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Fifth terrorist suspect arrested in Britain
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 Discuss this report in the RINF forums >
A person was arrested in the British city of Liverpool in connection with the attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, police reported Sunday, bringing the total number of suspects detained to five. Details were not yet known about the Liverpool arrest. The four previous arrests included two men who were in a burning vehicle driven into Glasgow airport Saturday and two suspects arrested in Cheshire in connection with Friday’s discovery of two car bombs in London. The fifth arrest comes as British police were searching for terrorism suspects at several houses near Glasgow airport, British media reported. Lord Stevens, an adviser to the new British government, stated that there was a connection between terrorist activities in Iraq and recent attempts in Britain, the British Sunday News of the World reported Sunday. The report cited Lord Stevens as saying Friday and Saturday’s would-be attackers in Britain were using the same bomb-making techniques that are used in the current Iraq insurgency and in the Bali terrorist attacks in 2005. The British adviser said that it was not credible that disaffected young British Muslims were simply learning terror methods over the internet, but rather the tactics were being ‘imported from Baghdad.’ In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the failed car bomb attacks were attempts to kill many people and cause major damage. The new prime minister, who replaced Tony Blair on Wednesday, said that it is clear Britain is confronted by people with connections to the al-Qaeda terror network. ‘The first duty of the government is the security and safety of all the British people, so it is right to raise the level of security at airports and in crowded places in the light of the heightened threat,’ the prime minister said. Britain’s threat level is ‘critical,’ the highest level and one that indicates that attacks are ‘imminent.’ Brown warned that the terrorist threat will be ‘long-term and sustained’ and he asked the public to be ‘constantly vigilant.’ ‘We have to fight it in a number of different ways - militarily, by security, by police, by intelligence,’ Brown said. ‘We’ve got to also fight it as a battle of hearts and minds. On Saturday a Jeep Cherokee was driven into the curbside doors of the airport’s terminal building. The vehicle burst into flames as it crashed into the glass front doors of the check-in terminal about 3:15 pm (1415 GMT) but it did not fully explode. The car did not completely enter the terminal building, but the ensuring fire did extensive damage. One person was slightly injured. One of the two suspects arrested after climbing out of the blazing Jeep was being treated at Royal Alexandria Hospital in nearby Paisley. Scottish Police Chief Constable William Rae said the suspect had suffered severe burns and was in critical condition. Witnesses said that the man’s hair and much of his clothes and skin were burned off. The second suspect arrested at the airport was being held at high- security Govan police station. Scottish police said late Saturday that the attack on Glasgow Airport seemed linked to Friday’s two foiled car bombings in London. ‘There are clearly similarities,’ Rae told a press conference. ‘And we can confirm that this is being treated as a terrorist incident.’ In both the London and Glasgow attacks, automobiles appeared to have been rigged as fuel-air bombs, fuelled by both petrol and propane gas. Broadcaster BBC reported late Saturday that the wreckage of the Jeep Cherokee contained several propane cylinders, as did the undetonated London car bombs. Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: Fifth terrorist suspect arrested in Britain This entry was posted on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 1:14 pm and is filed under Breaking News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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