UK cops foil al-Qaeda Internet chaos plot

It quoted an unidentified government security official as saying the Internet plotters apparently planned to infiltrate the 8220;hub,8221; possibly to blow it up from the inside, according to evidence on a computer hard drive seized in raids on the homes of terror suspects in southern England last year.

London8217;s Metropolitan Police Service was not immediately available to comment on the newspaper report and failed to answer to recorded messages left with its media department on Sunday.

Last year, the MI5, Britain8217;s domestic spy agency, uncovered intelligence that suggested Islamic terrorist suspects had carried out reconnaissance of the huge Bacton complex of gas terminals on the Norfolk coast of eastern England, the Sunday Times said. Armed guards were deployed around the plant.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, director of the MI5, Britain8217;s domestic spy service, has said the threat of terrorism in the UK is very real and includes the intent to kill people and damage the country8217;s economy.