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...Their contents - essential reading to help her master her complex new brief - kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed - to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing a full-scale terror crisis, and she was the point person...
...still unknown how, if at all, Haneef is connected to the London attackers. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Tuesday that Australian police moved to arrest the doctor after learning that one of the suspects in the U.K. had made a telephone call to Haneef in Australia. While there has been no suggestion that Haneef participated in the attempted attacks, he is the eighth person to be detained in relation to the plot, as authorities have focused their investigation on several foreign-born doctors believed to have played a role. One of the suspects detained in the attack on Glasgow...
...Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor who picked up his qualifications in Baghdad in 2004 before working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital just outside Glasgow, is one of two men suspected of carrying out the attack on the city's airport building. The second suspect - who received severe burns after ramming the gas-packed Jeep into the terminal building and dousing himself in petrol before setting himself alight, according to witnesses - is being treated in the same hospital. That man is believed to be Lebanese, according to unnamed sources cited by Britain's Guardian newspaper...
...also revealed the manpower limitations of the country's electronic surveillance system. David Capitanbchik, a terrorism expert at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, also suggests the attack in Glasgow may be in response to last week's elevation to the post of Prime Minister of Gordon Brown, who is a Scot and from Glasgow, and is a wake-up call to Scotland which has traditionally seen itself as immune to terrorism, a view based in part on strong historical ties with Northern Ireland during the height of Britain's conflict with the IRA. Saturday's attack, on the first...
...Police believe the cars used in Friday's attempted attack on London's West End had been driven to the capital from Scotland. At least one of the Mercedes was logged last Wednesday on its journey south on the national Automatic Number Plate Recognition System, a network of hi-tech cameras across the country established to counter terrorism. Meanwhile a nationwide manhunt is gathering pace...