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Car bombs made in Scotland
02/07/2007 22:06 - (SA)
London - The improvised explosives used in failed car bombings in London and at Glasgow airport were supplied from a location near the Scottish city, a security source said on Monday.
"The bomb factory was ... near Glasgow," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He did not name the exact location, but said he understood it supplied the combustible material for both the failed attack at Glasgow airport on Saturday as well as for the foiled double bombing in London on Friday.
The police have linked the attacks.
Police investigating the attack at Glasgow airport said they carried out two controlled explosions on Monday on a vehicle at Royal Alexandra Hospital in the Paisley suburb of Glasgow.
But they said it did not appear that the vehicle had been rigged with explosives material. Officers refused to give any further details or reason why they were targeting the same vehicle. Entered Britain 'legitimately'
Police said the two cars used in the foiled London attacks contained a mixture of fuel, gas cylinders and nails. Media reports said they were supposed to be detonated by cellphone.
The jeep that two men rammed into the main terminal at Glasgow airport, bursting into flames on impact and setting the building itself on fire, also contained gas cylinders, according to British media.
The security source said he also understood that all the people implicated in the plot so far entered Britain "perfectly legitimately, I think, to work inside the NHS," the state-run National Health Service.
He said he understood all the suspects in the case were from Middle Eastern countries.
British police held doctors from Iraq and Jordan on Monday among seven suspects detained since the failed attacks, British media reported, citing police sources.
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