British police ID 2 suspects as doctors
By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago
An Iraqi physician and a Palestinian doctor working at British hospitals were identified Monday among those held in the failed car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow, while authorities announced the arrest of an eighth suspect and extended their probe overseas.
Officers used heightened stop-and-search powers and armed response vehicles to hunt for anyone else who might have been involved in the plot, and police put on a show of force to bolster security at airports and train stations and on city streets.
Police said Monday night that another man had been arrested in the plot at an "undisclosed location." Officials declined to comment on a British Broadcasting Corp. report, citing unidentified sources, that the suspect was detained in another country it did not specify.
A British security official said earlier that Pakistan and several other nations had been asked to check possible links with the suspects. British-born terrorists behind the bloody 2005 London transit bombings and others in thwarted plots here were linked to terror training camps and foreign radicals in Pakistan.
"We have asked partners overseas to check possible links and that work has begun," the security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
Authorities said police searched at least 19 locations as part of the "fast-moving investigation," which has come at a time of already high vigilance before the anniversary of the suicide bombings in London that killed 52 people on July 7, 2005.
In the latest attacks, two car bombs failed to explode in central London on Friday and two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders into the entrance of Glasgow International Airport and then set it on fire Saturday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the group behind the attacks is "associated with al-Qaida."
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