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Dramatic daylight terror raids on a university may have been linked to a plot to blow up a shopping centre or nightclub, police fear. Students at Liverpool John Moores University watched in shock yesterday as two men were hauled outside and forced to the ground by armed police.  Witnesses said the duo  -  students at the university's Business School  -  were wearing combat trousers and hiking jackets, and claimed there were rumours of 'a bomb' on the premises.  (edit) The raid was one of a series carried out simultaneously across the North-West in which 12 suspects believed to be...

GLASGOW, MONTANA... GLASGOW - Police have identified the woman shot outside a hospital in Glasgow as 37-year-old Melissa Greenhagen. Greenhagen, of Glasgow, was a part-time emergency medical technician and clerk of state district court in Valley County. She was killed Saturday evening in what police term a sniper-style shooting in the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital parking lot that wounded two others and resulted in the shooter dying later. No other names were released.

The good doctor on the day of his grand jihad Cambridge alum guilty of plotting the jihad deaths of untold numbers. Poverty Causes Terrorism Update: "Iraqi doctor found guilty of Glasgow airport bomb plot," by Steve Bird in the Times, December 16 (thanks to all who sent this in): An NHS doctor who waged a terrorist car-bomb campaign intended to kill and maim hundreds of people in London and Glasgow has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Dr Bilal Abdulla was part of a cell that set up a bomb-making factory and bought five cars to convert into firebombs...

An NHS doctor accused of the Glasgow airport attack today admitted planning to set cars on fire to give Britain a "taste of fear". Bilal Abdulla, 29, an Iraqi, said he had wanted the incendiary devices to throw the spotlight back on the devastating effect of war on his homeland. He branded the British government "democratically elected murderers" and said he wanted Muslims to escape oppression and leave Britain. But Abdulla told Woolwich crown court in London that he knew the "horror and terror" of the July 7 attacks and had not wanted to injure or kill anyone. Going into...

Two alleged terrorists threw petrol bombs and shouted "Allahu Akbar" - meaning God is great - as they drove a flaming Jeep into Glasgow airport, a court heard. The vehicle, driven by Kafeel Ahmed, a PhD student from India, smashed into the airport at 3.13pm on June 30 last year. Ahmed, 28, who died a month after the attack, had prepared a will addressed to Osama bin Laden and the leaders of jihad [holy war] in Iraq, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

Glasgow Airport bombers 'planned nightclub terror campaign' By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Last Updated: 11:23pm BST 11/04/2008 Islamic extremists planned to carry out a series of spectacular terror attacks against British nightclubs, the Old Bailey has heard. Glasgow Airport bomber's email to brother Hundreds of people at one club in London escaped death last June only because two car bombs packed with improvised explosives and gas cylinders failed to go off. Sabeel Ahmed will be deported as soon as he is released One of the devices was left directly outside the Tiger Tiger club in the capital’s Haymarket area and...

Party applause for airport hero The prime minister used part of his Labour Party conference speech to praise the airport baggage handler who restrained a terror suspect. John Smeaton accepted the applause of the Bournemouth crowd after Gordon Brown highlighted his heroic efforts. The 31-year-old shot to fame after helping police tackle a man who drove a jeep into Glasgow's terminal building. Mr Smeaton had already met Mr Brown at Downing Street and been praised by First Minister Alex Salmond. Mention of Mr Smeaton came at the start of Mr Brown's first conference address as prime minister. The prime minister...

A British born Muslim student found guilty of Islamist terrorism offences was a "wannabe suicide bomber" who police believe could have been planning to take part in alleged al-Qa'eda attacks in Canada. Mohammed Atif Siddique has been found guilty on four separate terror charges Siddique will be sentenced on Oct 23 Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, who has been described as Scotland's first homegrown terrorist, provided instruction on weapons and booby-trap bomb making over the internet, and showed videos of beheadings and suicide bombers to fellow students at the Glasgow Metropolitan College. The small town shopkeeper's son told friends that Osama...

"Here's to his heroism, his straightforward belief in right and wrong, his support for law and order, and his willingness to give a good kicking to someone richly deserving it." This shows what happens when terrorists take on more than they can chew. John Smeaton is a hero, but any Glaswegian in this situation would have done the same. As John so eloquently put it, "Glasgow does not accept this. We will set aboot ye." "Only in Glasgow do suicide bombers need rescued from the locals by the police." "John just surpassed himself on the National ITV news. The interviewer...

Terror trial hears of raid By ONLINE REPORTER August 28, 2007 A TERROR suspect was stopped at Glasgow Airport and released days before his house was raided by police, a court has heard. The High Court in Glasgow heard Mohammed Atif Siddique had been trying to fly out to Pakistan with an uncle. But after searching his cases and computer, officers found nothing connected with terrorism and released him that evening. The court heard Detective Constable Murray switched on and looked at Siddique’s laptop but found nothing more than photographs of family gatherings. He conceded he was not aware of...

Glasgow Terror Suspect Dies Updated: 23:08, Thursday August 02, 2007 The terror suspect badly burned in the failed attack on Glasgow airport has died. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is believed to have been the driver of the Jeep Cherokee which burst into flames as it was rammed into the terminal building. Scene of the failed attackAfter being doused with a fire extinguisher by an off-duty policeman, Ahmed was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley.

LONDON - A man critically burned after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died of his injuries Thursday, Strathclyde Police said. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, had been in the hospital for a month with burns from the alleged attack on June 30, which followed a day after two failed car bombings in London. The other man in the car, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah, has been charged with conspiring to set off explosions. "We can confirm that the man seriously injured during the course of the incident at Glasgow Airport on Saturday June 30 has died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary,"...

Glasgow Airport attack man dies A man injured in the Glasgow Airport attack on Saturday 30 June has died in hospital, police have confirmed. A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said that the man seriously injured during the incident died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Kafeel Ahmed, one of two men held at the airport after a Jeep struck the terminal, died on Thursday evening. The circumstances surrounding the death have been reported to the procurator fiscal.

FREED terror suspect Mohamed Haneef was regularly in contact with Islamic radicals under surveillance by British spy agency MI5. Highly classified intelligence documents leaked yesterday reveal the former Gold Coast doctor – still considered a person of interest by British and Australian investigators – made contact using medical chat rooms, international phone cards and phone boxes. The intelligence suggests this was to avoid detection and suspicion. Leaked dossier The leaked dossier, part of the information that formed a key plank in Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews' decision to revoke Dr Haneef's visa, alleges the Indian-born doctor spoke to a number...

Gold Coast-based doctor Mohamed Haneef has been released from the Wolston Correctional Centre, west of Brisbane. He was driven out of the prison by immigration officials a short time ago. It is unclear at this stage where he is being taken. Prosecutors dropped a charge of recklessly providing support to a terrorist organisation against Dr Haneef this afternoon. Late this afternoon, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said while he had not reinstated Dr Haneef's visa, the Gold Coast-based doctor would not be moved to a detention centre. Mr Andrews says he is seeking advice on whether to reverse his decision...

Doctors use shark skin grafts to treat burned terror suspect 24.07.07 Surgeons treating the terror suspect burned in the Glasgow Airport car bomb attempt are going to use "grafts" of a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cow tendons. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is being treated at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The process is called Integra Dermal Regeneration Template. "It tricks the body into creating new skin cells," explained Steve Jeffrey, a surgeon who worked in Australia perfecting the treatment. Silicone implanted with shark skin extracts is laid on the burns for two weeks before it is removed and replaced...

Gold Coast-based doctor Mohammed Haneef has now been charged with a terrorism offence. The 27-year-old has been in Australian Federal Police (AFP) custody since his arrest almost a fortnight ago over alleged links to the recent UK terrorism plots. He has been charged with recklessly supplying a mobile phone sim card to a terrorist. Dr Haneef will face the Brisbane Magistrates Court later this morning. Yesterday afternoon AFP officers dropped a court application for more time to investigate whether Dr Haneef is linked to the failed terrorism plots in the UK, and a 12-hour questioning period began. Dr Haneef's...

A woman arrested in connection with the alleged London and Glasgow car bomb plots has been released without charge. Marwa Asha, 27, was arrested with her husband, Mohammed Asha, 26, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on the M6 motorway in Cheshire on June 30. The arrests came hours after a burning jeep was driven into the Glasgow airport terminal. The attempted attack followed the discovery of two car bombs in London that had failed to detonate. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the woman was released at 7.40pm yesterday. Muhammad Haneef, an Indian doctor who was arrested in Australia on July 2 in...

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- A suspect in the failed terror attack on Scotland's busiest airport was unlikely to survive his severe burn injuries, a doctor who treated him said Tuesday. An off-duty officer uses a fire extinguisher on s an occupant of the Glasgow attack car. Khalid Ahmed, 27, is in a Scottish hospital with burns suffered after allegedly crashing a Jeep Cherokee into the Glasgow airport a day after police found two unexploded car bombs in central London. "The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to survive," a member of the medical team that treated him...

EDINBURGH, Scotland - A man who was engulfed in flames after allegedly crashing a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders into Glasgow's airport is unlikely to survive his severe burns, a doctor who treated him said Tuesday. Police believe Kafeel Ahmed, 27, was driving the Jeep when it rammed into the airport entrance June 30, shattering the glass doors, and then ignited into a raging fire. Witnesses saw his body in flames after the attack, which came a day after police found two unexploded car bombs in central London. "The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to...

GLASGOW -- Last Saturday afternoon, baggage handler John Smeaton was standing in front of Glasgow Airport smoking a cigarette when a Jeep Cherokee burst into flames nearby. He watched its burning driver emerge. A police officer pursued the passenger. What happened next has turned Mr. Smeaton, 31 years old, into an unlikely folk hero. When he saw the passenger hitting the officer, Mr. Smeaton ran over and kicked the assailant. Mr. Smeaton has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN and other networks about his response to the attack in which two suspected terrorists attempted to ram into the airport's main...

BANGALORE: "I am involved in a large scale confidential project. It is about global warming. I cannot reveal the details. It involves a lot of travelling. I have to present a lot of papers at various places. The project has to be started in the United Kingdom. After starting it there, I will come back to Bangalore and continue it from here. Various people from various countries are involved in this. There is an Indian with me and he is helping me out. He has given his car to me for travelling. During the project work in the UK, I...

Duo who attacked Glasgow airport 'were resigned to death', say officers   (Daily Record) One of the men who attacked Glasgow airport being hosed down with a fire extinguisher. He is currently in a critical condition (Daily Record)       Adam Fresco   Two police officers today described the moment they foiled the plans of two would-be bombers to bring death and destruction to Glasgow aiport. The officers said that the two men, one of whom was trying to keep them away from the car while the other was covered in flames, “were resigned to death”. Constable Stewart...

With doctors in custody over attempted terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow, British police have now discovered a group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened an attack in the U.S. with car bombs and rocket grenades. The threat was found in an Internet chat room run by Younis Tsouli, 23, of London, one of three members of a "cyber-terrorist" gang, according to the Daily Telegraph of London.

Glasgow airport bomber left suicide note By Duncan Gardham and Richard Edwards Last Updated: 2:40am BST 05/07/2007 One of the two men accused of trying to bomb Glasgow airport left a suicide note, it was claimed last night. The focus is now on the role of Bilal Abdulla, the Iraqi doctor who was a passenger in the Jeep that rammed into the terminal at Glasgow airport Police were said to have found the note, describing the men's motives and grievances, CNN reported. Officers suspect that some of the doctors arrested in connection with the failed car bombings in London and...

BATTLING taxi driver Alex McIlveen faced down the Glasgow Airport terror suspects ... and his courage cost him his favourite pair of trainers and a £30 parking fine. Dad-of-two Alex punched and kicked the two men after they crashed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas canisters into the door of Terminal One. The 45-year-old booted one of the suspects, whose body was covered in flames, as hard as he could between the legs. But the man didn't appear to feel the blow, and a police doctor told Alex later that he'd damaged a tendon in his foot. After the drama,...

LONDON–Were they sent to Britain with malicious intent, or did the will to wreak havoc come later? That is now the central question for Britain's counter-terror command as it works to unravel the botched weekend car bomb attempts in London and Scotland. With six foreign doctors, one medical student and a former lab technician in custody after a four-day manhunt, investigators are quietly satisfied the "major suspects" in the case are in hand. The probe now is shifting focus, as Scotland Yard works to pinpoint the genesis of the plot that fell apart bloodlessly in a surreal series of events...

Several doctors arrested over the London and Glasgow car bomb plot were on the files of MI5, it was disclosed last night.At least one was on a Home Office watch list after being identified by security services - meaning their travel in and out of Britain was monitored by immigration officers. advertisement Others were found to be on the MI5 database, which contains an estimated 2,000 suspected jihadists or supporters of terrorism.Whitehall sources said they had not been involved in previous plots, but were "people who knew people'' who were under observation.The fact that they were "on the radar" was...

London, England (AHN) - Police in Britain have found a suicide note left by the men who drove a Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow's airport on Saturday. The note shows, according to police, that the men driving the vehicle full of explosives intended to die in their failed terror attack. Police also believe the two men are responsible for leaving two cars packed with explosives in central London a day earlier. The men apparently left the cars and made the six-hour drive to Scotland. Police have not said where the suicide note was found. They have identified the two suspects as...

Iowahawk Guest CommentaryBy Mohammed Asha, MDBoard Certified Gastroenterologist and former Jihad Associate, al Qaeda UKEver have “one of those days?” Sure, all of us go through the occasional rough patch, but I swear there are times when I think Allah must really have it in for me. I mean, I know the “Big Guy” is supposed to have a sense of humor, but do I always have to be the punchline?Take for example this last week. A few mates and I had been planning a big martyrdom weekend for quite a while; it’s something we first began discussing a few...

GLASGOW, Scotland - The fast-moving investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London has swept up at least five physicians and a medical student, officials said Tuesday, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket. Many of the men had roots outside Britain — with ties to Iraq, Jordan and India — and worked together at hospitals in Scotland or England, officials said. None of the plotters arrested so far is named on U.S. terror watch lists that identify potential suspects, according to a senior American counterterror official who spoke on condition of anonymity because...

With each revelation made in Britain and in the West about a foiled plot or after an actual attack, a shower of questions is raised within the mainstream media, some of which contradict the other. The June 29 British success in averting two (maybe more) car bombs in London has also been accompanied by an endless series of issues, revealing among other things how the counterterrorism culture within Western democracies is still lacking in terms of cohesiveness. By comparison with previous conflicts, the analytical behavior of the global war on terror deserves a serious review. Following are a few questions...

Threat Matrix: July 2007 June 2007 Threat Matrix Index Theat Matrix Handbook Theat Matrix 'BOLO' Invaluable Tips Preparedness US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows. He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said. But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program,...

A bomb disposal unit has performed at least two controlled explosions on a suspicious device at a hospital where one of the suspects in Saturday's Glasgow airport attack is being treated. A CNN crew stationed at the the Royal Alexandra Hospital in the Paisley area of the Scottish city heard two blasts, which occurred about an hour after a bomb disposal truck was spotted outside the medical facility. It is not clear what prompted the alert. A road around the hospital has been blocked and some staff members have been evacuated. The hospital is treating one of the bomb suspects....

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...

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...