The Arrests
A group of fourteen men, called the "Luton cell", were arrested in the UK in the Luton area on 3 August 2004. Barot was arrested while having his hair cut in a barber shop in north London.
It is believed that the timing of the arrests was driven by the leaking of the identity of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, an alleged Al Qaeda double agent and computer expert, to The New York Times the previous day.
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