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...that peace was shattered in the early hours of Sunday. In the wake of Saturday's car bomb attack on Glasgow's main airport - just a day after two cars packed with explosives and nails were discovered in central London - police raided a house on the Crescent that was home, neighbors say, to two men in their late 20s or early 30s who looked Middle Eastern or South Asian...
...unclear what link the tenants at the property had with any of the terrorist attacks. (Some British media have suggested it was home to the airport attackers.) But Daniel Gardiner, a local real estate agent who leased the property to a man in April, told TIME his Let-It agency was contacted by police in the hours before the Glasgow attack. Police told the agency that the agency had recently called a cell phone number linked to the failed London bombs. And following the attack on Glasgow airport, one of a list of names given by police to the agency...
...speed with which authorities are responding in the wake of the plots is striking. Late Sunday, police detained two further suspects in Scotland. Including the two perpetrators of the attack on the airport and another arrest announced Monday night, the total number of people brought into custody now stands at eight. "It is no exaggeration at all to say that new information is coming to light hour by hour," Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said. Links between the plots, he added, were becoming "ever clearer...
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. On Sunday morning, officers raided several addresses in Scotland, including several homes in Houston, a quiet commuter village six miles northwest of Paisley. Two men were also arrested on the M6 motorway in northern England...
...British authorities have now raised the national terror threat to "critical", its highest level, signaling that an attack is expected imminently. All leave has been canceled for the intelligence services and security beefed up around iconic public buildings, at transport hubs, and big public events such as the annual Wimbledon tennis championships and today?s memorial Concert for Princess Diana. Scotland Yard warned ticket holders to expect delays and "to see an increase in police use of stop and search under the Terrorism Act? as a visible deterrence and disruptive tactic." Prime Minister Brown said "The first duty...