Day of raids

The British police are getting serious today, reports CNN. What I am most surprised to learn is that these suspects are not Arabs.

Police are still searching for three of the four would-be bombers after arresting Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, a Somali with British residency, in Birmingham on Thursday.

One of the other suspects has been identified as Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27. He emigrated to Britain from Eritrea in the 1990s as political refugees with their families, the British Home Office said.

Both Somalia and Eriteria are on the East African coast, which has been the site of increasing Al-Qaeda activity. Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to conduct a few raids down there as well.