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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...

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...

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?

LONDON: A blazing suicide car-bomb and self-immolation, by at least two men of Asian appearance, at the airport in the Scottish city of Glasgow has escalated Britain's fear of a wave of terrorist attacks targetted [sic] at it. The blazing car, described as a Cherokee jeep, was driven at high speed at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport. Police confirmed the incident and said three men had been arrested.

Breaking news on Fox: SUV loaded with explosives explodes in front of Glasgow airport.

LONDON (Reuters) - A four-wheel-drive vehicle crashed into the main terminal at Glasgow airport on Saturday and exploded in flames, a day after police foiled a possible al Qaeda plot to detonate two car bombs in central London. A Glasgow police spokeswoman said there were no immediate reports of any injuries and said the blaze was under control. Witnesses told the BBC that the vehicle, a Land Rover or a Jeep Cherokee, had exploded shortly after crashing into the glass front doors of the terminal, and said there was a heavy stench of petrol. "It raced across the central reservation...

Two people are being held after a burning Jeep was rammed through the terminal building at Glasgow airport. Gordon Brown is to chair a COBRA emergency meeting this evening in response to the terror strike, which came after two car bombs were found in London. Holidaymakers reported hearing a series of loud "bangs" and saw two men - one of whom was on fire - emerge from the vehicle. The man on fire was knocked down by a member of the public before he was arrested by police. There are reports of several injuries. The man on fire was taken...

With the new attack on Glasgow Airport, here’s Keith Olbermann last night, speaking with “terrorism expert” Larry Johnson and scoffing at the London car bombs: Video: Olby and Larry Johnson shrug at the “non-event in London”.VIDEO

U.S. airports will see an increased presence of local police and federal security officials amid heightened vigilance following an explosion in Glasgow and a bomb alert in London, the White House said on Saturday. White House spokesman Tony Snow said there was no indication of any specific U.S. threat, and the federal government's color-coded rating of the threat of a terrorist attack was not being increased. However, Snow said there will be an added presence of security officials for the sake of vigilance and travelers can expect some delays.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Two men tried to ram a sport utility vehicle with flames pouring from it into the main terminal of Glasgow airport on Saturday, crashing into the glass doors at the entrance and sparking a fire, witnesses said. Police said two suspects were arrested. The green SUV barrelled toward the building at high speed before crashing into security barriers. Witnesses said two men fled the SUV, one of them engulfed in flames. Two men were arrested, Strathclyde Police spokeswoman Lisa O'Neil said. The British Broadcasting Corp. says the Glasgow airport - the largest in Scotland - was...

Blazing car crashes into airport The car was ablaze before crashing into the building Man 'tackled driver' A car on fire has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, police have confirmed.Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath. They have also described seeing two Asian men, one of whom was on fire, who had been in the car. Strathclyde Police said two people had been arrested and detained in connection with the incident. The airport has been evacuated and all flights suspended following the...

CNN is reporting a car on fire has driven into a terminal building at Gasglow Airport in Scotland.

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...

A row broke out last night over the state of Britain's hospitals after a retired consultant complained that his wife received far better treatment in India. Opposition parties accused Labour of running down the NHS and failing to put patients first. The dispute was sparked by the contrasting experience of Mark Ziervogel, 70, and his wife Toni, 66, in hospitals in India and Glasgow. She received specialist treatment in two medical centres in India after suffering a serious head injury when she fell off a bicycle in Rajasthan in February. Her husband, a former consultant radiologist, said the hospital in...

COPS marched four Asian men off a plane after a passenger said their behaviour made him nervous. The men — in Islamic robes — were arguing in a foreign language and then all went to the toilet, one after the other. A fellow traveller on the Luton to Glasgow easyJet flight demanded they be kicked off — just as the plane was to taxi to the runway. Cabin crew alerted the captain and cops were called, who took the men, all in their 20s, off the plane. Everyone else on board was then ordered off with their hand luggage while...

Three convicted of boy's race-hate murder By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent Last Updated: 4:54pm GMT 08/11/2006 MP's quest to bring killers to justice Three members of a violent Asian gang have been jailed for life after being found guilty today of the racist abduction and murder of a 15-year-old schoolboy. Kriss Donald: wrong place at the wrong time Kriss Donald died because of the colour of his skin, and because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The teenager, described by his family and friends as a loving and gentle boy, was playing truant from school when...

Nearly 50 percent of men in Scotland who pay for sex at home or abroad have a partner and the percentage could be greater, researchers said on Monday. One in 10 men questioned in a survey in Glasgow admitted that they had paid for sex recently and 27 percent said they repeatedly visited prostitutes. "Approximately half of all men paying for sex were in a concurrent relationship," said Dr Tamsin Groom, of the Sandyford Initiative in Glasgow, in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The men visited prostitutes abroad or at home but rarely did both. Most used condoms but unprotected...

A PROFESSOR of engineering is to destroy a Glasgow tower block in an effort to understand why the Twin Towers collapsed in the 9/11 attacks. Jose Torero, Professor of Fire Safety Engineering at Edinburgh University, will set the disused building in the east end of Glasgow alight and study the effects. He and his team will fill a room in the tower with hundreds of pounds of sophisticated equipment, including heat and light sensors, along with nine miles of cable in an effort to examine the effects of a raging fire in a multi-story tower block. His colleagues will also...

Muslim business travellers are boycotting Glasgow airport, according to a leading Scottish figure. Bashir Mann, from the Muslim Council of Great Britan, complained of heavy-handed and humiliating searches by anti-terrorist police officers. Dozens of executives have said they are no longer prepared to fly from Scotland and are using Manchester instead. Strathclyde Police said it was looking at training to raise awareness of cultural and religious sensitivities. Mr Mann said: "I'd never experienced anything like that before in Scotland. "This was a show of sheer discrimination, victimisation of certain sections of the community in Scotland." Glasgow businessman Mohammed ashraf said...

AT LEAST 400 Al-Qaeda terrorist suspects — double the previous estimates — are at large in Britain, according to police and MI5. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, director-general of MI5, has said the figure could be as high as 600 if all those thought to have returned from combat training in camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere are included. The new assessment — effectively a “terror audit” of Britain — was confirmed this weekend by one of Britain’s most senior police officers, who warned that shortages of trained surveillance teams were undermining attempts to monitor all the suspects. “With about 400...

Students from St. Louis de Montfort Acadmeny pose for a picture in front of Dunnottar Castle, on the east coast of Scotland. Around Scotland for Our Ladyby Paul FolleyUntil recently, it would have been rash to travel around staunchly Presbyterian Scotland handing out fliers about Our Lady. However, times have changed and what the eight of us, consisting of myself and seven American high school students from the TFP-staffed Saint Louis de Montfort Academy in Pennsylvania, proposed to do for three weeks in June 2005 was precisely that. We would start in Glasgow and work east to Edinburgh, and...

An man who routinely scratched the side of cars with a key claiming it was art has admitted his story is a hoax. Mark McGowan, 37, claimed he had "keyed" nearly 50 cars in Glasgow and in the Camberwell area of London. But the Londoner has now admitted he made it all up after police launched an investigation and a Glasgow gallery where he had been hoping to display his work refused to acknowledge him. Mr McGowan, who describes himself as the British David Blaine, said: "I never keyed any cars - it was just an art project that has...

THE MURDER CITY Nov 27 2003 Glasgow is the western European killing capital By John Mceachran GLASGOW was yesterday branded the murder capital of western Europe by shock new figures. The horror statistic was revealed alongside damning evidence that the number of illegal killings murders and culpable homicides in Scotland has soared while the conviction rate has plummeted. A report from the Scottish Executive confirmed thatthe number of people dying in violent incidents had rocketed to its highest level since 1995. Most deadly attacks were fuelled by booze or drugs and stabbings were the main cause of fatal injuries. There...

-snip- A most disturbing story from Scotland has not received the attention it should have done south of the border. Last March, a 15 year-old schoolboy, Kriss Donald, was snatched from a Glasgow street by a gang of Asians, driven away and murdered, and his body was then set on fire. He was singled out in this way and murdered simply because he was white. At the High Court in Glasgow last week, Daanish Zahid was found guilty of his abduction and murder, which has been described as a racially motivated crime. However, as the Scotsman reported, six months before...

"Frankfort's hazy halls and gathering rooms have been fully displayed at the same time legislators are considering bills that would put a stop to local smoking bans such as Lexington's. Nunn said his idea for a smokeless Capitol had nothing to do with the other proposals. Nunn said he wants to protect women, children and fellow lawmakers such as Rep. Robin Webb, D-Grayson, who is allergic to smoke. The two legislators said they have unsuccessfully asked members of the Legislative Research Commission to adopt an internal policy that would safeguard the public. "I'm not for an outright ban, but just...

<p>GLASGOW, Ky. — After a trip home that retraced the steps of his life and a final ringing endorsement of his style and service, former Gov. Louie Nunn was remembered yesterday as the last of Kentucky's great personal politicians — and one of its more willful.</p>

<p>FRANKFORT, Ky. - The state capital said goodbye to Louie B. Nunn yesterday, remembering the former governor as a tenacious and courageous politician, as a demanding and inspiring boss, and as a tender and tough father.</p> <p>"Our father, to me, was the John Wayne of Kentucky politics - always doing what he thought was right, never afraid to take a stand," Nunn's son, state Rep. Steve Nunn, said at a Capitol rotunda service for his father, who died Thursday.</p>

<p>C-J file photos Former Gov. Louie B. Nunn rode in his inaugural parade in Frankfort in 1967.</p> <p>From left, Steven, Jennie Lou and Beula Nunn, Louie B. Nunn's son, daughter and wife, respectively, stayed warm during the governor's inauguration in December. The day started chilly and gray, but thousands gathered for the event.</p>

[NOTE: personal info deleted from this message to protect the original author from harassment.] Our Diocesan Synod has just supported a motion to ask the Primus (Primate of Scotland), to convey to the Primates meeting in October that this Synod wishes to recognise the variety of understandings and practices in the Anglican Communion and hopes that the Primates will support this. This is in support of the New Westminster and ECUSA General Convention's actions. An amendment to delete 'practices' was overwhelmingly defeated.....................this would have been a compromise but the liberal establishment would have none of it. I'm feeling completely bushwacked-...

IF THE only thing worse than being talked about is not to be talked about at all, George Galloway might, in Oscar Wilde’s opinion, have had something to smile about yesterday. But whether the publicity-loving MP for Glasgow Kelvin would have been happy had he eavesdropped on the chatter in his constituency yesterday, one can only speculate. For of all the questions being asked about the Telegraph’s allegations , one was being shouted louder than most. "What is the motivation behind George Galloway’s visits to the Middle East, anyway?" asked Bill Watson, 45, an English teacher and constituent of Mr...

GEORGE Galloway has enjoyed considerable success in the courts during his political career, winning an estimated total of £250,000 in libel damages. In some cases, the disputes have been settled before they reach the courts, but the Labour MP has proved time and again he will call on expensive lawyers when crossed. Mr Galloway’s biggest libel win was against the Daily Mirror and its sister paper in Scotland, the Daily Record, in December 1992. It followed the so-called "Mirrorgate" affair in which a US journalist claimed the Daily Mirror’s then foreign editor, Nick Davies, had been involved in arms dealing...

GEORGE Galloway said last night that he is ready to take on the Labour Party and fight the next election as an independent, as he launched a libel action against claims that he was in the paid service of Saddam Hussein. The maverick Labour MP has said he will make the new Glasgow Central constituency into a stronghold of "real Labour values" if he is thrown out of the party for his attacks on Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, during the Iraq war. As he started legal action against the Daily Telegraph, it last night printed what was billed as...

THE Attorney-General is considering action against the money-raising appeal set up by George Galloway which is at the centre of allegations that he was bankrolled by Saddam Hussein. As the Labour MP began legal action for libel over the claims that he had received £375,000 a year from the Baghdad regime, The Times has learnt that Lord Goldsmith, QC, is studying a separate complaint against him. It is based on an article in The Times showing that Mr Galloway promised to spend all the money raised by the Mariam Appeal on treating sick Iraqi children, but later used it to...

Here's what we have on the Dishonourable Mr. Galloway: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897994/posts Labour Investigates Iraq Cash ClaimSky News ^ | 4/22/03 | Sky News     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886368/posts Or: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886136/posts Victim of Saddam makes Galloway shut up (Galloway alert!) The Telegraph ^ | Filed: 06/04/2003) | unknown     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885700/posts British MP Galloway used fund for leukaemia girl to pay for Iraq trips (sickening) The Times (of London) ^ | April 05, 2003 | Dominic Kennedy     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897567/posts Galloway was in Saddam's pay, say secret Iraqi documents (PACIFISTS ON SADDAM PAYROLL)The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2003 | David Blair  ...

Saddam Hussein rejected a request from George Galloway for more money, saying that the Labour backbencher's "exceptional" demands were not affordable, according to an official document found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad. The letter from Saddam's most senior aide was sent in response to Mr Galloway's reported demand for additional funds. This was outlined in a memorandum from the Iraqi intelligence chief disclosed yesterday in The Daily Telegraph. Mr Galloway denies receiving any money from the regime. He claims that any documents purporting to show this are forgeries planted by western intelligence agencies to try to discredit him. The...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/13/02 Kabul, Mahi Par, Kandahar, Ramallah, Jeddah, Baghdad, Iraq, Other specie update from Ayutthaya, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Puno, Peru, Phichit, Bangkok Morigaon, India, Glasgow, Scotland, Buenos Aires ==Kabul, Afghanistan == In Kabul, at the bodybuilding club. Weightlifters were freed by the USA and can now train without traditional Afghan clothing. Someone send this to Arnold. In Afghanistan, between Kabul and Jalalabad, Afghans guard Mahi Par, a road crucial to commerce. In Kabul, the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is back. The women of Afghanistan should have...