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...Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor who picked up his qualifications in Baghdad in 2004 before working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital just outside Glasgow, is one of two men suspected of carrying out the attack on the city's airport building. The second suspect - who received severe burns after ramming the gas-packed Jeep into the terminal building and dousing himself in petrol before setting himself alight, according to witnesses - is being treated in the same hospital. That man is believed to be Lebanese, according to unnamed sources cited by Britain's Guardian newspaper...
...with the London attacks, Peter Kelso, who runs the taxi firm, told TIME. Shortly after the botched airport bombing, police returned and scoured the logbook specifically for listed rides to the Neuk Crescent address. The logbook revealed that a passenger named "Dr. Abdul" took 18 journeys between the local Royal Alexandra Hospital and Neuk Crescent; and another one-way trip to Glasgow airport on June 13. On Monday, one of the suspects detained in Glasgow was identified as Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi physician who reportedly worked at the same hospital. It is not yet clear if both incidents refer...
...Sarkozy has brought Jean-David Levitte, the respected former French ambassador to Washington, back to Paris to be his national security adviser, based in the Elysée Palace. Kouchner also has deep political differences with Sarkozy - he voted for Sarkozy's Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal - including a long-standing belief that Turkey should become a member of the European Union, which the President adamantly opposes. Such differences have led to speculation that the Foreign Minister might one day become frustrated and feel undercut. Right now, Kouchner says he is reveling...
...focus on the nebulously defined "art of kingship," Prince William will soon quit the army, British papers report. London's DAILY MAIL quotes a senior royal source: "He has really matured in the last few years and has come to terms, however reluctantly, with the idea that he is the 'star of the show.'" SCORE...
Meanwhile, in spite of the relative good news on Sunday, the Socialist implosion became personal. The party's presidential candidate, S?gol?ne Royal announced her separation from her long-time life partner, PS leader Fran?ois Hollande. Their relationship had reportedly been rocky in Royal's loss to Sarkozy - members of her campaign team placed much of the blame for her defeat on Hollande. Royal said she would seek to win leadership of the party from the father of her children...