Who Won? U.K. Terror Probe; Muslim Anger; Roots of Terror
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Check my passport. Check my hunter pass, check what you want. Don't associate me to terrorism later on because I don't welcome you to do that. You can't go around knocking on other people's houses, smashes their doors down, you know, causing friction, upsetting people's families.</s>CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CO-ANCHOR: A Muslim man here in London reacting to the stepped-up security effort, and more on the Muslim outrage coming up. But first, after several days of near silence, British authorities have announced their first arrest since they detained suspects last Thursday for allegedly plotting to blow up U.S.-bound flights over the Atlantic. CNN's Dan Rivers has more now on the ongoing terror investigation here in the U.K.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Move away please. Walk away.</s>DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A terror alert in the heart of London, right in front of police headquarters, Scotland Yard. A suspect package found and several roads currently sealed off. It turned out to be a false alarm. But the incident highlights ongoing jitters in the British capital. The false alarm came as police in High Wickham (ph), were arresting another suspect in the alleged airline plot. Although a British government source told CNN investigators do not view this latest arrest as a major person in the plot. And a shop owner gave news organizations this security video of one of the suspects, Tiev Raouf (ph), just hours before his arrest last Thursday. Friends of the Raof (ph) family say the video shows Raof's (ph) demeanor was normal as he sold products for his father's confectionary business.</s>ABID HUSSEIN, FAMILY FRIEND: Well, it shows Raof (ph) coming in at nighttime doing his normal business day in and day out. And as you might have seen, it's on the camera. So he's a very down to earth person. Very nice. He's not the sort of person that's going to go and blow himself up, you know, at 2:00 in the morning</s>RIVERS: Police are continuing their searches at several locations in east London, seizing guns, computer hard drives and household chemicals. (</s>On camera): A British government source with a detailed knowledge of this investigation says the government is confident of a successful prosecution. He says while investigators haven't found any bombs, per se, they have found plenty of evidence to present to court, including unusual quantities of household chemicals and conversations recorded on audio and video. (</s>Voice-over): And British authorities say they are anxious to talk to suspect Rasheed Raof (ph), a man British security sources described as first among equals. He's currently detained in Pakistan. And the British government wants him extradited. Pakistan says it's waiting for a formal request.</s>TASNIM ASLAM, PAKISTAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN: Rasheed Raof (ph) is a British national. We do not have any extradition treaty at the moment. But, yes, because he is a British national, the possibility of his extradition -- we have not received any request for extradition. So it would be hypothetical at this stage.</s>RIVERS: Insiders say this is the biggest operation the security service, MI5, has ever undertaken with officers still engaged in watching dozens of other suspected terror cells across Britain. The message? It's not over yet.</s>AMANPOUR: And Dan joins me now. In the U.S., we've been reporting this terror has been politicized. Has it here yet?</s>RIVERS: Absolutely, today. The main opposition party, the Conservative's Leader David Cameron has come out and said he doesn't think enough is being done by the government to tackle Islamic extremism. That has been met with a fierce response by the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who described his comments as almost beyond belief. And people I've talked to in the home office today are incandescent with anger at the conservatives. There is a long-running rule really, that there is unity between all the political parties on the terrorism issue and today that unity is broken down.</s>AMANPOUR: For the first time.</s>RIVERS: Yes.</s>AMANPOUR: Dan, thank you very much. And as Britain reels from the fallout of the alleged terror plot, some British leaders are at odds over how to combat extremism in Muslim circles. As Dan has just said, and CNN's Jason Carroll has more on that.</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To get to the source of the anger in London's young Muslim community, we asked an expert who was active in the community. Ashgar Bukhari says you need to look outside mainstream mosques to the streets. There, he says, you often hear talk of what he believes is the number one cause fueling extremism among young Muslims here. What the U.S. and Britain are doing in the Middle East. Many Muslims believe it is anti-Islam.</s>ASHGAR BUKHARI, MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: That foreign policy made our young children, our sons, our daughters radicals. That wasn't our foreign policy. We didn't have any say in that.</s>CARROLL: Bukhari supports nonviolent change. But not far from where we were talking, a small group gathered.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm quite sick of it basically, the media and --</s>CARROLL: What are you sick of?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well blaming the Muslims for everything that happens in the world.</s>CARROLL: The most outspoken in the group identified himself only as Abu Jihad, translated it means father of the Muslim holy war. It was clear he took the name seriously.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did you expect us to do? Be quiet and be calm? And turn the other cheek? We're not Christians. We're Muslims.</s>CARROLL (on camera): I thought that Islam teaches peace.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Peace. It does. It does.</s>CARROLL: So help me understand as to why you would support violence.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Islam is peace, but once someone lays their hands on you, it tells you to send them to a cemetery.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are defending ourselves, as simple as that. We are not being violent.</s>CARROLL (voice-over): Most of the people who surrounded Abu Jihad (ph) were young Muslim men. Bukhari watched and listened and then he gave us his assessment.</s>BUKHARI: Really, what you got was anger. Well, that's the tactic. If they had been taught how to channel their anger, that guy</s>CARROLL: And Bukhari says that points directly to another major problem, a lack of leadership in the community.</s>BUKHARI: Well, that's our failure. Our leaders not at all taking these young kids in and saying, OK, you're angry. Come on, let's sit down. I'm angry too. Let's talk about how we can solve this peacefully.</s>CARROLL: Bukhari says too many mosque leaders are too old, too conservative and can't reach the younger generations. And he says that unless there are drastic changes in the way the world's major powers deal with Islam and in the way Muslims deal with each other, it's not likely the anger will disappear any time soon.</s>CARROLL (on camera): And in talking to young Muslims, whether it be in east London or Birmingham, we really heard the same angry sentiment. What was tougher to find were answers in terms of how to alleviate that anger -- Christiane.</s>AMANPOUR: And it's going to be tough to find those answers. Jason, thank you very much. And as the tense cease-fire in the Middle East seems to be holding, words of praise for Hezbollah from Iran and Syria. We examine what it all means for Israel and its western allies. Plus it's been standard operating procedure at the airport ever since the shoe bomber was caught five years ago. But just how effective is the shoe scan, when 360 continues.