Poor Mr. Gordon Brown
Seriously. I mean, the man has waited ten years to become Prime Minister of Great Britain, finally gets the job, and what happens? In the first week, before the celebratory champagne has even gone flat, he has to deal with not one, but two major terrorist incidents. First was the (thankfully failed) car-bomb plot in London. The today some nuts ram a SUV rigged as a fire bomb into a terminal at the Glasgow airport.
A Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into Glasgow's airport terminal on Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers at the check-in counters. Police said they believed the attack was linked to two car bombs found in London the day before.
Britain raised its terror alert to "critical" - the highest possible level - and the Bush administration announced plans to increase security at airports and on mass transit.
One of the men in the car was in critical condition at a hospital with severe burns, while the other was in police custody, said Scottish Police Chief Constable Willie Rae. Five bystanders in Glasgow were wounded, although none seriously, police said.
Rae said a "suspect device" was found on the man at the hospital and it was taken to a safe location where it was being investigated. He would not say whether the device was a suicide belt, but British security officials said evidence pointed to the attack being a suicide mission.
This is what I get for taking the day to attend to the mundanities of life, rather than obsessively reading the news. Bad blogger. While I catch up, you can too by following the links here, here, here, here, here, and here.
I wonder if PM Brown has called Tony Blair to offer him his old job back?
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