Terror Suspects' Deadline Nears

Police investigating an alleged bomb plot on flights from the UK to the US are expected to ask for extra time to question the suspects being held.
The period for which detectives can question 23 of the 24 people in custody expires on Wednesday, but the police can ask judges for an extension.
Meanwhile, further details have emerged about a British-born suspect arrested in Pakistan over the plot.
Rashid Rauf is believed to have played a key role and liaised with al-Qaeda.

Twenty-three of the 24 people in custody were arrested in raids in London, High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, and Birmingham last week. The 24th was arrested in the Thames Valley area on Tuesday.
Searches are continuing at a number of addresses and parts of a wood in High Wycombe.

At private hearings via video link, lawyers for the police will produce further evidence and argue for an extra seven days' custody for those they want to continue investigating.
Under the 2006 Terrorism Act the maximum period someone suspected of terrorist activity can be held for is 28 days.
The brother of one of the suspects arrested over the alleged liquid bomb plot insisted that he had no involvement in terrorism.
Amjad Sarwar told Channel 4 News that his brother Assad was innocent.
"There is no way he could have anything to do with terrorism. He condemns terrorism.
He's always talking about bin Laden being a terrorist and the Iraq war - they're all terrorists. So he condemns all that."

In Pakistan, it is believed up to 17 people are being held over the alleged plot, including two British nationals of Pakistani descent.
The Pakistan government said one of the Britons, Rashid Rauf, is believed to have links to al-Qaeda. No details are known about the other Briton.

Mr Rauf is believed to have played a pivotal role in planning the operation, as well as being the go-between between al-Qaeda and the alleged plotters in Britain.
Pakistani intelligence believe it was the Briton's role to plan and co-ordinate the operation on behalf of a senior al-Qaeda figure, described as the plot's mastermind, the BBC has learned.
It has also emerged that Britain wanted to delay making arrests to enable further tracking of the suspects, but Pakistan wanted to move in immediately.

The Pakistani Foreign Ministry has said it has not received a request from Britain for the extradition of Mr Rauf, but the option still remained open.

Speaking after a meeting with EU ministers on Wednesday to consider their response to the alleged London plot, Home Secretary John Reid said the countries of Europe must stand together to "evolve our reaction" to the "evolving threat".
"The EU, indeed the wider world, is now confronted by a form of terrorism that is unconstrained in its evil intention. Given the means of destruction on a massive scale which is available through modern technology - biological, chemical and other means - it is virtually unconstrained in its capacity and its ability to do immense harm, death and destruction."
Practical measures on improving transport security, the "formal coming together" of intelligence services and the "whole discussion of European Islam" were among issues discussed, Mr Reid added.

Conservative Party leader David Cameron has criticised the way the government is dealing with the threat of Islamic extremism.
He criticised a funding freeze planned for the Home Office, and said intercept evidence should be allowed in courts.

Meanwhile flights are slowly returning to normal, with BA planning to operate 90% of its flights on Wednesday.
However, it is still searching for 5,000 pieces of luggage which have been misplaced in the confusion of the last few days at Heathrow alone.
And authorities at Gatwick airport are investigating how a 12-year-old boy managed to board a flight without a ticket or passport.
He got on the flight bound for Portugal on Monday morning despite the high state of alert across all airports.