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Enlarge ImageThe 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 before Saturday's attack.
Detectives are linking the failed bombings, and the UK remains on high alert.
Police said the two latest arrests were as a result of "intensive police operations in the Paisley area".
Assistant Chief Constable John Malcolm, of Strathclyde Police, said: "This continues to be a fast-moving investigation and I am grateful to the public for their perseverance and support during these difficult times.
He added: "I would continue to urge people to be vigilant."
Daniel Gardiner, director of a Paisley-based letting agency believed to have rented out a house to one of the suspects, said officers had traced his company after tracking phone records linked to the foiled London car bomb attacks.
"The police wanted to know why we had dialled a certain phone number. They had the phone records from the situation down in London," he said.
Severe burns
Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, who worked as a junior doctor at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, and a 27-year-old woman believed to be his wife, were both arrested on the M6 in Cheshire on Saturday night.
On Monday, Staffordshire Police began searching a property in Priam Close, in Bradwell, two miles from Chesterton, where Dr Asha lived.
Another 26-year-old man was arrested in Liverpool on Sunday.
Warrants have been issued which allow police to further detain the three people, who are being held at Paddington Green police station, until Saturday.
Two men were also detained at Glasgow airport on Saturday after the attempted attack.
One had severe burns and remains in a critical condition, and under armed police guard, at Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley.
The first five people arrested are believed to be of Middle Eastern nationalities.
Extra delays
The terror alert level was raised to critical - its highest level - after a Jeep Cherokee, loaded with gas cylinders, crashed into the doors of Glasgow airport's main terminal and burst into flames on Saturday afternoon.
Detectives are trying to trace the movements of the green vehicle - registration L808 RDT - which crashed into the airport.
The attempted attack in Paisley came a day after two Mercedes containing petrol, gas cylinders and nails were found outside a nightclub in London's Haymarket and in a nearby street.
The devices failed to detonate.
In other developments:
Progress
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith defended the decision not to raise the terror alert level to critical earlier in the light of suggestions that the new Brown administration could be a target.
She told the BBC that decisions on the level of alert were taken by an independent committee, which properly raised the level to critical after attempted bombings.
She said the government had put sufficient focus on counter-terrorism and was looking at ways of "tackling the ideology that recruits people to terrorism" and at further legislation.
Ms Smith, who will make a statement to MPs in the Commons on Monday afternoon, also said she was encouraged by the progress of the police investigation into the attacks.
Earlier, Ms Smith had declined to comment on reports that US Intelligence had recently warned the UK that Glasgow could be a target.
Police have urged anyone with information to phone the confidential Anti-Terrorism hotline number on 0800789321.
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