Two of the nine terror suspects arrested in last week's raids in Britian have been released without charge, their solicitor said today.
In a statement after their release from Coventry's Chace Avenue police station in the early hours of today, the men said there had been no mention to them by police of a plot to kidnap or behead any soldier.
Solicitor Gareth Peirce
Their solicitor Gareth Peirce said: "They have left the police station without any better understanding of why they were there than when they first arrived seven days ago.
"Not a word was ever mentioned to either of them about a plot to kidnap or the grizzly suggestion of a beheading or even of a soldier at all.
"Both have been met with a consistent refusal over seven days for any explanation for their arrest.
"They are convinced that others in the police station must be as innocent as they and urge that they also be swiftly released."
Detectives were granted a further 72 hours yesterday to question the seven other suspects. Eight of them were picked up in a series of dawn raids in Birmingham last Wednesday while the ninth was stopped on a motorway in the city several hours later.
West Midlands Police said on Monday they had finished their searches of 18 residential and commercial properties raided last Wednesday and Friday.
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