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Kudos to MI5 for rolling up Operation Pathway before anything happened. 11 Pakistani citizens in the UK on student visas and one other guy all arrested in Merseyside, Manchester and Lancashire over Easter weekend.

From Stratfor.com:

According to press reports, the British MI5 surveillance teams assigned to monitor the activities of the purported plotters observed some of them videotaping themselves outside of the Arndale and Trafford shopping centers in Manchester, as well as at St. Ann’s Square, which lies in the center of Manchester’s main shopping district. Other reports suggest that the plotters had also conducted surveillance of Manchester’s Piccadilly train station, an intercity train station that is one of the busiest in the United Kingdom outside London, and Manchester’s Birdcage nightclub.

Not sure that I welcome the move from airplanes to shopping malls, but hey, if this change comes across the pond to us, at least your average joe will get a chance to shoot back.