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Global terror

MI5 tracked group for a year

By Bob Sherwood and Stephen Fidler in London

Published: August 10 2006 22:30 | Last updated: August 10 2006 22:30

It was the biggest anti-terrorist surveillance operation ever mounted in the UK.

For more than a year, police and security service officers had tracked a “large group” of people they were convinced were plotting to blow up transatlantic aircraft in mid-flight.

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