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16/12/2008
NHS Doctor Guilty Of Bomb Plots
An Iraqi NHS doctor has been found guilty of conspiring to murder hundreds of people by carrying out bombings in London and Glasgow.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, was convicted of plotting the homemade bomb attacks in 2007, today a Woolwich Crown Court.
A second defendant, his close friend, Jordanian NHS neurologist Mohammed Asha was found not guilty of the same offence.
The 28-year-old was also cleared of the conspiring to cause explosions charge.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said Islamic extremist Abdulla, and his accomplice Kafeel Ahmed plotted murder on an "indiscriminate and wholesale scale" in attacks that would occur without warning and spread panic among the public.
The court heard Abdulla plotted to murder late-night revellers in London's West End, using two mobile phone-detonated devices.
He drove one of two Mercedes saloons loaded with gas cylinders, petrol and nails into central London, however, the bombs failed to detonate.
A day after the incident, a Jeep loaded with a similar deadly cargo was crashed into Glasgow Airport in a suicide attack.
Abdulla claimed he wanted revenge for the wars in his homeland and what he saw as Western oppression of Muslims worldwide.
Ahmed, an Indian engineer, died of wounds sustained in the attack on Glasgow airport.
Abdulla will be sentenced at a later date.
(JM)
Bilal Abdulla, 29, was convicted of plotting the homemade bomb attacks in 2007, today a Woolwich Crown Court.
A second defendant, his close friend, Jordanian NHS neurologist Mohammed Asha was found not guilty of the same offence.
The 28-year-old was also cleared of the conspiring to cause explosions charge.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said Islamic extremist Abdulla, and his accomplice Kafeel Ahmed plotted murder on an "indiscriminate and wholesale scale" in attacks that would occur without warning and spread panic among the public.
The court heard Abdulla plotted to murder late-night revellers in London's West End, using two mobile phone-detonated devices.
He drove one of two Mercedes saloons loaded with gas cylinders, petrol and nails into central London, however, the bombs failed to detonate.
A day after the incident, a Jeep loaded with a similar deadly cargo was crashed into Glasgow Airport in a suicide attack.
Abdulla claimed he wanted revenge for the wars in his homeland and what he saw as Western oppression of Muslims worldwide.
Ahmed, an Indian engineer, died of wounds sustained in the attack on Glasgow airport.
Abdulla will be sentenced at a later date.
(JM)
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