07/01/2007
Three terrorist suspects were in police custody Sunday, and a fourth man under guard in hospital, following attacks that saw a flaming jeep crash into a Scottish airport and two car bomb plots foiled in central London.
Scotland Yard said two people had been arrested in Cheshire, a county in northern England, in a joint swoop by specialist officers from London and Birmingham.
In Scotland, officers arrested two men, one of them on fire, after a Jeep Cherokee rammed into Glasgow airport and burst into flames.
The green SUV shattered glass doors at the terminal entrance, stopping within meters of where holidaymakers were lined up at check-in counters.
Police and security officials said the attacks were clearly linked, adding all three vehicles had carried large amounts of flammable materials, including gasoline and gas cylinders.
The chaos over the past two days has raised fears that the type of car bomb attacks that have become commonplace in Iraq have now reached European shores.
Late Saturday, Britain raised its security alert level to critical, the highest possible level, indicating terror attacks may be imminent.
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