2 arrested in UK for plotting to attack Olympics venue

June 29, 2012 10:51

Two Muslim converts have been arrested by the UK police in East London, on suspicion of plotting an attack on the London Olympics canoeing venue.

Sources claimed the arrests were based on a tip-off after the two men were seen behaving suspiciously close to the venue in Waltham Abbey, Hertfordshire on Monday.

According to The Telegraph, the two men, aged 18 and 32, were arrested at separate residential addresses in east London, by officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command and were detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

A friend of the arrested men named the 18-year-old as Jamal ud-Din and said the older man was someone he knew only as "Zakariya."

Mizanur Rahman, 29, said the arrests "might have had something to do with the fact that they recently went canoeing" on the River Lea, a branch of which runs through the Olympics site in east London.

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