Evening Standard/London
A man has been arrested in east London on suspicion of being a member or supporter of Islamic State, police said.
Counter-terror police arrested the 32-year-old after a raid on an address in Newham.
The man was today being quizzed at a south London police station.
Scotland Yard said he was arrested on suspicion of collection of information which may be useful to somebody who commits or prepares acts of terrorism;being a member or supporter of Islamic State, a proscribed organisation; and encouragement of terrorism.
The arrest comes as Britain’s head of counter terror policing, Mark Rowley, said police in the UK were arresting a terror suspect every day.
Terror group IS has released a number of videos showing the barbaric murder of Western hostages.
British aid workers Alan Henning, 47, and David Haines, 44, and American journalists James Foley, 40, and Steven Sotloff, 31, were beheaded on camera by the jihadi organisation.
Japanese nationals Kenji Goto, 47, and Haruna Yukawa, 42, were both also killed by the terror group, while US aid worker Kayla Mueller, 26, was also killed while held hostage by IS.
The terror group is waging a bloody war in Iraq and Syria, where it wants to create an Islamic Caliphate.
It was banned in the UK in June last year.
Last week a court was told that a teenage Muslim convert accused of planning to behead a British soldier warned he would “harm” the prime minister if he got the chance.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, was arrested in east London in August and found to be carrying a hammer and a knife wrapped in an Islamic flag, with prosecutors alleging he was on his way to a military base.
His trial at the Old Bailey today heard that after a previous arrest in June last year over extremist posts he made online, he was questioned several times by counter-terror police.
In an exchange from one interview read to the jury, he was asked by officers to confirm what he had said in a previous interview, in which the tape recorder had broken.
The officer asked: “What would you do if you saw David Cameron and had an opportunity?
“You said you would do him harm if he had no security around?”
Ziamani replied: “Yes”.
The interviews also discussed a letter written by Ziamani and addressed to his parents in which he talked about being martyred and also the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in May 2013.
The jury yesterday heard that Ziamani, from Camberwell in south east London, idolised Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo.
At one point Ziamani told police in June that he felt that Rigby’s death had been “overdramatised”, the court heard.
He told officers: “I felt that the Government and media had overdramatised his death to the next level.”
Ziamani denies a charge of preparing an act of terrorism on or before August 20 last year.
The court has previously heard he researched the location of army cadet bases in the south east of the capital.
He is also alleged to have told an ex-girlfriend that Adebolajo was a “legend” and told her he would “kill soldiers”.
The jury heard he also put posts on Facebook under the name Mujahid Karim supporting Sharia law and stating he was “willing to die in the cause of Allah”. The hearing continues.
The man was held on suspicion of being an Islamic State supporter
