"Report: U.S. intelligence warned of airport attacks, didn't pass to Brit's'"

Monday, July 2, 2007

'Intelligence warned of airport attacks'
United Kingdom - The London Daily Telegraph


US officials received a report two weeks ago warning of possible terror
attacks against Glasgow and the Czech capital Prague this summer but the
information was not passed on to British officials, according to ABC News. 

A senior official with access to the law enforcement report, prepared for
the Department of Homeland Security, warned that al-Qa'eda was planning a
terror "spectacular" targeting "airports infrastructure and aircraft", the
US news channel said. 

The unnamed official said the information received was "reminiscent of the
warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," before the
September 11 attacks on New York. 

The warnings apparently were never passed on to officials in Scotland who
said this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" before
attackers tried to drive a car bomb into a Glasgow airport building. 

Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, declined to comment
specificially on the report but said that America normally shared this kind
of intelligence with Britain "virtually instantly". 

US President George W Bush praised the new British government's "strong
response" to the terrorist threats in London and Scotland that prompted
America to tighten airport security and add air marshals to overseas
flights. 

"It just goes to show the war against these extremists goes on," Bush said
Sunday. "You never know where they may try to strike, and I appreciate the
very strong response that the Gordon Brown government's given to the
attempts by these people."

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