British police are continuing today to question nine suspects held in custody over the alleged airline bomb plot.

BRITISH police questioned 22 suspects yesterday in the alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic jetliners in mid-air, and the country’s top law-and-order official warned that the risk of another attack remained high.

An intercept of a telephone call made from Pakistan to Britain that urged plotters to go ahead with attacks on US-bound aeroplanes played a crucial role in foiling the alleged terror plan, Pakistani officials said today.

Pakistani intelligence agents were questioning at least 17 people, including British nationals, over their alleged links to a plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets from Britain, officials said today.

AT least three of the men arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a series of transatlantic flights were converts to Islam, it emerged yesterday.