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Two more held over bomb attacks A forensic team was at the scene of the Glasgow Airport attack Enlarge Image Detectives investigating the failed car bombings at Glasgow airport and in London have arrested two more people, taking the total number held to seven.The men, aged 28 and 25, were detained in the Paisley area west of Glasgow on Sunday night. They are not thought to be of British origin. Police have been given more time to question three people held in London. It has also emerged that police may have been trying to trace the airport bomb suspects...

Glasgow Hospital In Security Alert Updated: 15:16, Monday July 02, 2007 There is a security alert at the Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow, where one of the men allegedly involved in the failed airport attack is being treated. A section of the grounds has been closed off and a bomb disposal squad is in the area. But police say there is no immediate threat at the hospital in Paisley. Yesterday there was a controlled explosion on a suspect vehicle in the car park of the hospital. A man arrested at the scene of the Glasgow airport horror was taken there...

According to pandering presidential candidate, John Edwards, the global war on terror is just a bumper sticker slogan. In a pathetic attempt to ingratiate himself to the Looney Left that now runs the Democrats, Edwards needs to downplay the fact that terrorism is even much of a threat. We saw that same attitude recently on the Daily KOs in this KOmmie THREAD posted by Larry Johnson titled, "London Bomb--What a Crock of Crap!!" Larry's contention is that this whole terror threat is nothing but a "Crock of Crap!!" Here is what he said about the first bomb threat car...

In the wake of the two bomb-rigged cars discovered in London and the flaming jeep that crashed into a Glasgow airport terminal, the terror threat level in Britain has been raised to critical. Authorities declined to consider the implications of evidence that the events in London and Glasgow were motivated by the ideology of Islamic jihad. Daud Abdullah, the Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), declared that the plots “can be the work of Muslims, Christians, Jews or Buddhists.” The new British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, appeared to agree, saying that new efforts had to be...

GLASGOW AIRPORT: Police forensic experts at the scene where a Jeep Cherokee rammed the building and burst into flames in Saturday’s terror attack. Hundreds waiting for flights were evacuated to a nearby hotel. One man described by a witness as a “well-dressed Asian” was badly burned and taken to hospital; a second man was arrested. Police later linked the incident to a foiled car bomb plot in central London the previous day. Picture: AP But UK is put on the highest possible alert after car bombs in London and Glasgow BRITAIN will not yield to the sustained threat from people...

LONDON - Some now call London the "Muslim capital of Europe." No Western city has more mosques. And now London could be home to the largest Mosque outside of the Middle East.

Car bombings suspect 'on the run' A forensic team were at the scene of the Glasgow attack Enlarge Image Detectives are still urgently hunting people suspected of involvement in the attempted car bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport.Five people were arrested at the weekend, but at least one suspect is still believed to be on the run. Those held so far include a qualified medical doctor. Police say none of the suspects is British in origin. Police are linking the failed bombings and the UK remains on high alert amid fears of a possible further attack. The terror...

A picture is emerging of the men who allegedly drove that car bomb into the terminal building. This morning, police raided their home in Houston, a quiet village just a few miles from the airport. "The guys in black uniforms and things like the balaclavas went in first," an eyewitness said, "and they surrounded the house … and there was a lot of shooting. I heard glass breaking." Locals say two young Asian men moved into number 6 Neuk Crescent a few months ago. One neighbor described seeing one of the men washing what she says was a Jeep SUV...

The terrorist group behind the latest wave of bombing plots has not yet been neutralised and other attacks could hit cities in the United Kingdom, security sources told The Times yesterday. As the head of Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command confirmed that the two car bombs discovered in London and the blazing Jeep incident at Glasgow airport were linked, a source said: “There is a group of individuals out there who have the capability and the intent to carry out attacks in the UK. “In our judgment it is very likely there will be further attacks.” The alert status was...

Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots in London and Glasgow. One was one of two men who tried to drive a blazing Jeep packed with petrol, gas canisters and nails into Glasgow Airport on Saturday. Police are still investigating the precise links between that attack and the two Mercedes car bombs left in the West End of London early on Friday.

The majority of five terror suspects being held in police custody in connection with bomb attacks in London and Glasgow are not British and at least one is still at large, according to Sky sources. Two men were arrested after ramming a car into Glasgow Airport on Saturday and a 26-year-old man and 27-year-old woman have been arrested on the M6 near Sandbach in Cheshire. A fifth terror related arrest was made in Liverpool after a car was stopped in the Lime Street area of the city. Sky sources say most of the suspects are not British and at least...

Search continues for absconders It is thought the three men could be together Profiles of absconders The search is continuing for three terror suspects, believed to want to kill UK troops abroad, who went missing while subject to control orders.Home Secretary John Reid said they were not a "direct threat" to people in the UK but added they were dangerous. Earlier, security watchdog Lord Carlile said there was "solid evidence" the men had wanted to join insurgents abroad. Lamine Adam, 26, his brother Ibrahim, 20, and Cerie Bullivant, 24, failed to report to police earlier this week. The Adams'...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - British officials intensified the hunt Sunday for what they called an al-Qaida-linked network behind three attempted terrorist attacks, announcing a fifth arrest and conducting pinpoint raids across a country on its highest level of alert.

olice confident in bombers hunt A forensic team were at the scene of the Glasgow attack Enlarge Image The links between three terror attacks in Glasgow and London are becoming "ever clearer", says the UK's top counter-terrorism officer.Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said he was "absolutely confident" of uncovering detail of the attackers' methods and network. A Jeep containing gas cylinders driven into Glasgow Airport has been linked to two failed car bombs in London. Five people have been arrested - in Cheshire, Liverpool and at the airport. BBC correspondent Daniel Sandford said police were looking for one other suspect,...

Two men arrested in Scotland in connection with the Glasgow Airport attack are not "home-grown terrorists", Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said. His comments followed searches of a number of homes in Neuk Crescent, Houston, Renfrewshire. Mr MacAskill said the suspects were not "born or bred" here but had lived in Scotland for a "period of time". "For any suggestion to be made that they are home-grown terrorists is just not true," he added. Resident Stewart McArthur said the police arrived in Neuk Crescent just before 0500 BST. 'Heavily armed' "They were in an unmarked transit van and they were wearing...

Police Blow Up Car At Hospital Updated: 15:47, Sunday July 01, 2007 Police have carried out a controlled explosion at the hospital where one of the alleged car bombers is being treated. A suspect car was blown up by police in the car park of the Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Sky News correspondent Rona Dougall said.

Witnesses spoke of a terrifying chain of events which began with the dark green Jeep crashing up the pavement near international arrivals. It got stuck on a road sign as the driver, an Asian male, tried frantically to free it and ram it through the doors. Margaret O'Neil, 45, of Springboig, Glasgow, said: "I was 5ft away from the car and I looked straight into the passenger's eyes. "He was wearing a red and white scarf around his head and neck and only his eyes were visible. "He was so calm. I met his stare and he didn't even flinch....

THREE foiled car-bomb plots in Glasgow and London show al-Qa'ida has imported the tactics of Iraqi and Indonesian militants to Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's top terrorism adviser said yesterday. The former commissioner of the London police, John Stevens, said: "Make no mistake, this weekend's bomb attacks signal a major escalation in the war being waged on us by Islamic terrorists.

Beware America. Brit's PM Gordon Browns just stated that his country is "dealing with terrorists" connected with Al Qaeda. Further, Lord Stevens, terrorism counsel, informs media that "Baghdad and Bali" terrorism has now entered Britain. America will be next. "These killers are known as "paintball jihadists" in that they practice in paintball game style what they have planned for America’s streets. They are already training others in "urban combat" using paintball guns. They will engage in paramilitary-style training right under our noses, and lie about it to our faces. They are protected, in some cases, by the religious Imams, some...

LONDON, Sunday, July 1 — British officials raised the country’s terrorism threat alert to its highest level on Saturday after two men slammed an S.U.V. into entrance doors at Glasgow Airport and turned the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball. Less than 38 hours earlier the police uncovered two cars in London rigged to explode with gasoline, gas canisters and nails. Early Sunday, after a day of fast-moving developments, the London police announced that two people had been arrested in Cheshire, in northwest England, “in connection with the events in London and Scotland.” The arrests were in addition to those...