The latest on some of the six arrested in the UK last month and believed connected to the 17 arrested in the Toronto area on 2 June in an alleged terrorist plot:

Schoolboy faces terror charges

A schoolboy appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with involvement in a terrorist plot.

The 16-year-old boy and two men, Aabid Hussein Khan and Sultan Muhammad, both 21, heard the charges via video link from Belmarsh prison, southeast London, and Feltham Young Offender Institution, West London.

All three are accused of conspiracy to murder a person or persons unknown between March 1 last year and June 7 this year, and conspiracy to cause public nuisance by use of poisons and/or explosives and to cause disruption, fear or injury, under the Criminal Law Act, 1977.

Mr Khan (about whom more here and here) is also charged with offences under Britain’s Terrorism Act 2000.  Information found on his computer hard drive and on a CD in his possession was allegedly to be used for “commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism”.

Two of the three were arrested on 6 June.  The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was picked up in West Yorkshire, while Mr Khan was detained as he disembarked at Manchester airport.  On 14 June, those two were formally charged with conspiracy to commit murder.  The third, Sultan Mohammed, is presumably one of the four picked up on the streets of London on 19 and 20 June.

The three have been remanded and are scheduled to appear in court next on 28 July.

A BBC report on the four London arrests said that those taken into custody were possibly linked to “an alleged al-Qaeda cell in Canada”.  Once again, The Times of London fails to mention that little tidbit, or any other information on possible links among those arrested in the UK and Canada.