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UK cops arrest more suspects
02/07/2007 13:38 - (SA)
Glasgow - Police investigating a weekend car bomb attack at Glasgow airport have arrested two more people, a spokesperson said on Monday.
The arrests of the men aged 28 and 25 brought to seven the total number of people held since a blazing Jeep rammed the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport on Saturday.
The attack has been linked to a foiled double car bombing in London.
On Friday, authorities thwarted co-ordinated bomb attacks in central London after an ambulance crew outside a nightclub spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes that turned out to be rigged with gasoline, gas canisters and nails. A second Mercedes filled with explosives was found hours later in an impound lot, where it had been towed for parking illegally.
Late on Saturday, police arrested a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman on a highway in Cheshire, northern England, police said. In Liverpool, police also arrested a 26-year-old man and searched two homes.
"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," Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorist unit, said in Scotland.
"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."
Britain raised its terror alert to "critical" - the highest possible level - and the US homeland security chief, Michael Chertoff, said on Sunday that air marshals would be added to overseas flights.
- AFP
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