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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2010062.ece
Britain Under Attack as Bombers Strike at Glasgow Airport
[Sunday Times-UK] David Leppard - Britain Saturday night was put on its highest state of security alert after two men crashed a car into the main terminal building at Glasgow airport, raising fears of a new wave of terrorist attacks. Prime Minister Gordon Brown placed the country on a "critical" threat level, indicating that MI5 believes a terrorist attack is expected "imminently." Eyewitness Jackie Kennedy, 46, described how she watched one of the occupants of the car douse himself in petrol and set himself alight. On Friday, two Mercedes cars were found in the West End packed with gas cylinders, petrol and nails and primed to detonate within 200 yards of each other as nightclubs emptied. The consensus among senior law enforcement officials was that the West End attack bore the hallmarks of an Islamist terror attack directed by "core al-Qaeda" figures in Pakistan.