UPI NewsTrack TopNews - July 2, 2007
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Police arrest seven in British terror case
LONDON, July 2 Police in Glasgow on Monday arrested two more suspects in the attempted car bombings at the airport there and at a London nightclub.
Seven people, including two medical doctors, had been arrested in connection with the attempted attacks, the BBC reported.
The terror alert in the United Kingdom was raised to "critical" after a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders smashed into the terminal doors of the Glasgow airport and burst into flames on Saturday, the BBC reported.
Two men, including one with severe burns, were arrested following the airport attack. The BBC reported they were of Middle Eastern descent.
Also arrested were Dr. Mohammed Asha, 26, and a 27-year-old woman who were being questioned in London, the BBC reported. Also, a 26-year-old man was arrested in Liverpool on Sunday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it was "clear that we are dealing, in general terms, with people who are associated with al-Qaida."
Police, meanwhile, set off a controlled explosion of a car at the hospital where the burned suspect was being treated. The vehicle was believed to be linked to the failed airport bombing.
U.S.: Iran helped plan Karbala attack
BAGHDAD, July 2 The U.S. military on Monday accused Iran of helping to plan a January raid in Karbala, Iraq, that killed five U.S. soldiers.
The charge made by military spokesman U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner at a news conference was the first time U.S. officials have accused Iranian officials of helping to plan an attack on U.S. troops, The New York Times reported.
U.S. officials have previously charged that the Iran Revolutionary Guard is supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons and training.
In the Jan. 20 Karbala attack, the attackers wearing uniforms that appeared American killed one soldier in a raid and kidnapped four others whose bodies were found later.
Bergner also said Monday that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps used Hezbollah members to train and arm Shiite Iraqi insurgents, the Times reported.
Bergner said the Karbala accusation was supported by interrogations of captured high-level Iraqi insurgents and a senior Hezbollah operative, the Times reported.
Charges possible against White House
WASHINGTON, July 2 U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy said he would consider contempt charges against the White House if he isn't provided documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys.
"If they don't cooperate, yes, I'd go that far," Leahy, D-Vt., and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "This is very important to the American people."
The possibility of criminal contempt of Congress charges means the scandal over the White House and U.S. Justice Department's handling of the nine federal prosecutors could land in court, The Washington Post reported.
Leahy's committee and the House Judiciary Committee is seeking testimony and documents from the White House, which has offered private conversations with the officials and the committee chairmen.
Leahy said on NBC that public testimony is important in the matter, the Post reported.
"The bottom line on the U.S. attorneys investigation is that we have people manipulating law enforcement," he said. "Law enforcement can't be partisan. Law enforcement can't decide, 'Well, we'll arrest this person because they are a Democrat but not this person because they are a Republican,' or the other way around."
Support weakens for U.S. missile shield
WASHINGTON, July 2 U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe is facing growing opposition in Washington and abroad.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the missile shield proposal for the Czech Republic and Poland has critics in Prague and Warsaw and in Congress. Russian President Vladimir Putin is strenuously opposed to the long-range missile defense system, as well.
"The U.S. clearly mismanaged this rollout," Bruce P. Jackson, a former Pentagon official told the Times. "There weren't clear talking points, there was no interagency discussion about this and we blindsided ourselves and also blindsided the governments in question. It's embarrassing."
U.S. President George Bush was promoting the plan Monday in a meeting with Putin at the Bush family home in Maine. But Putin's assent would not mean clear sailing for the proposal. Congress has stripped funding for a portion of the plan, and Polish and Czech support for the system is weakening, the newspaper reported.
Bush, Putin meet in Maine
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, July 2 A White House spokesman said not to expect major announcements from a meeting between U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Maine.
"I would caution against expecting grand, new announcements. This is, in fact, an opportunity for two leaders to talk honestly and candidly with one another, and they get to -- they are the ones who are going to control the agenda," Tony Snow said Sunday, Voice of America reported.
Snow said there was no formal agenda for the two presidents' meeting at the Bush family home on the Maine coast. The United States' proposal to build a long-range missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a plan Putin strongly opposes, was expected to be discussed.
Putin arrived at sprawling compound Sunday and presented flowers to first lady Laura Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush. Both President George Bush and his father, the former president, were on hand to greet Putin.
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