Eight dudes got themselves arrested by the Metropolitan Police in two totally unrelated but supposedly “significant” terrorism investigations. In a wild operation on Saturday, the counter-terror squad nabbed five guys – four of whom are from Iran – as they swooped in on various spots around the country. All of them are currently chilling in police custody.
The Met spilled the beans that these arrests are all about a “suspected plot to target a specific joint.” In an update dropped shortly after midnight, the force spilled, “Officers have been chatting it up with the affected spot to give them a heads up and offer some advice and support, but sorry fam, we can’t drop any more info right now for some sneaky reasons.” Commander Dominic Murphy, who runs the show at the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, blabbed, “We got the squad out here, backed up by police and homies from all over, making arrests in two massive operations, all to keep the public safe from any threats. We got a whole army of officers and staff grinding on this investigation, determined to figure out what’s up and keep the public on lock.”
He wouldn’t spill the tea on whether the plot had anything to do with Israel, but he did call it “pretty major” and claimed “it’s not every day we go all out like this.” He also hit up the public to “hold off on the wild theories and the online chatter.” MI5 big boss Ken McCallum previously mentioned in October that his crew had shut down 20 “potentially deadly” Iran-backed schemes since 2022. He warned that there’s a chance Iran might step up its game in the UK.
Now, let me tell you about a dude named Kyle Warren from Rochdale who witnessed one of the arrests go down at a spot nearby. His kids were just chilling in the backyard when they bolted inside, screaming that some masked dude told them to bounce. Kyle got a little spooked, so he headed outside to check things out. He heard a loud bang and saw a bunch of cops with heat, yelling at everyone to get inside.
From his crib, he heard a ton of commotion and saw a guy getting yanked out of the back of the house, dragged down the alley, and tossed into the bushes before getting cuffed. Kyle counted about 20 to 30 cops with heat, which is pretty intense. He said it was all pretty shocking – like, who expects this kind of drama on their doorstep? His daughters were shook – never seen a piece in their lives, let alone 20 masked dudes with heat running around.
Kyle, who moved into his crib a year ago, admitted he never really saw anyone coming or going from that house and figured it was empty.
Alright, now the cops are out here searching a bunch of spots in Greater Manchester, London, and Swindon in connection with this whole ordeal. The peeps they nabbed are:
– A 29-year-old dude from the Swindon area
– A 46-year-old dude from west London
– A 29-year-old dude from the Stockport area
– A 40-year-old dude from the Rochdale area
– A dude whose age we ain’t sure about from the Manchester area
In a totally separate operation, the cops also scooped up three more Iranian dudes in London on Saturday as part of another counter-terror investigation. These suspects got hit with section 27 of the National Security Act 2023, which lets the cops arrest anyone they think is messing around with some foreign power threats.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper gave a shoutout to the cops and security services, calling these incidents “serious events that show we gotta stay on our toes when it comes to national security threats.” Last year, the government put the whole Iranian state, including its intel services, on blast with the new foreign influence registration scheme. Basically, if Iran asks you to do something shady for them, you better spill the beans or you’re looking at some serious time behind bars.
