So, Scotland is finally in the front line of international terrorism, writes Iain MacWhirter . The car which shattered the glass in Glasgow Airport on Saturday also shattered any complacent illusions that Scotland had some sort of immunity from attack.
So, Scotland is finally in the front line of international terrorism. It is almost 20 years since the last terrorist incident in Scotland - at Lockerbie in 1988 - and that atrocity was not specifically directed at this country: Pan Am 103 simply fell to earth.