US was ‘warned of airport attack’

US LAW enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago which warned of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against “airport infrastructure or aircraft”, according to reports.

US was ‘warned of airport attack’

An unnamed senior official told ABC News the intelligence led to the assignment of Federal Air Marshals to flights into and out of both Glasgow and Prague in the Czech Republic.

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff declined to comment on the report, but previously told ABC News that “everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa”.

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