Nigeria, Sept. 29 -- Five men, initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, then arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act. Residents of 85 households in the Cotswolds village of Whelford evacuated to Cirencester leisure centre. A 400-metre area with three white vans cordoned off.

The same men, released within hours of being seized near the Royal Air Force Fairford base in Gloucestershire after it was found that the chemicals found in their vans were not deemed "viable" as explosives. All British nationals, aged 23 to 25, and London residents. Other details on background scrupulously omitted by the police, with Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) claiming that "multiple lines of inquiry" we...