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Terror trial is told Blairs could have been targets [Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland)](Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A BRITON accused of plotting a terror attack may have targeted former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, jurors in a partly-secret terror trial have been told. Erol Incedal, 26, from London, may also have been looking at a "Mumbai-style" atrocity with the use of a Kalashnikov rifle, according to coded messages found on his computer, the Old Bailey heard. The alleged plot was scuppered after police stopped Incedal's car for a motoring offence and planted a bugging device which then picked up chatter about "bin Laden, fatwa, Syria and jihad". Incedal, formerly known in the case as AB, denies charges of preparing acts of terrorism and possessing a document entitled Bomb Making on a memory card. Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the court: "You will hear that he was actively engaged with another or others who were abroad. "The prosecution case is that such engagement was for an act, or acts, of terrorism against a limited number of individuals of significance or a more wide-ranging and indiscriminate attack, such as the one in Mumbai in 2008." When police first stopped Incedal's black Mercedes on September 30 2013, they found an Acer laptop computer, a notebook and a Versace glasses case. The case contained a scrap of paper which had the Blairs' address written on it. Meanwhile, six people have been arrested on suspicion of Syria- related terrorism offences. Three men and three women were detained following police raids at four addresses in Portsmouth and Farnborough in Hampshire, and Greenwich, south east London, a Thames Valley Police spokesperson said. Two men, aged 23 and 26, from Portsmouth, and two women, aged 23 and 29, from Farnborough and Greenwich respectively, were held on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. A 57-year-old man from Portsmouth was arrested on suspicion of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism, engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts and arranging availability of money and property for terrorism use. A 48-year-old woman from Portsmouth has also been detained on suspicion of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism. (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |