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Five people suspected of terrorist offences are being questioned by police today in connection with an alleged plot to target the G20 summit.
Three men and two women have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Plymouth over the last three days after officers uncovered a cache of weapons and suspected extremist material during a house search.
They are being questioned over claims they planned to target the meeting of the world's most powerful political leaders in London later this week.
The five were held after officers found weapons, imitation weapons, suspicious devices and 'material relating to political ideology' during a house search, a police spokesman said.
The arrests will heighten tensions ahead of this week's summit in London.
A massive police operation is in place to protect the world leaders, including President Obama who is due to arrive in the capital tomorrow.
The alleged plot was uncovered after officers conducted a series of raids following the arrest of a 25-year-old man on suspicion of criminal damage on Friday evening.
As police searched his home they found the weapons and suspected extremist material.
Several suspicious devices were also seized and sent for detailed forensic examination.
Three people at the property were arrested for drugs offences. Further investigations led police to a 19-year-old man who was arrested yesterday
All five have now been detained under the Terrorism Act.
The men, aged 25, 19 and 16, and two women, both aged 20, who all live in Plymouth, remain in custody, a police spokesman said.
Scotland Yard officers are liaising with investigators in south-west England over the suspected plot.
One source said the group are political activists who may have aspired to disrupt the G20 summit but not to injure or kill.
It is understood search teams have found a small number of suspicious devices that indicate any action would have been on a small scale.
The devices found have been sent for further forensic examination and police have not ruled out further searches as the net widens.
Police said the investigation is not linked to any particular religious group and centres around 'political activity involving British nationals'.
Scotland Yard has issued warnings that protesters are planning to bring the City of London to a standstill with high-profile protests.
The G20 summit, to be held at the Excel arena in London's Docklands, has been described by senior officers as the capital's most challenging police operation for a decade.
Several thousand officers will be on duty when the leaders of the world's 20 richest countries, including US President Barack Obama, descend on the capital.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'We would stress that the investigation is at a very early stage and that speculation regarding the capability, intention or motivation of those arrested is unhelpful.
'At the current time we have no information to suggest a change to the threat picture facing either the demonstrations or G20.
'The Metropolitan Police has said that we are seeing an unprecedented level of activity amongst protest groups not seen since the late 1990s, involving some individuals we have not seen on the protest circuit for some time.
'However, while these individuals are talking about what they would like to happen, we are unsure of how much of this is achievable or simply aspiration.'
A police source said: 'Three men and two women are being held. Items have been seized which would come under the Explosives Act rather than bomb-making equipment.
'It would seem they were in possession of material which would not have the potential for causing injury so much as disruption.'
London is bracing itself for demonstrations ahead of the summit.
Residents who live near the Excel Centre, where Gordon Brown, President Obama and other leaders are meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, have been told they must carry two forms of ID, including one with a photo, to ensure they can pass roadblocks.
Scotland Yard said it regretted having to introduce the measure, but it was needed to ensure public safety at the east London site.
Thousands of activists from across Europe are today travelling to London in a bid to disrupt the meeting of world leaders.
Police fear hardcore activists from Italy, France and Germany who are intent on causing chaos are converging on the capital via Eurostar or coach.
Riot precautions are already underway as hotels and businesses in much of central London board-up their premises in case anarchists target symbols of wealth.
Red phone boxes have been removed and rubble cleared from building sites.
A massive security operation is also in progress to protect Mr Obama on his first visit to Britain as president.
An unprecented entourage numbering more than 500 people is to accompany the American leader when he arrives in London on Tuesday, to ensure his safety, and his ability to operate as head of state 3,000 miles from the White House.
Such a group has rarely surrounded a foreign leader on a visit to these shores since the days of the Roman emperors.
Security is an acute concern for Mr Obama's advisers as he arrives for the G20 conference.
A repeat of the relaxed scenes for the G8 summit in Birmingham in 1998 when the then-President BillClinton shared a bowl of chips with local pub-goers during an impromptu walkabout appears out of the question.
Assassination attempts are feared possible not only from Al Qaeda, and its Britain-based supporters, but also from extreme racists enraged by the election of a black president.
As a result, 200 of the U.S. state employees accompanying the president will be members of the secret service, prepared at all times to take a bullet to save Obama's life.
The president is due to fly in to Stansted airport in Essex on Tuesday in his official jet, Air Force One - which boasts technology to protect its communication systems from nuclear fallout and radiation, as well as a gym to keep the president fit.
A helicopter, Marine One, will then fly Obama to London - possibly amid decoy helicopters to confuse assailants - where he is staying at the U.S. Ambassador's fortified residence at Regent's Park in North London.
When travelling around London, the new president will be encased inside Cadillac One, his heavily fortified official car, complete with bullet-proof windows, night vision cameras, and pump action shotguns in case of emergency.
And surrounding him at all times, as unobtrusively as possible, will be his mini-army of secret service agents, sporting Ray Ban sunglasses, and communicating with each other by shirt-cuff radios and earpieces.
If the worst were to happen - along with previous successful assassinations of presidents there was a failed attack on Ronald Reagan in Washington DC in 1981 which left a press secretary paralysed by a gunshot - a White House medical team is on hand, too.
Rather than being entrusted to the National Health Service, Obama would be cared for a specially picked unit of surgeons and nurses, carrying them with supplies of type AB blood.
A total of almost 300 officials from state departments will also be on hand, to ensure the president can, from London, cope with any sudden crisis.
But two individuals among the group are perhaps more significant than any others. One is an unnamed military officer carrying the codes necessary to launch a nuclear missile attack.
The other is Obama's personal aide Reggie Love, who often starts the day by exercising with the president and ends it watching sports matches with him, in between operating the president's BlackBerry and handing him chunks of nicotine gum.
He will also be handing the president the basketball he will require for his daily game on the ambassador's court.
First Lady Michelle Obama will also have her own team of eight staff, including a press officer, a secretary, and her own detachment of bodyguards.
One US government source said: 'When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats.
'America is still the sole superpower and the president must have the ability to handle any crisis, anywhere, any time.'
To guarantee the president's trip runs smoothly and safely, security officers have already made three reconnaissance trips to Britain, with special sweeps for electronic bugs and lethal bacteria at key locations last week.
Assuming all has gone to plan, Obama is due to leave early on Thursday or late on Friday - accompanied by his massive team.
Five arrested in G20 'bomb plot' as London goes into lockdown for world leaders | Mail Online
Three men and two women have been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Plymouth over the last three days after officers uncovered a cache of weapons and suspected extremist material during a house search.
They are being questioned over claims they planned to target the meeting of the world's most powerful political leaders in London later this week.
The five were held after officers found weapons, imitation weapons, suspicious devices and 'material relating to political ideology' during a house search, a police spokesman said.
The arrests will heighten tensions ahead of this week's summit in London.
A massive police operation is in place to protect the world leaders, including President Obama who is due to arrive in the capital tomorrow.
The alleged plot was uncovered after officers conducted a series of raids following the arrest of a 25-year-old man on suspicion of criminal damage on Friday evening.
As police searched his home they found the weapons and suspected extremist material.
Several suspicious devices were also seized and sent for detailed forensic examination.
Three people at the property were arrested for drugs offences. Further investigations led police to a 19-year-old man who was arrested yesterday
All five have now been detained under the Terrorism Act.
The men, aged 25, 19 and 16, and two women, both aged 20, who all live in Plymouth, remain in custody, a police spokesman said.
Scotland Yard officers are liaising with investigators in south-west England over the suspected plot.
One source said the group are political activists who may have aspired to disrupt the G20 summit but not to injure or kill.
It is understood search teams have found a small number of suspicious devices that indicate any action would have been on a small scale.
The devices found have been sent for further forensic examination and police have not ruled out further searches as the net widens.
Police said the investigation is not linked to any particular religious group and centres around 'political activity involving British nationals'.
Scotland Yard has issued warnings that protesters are planning to bring the City of London to a standstill with high-profile protests.
The G20 summit, to be held at the Excel arena in London's Docklands, has been described by senior officers as the capital's most challenging police operation for a decade.
Several thousand officers will be on duty when the leaders of the world's 20 richest countries, including US President Barack Obama, descend on the capital.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'We would stress that the investigation is at a very early stage and that speculation regarding the capability, intention or motivation of those arrested is unhelpful.
'At the current time we have no information to suggest a change to the threat picture facing either the demonstrations or G20.
'The Metropolitan Police has said that we are seeing an unprecedented level of activity amongst protest groups not seen since the late 1990s, involving some individuals we have not seen on the protest circuit for some time.
'However, while these individuals are talking about what they would like to happen, we are unsure of how much of this is achievable or simply aspiration.'
A police source said: 'Three men and two women are being held. Items have been seized which would come under the Explosives Act rather than bomb-making equipment.
'It would seem they were in possession of material which would not have the potential for causing injury so much as disruption.'
London is bracing itself for demonstrations ahead of the summit.
Residents who live near the Excel Centre, where Gordon Brown, President Obama and other leaders are meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, have been told they must carry two forms of ID, including one with a photo, to ensure they can pass roadblocks.
Scotland Yard said it regretted having to introduce the measure, but it was needed to ensure public safety at the east London site.
Thousands of activists from across Europe are today travelling to London in a bid to disrupt the meeting of world leaders.
Police fear hardcore activists from Italy, France and Germany who are intent on causing chaos are converging on the capital via Eurostar or coach.
Riot precautions are already underway as hotels and businesses in much of central London board-up their premises in case anarchists target symbols of wealth.
Red phone boxes have been removed and rubble cleared from building sites.
A massive security operation is also in progress to protect Mr Obama on his first visit to Britain as president.
An unprecented entourage numbering more than 500 people is to accompany the American leader when he arrives in London on Tuesday, to ensure his safety, and his ability to operate as head of state 3,000 miles from the White House.
Such a group has rarely surrounded a foreign leader on a visit to these shores since the days of the Roman emperors.
Security is an acute concern for Mr Obama's advisers as he arrives for the G20 conference.
A repeat of the relaxed scenes for the G8 summit in Birmingham in 1998 when the then-President BillClinton shared a bowl of chips with local pub-goers during an impromptu walkabout appears out of the question.
Assassination attempts are feared possible not only from Al Qaeda, and its Britain-based supporters, but also from extreme racists enraged by the election of a black president.
As a result, 200 of the U.S. state employees accompanying the president will be members of the secret service, prepared at all times to take a bullet to save Obama's life.
The president is due to fly in to Stansted airport in Essex on Tuesday in his official jet, Air Force One - which boasts technology to protect its communication systems from nuclear fallout and radiation, as well as a gym to keep the president fit.
A helicopter, Marine One, will then fly Obama to London - possibly amid decoy helicopters to confuse assailants - where he is staying at the U.S. Ambassador's fortified residence at Regent's Park in North London.
When travelling around London, the new president will be encased inside Cadillac One, his heavily fortified official car, complete with bullet-proof windows, night vision cameras, and pump action shotguns in case of emergency.
And surrounding him at all times, as unobtrusively as possible, will be his mini-army of secret service agents, sporting Ray Ban sunglasses, and communicating with each other by shirt-cuff radios and earpieces.
If the worst were to happen - along with previous successful assassinations of presidents there was a failed attack on Ronald Reagan in Washington DC in 1981 which left a press secretary paralysed by a gunshot - a White House medical team is on hand, too.
Rather than being entrusted to the National Health Service, Obama would be cared for a specially picked unit of surgeons and nurses, carrying them with supplies of type AB blood.
A total of almost 300 officials from state departments will also be on hand, to ensure the president can, from London, cope with any sudden crisis.
But two individuals among the group are perhaps more significant than any others. One is an unnamed military officer carrying the codes necessary to launch a nuclear missile attack.
The other is Obama's personal aide Reggie Love, who often starts the day by exercising with the president and ends it watching sports matches with him, in between operating the president's BlackBerry and handing him chunks of nicotine gum.
He will also be handing the president the basketball he will require for his daily game on the ambassador's court.
First Lady Michelle Obama will also have her own team of eight staff, including a press officer, a secretary, and her own detachment of bodyguards.
One US government source said: 'When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats.
'America is still the sole superpower and the president must have the ability to handle any crisis, anywhere, any time.'
To guarantee the president's trip runs smoothly and safely, security officers have already made three reconnaissance trips to Britain, with special sweeps for electronic bugs and lethal bacteria at key locations last week.
Assuming all has gone to plan, Obama is due to leave early on Thursday or late on Friday - accompanied by his massive team.
Five arrested in G20 'bomb plot' as London goes into lockdown for world leaders | Mail Online
