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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=2132772005

Sun 23 Oct 2005

"Scots told to be on alert for al-Qaeda terror attack"

MURDO MACLEOD
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "POLICE in London have arrested three men on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities as Scots were warned that they are not immune from al-Qaeda attacks.

Scotland Yard said the three men, in their early 20s, who were not identified, were detained on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation" of terrorist acts.

Police said the arrests were not linked to the July bomb attacks on London, which killed 52 people and four suicide bombers.

Two men were arrested on Friday at homes in west London and Chatham, south of the capital, while the third man reported voluntarily to police. Detectives were searching the two homes and a third property, also in west London.

The move came as leading security experts warned Scots to be on the alert against Islamist extremists. Jim Brooks, a vice-president of London-based security consultants Control Risks Group, warned that Edinburgh and Glasgow possessed the kind of internationally famous targets that would attract terrorist attention.

Brooks, who served with the US Navy Seals special forces, was in Scotland to address business executives."