In what can be perceived as a blow to Terrorist intentions, Britain reduced its terrorism threat level from critical to severe on Wednesday, after taking eight suspects in custody for last weekend’s attempted car-bomb attacks.
Adding to the woes of such terror suspects, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that more sustained and detailed background check would be done for those who show a desire to apply for foreign doctors and are applying for visas to work in the United Kingdom.
Canon Andrew White, a prominent British cleric said that in April he met a man in Jordan who had told him
Those who cure you will kill you.
In the aftermaths of the terror attack, British authorities aren’t ready to leave anything to chance and hence the Foreign Office spokesman said the report has been passed along to Scotland Yard. The detectives are leaving no stone unturned and are working overtime to determine whether the suspects acted of their own or was there any sort of a helping hand either from al-Qaeda or other international extremists.
In what appeared to be a revenge attack against Muslims, on Tuesday in Glasgow, someone collided a car into a shop reportedly owned by a Pakistani, to vent the anger and hatred.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said there was no intelligence to suggest that an attack is expected imminently but that there remains a serious and real threat against the United Kingdom.
Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, one of two men in the flaming Jeep at Glasgow Airport, used a rented house from the mosque before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hicham Kwieder, secretary of the Cambridge Muslim Welfare Society mosque pointed out.
