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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...

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,...

Police check Bluewater gang’s links to attempt to bomb clubs (July 1, 2007) David Leppard and Dipesh Gadher Detectives hunting the West End car bombers believe the suspects are most likely to be home-grown extremists linked to an overlapping network of terrorist cells implicated in previous plots against British targets. Some may be known to police and be on the run after escaping Home Office control orders. Those in the frame may be associates of the so-called Crevice gang, which planned to attack the Ministry of Sound nightclub in central London and the Bluewater shopping mall in Kent. Members of...

London terror analysis: Online manual on car bombs instructs terrorists 'not to park illegally' Yaakov Lappin Published: 07.01.07, 16:18 / Israel News The three botched terror attacks launched in Britain in the past 72 hours bear all the hallmarks of first-time British-born jihadis attempting to emulate al-Qaeda in Iraq. Multiple car bombs designed to slaughter hundreds of civilians and strikes against critical infrastructure are daily events in Baghdad, and al-Qaeda in Iraq has decided to put its experience in mass murder on the internet for the benefit of its members around the world, in the form of an online training...

Koran: Surah 2: The Cow 12. Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. 191 13. War is ordained by Allah. 216” London Mayor Ken Livingstone commended Muslims by and large for being civil. In that commendation, however, he should have called on civil Muslims to speak out vigorously, daily against Allah fanatics. It is not enough to commend those Muslims who are attempting to make a new life in free nations. Those Muslims must now be told to speak up on behalf of those free nations in which...

Paramedics have told how they saved the lives of scores of people after spotting one of the car bombs in central London. A Mercedes packed with petrol, gas and nails was found abandoned outside Tiger, Tiger nightclub in Haymarket in the early hours of Friday morning. A two-man ambulance crew, one aged 27 and the other 37, alerted police after smelling gas coming from the vehicle. The 37-year-old, who was not named, said: "As we pulled up outside Tiger Tiger, we came to a stop behind a Mercedes car, which was parked rather badly, about three feet from the kerb....

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...

Homeland Security: The London bomb plot reminds us that terrorists never rest. Like gnats, they keep coming in the hopes we'll tire of swatting them. They have to get lucky just once. We have to be lucky all the time. In Piccadilly Circus, only a stroke of good luck prevented an explosion that could have toppled a three-story nightclub and killed hundreds. Authorities had no inkling terrorists planned to blow up cars packed with petro bombs and nails. An ambulance crew tipped off police after noticing vapors building up inside one of them, a Mercedes parked outside a popular nightclub.

MPACUK: Car Bomb May Have Been Planted by MEMRI At the UK’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee web site, a commenter thinks this may be a “marketing stunt.”By MEMRI. Or some other “Israeli front group.” Lets wait and see if this was:1) organised by misguided non-believers chanting “Islam” and retaliating for the murderous foreign policies of Blair.OR2) was organised as a marketing stunt by SANE, MEMRI, or another unofficial branch of the IDF Intelligence section.Whoever it was, it is very scary to think that the war is being brought to our streets just because Britain has taken part in the murders...

BRITAIN will not yield to acts of "evil", Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday after three botched car bomb attacks in two days in London and Glasgow. "We will not yield, we will not be intimidated,'' he said in an interview with BBC television, after his government raised the national security level to "critical'' following the attacks. He said terrorism "can never be justified as an act of faith'',

The Government has warned of "imminent" terrorist attacks after a Jeep was rammed into Glasgow airport and burst into flames. The jeep burst into flamesThe UK is now on "critical" alert - its highest terror threat level. Police say the attack is linked to the two car bombs that were found in the heart of London. It has also been revealed that one of the two suspects arrested in Scotland was wearing a "suspicious device". Officers would not say whether it was a suicide belt. Gordon Brown has warned the British people to be vigilant and told them to remain...

LONDON (AFP) - London Mayor Ken Livingstone called on Britons Saturday not to demonize Muslims after a double car bomb plot was foiled in the capital, amid fears of a Islamist terror threat. At the same time he criticized Britain over its ties with Saudi Arabia, which he said had fuelled intolerance in the past through its Wahhabist form of Islam, creating a "major problem." "In this city, Muslims are more likely to be law-abiding than non-Muslims and less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non-Muslims," he told BBC Radio. "They have played a...

The “patio gas” bomb defused in Haymarket would have generated a fireball the size of a house and a shock wave spreading out over a diameter of at least 400 yards, explosives experts said today. The propane cylinders and petrol used in the device would have triggered a huge conflagration, as well as causing shrapnel and blast injuries from the exploding car chassis and the nails packed around the bomb, according to Hans Michels, Professor of Safety Engineering at Imperial College, London. Just one 13kg propane canister — the type sold by Calor under the brand name “Patio Gas” —...

Teams of forensic scientists are poring over two "gold mines" - the Mercedes cars filled with petrol, gas and nails which failed to explode in central London. Last night, scores of specialists were taking the vehicles apart at secret locations, confident they will find crucial clues to the identity of the terrorists. Police expect to find DNA from the bombers and to secure evidence about where the bomb material came from. The car bombs are of the kind used on a daily basis in Iraq but, unlike attacks there, the militants operating in London were not suicide bombers prepared to...

The first car bomb found in central London on Friday morning has been taken to a specialist maximum security laboratory. The Forensic Explosives Laboratory has experts on around-the-clock stand-by to deal with terrorist incidents. Once a device such as a car bomb is made safe, it is taken to the small team based in a complex hidden away in the Kent countryside. The scientists painstakingly examine car bombs in the specialist "X47" laboratory built during the IRA era. The X47 building complex most recently housed the remains of the bus blown apart by one of the 7 July 2005 London...

British police have a "crystal clear" picture of the man who drove the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes outside a London nightclub, and officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com he bears "a close resemblance" to a man arrested by police in connection with another bomb plot but released for lack of evidence. Officials say the suspect had been taken into custody in connection with the case of al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot (pictured), who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C. Officials say a surveillance camera caught the suspect "staggering...

Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London's West End. >snip< In a news conference Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said the second car, a blue Mercedes, was parked a few hundred yards from the first in Cockspur Street which runs between Haymarket and Trafalgar Square. >snip

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British authorities were seeking three men Friday after police defused two car bombs that they said could have caused “significant injury or loss of life” in London. The three men are believed to be from the Birmingham area, a center of radical Islamic unrest in Britain, U.S. officials who had been briefed on the developments told NBC News. Police said the two cars, a light green and a light blue Mercedes-Benz, were found early Friday morning in London’s theater district. The green Mercedes was defused at the site. The blue Mercedes was not discovered to be a threat until early...

The “patio gas” bomb defused in Haymarket would have generated a fireball the size of a house and a shock wave spreading out over a diameter of at least 400 yards, explosives experts said today. The propane cylinders and petrol used in the device would have triggered a huge conflagration, as well as causing shrapnel and blast injuries from the exploding car chassis and the nails packed around the bomb, according to Hans Michels, Professor of Safety Engineering at Imperial College, London. Just one 13kg propane canister — the type sold by Calor under the brand name “Patio Gas” —...