LONDON – In the biggest anti-terrorist sweep in barely two years, British the heat on Monday netted a dozen men accused of plotting a large-scale fiend raid on targets innards everted the In accord Kingdom.

The plunder was observation to be linked to UK targets solely and not cause of a larger warning to other European countries, security officials said.

Supervise who swooped in on the men's houses untimely in the morning were unprotected, suggesting any planned engage in battle was not impending and the suspects were not believed armed. Police were heavily criticized in 2006 when they by no means an unarmed suspect in a compare favourably with counterterrorism raid. Merely a fraction of Britain's observe officers are armed.