Officials filed terror charges against two 25-year-old men who were arrested in east London during raids last week. Both of the suspects are British nationals; one is of Turkish origin and the other Algerian. Two other men arrested with them have been released. Pavlo Lapshyn, a postgraduate student from Ukraine, pled guilty to the murder of an elderly Muslim man in Birmingham and to plotting explosions as mosques in Walsall, Tipton, and Wolverhampton. He told investigators he had “a racial motivation” and wanted to “increase racial conflict,” but did not mention Muslims or Islam. He was arrested in Ukraine in 2010 for an explosion that resulted from bomb-making.
