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According to Sky News, the gas cylinders contained propane, used for patio heaters. [39] A second bomb was later found in a blue Mercedes-Benz 280E [40] believed to have been left in the same area at around the same time. The illegally parked car received a parking ticket in Cockspur Street at 02:30.
On 30 June 2007, a dark green Jeep Cherokee was driven into the glass doors of the main terminal of Glasgow International Airport, and it burst into flames. [5] A suspected car bomb inside failed to detonate, and the driver, Kafeel Ahmed, [6] on fire after allegedly dousing himself in fuel, while the passenger, Bilal Abdullah, attacked the police.
John Smeaton KGM (born 1976 [3]), also known by the nickname Smeato, is a former baggage handler at Glasgow Airport. He became involved in thwarting the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack. Smeaton lives in Erskine, Renfrewshire, [4] a town outside the city and near the airport. Brought up in Erskine, he was educated at Park Mains High School.
The cordon was lifted and then erected again after a second military-grade ordnance was found
A resident of Neuk Crescent, Houston, outside Glasgow, Bilal Abdullah was born on 17 September 1980 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, [1] where his father, also a doctor, worked. He qualified in Baghdad in 2004 and first registered as a doctor in the UK in 2006.
He was often mistakenly referred to as a medical doctor in news reports following the terrorist incidents. [11] Ahmed might have been in the UK as early as September 2003. He is believed to have organised a Chechnya Day Meeting in his native city of Bangalore, in February 2006. [12] He was a member of the Tablighi Jamaat missionary sect. [13]
In 2012 it was alleged in a book that William "Big Bill" Campbell (no relation to Robert Campbell), leader of a UVF cell in Scotland who committed the Glasgow pub bombings in 1979, was behind the McGurk's bombing as he smuggled the explosives used in the bomb from Scotland to Northern Ireland. It was also alleged that the RUC received ...
Approximately 100 people worked in the four-storey building. [1] At midday BST (11:00 UTC), an explosion occurred and the building collapsed instantly. [2]The first service to attend were a Patient Transport Ambulance crew who took the decision to divert straight to the scene because they were so close at the time of the explosion.