A huge blast rocked Glasgow, Scotland's airpot terminal on Saturday as a Jeep Cherokee, rammed into the terminal. Police said that they believe the attack is connected to the attempted car bomb attacks in London from Friday.
Britain has raised its' terror alert to critical, the highest possible level, and the Bush adminstration announced plans to increase security at airports and on mass transit.
One of the men in the car was in critical condition at a hospital with severe burns, while the other was in police custody, and five bystanders were wounded, although there are reports that none of the wounded are serious condition. Police later arrested two more suspects in the London and Glasgow plots in Cheshire county in northern England, as reported by Scotland Yard on Saturday.
This should be a wake up call for all of the anti-war protestors who continue to think that you can have a dialogue with people who want you dead. It is obvious that the terrorist's are trying to do to England and other friends of the United States the same tactic as they did in Spain, where a few well placed, deadly bombs was enough for them to pull out of the Iraqi coalition.
I think the terrorist's underestimate the English people, after all these were the same people who vowed to fight Hitler's armies on the beaches, in the air, and to fight until they vanquished their attackers. These are not cowards like many of our "allies" or even like our fellow americans, who would love to surrender to the terrorist's if only we would allow them too!
The attack left passengers shaken and stranded on the first day of summer vacation for Glasgow schools. At the time of the crash, the airport was bustling with families heading out on vacation.
Meanwhile in London, police were gathering evidence from closed circuit television footage, as forensics experts searched for clues into the foiled bombings. The two Mercedes cars had been loaded with gasoline, gas canisters and nails in one of the capital's busiest areas on a night when Londoners like to go out and party. Security officials and police denied an ABC News report that they had a "crystal clear" picture of one suspect from CCTV footage.
The vehicles were found abandoned in the early hours of Friday in what police believe was an attempt to kill scores or even hundreds of people. Detectives said they were keeping an open mind about the bombers' identities, but terrorism experts said the signs pointed to a cell linked to or inspired by al-Qaida.
One car was abandoned outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub on Haymarket in the heart of London's entertainment district. The other had been towed after being parked illegally on nearby Cockspur Street and was discovered in an impound lot about a mile away in Park Lane, near Hyde Park.
London police said extra officers were being deployed at landmarks, airports, train stations and bus terminals across the capital Sunday, and had been ordered to step up the use of stop and search powers. Armed police would patrol at major rail stations, it said.
In the New York area, officials at the airports went on a heightened state of alert and police manned vehicle checkpoints. No threats had been made against the airports, said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Brown came to office pledging to win back the support of voters disenchanted over the Iraq war. But he backed Tony Blair's decision to send troops to Iraq in 2003 and has shown support for greater anti-terror measures that have angered Britain's some 1.8 million Muslims.
The Glasgow incident carried reminders of a foiled plot in December 1999 to attack Los Angeles International Airport, when customs agents stopped an Algerian-born man in a car packed with 124 explosives. He was jailed for 22 years and prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium.
This is just one more reminder that people are out there that want to kill us and our allies and will keep coming until they succeed, unless we end their existence first! We are going to Live or Die by the choices that we make over the next few months and we must hope that we get it right each and everytime or we may have another 3,000 Americans dead underneath the rubble of another huge building.
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