MORE UK TERROR ARRESTS:

Fourteen people were arrested in London overnight on suspicion they were involved in training and recruiting for acts of terrorism, police said Saturday.

Police said the arrests were not linked to last month’s alleged plot to bomb U.S.-bound passenger jets or to the July 2005 attacks on London’s transport network. . . .

Peter Clarke, head of Metropolitan Police anti-terror efforts, said police and intelligence agents were now attempting to track thousands of people believed to be directly or indirectly involved in terrorism, according to comments made public Friday.

The threat from homegrown terrorism is increasing in Britain, he told the BBC in an interview to be broadcast Sept. 3, an advance transcript said.

“What we’ve learnt since 9/11 is that the threat is not something that’s simply coming from overseas into the United Kingdom,” Clarke said. “What we’ve learned, and what we’ve seen all too graphically and all too murderously, is that we have a threat which is being generated here within the United Kingdom.”

Nice to see them recognizing that. There’s a roundup of blog reactions on these arrests here.

UPDATE: More thoughts here, including this observation: “We aren’t creating terrorists in Iraq. The manufacturing process began long ago, and in one case noted at the end of this excerpt, the terrorist nested in Great Britain went to Iraq to ‘blow himself up.'”