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Reuters

Four men charged yesterday over an alleged terror plot had scoped out a police station and army barracks in London, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and obtained a handgun and ammunition, police claimed.
The four, all dressed in grey sweatshirts, were brought to court under heavy security as a helicopter flew overhead. They appeared in the dock flanked by 10 officers, most of whom wore stab-proof vests.
Scotland Yard said the four, one of whom was tasered during his arrest this month, had conducted "hostile reconnaissance" of a police station and an army reservist barracks in west London.
Police said earlier they had disrupted a "significant" Islamist-linked plot, although friends of some of the suspects have protested their innocence.
The men, all from London, are Nyall Hamlett, 24; Tarik Hassane, 21; Suhaib Majeed, 20; and 21-year-old Momen Motasim.
The judge at Westminster Magistrates Court in London adjourned yesterday's proceedings to allow them to see defence lawyers.
Details of the charges included taking "an oath of allegiance to the group IS", listed as a banned organisation.
Others are deciding to act on a fatwa, or religious edict, by Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani and having "extremist jihadi material" in their possession.
A fifth man, Nathan Cuffy, 25, also from London, was charged with a firearms offence.
Britain estimates there are around 500 British jihadists on the side of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and has warned of potential attacks by radicalised fighters when they return home.
The country's top counterterrorism officer said yesterday police were carrying out security investigations at an "exceptionally high" pace not seen in years to disrupt potentially deadly plots directed from abroad, notably Syria.
Mark Rowley, the national policing spokesman for counterterrorism, said police had made 218 arrests this year, while dozens of vulnerable people were also being referred to de-radicalisation programmes.
 

New Islamic State video featuring British photographer John Cantlie
Islamic State has released the fourth instalment of a series of propaganda videos featuring a British photographer, John Cantlie, whom the group has held prisoner for nearly two years.
Like the previous videos in the series, the latest one appears to have been recorded several weeks ago. Cantlie cites no recent news events in the current instalment.
Quotes from academics he offered to bolster the idea that Western governments were embarking on an endless war they could not win came from articles published in late August and early September.
The previous video, posted on Sunday, also seemed to suggest that it had been filmed some weeks ago.
A comparison of the four published videos in the series shows Cantlie with his beard and hair about the same length.
A fifth video, in which Cantlie had announced that he would appear in a seven-video series, appears to have been shot at a different time. It was posted online on September 18.
Associated Press


Four men appear in court to face London terror plot charges

A police officer stands outside a house in Portsmouth, southern England. British police arrested three men and three women on Tuesday in a counter-terrorism operation linked to the civil war in Syria. Photo: Reuters

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Four men charged yesterday over an alleged terror plot had scoped out a police station and army barracks in London, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and obtained a handgun and ammunition, police claimed.
