Out of harm's way: Police officers hold down one of the badly-burned men outside the Glasgow arrivals hall moments after he had set himself alight
Two doctors held over bomb attacks
Held: The couple are arrested on the M6
Posted on 06/30/2007 8:15:09 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Burning Car In Airport Terminal Updated: 15:59, Saturday June 30, 2007
A car has driven into the terminal building at Glasgow airport and caught fire. More follows...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Well just d*mn! Isn't that special.
Are Americans taught a different version of world geography?
As far as I recall there are 7 continents in the world, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antartica, Australasia & ASIA.......
In UK the term “asian” is generally used in polite conversation to refer to someone from the Indian Sub Continent.....
In impolite conversation, they would be refered to as Pakis!
I guess that we Americans are less polite. Around here they’re just Pakis and Asians refer to orientals. I believe that Americans have always been more blunt than our UK cousins.
There are 7? Huh, I thought there were just two...US and them:’)
There are 7? Huh, I thought there were just two...US and them:’)
Thanks.
One of the doctors (arrested on the M6 highway) is Mohammed Asha, an Iranian.
(from BBC)
ping to above post
CNN: U.K. LE is trying to figure out whether there is a network of doctors involved in these attacks.
Yep and thank you for the ping RDTF.
We just started our July thread by the way
at The Threat Matrix.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859319/posts
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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
That certainly sounds much more plausible than the “suicide vest” story that initially came out.
Texkat posted some pics further up the thread of Mr Crispy being arrested at the airport. I’ve seen several other pics and they show he had little left of his clothes, which by this time consisted mainly of pants burnt so badly they were now shorts, and the belt around them. Couldn’t make out bulges in the pockets tho - not enough resolution for me to play with the pic contrast.
British police seek more suspects over bomb plots
01 Jul 2007 22:58:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
GLASGOW, Scotland, July 2 (Reuters) - British police were hunting on Monday for accomplices of suspected militants who rammed a burning jeep into a Scottish airport and tried to detonate two car bombs in central London.
A police source said a manhunt was under way for an unspecified number of suspects after five people were arrested at the weekend. All five detained were thought to be foreigners, the source said.
Britain’s top-selling Sun newspaper identified one of those detained as an Iranian doctor who worked at North Staffordshire Hospital in central England. A spokeswoman at the hospital declined to comment on the case and police would not identify those detained.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, facing a difficult test in his first few days in office, said those behind the botched attacks were associated with al Qaeda.
Britain’s security has been raised to its highest level, “critical”, meaning an attack is believed to be imminent.
“We are dealing with a long-term threat,” Brown said on Sunday. He said the attacks could not be justified as opposition to Britain’s foreign policy.
“Irrespective of Iraq, irrespective of Afghanistan, we have an international organisation trying to inflict the maximum damage on civilian life in pursuit of a terrorist cause that is totally unacceptable to most people.”
U.S. President George W. Bush praised Brown for a “very strong response” to the attacks.
“It just goes to show the war against these extremists goes on,” Bush told reporters at his family’s home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Brown last week replaced Tony Blair, whose 10 years in office were marked by an aggressive stance on security and a foreign policy which strongly supported the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.
TIGHTENING SECURITY
Peter Clarke, the head of London’s anti-terrorism police, said authorities were making swift progress in uncovering the suspected terrorist network behind the threats.
“The investigation into these attacks is extremely fast-moving. It is no exaggeration at all to say that new information is coming to light hour by hour,” Clarke said.
The plots raised the spectre of attacks on London transport two years ago that killed 52 commuters.
Authorities ramped up security measures at airports and extra police officers patrolled rail stations and increased checks ahead of the Monday morning rush-hour.
“The main thing we are doing is asking passengers to continue to be vigilant and go about their business,” said a spokesman for Britain’s transport police.
On Saturday, police arrested the passenger and badly-burned driver of a Jeep Cherokee who ploughed their vehicle into the entrance of Glasgow’s airport and set it alight in a huge fireball.
The attack came 36 hours after police found two Mercedes car bombs packed with fuel canisters, propane tanks and nails parked near a crowded nightclub in London’s teeming theatre district.
Police say the London and Scotland incidents are linked. On Sunday they raided a house in an affluent suburb about 10 minutes from the Glasgow airport, where neighbours said two Asian men had moved in just weeks ago.
The other arrests included a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman seized on a major highway in northern England on Saturday, and a 26-year-old man in Liverpool on Sunday. (Additional reporting by Luke Baker in London)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0178441.htm
I don’t know. It looks like he could have been going for a pocket though. JAT
Police questioningCuriously, the last sentence was recently altered on the BBC website... they have now removed the part where they mentioned he was from Iran.Two of those held by police are a 26-year-old man and 27-year-old woman who were arrested on the M6 near Sandbach, Cheshire, on Saturday night.
The man has been identified by the BBC as Dr Mohammed Asha.
It continues:
Both have been taken to Paddington Green police station in London for questioning.Another 26-year-old man arrested in Liverpool on Sunday remains in custody at a Merseyside police station.
[snip]
The BBC has learned those arrested are believed to be of varying Middle Eastern nationalities....
Out of harm's way: Police officers hold down one of the badly-burned men outside the Glasgow arrivals hall moments after he had set himself alight
Two doctors held over bomb attacks
Held: The couple are arrested on the M6
· Members of al-Qaida linked group run by ‘Mr Big’ still at large
· Five arrested suspects were not born in Britain, say sources
· Glasgow and London attempts linked as probe gathers pace
Police and the security services are still hunting for at least three members of an al-Qaida linked terrorist cell suspected of attempting to commit mass murder using car bombs in London and Glasgow. Counter-terrorism officers believe the cell has at least eight members, linked by a controlling “Mr Big”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2116276,00.html
One of the doctors, the man arrested on the M6, was said to be a Jordanian-born doctor at the North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.
Perhaps this is why the BBC changed their article (see my #1,356, above).
so far a Jordanian and an Iranian?
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