Via The Daily Telegraph:

Eight people were arrested in dawn raids across Birmingham this morning by police investigating an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier. Security sources claimed to have thwarted a plan to abduct the soldier who would then have been filmed pleading for his life before being executed. The kidnapping could have resembled operations carried out by insurgents in Iraq, according to the sources, who allege that a young soldier with experience serving in Afghanistan had been identified as the target.