BOMBINGS-IT WAS THE DOCS THAT DID IT?

It was strange for yesterday's Sunday papers to all be able to lead with a news story rather than the usual diet of speculation and scandal.

Today's Daily's have had a further 24 hours to respond to the events in Glasgow and London.

Most of them have pictures of the aftermath of the attempted suicide bombing at Glasgow's Terminal One airport and have used images,no doubt taken by so called "citizen journalists".

There are some graphic pictures of the driver of the vehicle after the flames had been put out,the Telegraph,Mirror,Indy,Mail,Times and Express all using the image of the bomber on the floor,surounded by security staff and police.

With a series of arrests taking place yesterday,some of the papers are quick to point the finger

TERROR COPS SEIZE DOCTOR AND WIFE says the Mirror,

DOCTORS OF DEATH-the Sun

CAR BOMBER IS BRITISH DOCTOR-according to the Express

TWO DOCTORS HELD-says the Mail

This from the Express

"ONE of the car bombers involved in the plot to massacre
thousands of Britons was a hospital doctor, it emerged last night.
And
yesterday anti-terror police raided the home of another doctor said to be
involved in the attack at Glasgow airport and the failed attempts in
London."

As usual parts of the press have jumped to conclusions about the plot(s).Rather too early to be speculating perhaps?

Let's be clear that at the present time,the two Doctors were arrested as part of the investigation,even the Express acknowledges that

"

The medics’ precise roles were being probed last night as part of a police
investigation into Saturday’s attack in Glasgow and the targeting of London’s
West End on Friday. Five people have been held over the attacks. The two men who
drove into the airport were arrested immediately. A man aged 26 – one of the
doctors – was held in a rolling road-block on the M6 in Cheshire later that day.
A 27-year-old woman in a burka who was with him was also detained

. "

A Theme also of the Sun

"THE suspected ringleader of a plot to unleash a blitz
of car bombs on Britain is an Iranian doctor arrested with his burka-clad wife.
Neurologist Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, and his wife, 27, were dramatically held
as they drove on the M6 in Cheshire with their two-year-old son."

Amongst the leader writers,a spirit of British defiance

The Sun says" We stand firm"

"

It’s a firm prediction based on our nation’s history and
character.
Hitler’s Blitz merely hardened our resolve against the Nazis. Two
decades of IRA atrocities similarly failed to dent London’s spirit.
The
brainwashed Islamist fanatics who have chosen mass murder as a way of life are
beyond reason, of course. But they should know the futility of their
acts."

LIVING OUR NORMAL LIVES WILL HELP BEAT TERRORISTS says the Express

Keeping our nerve in the face of fanaticism says the Mail

TERROR WILL NEVER WIN says the Mirror

The Independent stresses "The need for calm, caution and intelligence" warning against

"

plans to use these attacks to justify an increase in
the amount of time a suspect can be detained without charge by the police. Here,
it is vital that our political leaders pause for thought. The arguments against
extended detention are as powerful as they were when the Government first
proposed it two years ago. As well as being an unwarranted assault on our civil
liberties, extended detention has the potential to alienate those very
communities whose help the police need to foil future terror plots."

The Guardian stresses "The link with Iraq" arguing

"

The prophecy that occupying Iraq meant attacking al-Qaida
has proved grimly self-fulfilling. Osama bin Laden's network has become
associated with resistance to British and American involvement in Iraq - either
directly, or by using the fate of Iraqis as supposed proof of the west's malign
intentions towards Muslims. Can it be denied that the invasion encouraged a
growth in al-Qaida's threat and influence?"

"

The Telegraph disagrees and argues that we must "Respond to the threat, not to public outrage "

"It is time to reconsider some of the clichés that are
habitually trotted out in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. We keep being
told that the bombs are connected to our foreign wars; that we are up against
primitive fundamentalism; that moderate Muslims should do more to isolate the
extremists in their communities; and that ministers need additional powers to
deal with the threat. Each of these assumptions needs to be
examined.