseem, chairman of Birmingham Central mosque, will address a public rally [Saturday] afternoon. Several thousand people are expected to attend.

*Mr Naseem will share a stage with, among others, Moazzem Begg, the ex-teacher who spent three years in Guantanamo Bay and who has links with one of the bookshops raided this week.*
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*U.S. authorities, who have been briefed about the kidnap plot in the West Midlands, have expressed their concerns about the "human pipeline" that arranges for young British militants to travel to Pakistan for training at terrorist camps.

Officials in Washington recently claimed to have identified another group of nine young Britons being schooled at one camp on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan whom they dubbed "the English brothers".*

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