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UK Terror Watch: Flaming Car Rams into Glasgow Airport Part 2;Update – Police Have Made Two More Arrests in Cheshire, England in London, Glasgow Terror Incidents
The blazing Jeep at the doors of Terminal 1 at Glasgow Airport
Flap has opened up a new thread.
The suspect:
BBC: Blazing car crashes into airport
Photo of Glasgow Car Bomber
Man Tackled Driver Video
The latest update in the Glasgow incident:
Sources: 3 suspects in Glasgow airport incident, one dead at scene
(CNN) — Authorities believe there were three people inside a Jeep Cherokee that crashed into an entrance and burst into flames at Glasgow International Airport Saturday, and one of them died at the scene, sources close to the investigation told CNN.
William Rae, chief constable for police in Strathclyde, the province that includes Glasgow, told reporters that two people were arrested at the scene. One was in custody, he said, and a second suffered severe burns and was in critical condition at a hospital.
Sources told CNN the body of the third suspect remained in the Jeep Cherokee, which was still at the airport. (Posted 5:28 p.m.)
Stay tuned……
The Sunday British Press:
Suicide bombers hit British airport
Security staff and police grapple with one of the attackers at the airport
Terror threat ‘critical’ as Glasgow attacked
Terrorists strike Glasgow airport with car ‘firebomb’
TERROR AS CAR EXPLODES IN GLASGOW AIRPORT
More terror as bombers target Glasgow airport
Update 8:05 PM
Two more arrests made in UK Terror Attacks; police are on the move
Police: 2 additional suspects arrested in London, Glasgow terror incidents
LONDON (CNN) — Two people were arrested in Cheshire, England, in connection with a terrorist incident at Glasgow International Airport on Saturday and in the discovery of two explosives-laden cars in London on Friday, Scotland Yard said Sunday.
The arrests came in addition to two people arrested at the scene of the Glasgow incident, in which a sport-utility vehicle drove through an airport terminal entrance and burst into flames. (Posted 7:58 p.m.)
Update 8:39 PM
The Observer:How did car bombers slip through the net?
Lamine Adam, 26, his brother Ibrahim, 20 and Cerie Bullivant, 24
How did car bombers slip through the net?
For months, security services had been expecting a vehicle bomb in London. As the hunt continues, questions arise about whether the attack that came so close could have been stopped long agoAs Jacqui Smith left the Cabinet Office yesterday afternoon, she must have pondered the question most Londoners have over the past 48 hours. How, almost two years after the 7 July attacks, had the capital’s defences almost been breached by terrorists again?
As the manhunt continued for the cell responsible, attention focused on terror suspects on the run from control orders, which will raise fresh questions over the value of the government’s controversial tool for trying to protect the public. Among those being urgently sought are Lamine Adam from London, who, it was alleged during the Crevice terror trial, discussed attacking a night club. His brother Ibrahim, 20, and Cerie Bullivant, 24, have also escaped their control orders and are now said to be ‘people of interest’ to the police.
Others being sought are Zeeshan Siddiqui, 26, who, it was alleged also during the Crevice trial, has links to members of a cell jailed for plotting fertiliser bomb attacks in the south-east of England and which ihad connections to Dhiren Barot. Barot, who was jailed last year, created the ‘gas limo’ project, using bombs powered by gas canisters, that was approved by senior al-Qaeda figures.
Other suspects include Bestun Salim, who vanished from his Manchester flat last summer and is alleged to have links to Ansar al-Islam, a group linked to the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq’s most notorious insurgent leader, who was killed in a US airstrike last year.
Are any of those arrested, these guys? Like Flap mentioned yesterday……..
Update 8:48 PM
 The Latest summary from CNN:
4 now in custody in connection with terrorist incidents in Glasgow, London
LONDON (CNN) — Two people were arrested in connection with terrorist incidents in Glasgow, and London, bringing the total number of people in custody to four, Scotland Yard said early Sunday.
The arrests were made in the northern England town of Cheshire, police said. No further details were immediately available.On Saturday, a sport-utility vehicle drove into an entrance at the Glasgow International Airport and burst into flames. On Friday, two explosives-laden cars were discovered at two locations in London. Glasgow police had said Saturday night the occurrences were linked. Authorities had earlier told CNN they believed the crash in Scotland was directly linked to the same people involved in the London incident or think it is a copycat attack.
The airport incident, at a terminal check-in area about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, sparked panic at the scene and prompted increases in airport security worldwide. The British government raised the national threat level to critical, the highest level — meaning attacks are considered imminent.
Two men in the Jeep Cherokee were arrested at the scene, said William Rae, chief constable for police in Strathclyde, the province that includes Glasgow. One suffered severe burns and was taken to a hospital, where he was in critical condition. (Posted 8:14 p.m.)
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UK Terror Watch: Flaming Car Rams into Glasgow Airport; Update: U.S. Boosting Presence of Security Officials at Airports; Update: Eyewitness Reports – One of Car Bombers Fought with Police Shouting Allah Allah;Britain Raises Security Level to Critical – Another Attack Imminent; Update: Terror Suspect Dies? Or Not?; Update: Glasgow Incident Linked to London Attack Yesterday; Update: Three Suspects Involved at Glasgow – One Dead at Scene
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A view of the damage after a blazing jeep drove into a terminal building at Glasgow Airport, Scotland. “The police have been called at about 3:15 (pm) (1415 GMT) at Glasgow Airport. A car had crashed inside the terminal. It was on fire,” a police spokeswoman told AFP.
The blazing jeep, moments after the men inside had staggered out
2 men in flaming car ram Glasgow Airport
Two men rammed a flaming sport utility vehicle into the main terminal of Glasgow airport Saturday, crashing into the glass doors at the entrance and sparking a fire, witnesses said. Police said two suspects were arrested.
The green SUV barreled toward the building at full speed before crashing into security barriers. Witnesses said two men jumped out, one of them engulfed in flames. Two men were arrested, Strathclyde Police spokeswoman Lisa O’Neil said.
The airport — Scotland’s largest — was evacuated and flights suspended. Smoke and black flames rose from the car in front of the main entrance.
“The Jeep is completely on fire and it exploded not long after. It exploded at the entrance to the terminal,” witness Stephen Clarkson told the BBC. “It may have been an explosion of petrol in the tank because it was not a massive explosion.”
Two men — one of them engulfed in flames — were in the SUV, said BBC News executive Helen Boaden, who was at the airport. She said a traveler tried to restrain the man.
“Then the police came over and wrestled him to the ground — the fire was burning through his clothes — and finally put him out with a fire extinguisher,” she said.Police won’t say yet whether this was a terrorist attack or a criminal inquiry.
he scene at Glasgow Airport in this image from video Saturday, June 30, 2007. Two men tried to ram a jeep with flames pouring from it into the main terminal of Glasgow airport Saturday, crashing into the glass doors at the entrance and sparking a fire, witnesses said. Police said two people were arrested. The green SUV barreled toward the building at full speed before crashing into security barriers. Witnesses said two men fled the SUV, one of them engulfed in flames. Two men were arrested, Strathclyde Police spokeswoman Lisa O’Neil said.
But, car petrol bombs sounds familiar does it not?
Gas cylinders? “Witnesses said some of the hundreds of people in the area removed gas cylinders from the jeep before it caught fire. But there are reports the men were trying to fling petrol onto the flames.â€
Stay tuned……The outisde of the terminal building in flames after this afternoon’s explosion.Update 1:16 PM
United States has decided to boost airport security but no change in threat level according to Reuters.
Flaming Car Rams U.K. Airport; 2 Arrests
The car came speeding past at about 30 mph. It was approaching the building quickly,” said Scott Leeson, who was nearby at the time. “Then the driver swerved the car around so he could ram straight in to the door. He must have been trying to smash straight through.”
Two men were arrested, Strathclyde Police spokeswoman Lisa O’Neil said.Passengers fled running and screaming from the busy terminal, Margaret Hughes told the British Broadcasting Corp. “There was black smoke gushing out where the car had obviously been driven into the airport,” she said.
Flames and black smoke rose from the vehicle outside the main entrance. Police said it was unclear if anyone was injured. Other passengers were stranded, with at least one airplane grounded on the runway, the BBC said.
The incident also comes exactly one week before the second anniversary of the July 7 bombings that killed 52 people.
Leeson said bollards – security posts outside the entrance – stopped the driver from barreling into the bustling terminal at Glasgow’s airport.
“He’s trying to get through the main door frame but the bollards have stopped him from going through. If he’d got through, he’d have killed hundreds, obviously,” he said.
Leeson said only the nose of the vehicle made it inside the building. Richard Grey told the BBC that the vehicle was lodged into the center of the terminal’s main entrance.
“The jeep is completely on fire and it exploded not long after. It exploded at the entrance to the terminal,” witness Stephen Clarkson told the BBC. “It may have been an explosion of petrol in the tank because it was not a massive explosion.”
Two men – one of them engulfed in flames – were in the SUV, witnesses told BBC News executive Helen Boaden, who was at the airport at time. She described the men as South Asian.
Clarkson described him as a large South Asian man. “His whole body was on fire…. He was just talking gibberish,” he told the BBC.
“An Asian guy had been pulled out of the car by two police officers he was trying to fight off and they’d got him on the floor,” Grey told the BBC.
Eyewitness reports yet unconfirmed that the two Asian men where throwing petrol around the car.
Police are searching other cars in the airport looking for car bombs.
Passengers hurry away from Glasgow airport in Scotland, 30 June 2007, after a jeep on fire drove into a terminal building, police said.
Update 1:46 PM
New Prime Minister Gordon Brown to chair emergency security meeting this evening in Britain.
The United States will issue a paper statement shortly on increasing presence of security officials at American Airports.
Sky News: Glasgow situation now being treated as a “TERRORIST INCIDENT.”
Duh……looks like suicide car bombing…..
Update 2:10 PM
BBC: Blazing car crashes into airport
Photo of Glasgow Car Bomber
Man Tackled Driver Video
Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath.
They have also described seeing two Asian men, one of whom was on fire, who had been in the car.
Strathclyde Police said two people had been arrested and detained in connection with the incident.
Sky News: Hospital where Glasgow car bomb suspect was taken is evacuated.
U.S. tightens security at some airports
Some U.S. airports will tighten security in response to possible terrorist incidents in Britain, the White House said Saturday.
The U.S., however, is not raising its terror alert status, President Bush’s spokesman said. “There is no indication of any specific or credible threat to the United States — no change in the overall security level,” Tony Snow told reporters in Maine.
The Transportation Security Administration has taken steps to raise alertness at some airports, Snow said. More TSA agents will be posted outside some terminals, he said.
“There will be some inconvenience of passengers in terms of longer wait times,” Snow said. Local police also may take separate measures, he added.
A little inconvenience for safety is fine.
Homeland Security will issue a paper statement shortly.
Update 3:13 PM
Sky News: News Presser within the next hour
Eyewitness – one of two men in car fighting with police was shouting “Allah Allah.”
Security level in Britain raised to “CRITICAL” – an another attack imminent.
Update 3:44 PM
British PM Gordon Brown has just spoken: “It is right to raise the security level at airports and crowded places.”
Update 4:05 PM
New conference at 4:30 PM by British officials on Glasgow incident
CNN: Sources: Terror suspect dies; explosives-filled cars traced to Glasgow
LONDON (CNN) — One of two suspects who crashed a vehicle into an entrance at the Glasgow, Scotland, airport Saturday has died of burns suffered in the incident, sources close to the investigation told CNN.The vehicle burst into flames after the crash, and the suspect was taken to a hospital.
In addition, authorities have linked the Glasgow incident to the discovery of two explosives-filled cars in London on Friday. Sources told CNN both of those cars have been traced back to Glasgow. (Posted 3:52 p.m.)Sleeper Terror Cell on the Loose in U.K.
Counter-terrorism analysts estimate that the apparently coordinated attacks in Great Britain are work of a sleeper cell that could include as many as 20 individuals.
“You would need that many to pull off three different vehicle-borne explosions,” said one former CIA official who requested his name not be used.A massive manhunt is now underway across Great Britain for at least three suspects who officials say have been positively linked to the Friday attacks by surveillance photographs and forensic evidence, including fingerprints.
“The Brits simply are not ahead of this cell and they know it,” he said.
The two failed car bomb attacks in London Friday appear to be connected to today’s attack on the Glasgow Airport terminal, although British officials have yet to declare so officially.
Adding to the intelligence failure, analysts said, is the fact that the driver of one of the failed car bombs had been arrested three years ago and released for lack of evidence.
News Conference coming up……
Update 4:32 PM
John Lennon Airport in Liverpool closed until further notice
Update 4:38 PM
Scottish Police reading a statement:
Two men arrested one taken to Royal Alexandria Hospital – critical condition; suspect device found and hospital was evacuated; device defused; other man detained in police custody; device remains at site; airport evacuated and passengers in airplanes on Tarmack; airport remains closed; unknown when airport resumes normal service; confirms Glasgow incident linked to London incident yesterday; treating it as terrorist incident; no intelligence prior to Glasgow incident; SO-15 involved; raised security level to critical; no intelligence any further incidences of terrorism but asking public to report any suspicious activity to police; asking members of the public to come forward who witnessed incident; the hospital is business as usual; another person injured(l eg), taken to hospital; no other casualties; officers So-15 are jointly investigating matter;
Questions:
Individuals: not appropriate to tell – legal restrictions
Hospital: Device removed and taken to safe place.
Vehicle contained materials that were flammable, close forensic investigation to be undertaken; awaiting clearance from other service to approach vehicle.
Update 4:57 PM
Fox News: Might these two attacks be diversionary attacks, leaving professional Al Qaeda operatives for a greater attack to come?
Police: Suspect in critical condition
(CNN) — Two suspects were arrested after a vehicle crashed into an entrance Saturday at Glasgow International Airport and burst into flames, Glasgow police said.
One was in critical condition at a hospital and had suffered severe burns, said William Rae, chief constable for Strathclyde Police. While the man was being treated at the hospital, he said, a “suspect device” was found and the hospital partially evacuated.
The second person was in custody. Investigators did not know whether another person was in the burned vehicle, which remained at the airport Saturday evening. (Posted 4:58 p.m.)
Stay tuned
Update 5:35 PM
CNN Sources: 3 suspects in Glasgow airport incident, one dead at scene
(CNN) — Authorities believe there were three people inside a Jeep Cherokee that crashed into an entrance and burst into flames at Glasgow International Airport Saturday, and one of them died at the scene, sources close to the investigation told CNN.
William Rae, chief constable for police in Strathclyde, the province that includes Glasgow, told reporters that two people were arrested at the scene. One was in custody, he said, and a second suffered severe burns and was in critical condition at a hospital.
Sources told CNN the body of the third suspect remained in the Jeep Cherokee, which was still at the airport. (Posted 5:28 p.m.)US Warned of Glasgow Threat Two Weeks Ago
U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against “airport infrastructure or aircraft,” a senior US law enforcement officials tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
The intelligence reports also warned that airports and aircraft in the Czech Republic could be the targets of al Qaeda-connected terrorists.
The warnings were kept secret for operational reasons, according to officials. In public, the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have continued to maintain they know of no specific or credible threats involving the United States, even though the intelligence reports specify US aircraft as possible targets.
A US official told ABCNews.com that the intelligence reports led to the assignment of Federal Air Marshals to flights into and out of both Glasgow and Prague.
Air marshals had been added to flights into and out of Germany late last month, based on similar warnings.
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Flap is going to start a new thread on the Glasgow incident.
The blazing Jeep at the doors of Terminal 1 at Glasgow Airport
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Terror in London Watch: Police Have Crystal Clear Image of Car Bomber
‘Police have crystal clear video image of car bomber’
Massive man hunt underway as second bomb found
Police could have a ‘crystal clear’ video image of a man who tried to kill hundreds of people by blowing up two cars in central London.
After a second bomb was found yesterday, there are now fears that other bombs could be primed and parked around the capital.
An American television report said investigators already know the face of one of the men responsible, but police – who are still studing footage from hundreds of CCTV and congestion charge cameras – are refusing to confirm this.
It’s thought the image shows the man “staggering” from the first car after parking it outside a West End nightclub.
Flap wonders if police already know who the perps are and are urgently trying to find them. If they were confederates of Dhiren Barot might they not already be out of Britain?Let’s look at the sophistication of the failed terrorist attack:
The people leave the nightclub at 2 AM and are greeted by a fireball and shrapnel. Then, as they run the second coordinated car bomb explodes inflicting maximum casualties.
The Brits WILL catch these M/F’s and sentence them to life in prison (no death penalty). But, the British people had better look at their immigration laws, and their homeland security precautions before Flap will visit their country again.
Of course, isn’t economic harm one of Al Qaeda’s goals?
The first suspect car outside Tiger Tiger
The entrance to the car pound at the Park Lane Car Park
Last night as police hunted a new terrorist cell, a massive review of security was under way, with tomorrow’s Princess Diana memorial concert at Wembley Stadium, to be attended by Princes William and Harry, a particular concern.
The foiled bombing came just a week before the second anniversary of the Al Qaeda inspired July 7 suicide bombings on London’s transport system that left 52 innocent people dead.
A terrorist atrocity had been feared in the days leading up to Tony Blair standing down as Prime Minister but the terrorists chose instead to launch their attack within hours of Gordon Brown taking over at 10 Downing Street.
Huge areas of Central London was sealed off yesterday as forensic officers examined the scene.
The Government’s emergency response committee, Cobra, met within hours of the bomb’s discovery.
The current threat level for terrorism in the UK, set by MI5, is classed as “severe”, one level lower than the highest “critical2.
Last night police were checking for links to a massive car bomb found by French police near Aixen-Provence.
Stay tuned……
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 30, 2007
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Terror in London Watch: Explosives-Packed Car Defused; Update: UK Launches Manhunt for Failed Car Bombers; Update: A Suspect Has Been Identified on Camera; Update:3 sought after 2nd car bomb found in London
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A British police forensic officer leaves a blue operations tent that police placed over a vehicle which contains a suspected bomb in the Haymarket area near Piccadilly Circus in central London, Friday June 29, 2007. Explosives officers on Friday dealt with a suspected bomb in a vehicle parked near Piccadilly Circus tube station in central London, making it “safe,” police said. Police did not offer any details about what they called a “potentially viable explosive device” or how they dealt with it
Explosives-Packed Car Defused in LondonPolice thwarted an apparent terror attack early Friday after an ambulance crew reported seeing a smoking car parked near Piccadilly Circus that turned out to be packed with gasoline, nails, gas cylinders, and a detonator.
The explosives – safely defused by a bomb squad – were powerful enough to have caused “significant injury or loss of life” – possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.
“Forensic staff are still examining the device, but once we know more about it, we’ll know more about what type of individuals are behind this,” a British security official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
Officers were called to The Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus, after an ambulance crew – responding to a call just before 1:30 a.m. about an injury at a nearby nightclub – noticed smoke coming from the car, Clarke said.A bomb squad was called to the scene, and manually disabled the bomb.
Early photographs of the silver Mercedes showed a canister, bearing the words “patio gas,” indicating it was propane gas, next to the car. The back door was open with blankets spilling out.
Clarke said police would examine footage from closed-circuit TV cameras in the area.
Thank God the bomb was defused. But, the investigation will continue. Was this the action of Britain’s homegrown terrorists or an outside terrorist attack.
Time will tell.
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The Mercedes in which the car bomb was found. Gas cylinders can be seen at the rear of the vehicle; in the back seat were petrol canisters and there were also nails in the car.Update 9:33 AM:
Park Lane closed in London – another suspected vehicle discovered.
Update 9:53 AM
Oxford Street now closed in Central London. There is traffic mayhem. Open double decker buses are implicated.
Update 10:32 AM
London’s Hyde Park is being evacuated.
Update 10:53 AM
Fox News is reporting that Sky News is reporting: Suspicious bus on Park Lane Linked to Haymarket bomb.
Update 11:15 AM
Sky News: Remote detonator found in Haymarket Car Bomb
Breaking: Hyde Park cleared over suspicious car
Police are investigating a suspect vehicle near Hyde Park amid fears that it may be connected to a bomb defused hours earlier nearby.
A police robot is investigating a car and the eastern side of Hyde Park has been evacuated after Park Lane, which borders the park, was closed between Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner at 2.30 this afternoon. A 200m cordon was put in place, cutting off one of London’s major transport arteries and causing further traffic chaos, after reports of a suspicious vehicle.
The dramatic new development comes after an explosive device, consisting of gas cylinders and nails, was found outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub at 2am in The Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of London’s tourist district.
11:26 AM
Was London Bomb Plot Heralded On Web?
Hours before London explosives technicians dismantled a large car bomb in the heart of the British capital’s tourist-rich theater district, a message appeared on one of the most widely used jihadist Internet forums, saying: “Today I say: Rejoice, by Allah, London shall be bombed.”
CBS News found the posting, which went on for nearly 300 words, on the “al Hesbah” chat room. It was left by a person who goes by the name abu Osama al-Hazeen, who appears regularly on the forum.
11:35 AM
Awaiting news conference by London’s Metropolitan Police.
Recap: Two suspect vehicles – one a car bomb with a remote detonating device.
Update 11:47 AM
Suspicious second car being investigated as a suspected car bomb in Park Lane car park – not a bus.
Police say there was enough petrol to fill the trunk of the first car – Mercedes @ Haymarket Street.
Update 11:59 AM
Park Lane vehicle May have been getaway car; several people seen leaving Haymarket car bomb said to be detonated by cell phone remotely; police reviewing security tapes; AP is reporting that British authorities say they have found NO terrorist link.
Update: 12:14 PM
Sky News: Hero Cop May Have Saved Scores Of Lives
Sky News sources say one of the first police officers on the scene of the London West End car bomb may have saved dozens of lives by diffusing the explosives before the bomb squad arrived.
It is believed the quick-thinking cop recognised that the car was wired to blow up, jumped in and disconnected the trigger device, thought to be a mobile phone.
This backs up an eye-witness account of a police officer briefly entering the metallic green Mercedes before running for cover.
Amazing……
Stay tuned for breaking news.
When will the Metro police identify and arrest the miscreants?
Update: 12:27 PM
Sky News: Fleet Street has been closed due to another suspect vehicle discovered.
Update: 1:04 PM
British government: massive manhunt now under way.
Update: 2:00
The American FBI is now assisting the Brits in manhunt for failed car bomb suspects.
From the Counterterrorism Blog:
This type of car bombing plot is typical of other British Jihadist car bomb plots in the past, including both the July 2005 bomb plots, and the Dhiren Barot Jihadist group bomb plots.
— In July 2005, a number of bombs and components, some packed with nails to cause death and maximum injury, were recovered from a car parked by the July 7 bombers at Luton station.
— British Jihadist Dhiren Barot pleaded guilty to plotting a series of attacks, including detailed plans to explode limousines packed with gas cylinders, explosives and nails after leaving them in underground London parking garages or hotels.But, yet no links to terrorism……..
Update 2:42 PM
“It’s something you get used to, living in Londonâ€
“It’s something you get used to, living in London,†said Andrew Fowler, a 39-year-old lawyer who was sipping coffee at an outdoor café near Piccadilly Circus.
“And given the stance our government made on the war in Iraq and elsewhere, I think we are just getting used to being a target,†he said. “It’s something we have to live with.â€
Of course, it is Iraq. As if Islamic or Irish terrorists were not using car bombs before the Iraq War. Now Flap awaits some Brit to blame President Bush.
And, of course, these weapons are from Iraq – that is where they learned how to make them.
Gad, man, these Iraqi IED’s in Iraq are made in Iran and exported there.
Bomb components found in second car on London street
A second car found on a London street on Friday contained possible bomb materials, sources told CNN, hours after police disarmed an explosives-filled car in the city’s busy theater district.
The second car was towed from Trafalgar Square to Park Lane overnight, because it was illegally parked, the sources said.
At the Park Lane garage, workers called authorities when they became suspicious after news of the first incident, because the car smelled of gas.
Police and security sources say the car was found to contain components very similar to the first car — definitely fuel, and possibly much more.
They said the car is of grave concern, and could potentially be a second car bomb.
A senior U.S. official with knowledge of the London investigation told CNN the car was linked to the vehicle outside the club, and that some materials found inside the car were very similar to explosive materials found in the car near Piccadilly Circus.
A section of Fleet Street was also cordoned off briefly, then reopened without incident.OMG it might be a plot! But, by whom?
Update 3:33 PM
Awaiting Scotland Yard Newser on London Car bombs.
Accomplice of AQ henchman Barot suspected; tried to detonate bomb twice.
Sky News:Second bomb found on Park Lane; strengthens case that Al Qaeda was involved.
Update 3:48 PM
Scotland Yard explains about second Mercedes car bomb. Fuel and Nails. The two vehicles are clearly linked; there will be more police patrols; public needs to be alert and shall dial 999 if they see any other suspicious vehicles; no questions only the statement.
Second car bomb found in London’s Park Lane
A second car bomb has been defused in the heart of London sparking fears that others could be primed and parked around the capital.
The petrol, gas and nail bomb was discovered in a Mercedes apparently towed into a car park pound beneath London’s Park Lane after being found illegally parked in the West End of the city.
The discovery, in the early hours of Friday morning – at about the same time as the first car-bomb was found in Haymarket, left anti-terror detectives asking “How many more?” as thousands of officers searched the captial for other suspect vehicles – and for the terrorist cell.
Just hours before the deadly devices were found, an Islamic fanatic chillingly predicted a terror blast in London.
The chilling message, posted on a jihadist internet forum, warned: “Today, I say, Rejoice, by Allah, London shall be bombed.”
Meanwhile, an international manhunt was launched tonight to find the gang – believed to be linked to al Qaeda – that came within moments of blowing up hundreds of revellers in a London nightclub.
Update 3:59 PM
Police expect search for suspects to extend outside London.
At Haymarket: The car, believed to be a silver Mercedes, was driven into bins and the driver ran off.
Update 4:04 PM
3 sought after 2nd car bomb found in London
British authorities were seeking three men after police defused a car bomb that they said could have caused “significant injury or loss of life†overnight in London. Late Friday, police discovered a second car carrying similar explosives, British and U.S. officials told NBC News.The three men are believed to be from the Birmingham area, a center of radical Islamic unrest in Britain, said U.S. officials who had been briefed on the developments.
Islamist terrorist suspects convicted in recent London cases have spoken of moving up to more deadly fuel-air explosives, authorities said. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said earlier this year that “vehicle-borne weaponry is the greatest danger that we can face.â€
Britain’s domestic spy agency, MI5, was examining possible connections with two other foiled plots, a planned attack on a West End nightclub in 2004 and a thwarted attempt to use limousines packed with gas canisters to attack targets in London and New York, the official said.
A Most Lethal Anti-Personnel Bomb Defused: Anatomy of a Bomb in London
ABC News has learned the bomb was composed of tanks of propane, butane and 125 liters of gasoline (33 U.S. gallons), roofing nails and a fuse that initial reports indicated was constructed of simple light bulb or flashbulb filaments and designed to be triggered by a mobile telephone.
London authorities investigating the case and U.S. authorities monitoring it say the Mercedes car bomb, if correctly made, could have sent a shrapnel-filled fireball into the air, maiming and killing people in a several hundred yard radius that included a popular nightclub.
Based on an initial forensic investigation, authorities say they believe the fuel-air mixture was incorrect and ultimately led the bomb to fail.
Those folks in the nightclub Tiger Tiger should consider themselves very lucky.
New York is taking extra precautions.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the London case was reminiscent of the July 2004 case, in which terrorists planned to use gas and bomb-laden vehicles to blow up financial targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
“This looks similar to the plans that were uncovered then. But there is no indication at this time that there is a link to al Qaeda or any organized terrorist group,” Kelly said. “Our Joint Terrorism Task Force chief is in London now, talking to British authorities, and we’re going to continue to monitor over the weekend. We will have additional resources in place until we have a better understanding of what is transpiring. “
Kelly said in the aftermath of the London discovery, New York police stepped up patrols at Times Square, Herald Square, the Theater District and inside subways and instituted vehicle stops at bridges and tunnels.
Update 5:32 PM
Fox News: Police in Britain are looking for associates of Dhiren Barot because of the methods and materials of the car bombs.
August 3, 2004.[1] He was charged by the UK authorities with the following offenses:
- Conspiracy to commit murder.
- Conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by the use of radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals and or explosives.
- Possessing detailed reconnaissance on the Prudential Building in New Jersey.
- Possessing detailed reconnaissance of the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup in New York, and two notebooks with information on explosives.[6]
Barot admitted to plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, the International Monetary Fund headquarters, and the World Bank, among other targets. His accused co-conspirators are Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, 24; Abdul Aziz Jalil, 31; Omar Abdul Rehman, 20; Junade Feroze, 28; Zia ul Haq, 25; Qaisar Shaffi, 25; and Nadeem Tarmohammed, 26, Britons of Pakistani origin, most of Mirpuri descent.
Much of the information about Barot’s role in the planning of further al-Qaeda attacks came from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a prominent al-Qaeda operative captured by the Pakistani ISI. A witness stated that he attended Camp Hudaybiyah, run by the Jemaah Islamiyah group, where he was instructed in small arms training, mortars, basic explosives handling, navigation and jungle patrolling [7].
The prosecution did not dispute claims from the defence that no funding had been received for the projects, nor any vehicles or bomb-making materials acquired. [8]
On 7 November 2006 Barot was sentenced to life imprisonment, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder; it was recommended that he serve a minimum of 40 years. [9]
In May 2007 his sentence was reduced to 30 years. The Court of Appeal, headed by Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, said that the 40 year sentence was for a terrorist who planned murder by a “viable” means. It was also stated that Barot’s plot did not amount to an actual attempt and it was uncertain whether they would have succeeded and what the consequences might have been.[10]
London tonight is on tightened alert .
Update 5:42 PM
Lamine Adam, 26, his brother Ibrahim, 20 and Cerie Bullivant, 24
Sandcrawler PSA: Can We Panic Yet?
These are three of the seven terrorist suspects who are fugitives in Britain after walking away from so called control orders. If anyone has images of the other four suspects, please email them to us and we’ll post them here.
Via The Telegraph: The Government’s system of control orders for monitoring terror suspects was further undermined today after it emerged that yet another has disappeared.In a statement to Parliament, the police minister, Tony McNulty, said the unidentified man, understood to be an Iraqi, had not been seen since Monday night.
He had been on the control order since November 2005. He is the seventh of 17 men supposedly being monitored under the controversial system to go on the run….
….The Home Office, which imposes control orders on the advice of the security service, refused to say whether he was one of six Iraqis arrested in 2005 in what was believed to be the final stages of a plot to explode car bombs in the UK.
The Home Secretary was forced by the courts to water down the conditions of their orders, which came close to house arrest.
Could these be the men wanted by the Brits?
If anyone in Britain has seen these men call 0800 789 321 – Britsh Counter Terrorism Hotline.
Update 10:26 PM
Nightclub bomb alert issued two weeks ago
Nightclubs across Britain were warned they could be terrorist targets just days before yesterday’s attempted double car-bomb attack in London, The Times has learnt.
Two cars packed with petrol, nails and “patio gas†canisters were left primed to wreak destruction among London clubbers making their way home after a Thursday night out. Only the vigilance and courage of ambulancemen and police officers prevented massive loss of life.
One car, a pale green Mercedes, had been left outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket. A second, a blue Mercedes, was left a few hundred yards away in Cockspur Street, a busy thoroughfare close to Trafalgar Square. This vehicle was towed away at 3:30am on Friday to an car pound on Park Lane by unsuspecting parking officials.
Had either device gone off it would have generated a huge fireball and a shockwave spreading over 400 yards in all directions. If, as suspected, one had been primed to detonate before the other, people fleeing the first blast could have been caught by the second.
So, in other words, one car would go off and when panic ensued and people ran then the second would be set off to burn them.
But, the nightclubs were warned two weeks ago.
The manhunt continues.
The attempted bombing in London’s Haymarket area came one week before the second anniversary of the July 7 bombings that killed 52 people on London’s transportation network.
Also Friday, a London jury was expected to hand down a verdict in the case against five young men who were charged with trying to blow up city buses and trains in 2005.
The men, all from London, were arrested after police found homemade devices on trains and buses that had failed to detonate properly — sending puffs of smoke from backpacks that frightened commuters, but injured no one.
Early reports from law enforcement officials indicate that the car bomb found Friday morning may also have failed to detonate properly — causing smoke to appear in the passenger area. It was the smoke that prompted people to call explosives officers to the scene.
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- “Islamic extremistsâ€: Accomplice of AQ henchman Barot suspected in car bomb; tried to detonate twice
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Michael Ramirez on the Apple iPhone
After six months of hype, thousands of people Friday will get their hands on the iPhone, the new cell phone that Apple Inc. is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.
Customers were camped out at Apple and AT&T stores across the nation. The gadget, which combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod media player and wireless Web browser, will go on sale in the United States at 6 p.m. in each time zone.
The iphone will revolutionize the cell phone as the ipod did portable music and audio information.
Will Flap get one?
Yup…..
But, not today……
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Giuliani Notes: Rudy 29% McCain 15% Romney 12% Thompson 11% in Latest California PPIC Statewide Poll
California PPIC Statewide Survey
At the national level, Giuliani is also the front runner—with or without Gingrich in the race—according tocthe mid-June USA Today/Gallup poll, with Thompson and McCain nearly tied for second place. When California’s Republican primary likely voters were presented with a shorter list this past March thatcincluded Giuliani, McCain, Gingrich, and Romney, 33 percent supported Giuliani, 19 percent supportedcMcCain, 14 percent Gingrich, and 7 percent Romney.
Giuliani is the leading candidate today among conservatives (26%) and others (35%), and both men (27%) and women (31%). Conservatives are less likely than others to support Giuliani and more likely than others to support Romney and Thompson. After Giuliani, men are more likely than women to support McCain and Thompson, while women are more likely than men to support Romney.
The GOP NUTS:
Rudy continues to enjoy a lead in California although I suspect that it is closer than 14-18 points.
When Fred Thompson announces in the next week or so, the game will be afoot with advantage Team Giuliani. Rudy has been visible in California, campaigning in both Northern and Southern California – in fact he is in California today.
No other candidate has been as visible and been as actively contending the state.
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North Korea Watch: IAEA Inspectors Reach Nuclear Agreement
Olli Heinonen, left, deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is interviewed by the media upon his arrival at a Pyongyang hotel on Friday June 29, 2009, following his visit to the Yongbyon nuclear complex. UN nuclear monitors said Friday they were able to see all the facilities they wanted on their visit to the plutonium-producing reactor that North Korea has pledged to shut down in return for aid.
U.N. inspectors, North Korea reach deal
The U.N. nuclear watchdog and North Korea have reached an agreement on how the agency will monitor and verify shutdown of the country’s main nuclear reactor, a top official said Friday.
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency returned Friday to the North Korean capital from a two-day trip to the Yongbyon nuclear complex, broadcaster APTN reported.
It was the first IAEA visit to the facility since U.N. monitors were expelled from the country in 2002.
“We have concluded this understanding, what our monitoring and verification activities are in principle,” IAEA Deputy Director Olli Heinonen said in footage shot by APTN.
This may be one of President Bush’s and Condoleezza Rice’s biggest foreign policy accomplishments. Just a year ago, North Korea was testing a prototype ICBM and shooting it at Hawaii.
Now, North Korea is closing down its nuclear program and facilities.
But, the United States must TRUST BUT VERIFY.
Stay tuned……
A satellite image from DigitalGlobe taken on January 5, 2006 shows the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in North Korea.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 29, 2007