Is it just me?

[David Guyatt]

Probably.

Nationwide raids under the terror laws and our Plod proudly announce that two men are to appear in court of minor fraud charges.

Is this a truly magnificent result, or a PR spin of a complete failure of intelligence? No one's saying as usual.

From the desk of Alan Rusbridger:

Two more charged following UK counter-terrorism raids

Tayyab Al-Riaz, 33, and Valentina Miu, 30, both from east London, to appear in court accused of fraud offences

• Press Association
  
• The Guardian, Monday 8 December 2014 09.33 GMT
  

The charges follow a series of raids by counter-terrorism police across Britain over the past week. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Two more people arrested by counter-terrorism police have been charged with fraud offences, police said.
Tayyab Al-Riaz, 33, and Valentina Miu, 30, both from East Ham in east London, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Monday.
Riaz has been charged with one count of possession of false identity documents with improper intent and one count of possession of articles for use in fraud.
Miu is charged with an offence under the Proceeds of Crime Act (Poca) 2002 and possession of articles for use in fraud.
Muhammed Saleem, 28, from Abbey Wood, London, will also appear at the court charged with being in possession or controlling an article for use in fraud.
The three were arrested on Saturday.
The charges follow a series of counter-terrorism raids across Britain over the past week.
Dawn raids in London on Thursday included the arrest of a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, and a 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to possess and supply fraudulent documents.
The first man remains in custody at a central London police station after a custody extension was granted until this Thursday, while the other man has been bailed until January.
Police who arrested five men in connection with a sting at Dover have until Sunday to question them after being granted warrants by a magistrate.
Two men aged 33 and 43 were detained in Dover last Sunday after Scotland Yard anti-terror officers with armed support officers and Kent police stopped a car at the port.
A 28-year-old man was arrested in the same area last Monday morning, while under the same operation two men, aged 24 and 40, were arrested on the same day in east London.

[Magda Hassan]

We had the same thing happen here recently. About two months ago. Hundreds of overnight raids and just a couple of arrests. They are also using 'terrorist' laws for non terrorist eents. Like the way the UK blocked Icelandic assets in the banking crisis. They'll classify littering soon as terrorism.