Attack on Glasgow AIrport
Jeep Cherokee driven at speed into passenger terminal building at Glasgow Airport (Scotland)
Four arrested, un-confirmed reports all of asian appearence.One on fire as car exploded. Again un-confirmed reports of gas cylinders being seen.
No more news as yet to injuries or deaths.
jauntie. I'm sure I will enjoy it.
Have sent you the PM
I am glad I left my Heathrow job last November.
I would be running around putting up Marquees now if I hadn't.
BBC News;
5 arrested, the ones arrested in Glasgow were not "home grown" terrorists.
Thier tacticts are not new, they are written in Tun Szu's "Art of War".
If you are being attacked by a force greater than yours, go to their land and attach their civilians, this is to distract and dishearten the attacking troops.
Where and when will it ALL end?
Call me Maninibat!
don't you Dweller? Touch wood, airports further North haven't been affected, unless of course they start diverting planes. Doubt that will happen now, though.
Whatever, I wish you a safe journey and a good holiday.
airport in Liverpool was closed last night (Saturday). No traffic was allowed to approach Edinburgh airport and two men were stopped and arrested heading North on the M6 in Cheshire.
The police apparently disarmed a car bomb in Piccadilly early this morning. Wonder how many more are lurking yet to, hopefully, be located :(
It wont make it easier of any of us mir.
could american newsreaders learn to pronounce the places they are reporting on? glasgow - gow does not rhyme with cow. maybe the plastic surgery constricts their facial muscles.
we are very lucky those bombs didn't go off. totally futile as innocent people would have been killed and it would have 0 impact in realising the goals of the perpetrators.
and sputty stop hijacking the thread you naughty boy.
Ofcourse incidence of racism will increase as long as there are racist people(would've liked to say another word, but I dont want to get censored or banned tonight) like u calling asians "despicable".
The UK is going to screw the immigration nobs further on despicable asians...... Matters have worsened.....
Incidence of racism will aggravate further....
travel save Jauntie. Let me know how the trip is ... our turn would be next christmas to New Castle. x
Hopefully they will now simmer down and let me get to England next Sunday and Scotland at end of July and back here again before they get their second wind!
This will make our future travelling easier isn't it?
Newcastle and Edinburgh are on high alert, isnt it? Havent seen any mention of Manchester on Sky ... YET!
& now there is mention of something going off at Manchester.
Now a suspect package at Ibiza airport been 'securely detonated'
Dunno why I'm posting this, because I guess most (Westerners at least) will be watching Sky News or similar.
I think Newcastle and another airport in UK on High Alert
sheesh
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1273090,00.html?f=vg
Oh my god .... What is next?
3 arrested now
Seems very similiar to the attempt on London.
A car on fire has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, police have confirmed.
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.
The airport has been evacuated and all flights suspended following the incident at 1515 BST.
A Whitehall spokesman said the incident was not being treated as a national security threat.
One eyewitness said: "I heard the sound of a car's wheels spinning and smoke coming out.
There was an Asian guy who was pulled out of the car by two police officers
Richard Gray
Eyewitness
"I saw a Jeep Cherokee apparently as if it was trying to get right through the doors into the terminal building.
"There were flames coming out from underneath then some men appeared from in amongst the flames.
"The police ran over and the people started fighting with the police. I then heard what sounded like an explosion."
Eye-witness Richard Gray told BBC News 24: "A green Jeep was in the middle of the doorway burning.
Map showing the airport location
The incident happened 1515 BST on Saturday
"There was an Asian guy who was pulled out of the car by two police officers, who he was trying to fight off. They've got him on the ground.
"The car didn't actually explode. There were a few pops and bangs which presumably was the petrol."
Taxi driver Ian Crosby said: "This was no accident. This was a deliberate attack on Glasgow Airport."
The reaction of members of the public was not to help the men in the car, but to restrain them, he told the BBC.
Mr Crosby, who said he served in Northern Ireland, told how he shepherded people away from the scene in case of a secondary explosion or a nail-bomb.
Two men, one of whom was reported to be badly burned, were seen being led away in handcuffs.
Off to Scotland on Tuesday morning but luckily Aberdeen.