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| Glasgow Airport Arson Fugitive Held By Terror Troops |
| 2008-03-02 |
| A FUGITIVE terror suspect has been flown to Scotland to face charges over setting a holiday jet ablaze. Safet Bukoshi, 34, spent last night in a high-security police cell in Paisley after being extradited from Ireland on Friday. He will appear in court tomorrow charged with the late night attack on a plane at Glasgow Airport three years ago. Major security concerns were raised after Albanian-born Bukoshi allegedly used a plank of wood to scale the perimeter fence before torching the twin-engine BMI Embraer 145 jet. Firefighters prevented a major explosion by controlling the blaze before it spread to the plane's fuel tanks Anti-terror experts were drafted in and incoming flights were diverted to Edinburgh as Glasgow's runways were closed for four hours. No one was injured in the fire, which happened at the international terminal. The attacker used a plank as a makeshift ramp to get over the 10ft-high, barbed-wire fence just after 4am. Then he walked more than 500 metres past a number of parked aircraft to a BMI plane at Stand 31. His route would also have taken him directly in front of the airport security office. The intruder splashed petrol around the plane and set it alight before escaping back over the fence and fleeing in his car. The makeshift ladder, which Bukoshi allegedly used to gain entry and escape, was recovered at the scene. Strathclyde Police obtained an arrest warrant for Bukoshi just weeks after the incident. They then worked to secure Bukoshi's extradition to face charges in Scotland. Officers liaised with Gardai bosses and the Irish Prison Service to have him flown into Glasgow. Gardai officers detained Bukoshi at Dublin airport for one hour on Friday night before he was taken on to a flight by Strathclyde Police who arrested him on a European warrant. He is being held at Paisley's Mill Street police station from where he will be taken to the town's sheriff court tomorrow. A Strathclyde Police spokesman confirmed last night: "Following an alleged incident in 2005, a 35-year-old man was arrested under warrant. He is expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court on Monday." |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #3 Bukoshi's done his jihad. In one moment he has negated a lifetime's work of at least 10 British infidels. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-03-02 13:49 |
| #2 Not that I'm losing patience with the slow wheels of justice or anything. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-02 13:39 |
| #1 We could, oh I don't know, maybe splash some fuel around him and his plank and see what happens if we torch it. Just out of a duty to investigate the impact of his actions, of course, and duly videotaped for the public record. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-02 13:39 |