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Attacco suicida all'aeroporto di Glasgow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6257194.stm
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lo Splenetico


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6257194.stm
ed anche :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6748615,00.html
Benedetto Zaccaria

 ha scritto:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/30airport-wire.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Benedetto Zaccaria

 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6257194.stm
In italiano:
http://qn.quotidiano.net/2007/06/30/21464-glasgow_paura_aeroporto.shtml
Bah...sinceramente mi sembrano un po' imbranatini 'sti
kamikaze ed anche con piani improvvisati.
Ciao! 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:1i0j8d0.15ebs5cnh525dN%splen...@splenetico.net...
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Grazie a Dio sembrano essere una combriccola di dinamitardi domenicali ma 
certo resta inquietante il fatto che abbiano pianificato in attacco cosi in 
larga scala, probabilmente con ancora qualche "sorpresina" in serbo.
E' comunque facile constatare, per chi non lo avesse ancora capito, che la 
guerra si è sposatata ormai direttamente nel nostro salotto di casa. 

 larga scala, probabilmente con ancora qualche "sorpresina" in serbo.
in serbo credo proprio di no....più probabile in arabo...:D

 in serbo credo proprio di no....più probabile in arabo...:D
Buona..comunque non che alla Serbia manchino i motivi ;-)
Ciao! 

Attacco suicida all'aeroporto di Glasgow
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/world/europe/01britain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
LONDON, June 30 — One day after the British police discovered what
they called a double car-bombing plot in London, two men slammed a
Jeep S.U.V. that caught fire into the departure doors at Glasgow
Airport as thousands of people awaited flights on the first day of
school summer vacations. 
The episodes in London and Scotland deepened foreboding among security
experts that Britain was confronting a new threat: the use of
relatively unsophisticated, homemade explosive devices to claim lives
and spread mayhem. 
Britain raised its assessment of the threat from terrorism to
“critical,” the highest level, meaning that an attack is imminent,
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said. It had been at “severe” since a
major alert over an alleged conspiracy last August to bomb
transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives.
British officials did not immediately classify the Glasgow episode as
a terrorist assault, but the Scottish police called it an attack. The
Scottish police, however, declined to say whether the midafternoon
attack was linked to events in London in the early hours of Friday,
when two Mercedes sedans filled with gasoline, gas canisters and nails
were found parked in the central West End theater and nightclub
district.
But the episode in Scotland produced dramatic images, shown on
television from shaky video shot on passengers’ cellphones, of an
orange fireball at the airport entrance doors. 
Accounts by eyewitnesses were confused, but some spoke of the two
occupants of the car — both described by witnesses as men of South
Asian descent — smashing bottles of gasoline and struggling with
police and others who tried to restrain them. 
One of the men in the car was said to have been ablaze, possibly after
setting himself on fire. The police said two men were arrested.
The events at Glasgow Airport came as London braced for a weekend of
high-profile public events including a concert to honor the memory of
Diana, Princess of Wales, a Gay Pride March and the Wimbledon tennis
tournament. 
The police in the capital stepped up foot patrols as counterterrorism
officers hunted suspects linked to the rigged cars found in London. 
But the episode in Scotland seemed to have taken the authorities by
surprise. Gordon Brown, the newly installed prime minister who is
himself a Scot, summoned an emergency meeting of the high-level
security committee called Cobra to try to come to grips with the
newest attack.
American officials stepped up surveillance at airports in the United
States but did not raise the overall threat level, which remained at
yellow, or “elevated,” for the country and orange, or “high,” for
domestic and international flights. 
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland
Security said Saturday that they were monitoring events in the United
Kingdom but had “no intelligence that there is a credible threat in
the U.S. based on these events.”
In London, counterterrorism experts suggested that the bombers who
abandoned the two explosives-laden Mercedes sedans in central London
may have been what a senior Western official called “less directed
from Al Qaeda and more a matter of a homegrown group,” although the
attack seemed to be modeled on terrorist attacks in Iraq.
Several experts and officials said the technology behind the foiled
bombings seemed to be amateurish. While the attackers apparently tried
to detonate the bombs using cellphones, “they didn’t go off because
there were not top-grade people putting them together,” the Western
official said, speaking in return for anonymity because he was not
authorized to brief reporters. 
If the plot turns out to be the work of a small, hitherto undetected
cell, that could raise alarms that Britain’s terrorism threat is
broader than the 2,000 suspected radicals known to the authorities,
according to British and Western officials. “If we had never heard of
them before, it means the problem is even bigger,” a British official
said, speaking according to the same ground rules. The Western
official said British investigators were pursuing several “good
leads.”
The events in Scotland seemed marked by the same sense of an
improvised attack.
BAA, the company operating the airport, said a vehicle “drove into a
front door at the check in area” and “caught fire on impact.”
One witness, Scott Leeson, said the Jeep sped up to the building at
around 30 miles per hour in an area where people usually drive much
more slowly. 
“Then the driver swerved the car around so he could ram straight into
the door,” the Press Association news agency quoted Mr. Leeson as
saying. “He must have been trying to smash straight through. Luckily
he did not get the car too far in. He just managed to get the nose of
the Jeep inside,” he said.
Another witness, Lynsey McBean, 26, said, “We saw a green Cherokee
drive straight into the front door of the airport but it got jammed.
They were obviously trying to get it further inside the airport as the
wheels were spinning and smoke was coming from them. One of the men, I
think it was the driver, brought out a plastic petrol canister and
poured it under the car. He then set light to it,” she said, according
to the Press Association.
“At that point a policeman came over, the passenger got out of the car
and punched him. At that point I began to run away. But when I looked
back several people had run over to try and stop the men, who were
Asian. I could see that one of the men was on fire,” she said.
In London, no one took responsibility publicly for the foiled attack
on Friday, which was thwarted almost by accident when an ambulance
crew and traffic wardens on Friday separately discovered the sedans
packed with gasoline, gas canisters and nails.
But an online forum monitored by the SITE Institute, which tracks
jihadist Web sites, asked whether London had been “craving explosions
from Al Qaeda” after authorities in June bestowed a knighthood on the
author Salman Rushdie, reviled by some radical Muslims for his book
“The Satanic Verses.”
No “established link” exists between the knighthood and the foiled
bombings, a British security official said, speaking in return for
anonymity, but the posting on the jihadist site was likely to be
closely scrutinized by investigators.
The British news media have asserted that if the bombs had gone off
they would likely have caused havoc and huge loss of life, but some
experts have questioned the level of sophistication involved in the
devices, which officials call vehicle-borne improvised explosive
devices.
The Times of London reported Saturday that the police had warned
nightclub operators a few days ago of the threat of such attacks. 
The two cars were parked around a corner from each other. The first to
be discovered and disarmed was found outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub
on the Haymarket near Piccadilly Circus. The second was towed away for
a parking infraction about 90 minutes later from nearby Cockspur
Street leading to Trafalgar Square, the police said.
In the United States, Strategic Forecasting, a private research group,
said the “amateur construction” of the explosive device “and the way
it was placed suggest the plotter or plotters have no connection to a
major militant organization.”
Sajjan M. Gohel, a security expert, said the police were pursuing a
theory that the two bombs had been designed to explode one after the
other — the first to bring people into the street and the second to
cause great loss of life. The fact that Thursday night at Tiger Tiger
was ladies’ night, he said, recalled a conspiracy in 2004 in which
British-born bombers said they wanted to attack women at a nightclub,
whom they viewed as promiscuous, in conversations monitored by British
intelligence.
In their hunt for the would-be bombers, the British police say they
are poring over thousands of images from the closed-circuit television
cameras that film the streets of central London. 
Benedetto Zaccaria