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Terror threat in U.K., elsewhere remains high
July 7: Invesigators continue their work into the masterminding of foiled terror plots in London and Glasgow. Were they forged in the U.K. or overseas? NBC’s Michelle Kosinski reports.

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U.K. terror incident timeline

Friday, June 29:

— 1:25 a.m. Friday: Ambulance called to Tiger Tiger nightclub in central London to treat a patron. Crew spots smoke coming from a green Mercedes and alerts police.

— Shortly before 2 a.m.: Police bomb squad arrives and discovers the car is packed with gasoline, nails, gas cylinders and a detonator. Squad defuses the explosives.

— About 2:30 a.m.: Blue Mercedes parked illegally between Haymarket and Trafalgar Square, is ticketed, then towed to impound lot about a mile away.

— Midmorning: Police close street to investigate blue Mercedes after attendants at impound lot report smelling gasoline.

— 9 p.m.: Police say blue Mercedes contains similar explosives materials as green Mercedes.

Saturday, June 30:

— Noon: Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets with top intelligence officials, police and senior government officials.

— 3:15 p.m.: Two men ram a flaming Jeep Cherokee into the main entrance at Glasgow’s international airport, crashing into glass doors before being arrested. One suspect taken to the hospital.

— Saturday evening: Brown convenes another emergency meeting.

— 8:15 p.m.: Britain raises security alert level to critical — the highest possible level indicating terror attacks are imminent.

Sunday, July 1:

— Sunday morning: British police announce the arrest of two people in northern England in connection with an attempted car bombing in London and an incident at Glasgow airport.

— Sunday afternoon: 26-year-old man detained in Liverpool.

Source: The Associated Press

'We will not be intimidated'
Lord Stevens, London’s former police chief, called it a major escalation in the campaign waged by Islamic militants.

In a column in Sunday’s News of the World newspaper, he wrote that the terrorists are using “the same technology, the same bomb-making techniques, the same operating methods as their brothers-in-arms in both Baghdad and Bali,” referring to the 2002 and 2005 attacks on the Indonesian resort island that killed more than 200 people.

Glasgow police chief Willie Rae said a suspicious device was found on a man wrestled to the ground by officers at Glasgow airport and hospitalized in critical condition with severe burns.

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John Smeaton, who saw the attack, said the man shouted “Allah, Allah” as he was detained.

Glasgow airport began reopening Sunday, although the airport operator warned many flights would be canceled. The crashed Jeep remained out front, covered in a blue tarpaulin, and cars were not allowed to drive up to the terminal.

Memories of foiled 1999 plot
Officers also were reviewing closed-circuit television footage in the search for clues into the foiled London bombings.

The incident hinted of a foiled December 1999 plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport. Customs agents stopped a man in a car packed with 124 pounds of explosives. He is serving a 22-year prison sentence for the plot.

And last year, a 35-year-old British convert to Islam was convicted of plotting to bomb several U.S. financial targets and luxury London hotels with a plot that called for using limousines packed with gas tanks, napalm and nails.

In April, accused members of an al-Qaida-linked terror cell were convicted of conspiring to blow up the Ministry of Sound nightclub, one of London’s biggest music venues.