Police quiz plane terror suspects

Anti-terrorist detectives are continuing to question 22 people arrested in connection with an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic passenger jets.

A total of 24 people were held following raids in London, High Wycombe, Bucks, and Birmingham, carried out by police in the early hours of Thursday.

On Friday night the Metropolitan Police said it had been granted warrants for the further detention of 22 of those suspects until Wednesday, August 16.

A hearing regarding the detention of another individual was adjourned until Monday and that person would remain in custody until then, a spokesman said.

Another of the people arrested in the terror raids has been released with no further action, Scotland Yard added.

Meanwhile, Thames Valley Police confirmed that they had raided three internet cafes and seized computer equipment in connection with the current anti-terror investigation.

Two premises in Slough and one in Reading were raided by Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday afternoon, a spokesman for Thames Valley Police said.

He added that no further raids had taken place and said that he could not go into detail about the nature of the equipment that was taken.

Earlier the extent of the Pakistan connection to the alleged airliner bomb plot was revealed after officials there announced the arrest of two British nationals and described one as a "key" suspect.

The Pakistani authorities identified Rashid Rauf as one of seven people held in Karachi and Lahore. Interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao claimed he had ties with al Qaida.