More than 20 held over Nato bomb plot

Turkish police have arrested more than 20 members of an al-Qaida linked group suspected of planning to bomb a Nato summit due to be attended by Tony Blair and George Bush next month.

Police detained the 16 in an operation in the north-western province of Bursa, a police statement said. It said the suspects were members of Ansar al-Islam, a group linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network, but gave no further details.