A senior al Qaeda figure planning to attack London’s Heathrow airport was among 12 terrorism suspects arrested in Britain two days ago, newspapers reported on Thursday. None of the reports quoted a named source and all differed in details, but most linked the arrests with recent swoops in Pakistan and this week’s alert in New York and Washington. If true, that could help persuade skeptics in the United States who have questioned the justification for their alert, which led to some of the most disruptive security measures since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Full Story
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