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15:03, July 06, 2007 |
British police searching for clues in three car bomb plots investigated a rented house near Glasgow, where media reports speculated yesterday that bombs had been made.
The government lowered the terrorism threat level from critical to severe after the arrest of eight people connected with the three failed attacks, but authorities were still investigating the possibility there may be other suspects on the peripheries of the plot still at large.
The derailment of a subway train in London during yesterday morning's rush hour briefly raised the anxiety level in the capital, but police said the accident was unrelated to the terror plots. At least 37 people suffered injuries, most of them minor, authorities said.
"Obviously the first thing that goes through your mind is "Is it terrorists?"' said passenger Jacqui McElroy, who described how the train seemed to lift up as it rounded a corner at Bethnal Green.
At least two of the suspects - most of whom are doctors - are believed to have rented a house just a few kilometers from the Glasgow airport, where two men crashed a gas-laden Jeep Cherokee into the barriers outside the main terminal on Saturday.
British news outlets, citing unidentified sources, said the two men slept upstairs in the house and used the downstairs to put together bombs.
Police have refused to identify which suspects lived in the house, but Denis O'Donnell of the local Paisley Cab Company, said his taxis had picked up Iraqi-born physician Bilal Abdulla from the house nearly 20 times since May.
Brian Harvey, a 60-year-old construction worker who lives on the street where the house is located, said he had seen a green sports utility vehicle outside the property that was being searched. Police were still outside of the house yesterday morning.
Neighbor Susan Hay said that police had said they were "stripping" the house to look for fingerprints and other forensic materials. The large tent - set up on Sunday - was still hanging over the garage.
Scotland Yard would not confirm or deny the reports.
A British investigator, meanwhile, was questioning an Indian doctor arrested in Australia.
Australian police arrested Muhammad Haneef, 27, on Monday in the eastern city of Brisbane as he tried to board a flight with a one-way ticket, believed to be to India via Malaysia.
Source: China Daily/agencies
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