Doctors 'sought wholesale murder'

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Doctors 'sought wholesale murder'

Bilal Abdulla and Mohammad Asha

 

Two NHS doctors plotted "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder with car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow Airport, Woolwich Crown Court has heard.

 

Prosecutors say Dr Bilal Abdulla was in a burning car filled with explosives which rammed the Glasgow airport terminal building in June last year.

 

Two days earlier, he and Kafeel Ahmed, now dead, are said to have left two gas-laden cars in London's West End.

 

Dr Abdulla, 29, and Dr Mohammad Asha, 27, deny plotting a terrorist campaign.

 

Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC told the court that the men were motivated by revenge for how they believed the UK was treating Muslims in conflicts around the world.

 

Dr Abdulla built the bombs and attacked the targets with Kafeel Ahmed, while Dr Asha played a role behind the scenes, advising and supporting the plot.

 

"Their plan was to carry out a series of attacks on the public using bombs concealed in vehicles. No warnings were to be given and the cars were to be positioned in busy urban areas.

 

"These men were intent on committing murder on an indiscriminate and a wholesale scale.

 

"By the carrying out of a series of explosions, with no warning as to where the next strike would occur, the terrorists knew the public would be gripped by fear. They would not know where the terrorists would strike next."

 

London bombs

 

The trial heard that two remotely-controlled car bombs left in central London in the early hours of Friday 29 June would have killed many young people who were out in the area's bars and clubs.

 

Large quantities of nails had been added to both vehicles to add to their destructive effect, said Mr Laidlaw.

 

"The repeated attempts to detonate the vehicles failed but that was not through any lack of effort by the bombers. It was no more than good fortune that nobody died."

 

The attack on Glasgow Airport, the court heard, was a "dramatic change" in plan because of the unexpected failure of London, said Mr Laidlaw.

 

The men had two more cars at their disposal - and enough material to make bombs for each.

 

The jury heard that Dr Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed loaded a Jeep with gas cylinders and petrol bombs because they wanted to kill holidaymakers and themselves in a "spectacular" attack on the terminal building.

 

NHS doctors

 

Dr Abdulla, an Iraqi citizen who was born in the UK, was arrested after the burning Jeep failed to detonate at Glasgow's main terminal building on 30 June last year.

 

At the time of his arrest, he was a junior house officer at the Royal Alexandra in nearby Paisley.

 

Dr Asha, a neurologist based in Staffordshire, supported the plot by being a key figure behind the scenes, the trial heard. He was arrested the same day on the M6 motorway in Cheshire.

 

Indian-born Kafeel Ahmed, who drove the car used to attack the airport, died from his burns five weeks later.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7660750.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why are these people (or at least one of these anyway) prepared to commit suicide (along with the mass murder of totally innocent people) for their "cause", yet they never plead guilty to it (which would surely be committed islamofascist's political dream - like the Bali bombers)?

 

 

It makes little sense.

[Kid Dynamite 7329]

Cos you dont get bummed when youre dead but you do in jail?

[Guest alex]

Cos you dont get bummed when youre dead but you do in jail?

I thought you'd left here for good btw?

[Kid Dynamite 7329]

No i just havent posted for a couple of days cos I was at work

[Guest alex]

No i just havent posted for a couple of days cos I was at work

So you aren't J69 then? My mistake.