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| A blunder by the UK's most senior counter-terror officer did not damage an operation to thwart a suspected bomb plot, Jacqui Smith has said. | |
| The home secretary told MPs the only impact had been that raids had been brought forward "by a matter of hours". | The home secretary told MPs the only impact had been that raids had been brought forward "by a matter of hours". |
| Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick quit on 9 April after accidentally revealing operational details to photographers. | |
| Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling called the incident another "chapter of chaos" in the Home Office. | |
| Twelve men were arrested in raids in Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire on 8 April as part of the operation. | |
| Last week officers were given more time to question 11 of those men, 10 of whom are Pakistan nationals. The other is from Britain. | |
| An 18-year-old has been released into the custody of the UK Borders Agency. | |
| In a statement to the House of Commons, Ms Smith told MPs the operation had not been jeopardised by Mr Quick's act of accidently revealing a secret document when arriving at a Downing Street briefing. | |
| "The fact that these papers were inadvertently made public did not make any difference to the decision to carry out arrests - it simply changed the timing by a matter of hours," she said. |