From The London Evening Standard and (h/t Alan) Sky News
It’s them damned trios again.
Three men questioned about an alleged plot to assassinate Gordon Brown have been charged with terror offences, Lancashire Police said.
The men were arrested at Manchester Airport and Accrington, Lancashire, on August 14.
Ishaq Kanmi, 22, of Cromwell Street, Blackburn, is charged with soliciting murder, belonging or professing to belong to al Qaida, inviting support for al Qaida, and dissemination of terrorist publications.
Brothers Abbas Iqbal, 23, and Ilyas Iqbal, 21, both of Percival Street, Blackburn, are both charged with possession of an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that possession is for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
Police sources indicated the charge of soliciting murder referred to an alleged plot to murder the Prime Minister. The men will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday.
A fourth man, a 24-year-old white Muslim convert, was arrested in Blackburn on Tuesday.  A fifth man, a 29-year-old thought to be Eastern European, was held in Derby early on Wednesday.  Lancashire Police and Greater Manchester Police's Counter Terrorism Unit have been granted an additional seven days to question them.