British police grill Pakistanis in terror plot probe

British anti-terror police were scouring homes and interrogating 11 Pakistanis on Friday over what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a “major terrorist plot”. Police swooped ahead of the Easter holiday long weekend at several addresses in northwest England, arresting 12 men, among them 11 Pakistani nationals and 10 men who are in Britain student visas. The BBC, citing sources, said that during the searches photographs had been found of two major shopping complexes, a

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