GLASGOW, July 1: British police arrested a fifth person on Sunday after a fuel-loaded jeep was rammed into Scotland’s busiest airport in what police said was a terrorist attack linked to two failed car bombings in London.
The mode, timing and targets of the three attacks suggested a campaign linked to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s taking office earlier this week, security sources said. Mr Brown himself said he saw a direct link to radical Islamists.
“It is clear that we are dealing in general terms with people who are associated with Al Qaeda,” Mr Brown said.
Those arrested included a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman seized on a major highway in northern England on Saturday night and another man, 26, who was detained in Liverpool on Sunday.
Two more men, described by witnesses as Asians, were taken into custody on Saturday immediately after they slammed a Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow airport and set the vehicle ablaze.
Police said they had carried out a controlled detonation of a suspicious vehicle in the car park of a hospital near Glasgow where one of the two airport assailants was being treated for burns. They said the car was linked to the attack on the airport.—Reuters
