British police said on Saturday they had arrested 16 men in two separate anti-terrorism operations just three weeks after uncovering a suspected plot to bring down U.S.-bound airliners over the Atlantic. Fourteen of the men were held in London in an operation that a police source said focused on suspected "training, recruitment and encouraging others to take part in terrorist activity". Anti-terrorist police in Manchester, north-western England arrested two men early on Saturday and were carrying out three searches but this was not linked to the London arrests, police there was quoted as saying by CNN. The arrests in London came Friday and Saturday in anti-terrorism raids in south and east London during a "pre -planned intelligence-led operation," a statement from Scotland Yard said.
