They must have some serious evidence on these guys to raid a restaurant with more than 50 officers (Update: 50 officers in riot gear), it would seem. Two more suspects were arrested in their homes during simultaneous raids of south, east, and north London addresses. All are being held for the "alleged recruitment, training and encouraging of people to take part in terrorist acts."
Mary Katherine Ham has a round up of coverage at Townhall.
Updates to come.
Update: Yes, it was a Chinese restaurant, along with a Muslim school. But the restaurant arrest involved customers in Islamic dress.
An Islamic school is being searched as part of an anti-terror operation which saw armed police raid a packed restaurant and arrest a group of customers.
Scotland Yard said officers are scouring Jameah Islameah, an independent school for Muslim boys aged 11 to 16 in Mark Cross, Crowborough, east Sussex, but no arrests have been made.
Mehdi Belyani, 40, the owner and manager of the restaurant in Borough Road, said a group of around 15 men and two small boys had come in for dinner last night.
He said they were aged between 25 and 35, some were wearing Islamic dress and they were talking quietly and acting normally while they ate.
Mr Belyani, who is of Iranian origin, said more than 50 police officers later burst in and the men were questioned while other customers were kept inside.
"The police stayed for more than two hours talking to the group one by one," he said.
Team Building For Terrorists? Great. More on the raid.
Police said in February they had uncovered evidence of such camps while other reports have spoken of militants going for adventure training to forge closer ties.
Two of the four Muslim suicide bombers who killed 52 people on London transport in July last year are believed to have gone on a team-building white-water rafting holiday in Wales weeks before the attacks.
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