Inayat Bunglawala: Spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain. Photo: CLARE KENDALL

From CBC News

Twelve men arrested in a series of anti-terrorist raids involving hundreds of officers across northwest England earlier this month will not face charges due to insufficient evidence, British prosecutors said Wednesday.

Eleven of the arrested men, all of them Pakistani nationals, face deportation and have been transferred into the custody of British immigration authorities.

The men were arrested in a series of raids on April 8 in Manchester, Liverpool and the surrounding area, 320 kilometres northwest of London.

While British officials haven’t provided any details about what the men were suspected of doing, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has previously said authorities were on to “a very big terrorist plot.”

But British Muslim groups immediately called on the government to admit it had made a mistake with the arrests, and further complicated the case by making prejudicial and “premature” remarks to the media.

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