Following the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack he criticised the handling of Islam by member-states and called for a "European Islam".
Alford has been regularly featured in several television programs and newspapers as an explosive expert and has been queried regarding the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.
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On 1 July 2007, the day after the attack on Glasgow Airport, Asha and his wife were arrested in a rolling roadblock on the M6 motorway in Cheshire.