Word: glasgowe
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Neuk Crescent in Houston, on the edge of Glasgow, hardly feels like an outpost of terrorist activity. Residents of the quiet street, cut into a wooded hillside in the upper-middle class suburb, can count the Scottish city's rich professional football players among their neighbors. Curving in on itself, the crescent's name speaks to its snug insulation: In the local dialect, "neuk" means "nook...
...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...
Individually the attacks looked inept, almost comically so, the incompetent work of slapstick terrorists. Yesterday afternoon a burning Jeep Cherokee plowed into the terminal building at the airport serving Scotland?s largest city, Glasgow. One of the jeep's two occupants erupted from the vehicle, in flames and bellowing, to be felled by punch from a tourist who later told a British newspaper "He was a big fellow and was disorientated, otherwise I would not have been able to knock him down...
...terrorists who targeted Glasgow and London lacked the technical and planning skills to succeed, any hopes that their attacks were the work of crazed individuals have evaporated. Instead, a picture is emerging of a well-coordinated operation stretching from Scotland to southern England - with the hallmarks of a plot inspired by al-Qaeda. It has 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...
...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 yesterday and one in Liverpool, bringing the total in custody to five, including the two being held in Glasgow. Security officials have not ruled out the possibility that seven terror suspects may be involved; British authorities recently admitted that the seven slipped "control orders" to monitor their activities. The security services also admit that they are stretched trying to monitor 1,600 individuals, 200 networks and 30 plots...