Globe and Mail : Britain frees two suspects in alleged air-terror plot

Britain frees two suspects in alleged air-terror plot

Reuters | August 24, 2006

London -- British police investigating a suspected plot to blow up transatlantic airliners freed two suspects yesterday and obtained permission to continue questioning nine others.

Police did not name the men they freed, but Sky News reported that one was Tayib Rauf of Birmingham. His brother, Rashid Rauf, has been arrested in Pakistan, where authorities called him a ringleader of the plot.

Police later said they had obtained a judge's permission to continue questioning eight other suspects for another week, and one for just 24 more hours.

Reuters