America’s Department for Homeland Security admits it has suffered more than 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and security problems in the past two years.
– The Guardian
Two suspected al-Qaeda terrorists who crashed a Jeep into Glasgow airport wrote a suicide note explaining their motives for the attack.
Police did not say where the apparent suicide note was found but the language in it indicated that the men intended to blow up the vehicle while they were inside, according to reports.
Both of the men survived the attack although Khalid Ahmed, the driver, suffered 90 per cent burns and is in a critical condition. The passenger, Bilal Abdulla, was not badly injured.
New family links between the eight people arrested in connection with the bomb attacks in London and Glasgow have been discovered by The Times.
– The Times
The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a stand-off with security forces was arrested today while trying to escape dressed in a woman’s burqa, officials said.
The arrest of Abdul Aziz, chief cleric of Islamabad’s Red Mosque, was a major coup for the government.
But two earlier bomb attacks on security forces in another part of the country that killed 12 people raised fears militant supporters of the mosque were hitting back.
– The Telegraph
The UK’s terrorist threat level was downgraded last night as the inquiry into the attempted London car bombings and the Glasgow airport attack switched from Britain to overseas.
The decision to lower the level from the highest grade, “critical”, to “severe” was announced by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, after a meeting of the cabinet’s Cobra emergency committee.
– The Guardian
