Police arrested a woman in Bedfordshire and a man in London, both on suspicion of jihadist activity linked to Syria; the cases were said to be unrelated. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Hogan-Howe said that 500 Britons have traveled to Syria to fight. Police have made over 218 terrorism-related arrests this year; 16 people have been charged on their return from Syria. Last week Scotland Yard said that several terrorist plots to murder people on British streets have been disrupted this year; some 50 people a week are now being referred to deradicalization programs.
