Britain will not yield to acts of ”evil”, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday after three botched attacks in two days in London and Glasgow.
”We will not yield; we will not be intimidated,” he said in an interview with BBC television, after his government raised the national security level to ”critical” following the attacks.
He said terrorism ”can never be justified as an act of faith”, adding: ”It is an act of evil in all circumstances.”
On Sunday, police searched several homes near Glasgow International Airport in connection with the suspected terrorist attack on Saturday on its main terminal and Friday’s foiled car-bomb plot in London.
The searches, which began early on Sunday, were taking place about 12km west of central Glasgow, police said in a brief statement. That is about 1,5km from the airport.
”We can confirm as part of the ongoing inquiry into the incidents in Glasgow airport and London, a number of houses in the Renfrewshire area are being searched,” it said. ”Due to the nature of this investigation, no further information will be released at this time.”
Four terrorist suspects were in custody on Sunday after a flaming Jeep was driven into Glasgow airport on Saturday.
The airport was partially reopened on Sunday, an airport spokesperson said, less than 24 hours after the attack. ”It’s a phased reopening,” a spokesperson for airport operator BAA said. ”Two flights have landed and one is going to take off around 9am. There is still significant disruption. We are pushing to reopen fully as soon as possible.”
Liverpool’s John Lennon airport was also closed after the attack in Glasgow, although it has now reopened. The rest of Britain’s airports remain open with beefed-up security. — Sapa-AFP, Sapa-AP