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Wow. We now have three doctors under suspicion for the terror attacks in the UK and Scotland. LONDON, England (CNN) — Investigators are focusing on at least three doctors believed to have played a role in the attempted terror attacks in London and Glasgow last week, sources said Monday. Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, has been identified as one of the two men who rammed an explosives-laden SUV into a terminal at Glasgow’s airport on Saturday, one of the sources said. British authorities believe those two men are the same ones who parked two car bombs in central London on...

A prominent Scottish Muslim has denounced the terror attack on Glasgow airport. Osama Saeed, Scottish spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, said there was no history of Islamic extremism in Scotland. Mr Saeed described how he had been at the airport with his young children just hours before Saturday's attack. There have been isolated reports of racist graffiti targeting Muslims in the wake of the airport attack. Mr Saeed said Muslims were as likely to be the victims of terror, as anyone else. He added: "My immediate response is one of anger. Thank God no lives were lost, but...

The investigation of the latest terror plot to target the United Kingdom is very fluid. Right now, the headlines are these: There have been at least three attempted car-bomb attacks, the perpetrators were Islamic radicals, five people are in custody, and the police have searched various places in England and Scotland. Many questions remain, the most pressing being: Have there been other attempts that have not yet been revealed publicly? Are additional attacks likely? Is this an al Qaeda operation? What has triggered it at this particular time? To deal first with what we know, there were two attempted bombings...

Terror Suspect Was Iraqi Doctor Updated: 16:26, Monday July 02, 2007 The second man involved in the failed attack on Glasgow airport was an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad, sources have told Sky News. Sources named the man as Bilal Abdulla - he was left relatively unscathed in the incident. It comes as police blew up a suspect car outside the Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow - another car was also detonated on Sunday. Abdulla's co-conspirator, Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, is being treated in the Royal Alexandra. He was pictured, badly burned, being held by police on the ground...

CNN now reports that the Glasgow attack was staged by the same men who drove the car bombs in London. British authorities have arrested two more men in connection with the series of failed attacks, and they have concluded that al-Qaeda planned and launched the attacks: Authorities suspect the two men who rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into Glasgow's airport on Saturday are the same people who parked two car bombs in central London a day earlier, security sources told CNN. ... One of the suspects, who is in critical condition at Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow, is a doctor at...

Car Bomb Jihad By Dr. Walid Phares FrontPageMagazine.com | July 2, 2007British authorities are to be commended for successfully averting two (maybe more) car bomb attacks in London last week. At the same time, much of the reaction of Britain’s counter-terrorism community reveals that the country is not wholly prepared to deal with the terrorism threat. Let's begin with the contradictory statements made by British authorities after the car bombs had been identified. On one hand, Britain’s new home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said after an emergency meeting of top officials that “we are currently facing the most serious and sustained threat...

Jihad in Glasgow By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | July 2, 2007This was not how Gordon Brown hoped to begin his term as Britain’s new prime minister. But shortly after assuming office last Wednesday, Brown found himself facing a full-blown terror spree: 36 tension-filled hours that saw two car bombs discovered in London and found grim punctuation this weekend when a Jeep Cherokee, manned by Islamic terrorists, crashed in a fiery blaze into the main terminal of Scotland’s Glasgow Airport.No one familiar with the events of recent years will surprised to learn that the suspects are all Muslims. Media accounts of...

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...

A COMBINATION of luck and incompetence prevented a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport "on the scale of Lockerbie", according to a security expert. As Alex Salmond pledged a swift return to "business as usual" after a Jeep carrying gas cylinders and petrol rammed into a packed terminal building on Saturday, Clive Fairweather advised the First Minister to be "more circumspect" following the first international terrorist attack to ever target Scotland. It emerged yesterday that those responsible - one of whom remained critically ill in hospital after suffering massive burns - were not "home-grown" terrorists but had moved to Scotland only...

The reaction in Britain to two car bombs in London and a third up north baffles most Israelis, and not only Israelis. There is no rush to the scene by senior politicians; the cabinet doesn't change its agenda but instead goes ahead with a planned debate on constitutional reform; and the new prime minister makes do with a short statement, not mentioning the suspected perpetrators. Indeed, it was only two days after the car bombs were found in central London that Gordon Brown acknowledged to the BBC that it's "clear that we are dealing, in general terms, with people who...

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...

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...

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...

JERUSALEM – The thwarted car bombings in London last week and the terror attack this weekend against Scotland's busiest airport were "completely justified" and likely the beginning of many more attacks in Britain, a prominent UK Islamist leader connected to terror supporting groups told WND yesterday. "There is no doubt whatsoever that there will continue to be attacks against the British government, its interests and the home front as long as we see the continued British and American occupation of Muslim land in Iraq and Afghanistan, support for criminal Israel, and draconian measures taken against Muslims in the UK," said...

With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda. Officers raided homes in three cities and arrested another suspect, bringing the total to five, including at least one identified as a medical doctor... None of the five suspects are British citizens, a senior Western official said. A gas canister was removed Sunday from a vehicle that burned Saturday after crashing at Glasgow Airport.

As the bombers return to Britain, Hassan Butt, who was once a member of radical group Al-Muhajiroun, raising funds for extremists and calling for attacks on British citizens, explains why he was wrong. When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy. By blaming the government...

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...

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...

Times of India: Jordanian doc involved in UK bombing plots 2 July 2007 AMMAN: One of the suspects arrested in Britain by police investigating three failed car bombings is a Jordanian surgeon called Mohammed Jamil Abdelkader Asha, officials in Jordan said on Monday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said his wife had also been arrested. Asha is of Palestinian origin and carries a Jordanian passport, they said. He obtained his medical degree in Jordan.

Detectives investigating the failed car bombings at Glasgow airport and in London have arrested two more men. The men aged 28 and 25 were detained in the Paisley area west of Glasgow last night, taking the number of people held over the attempted bombings to seven. Meanwhile, it has emerged that police tried to contact a Paisley letting agency before the Glasgow attack. The agency, Let-It, said officers had traced the company after tracking phone records in London. Company director Daniel Gardiner said: "The police wanted to know why we had dialled a certain phone number. They had the phone...

THE suspected ringleader of a plot to unleash a blitz of car bombs on Britain is an Iranian doctor arrested with his burka-clad wife. Neurologist Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, and his wife, 27, were dramatically held as they drove on the M6 in Cheshire with their two-year-old son. Five people were being quizzed — at least two of them medics — as it became clear the attacks in London and Glasgow were by the same gang. Swoop ... cops grapple with fanatic burned in attack Sources said one of two men held while trying to smash a blazing vehicle into...

The terrorists don't seem to care that Tony Blair is gone. Barely 48 hours on the job, Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown got a lesson in the realities of the post-9/11 world.

AS THE green Jeep Cherokee swept through the roundabout at Glasgow Airport and approached the terminal building, its two occupants steeled themselves for an apocalypse. The driver was dressed in a blue boiler suit with black plastic bags tied around his feet. His partner, in the front passenger seat, wore a dirty, grey T-shirt and sand-coloured cargo trousers. It was the first day of the summer holidays, yet these men were not tourists. Scotland's long innocence to acts of political violence was to be shattered. At 3:15pm on Saturday, on a day when an estimated 35,000 passengers were due to...

Oh, man! Don't tell me that you're 3 of my 72 virgins!

Britain's terror crackdown By Duncan Gardham, David Millward, and Richard Edwards Last Updated: 2:36am BST 02/07/2007 Cars were banned from approaching airport terminals last night as unprecedented security measures were enforced to combat a suspected al-Qa'eda bombing campaign. The terrorist threat level was at "critical" - its highest - after two car bombs were found in London and a third, potentially devastating, attack was narrowly averted at Glasgow airport. An armed police officer prevents vehicles from approaching too close to Heathrow It has forced police and the Government to take the draconian step of closing off all forecourts at airports....

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.

Another blow for the poverty theory of "radicalization." "Two Terror Suspects Are Hospital doctors," from Sky News: Two of the five terror suspects being held in the wake of the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow are believed to be hospital doctors working in the UK. The majority of the 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. Sky sources believe one of the men arrested at Glasgow airport and a 26- year-old man arrested...

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is adding air marshals to overseas flights because of concerns about potential terrorism threats originating in Britain and Europe, the homeland security chief said Sunday. The Bush administration said it was satisfied with its current terrorism alert level following an attack at a Scottish airport and two foiled car bombs in London. "I think given what we know now, we're comfortable that we're at the right posture," Michael Chertoff said during a round of talk show appearances. U.S. airports and mass transit systems are tightening security ahead of the Fourth of July holiday and more...

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'',

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.

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...

Brown shows 'quiet authority' in face of terror By Patrick Hennessy, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:06am BST 01/07/2007 Within days of taking power, the new Prime Minister is battling terrorist attacks. Patrick Hennessy reports on Gordon Brown's baptism of fire Gordon Brown is a famously early riser, preferring to stir on weekdays to the sound of Wake Up To Money on Radio Five Live, which goes out at what most of his fellow Britons would consider to be the ungodly hour of 5.30am. Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks with Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Home Office Minister for Security Admiral...

GLASGOW, Scotland — Three terrorist suspects were in police custody Sunday — and a fourth man under guard in hospital — following attacks that saw a flaming jeep crash into a Scottish airport and two car bomb plots foiled in central London.Scotland Yard said two people had been arrested in Cheshire, a county in northern England, in a joint swoop by specialist officers from London and Birmingham. In Scotland, officers arrested two men — one of them on fire — after a Jeep Cherokee rammed into Glasgow airport and burst into flames. The green SUV shattered glass doors at the...

GLASGOW, Scotland - British police announced the arrest of two people in connection with a massive terror investigation hours after a Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into Glasgow airport on Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers at the check-in counters. Police said they believed the attack was linked to two car bombs found in London the day before. The brazen attack in Scotland prompted Britain to raise its terror alert to “critical” — the highest possible level — and the Bush administration announced plans to increase security at airports and on mass transit.

U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against "airport infrastructure or aircraft," a senior US law enforcement officials tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The intelligence reports also warned that airports and aircraft in the Czech Republic could be the targets of al Qaeda-connected terrorists. The warnings were kept secret for operational reasons, according to officials. In public, the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have continued to maintain they know of no specific or credible threats involving the United States, even though the intelligence reports specify US...

Authorities per-CNN that a body has been found inside Cherokee...terrorist didn't get out.

GLASGOW, Scotland - A vehicle that crashed into Scotland's largest airport was being treated as a potential terror attack linked to two car bombs found in London, police said Saturday. One of the men driving in the car was in critical condition at a hospital for severe burns while the other man was in police custody, said Scottish Police Chief Constable Willie Rae. Rae said a "suspect device" was found on the suspect at the hospital and it was taken to a safe location where it was being investigated

GLASGOW, Scotland - One suspect from the Glasgow airport crash was in critical condition Saturday with severe burns, police said, adding that a "suspect device" was found on him. A Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into the airport earlier Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers lined up at the check-in counters. Police linked the crash to two terror plots in London. Britain raised its terror alert to "critical" — the highest possible level — and the Bush administration announced plans to increase security at airports and on mass transit. Both suspects were arrested at the...

Brown emerges from # 10. Thanks cops, fire service, everyone else, (in fact, most everyone except the Royal Volunteer Coastal Lifeboat Service/) Says stay calm, leaves. Weak, wimpy, very "civil servant-like." They are breathing easier in Tehran.

Britain raises its security alert level to critical - the highest possible level indicating terror attacks are imminent.

Airport alert causes travel chaos The airport was evacuated following the alert Glasgow Airport has been closed and all flights have been suspended after a blazing car hit the terminal building.All roads around the airport have been closed following the incident, which happened at about 1515 BST. Operators BAA Scotland warned people not to travel to the airport "until further notice". Edinburgh Airport was also closed to vehicles, though flights are operating as normal. Security has been stepped up at Glasgow Central railway station. BAA Scotland spokesman Donald Morrison said that 35,000 passengers had been expected through Glasgow Airport...

This is all over Fox, but nothing else. Can any enlighten us?