AN INDEPENDENT review will be carried out into the police terror raids across Liverpool and the North West.
It comes as the Government face heavy criticism for their handling of the operation in Merseyside, Manchester and Lancashire.
Eleven of the 12 men, all Pakistani nationals, have been released from police custody into the hands of Border Immigration officials to be deported.
Five of those were apprehended in Liverpool after police swooped at four addresses in Toxteth, Edge Hill and the city centre.
Lord Carlile, who reviews terror legislation, is set to examine the operation and speak to those involved in the inquiry.
It has emerged that the 12th man is a British Muslim, named as Hamza Shenwari, 41, from Cheetham Hill, who was arrested on a motorway between Liverpool and Manchester.
He is understood to be a member of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic group which has been accused of radicalising young Muslims.
Two Labour MPs, meanwhile, have described the police action into the suspected terrorist bomb plot as “disturbing and gravely unjust.”
In a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Mohammad Sarwar and Khalid Mahmood said incidents such as this do “irreparable damage” to race relations.
Glasgow Central MP Mr Sarwar and Mr Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Perry Bar, said members of the Pakistani community felt “very let down by the security forces.”
In Liverpool, students watched in horror as armed police burst into a John Moores University library, off Hardman Street, to apprehend two men.
Further raids were carried out, with arrests made at a flat on Earle Road, Edge Hill, a house in Cedar Grove, Toxteth and Highgate Street, Edge Hill.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke of a “major terrorist plot” being investigated, amid reports of Manchester’s Arndale Centre and a Manchester nightclub being targeted by Muslim extremists.
The operation was brought forward after Bob Quick, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner and Britain’s most senior anti-terror officer, inadvertently revealed secret plans of the raid to Downing Street press photographers.
