Via Reuters: British police arrest five after car bomb attacks

British police arrested a fifth person on Sunday after a fuel-filled jeep was rammed into Scotland’s busiest airport, a terrorist attack that police said was linked to two failed car bombings in London.

Three of the arrests were in northern England and followed the detention of two men, who witnesses described as Asian. They were seized on Saturday immediately after they slammed a Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow airport and set the vehicle ablaze.

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Outside Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest city, police in white body suits searched houses in a town a short drive from the airport and set up forensic tents behind one building.

Neighbors said two Asian men had moved into one of the houses a month ago but had kept very much to themselves.

“I don’t remember seeing them at all,” said Mae Gordon, 67. “They were the only people around here you would never see.”

Police said the three arrests in the north of England were related to both the Glasgow and the London attacks, but did not provide further details. Two of the arrests were made overnight on a major highway and the third was made later on Sunday.

Of the two men detained at Glasgow airport, one was badly burnt and listed in critical condition in hospital.

All of which amounts to not a whole lot of information on who these folks are.

The good news is that the attackers in this case don’t seem especially proficient, especially in terms of the Glasgow attack–for while it was dramatic, in terms of causing death and destruction, dousing the car in gasoline and igniting it isn’t a devastating weapon. And hopefully the London car bombs failed due to lack of expertise.