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Officers holding 14 men arrested in anti-terror raids in London have been given more time to question them. | Officers holding 14 men arrested in anti-terror raids in London have been given more time to question them. |
Warrants were granted to detain three suspects until Wednesday and the other 11 until Friday. | Warrants were granted to detain three suspects until Wednesday and the other 11 until Friday. |
Twelve of the arrests - on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism - were at a south London Chinese restaurant. | |
Police are searching a Sussex Islamic school and 17 residential properties across London as part of the inquiry. | Police are searching a Sussex Islamic school and 17 residential properties across London as part of the inquiry. |
Scotland Yard have said the arrests were not connected to the alleged transatlantic jet bomb plot or the 7 July attacks. | Scotland Yard have said the arrests were not connected to the alleged transatlantic jet bomb plot or the 7 July attacks. |
Restaurant raided | |
The men are being held at London's high-security Paddington Green police station. | |
Sussex Police said searches at the Jameah Islameah Islamic school in Mark Cross, near Crowborough, could take weeks but said no arrests had been made there. | |
The restaurant raided was the halal The Bridge to China Town, in Borough. | |
In a separate operation at the weekend two men were arrested in anti-terror raids in Manchester. | |
The pair were detained under the Terrorism Act and three addresses in the Cheetham Hill area were searched. |