Police Chase Glasgow Attack Suspects

Burning Car Crashed Into Airport Terminal; 5 Arrested, One In Hospital

(CBS/AP)  British police raided buildings near Glasgow and in central England and made a fifth arrest on Sunday, as the hunt intensified for suspects in the fiery attack on the Scottish city's airport and foiled car bombings in London.

On Saturday, two men rammed a flaming Jeep into the main entrance of Glasgow airport, shattering the glass doors and sparking a raging fire just yards away from people lined up at check-in counters.

On Friday, police thwarted an apparent plot to set off a coordinated bomb attack in central London when an ambulance crew outside a nightclub spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes that was found to be rigged with explosives. They found a second Mercedes filled with explosives hours later.

"We are learning a great deal about the people involved in the attacks here in Glasgow and in the attempted attacks in central London. The links between them are becoming ever clearer," said Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorist unit.

"I'm confident, absolutely confident, that in the coming days and weeks we will be able to gain a thorough understanding of the methods used by the terrorists, the way in which they planned their attacks and the network to which they belong."

The two men from the Glasgow attack were in police custody Sunday, the apparent driver under guard in Royal Alexandra Hospital with severe burns. Glasgow's Assistant Chief Constable John Malcolm said they were the only two in the Jeep.

A road in front of the hospital was closed Sunday as police carried out the controlled explosion, and ambulances were taking emergency patients to another hospital, police said. All other wards were open, police said. No explosives were found.

Early Sunday, police arrested two people — a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman — on a major highway in Cheshire in a joint swoop by officers from London and Birmingham. Staffordshire Police Chief Superintendent Steve Loxley said officers raided addresses in the central town of Newcastle-Under-Lyme near the highway where the two were arrested.

A fifth suspect, a 26-year-old man, was arrested in Liverpool, and two homes were searched there, police said.

The latest police searches were taking place in a residential area about seven miles west of central Glasgow, police said in a brief statement. That is about one mile from the airport.

"We can confirm as part of the ongoing inquiry into the incidents in Glasgow airport and London, a number of houses in the Renfrewshire area are being searched," it said.

CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports that neighbors said a house being searched was rented a month ago to two Asian men.

"Al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Baghdad and Bali to the streets of the UK," said Lord Stevens, a former London police chief and Brown's terrorism adviser.

The new terror threat presents Brown with an enormous challenge early in his premiership — at a time of already heightened vigilance one week before the anniversary of the July 7, 2005, London transit attacks.

Brown, a Scot who replaced Tony Blair as prime minister on Wednesday, urged Britons to remain "constantly vigilant" about security. He said "Everything is being done in our power ... to protect people's lives."

"We will not yield, we will not be intimidated, and we will not allow anyone to undermine our British way of life," he told the British Broadcasting Corp. in a TV interview.

Glasgow police chief Willie Rae said a suspicious device was found on a man wrestled to the ground by officers at Glasgow airport and hospitalized in critical condition with severe burns. Despite speculation about a suicide belt or explosives, police later said the item had been found to be safe.

John Smeaton, who saw the attack, said the man shouted "Allah, Allah" as he was detained.

Police did not say whether the SUV that struck Glasgow airport was carrying explosives, but photographs of forensic officers inspecting the charred vehicle on Sunday showed several gas canisters next to it.

"What you've also got in Glasgow is ... an Iraqi-style bomb where you're going for a fortified target, and the fortified target was the airport lounge," former Scotland Yard Commander John O'Connor said on Face the Nation. "They couldn't just leave the car there, walk away, make the call to the mobile phone to complete the circuit and detonate, because it would have been seen immediately. So the only way they could deliver that, in as a destructive way as possible, was to drive it straight through up to front doors, a possible drive through the front doors, and then detonate on impact."

Glasgow airport reopened Sunday, although some flights were canceled. Cars were not allowed to drive up to the terminal building, and a tow truck arrived to remove the crashed Jeep.

Security also was stepped up at three of London's main airports — Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted — as officials severely restricted access to drop-off and pickup areas used by cars, searched some vehicles, and urged people to travel to airports by public transportation.

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[tundraline]

Chertoff is a joke. King George and Mr. Five-Deferement Cheney are our incompetent nincompoop marvels of Chickenhawkdom. Iraq has been a debacle from the get-go. Three thousand American soldiers' lives have been thrown away, and over $1,000,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money has been squandered on an ungrateful people who still live in the Stone Age. Now with Islamic terrorists stalking the world in search of soft targets, our southern border remains wide open, and our country is thick with illegal aliens from all over the globe. Who among them is a terrorist? How would we know? How would we find them? Several thousand illegal aliens from the Mideast have been apprehended along the US/Mexico border since 9/11. Mr. Chertoff, King George and Mr. Five-Deferement Cheney are incompetent, for otherwise the number one breach in our nation's security -- the unprotected US/Mexico border -- would be receiving a lot more attention and resources. So while those arriving by air into our country are strip-searches, tens of thousands illegal aliens skip across our southern border every day at will and unopposed. They include pregnant illegal aliens carrying drop babies, drug runners, criminals, child molesters, terrorists and, of course, the millions of uneducated, unskilled, non-English-speaking dregs of Latin American society who will drag our country down into third status much sooner than we would like to think. WHERE'S THE FENCE?????

[tundraline]

Chertoff is a joke. King George and Mr. Five-Deferement Cheney are our incompetent nincompoop marvels of Chickenhawkdom. Iraq has been a debacle from the get-go. Three thousand American soldiers' lives have been thrown away, and over $1,000,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money has been squandered on an ungrateful people who still live in the Stone Age. Now with Islamic terrorists stalking the world in search of soft targets, our southern border remains wide open, and our country is thick with illegal aliens from all over the globe. Who among them is a terrorist? How would we know? How would we find them? Several thousand illegal aliens from the Mideast have been apprehended along the US/Mexico border since 9/11. Mr. Chertoff, King George and Mr. Five-Deferement Cheney are incompetent, for otherwise the number one breach in our nation's security -- the unprotected US/Mexico border -- would be receiving a lot more attention and resources. So while those arriving by air into our country are strip-searches, tens of thousands illegal aliens skip across our southern border every day at will and unopposed. They include pregnant illegal aliens carrying drop babies, drug runners, criminals, child molesters, terrorists and, of course, the millions of uneducated, unskilled, non-English-speaking dregs of Latin American society who will drag our country down into third status much sooner than we would like to think. WHERE'S THE FENCE?????

[redhand4]

If non muslims are infidels and devils how can we trust the ''good'' muslims ,they don't seem to want to help turn their murdering brothers and sister terrorists in to the police, they all must go to a mosque somewhere they are known and most of these ''mr. inmans '' seem to preach hate against the infidels. Round them all up citizen or not and send them back to camel land.

[sigotratando]

Even tho, in my opinion, the following book is written from a hard-right position, it is nevertheless pertinent.

"While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within" by Bruce Bawer

[bmsbms29]

I hate it that the terroists are attacking Great Britain like they are. But the terroists will attack whereever they can. And there are a lot of muslims (good & bad) in G.B.

This is another reason why we need to continue fighting in Iraq. The minute we leave, the terroists will take over Irag. And will be able to prepare greater forms of terroists attacks.

We have great security in the U.S. and it doesn't matter how many of our troops are here or fighting in Iraq or elsewhere. if the terroists want to attack here, they will.
We just need to keep up our surveillance but be much more observant. Military, Police, Firemen, AND especially the rest of the U.S. citizens.

We can't just leave our surveillance to others.

Be Watchful!

[missingamerica]

Bad guys, but fortunately incompetent.

[acauble1]

If it wasn't for the actions of religion...


...the daily news would be simply boring!

[shingles1]

I guess the big scary islamofacist conspiracy is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. The last few big terrorist attemps, after the initial media frenzy, end up turning out to be the work of some pathetic borderline retarded people.

Well, at least we're fighting them in Iraq so that we don't have to fight them here, right.

[jn122736]

These can't be a terrorist attacks. Bush and Blair have them all to busy fighting in Iraq.

[usa1881]

Ship the sorry lot of Muslims out of Britain forever.

They want to be roaches, it is time that they went back to their roach motels, whether they be in Palestine, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Syria or the sewer pit in the ground.

Enough of their excuses. We in the West have been tolerant of them and their throat slitting, honor killing, baby bombing ways for far too long.

[usa1881]

Ship the sorry lot of Muslims out of Britain forever.

They want to be roaches, it is time that they went back to their roach motels, whether they be in Palestine, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Syria or the sewer pit in the ground.

Enough of their excuses. We in the West have been tolerant of them and their throat slitting, honor killing, baby bombing ways for far too long.

[usa1881]

Time for the so-called "moderate Muslims", the 'establishment ones' and Mr. Yusuf Islam to openly and publicly denounce those who would kill their fellow British citizens.

Also time for Imams there to declare a Fatwa against those who would harm and kill.

Otherwise - expel, deport, get rid of the whole D&MN lot of Muslims in England - blow up any and all Mosques associated with terrorism and terror recruitment, and send their membership packing.

Enough of tolerance - the scum don't want to be British but hate where they live, well, fine. Send them home to their bloody Palestine, or Pakistan, or Iraq or the Roach Hotel. Britain has bended over so much to be tolerant, it is time they were tolerant of Britain - or go away or die. Their choice. No excuses.

[pmnews]

Can this be Glasgow Jihadi ?

http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130687
He was not see today on ummah

or perhaps a potential threat in coming days....

[oakishpines]

if folk are 'small time' and 'struggling', whi are most front page folk 'big time' and 'got it made', esp if all those 'big time' folk used to be struggling 'small time' folk that thought life so unfair?

do most folk still make everyone pay for lunch and such though it's been proven that folk that tend to make folk pay are the folk that tend to make folk suffer and die?

[hypnotoad72]

Atrocious.

[j-whitman]

donnie900,,,, Nope, too easy

[feelfree1]

Re: "He said the men in the car got out and started throwing petrol about %u2014 that must be how it caught fire," he said.

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Has anyone ever heard of a dumber 'terror' attack than this one?

[j-whitman]

donnie900,,,, Nope, too easy

[donnie900]

But I think it has to come from them (the Israelis and the Palestinians). Because all these foreigners (not only foreign to the culture, but to the religions as well) are trying to be outside heroes, and its just gotten too old.

They have to fix it themselves.