Members of the forensic team look at the back of the burnt out Cherokee Jeep with the three gas canisters the vehicle carrying stand on the ground at Glasgow International Airport Glasgow Scotland Sunday July 1, 2007 . The vehicle rammed and burst into flames in a terror attack Saturday that police linked to a foiled car bomb plot in central London the previous day. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
U.K. police make 5th terror arrest
The two men from the Glasgow attack were in police custody Sunday, one of them under guard in the hospital after being engulfed in flames when the Jeep crashed into the airport.
Early Sunday, police arrested two people — a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman — on a major highway in Cheshire, northern England, in a joint swoop by officers from London and Birmingham, Scotland Yard said in London. A fifth suspect was arrested in Liverpool, police there said.
Police said officers were searching a residential area about a mile from the airport. In Houston, a small town just outside Glasgow, police cordoned off the area around a two-story house to search it.
Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's justice secretary, said the two Glasgow attackers were not "born and bred here."
"Any suggestion to be made that they are homegrown terrorists is not true," he said.
Lord Stevens, London's former police chief, called it a major escalation in the campaign waged by Islamic militants.
In a column in Sunday's News of the World newspaper, he wrote that the terrorists are using "the same technology, the same bomb-making techniques, the same operating methods as their brothers-in-arms in both Baghdad and Bali," referring to the 2002 and 2005 attacks on the Indonesian resort island that killed more than 200 people.
John Smeaton, who saw the attack, said the man shouted "Allah, Allah" as he was detained.
