Full Details of Glasgow Terror Plot Finally Released
Like I’ve said before, poverty and a lack of education do not cause one to become a Jihadist. It is Islamic ideology that does.
Muslim doctor plotted terror attacks in London and Glasgow
A Muslim doctor who died after a failed terror attack on Glasgow airport had plotted a campaign of “spectacular” terrorist car bomb attacks designed to devastate Britain, a court heard today.
Kafeel Ahmed, 28, had targeted city nightclubs with explosives made at his home in Glasgow before turning his attention to the airport on its busiest day of the year.
Two car bombs left near nightclubs in the West End of London at the end of June last year had failed to explode when activated by mobile phone.
The next day, knowing the police were closing in, Ahmed launched the airport suicide mission and drove another car bomb into Glasgow Airport.
Driving a Jeep Cherokee he aimed for the entrance doors but crashed into the pillars to the right of them, the Old Bailey heard.
Jonathan Laidlaw, for the prosecution, said: “He then, having found himself from his perspective out of position, reversed the Jeep and made the first of a number of attempts to drive the vehicle through the airport door, repeatedly hitting pillars and the door frame.
“Despite his efforts, the vehicle became trapped. Those who witnessed him described a set and determined face as he stared forward.
“At that point, the vehicle was then 20ft from passengers queuing within the terminal building.
“His passenger lowered his window and threw a petrol bomb across the bonnet in the direction of the taxi rank and then threw a second of these devices in the opposite direction.
“At the same time the driver, the defendant’s brother, began to pour and splash fuel from a can on to the area outside the car window and appeared to throw a petrol bomb.
“He got out of the vehicle and was engulfed in flames that swept around the Jeep and terminal building. He appeared to try and prevent others from getting to him or the vehicle. He kicked out but eventually, he being on fire, he was extinguished, subdued, handcuffed and arrested.”
Full details of the terror plot emerged for the first time today after Kafeel’s brother Dr Sabeel Ahmed, 26, an NHS doctor, admitted failing to disclose information to police after the attacks.
He had received an e-mail about them from his brother but failed to go to police after hearing about the incident in Glasgow.
He was sentenced to 18 months in jail but will be released from custody and voluntarily deported back to India almost immediately because of time in jail he has already served, the court was told.
The e-mail, written two days before the failed Glasgow bomb attack, directed him to online documents containing his will and instructions on how to frustrate and mislead investigators.
Part of it read: “This is a project I was working on for some time now. Everything else was a lie and I hope you can forgive me for being such a good liar. It was necessary, just so that you know.
“Everything since last week was executed by me and my team. This is confidential on behalf of our Emir.”
He added: “It’s about time that we give up our lives and our families for the sake of Islam to please Allah.”
Mr Laidlaw said the airport attack took place on its busiest day of the year and passengers queued just yards away. He said that Kafeel and others had plotted a series of attacks to cause the maximum number of casualties.
He added: “They were concerned during the spring and summer last year in a plan to conduct a terrorist bombing campaign in the UK.
“Improvised explosive devices concealed in vehicles were intended to be deployed in urban centres and near nightclubs where the devastating effect and loss of life would be greatest.
“The first of the attacks on June 29 were not planned to involve the suicide of the operatives who delivered the devices. The bombers were hoping to carry out a series of large and spectacular attacks to maximise the loss of life and increase the level of fear felt by the general population in this country in the face of further threat from Islamic extremists.”
Two Mercedes cars containing gas cylinders and fuel were left outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub near Trafalgar Square, London, in the early morning of June 29.
The bombers planned to detonate the devices by making calls from mobile phones, the court heard.
Mr Laidlaw said: “Fortunately neither of the devices, while both viable, detonated properly. Both were disarmed by the authorities.”
After the failure of the first attacks, Kafeel Ahmed returned to Glasgow where he was based and set up the attack on the airport.
Mr Laidlaw said: “Fortunately no member of the public lost their life in these attacks although Kafeel Ahmed died in August of his injuries.”
“He (Sabeel) came into possession of significant information about the attack and those responsible for it and thereafter failed to make the required disclosure,” Mr Laidlaw said. “He had no reasonable excuse for that failure.
“The information was the identities of those involved in the bombing. The defendant could not of course have known conclusively whether all those concerned had been detained or whether they were free to continue with their terrorist activity.
“He would no doubt have had other information had he come forward, such as the addresses where his brother and brother’s associates lived.”
Sentencing Sabeel, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith told him: “You are the brother of Kafeel Ahmed who was at the wheel of the Cherokee jeep driven into the terminal building at Gatwick Airport on June 30, 2007.
“Just before he set off on the attack he sent you a text message telling you to access the site to which he had saved his document.
“It is clear that Kafeel Ahmed wrote it in anticipation of his own death in the hope that his body may be unrecognisable and unidentifiable, and asked you to say nothing about your knowledge of his death but to keep up a pretence that he was in Iceland on some secret project connected with his work as a scientist.
“It is clear you did not receive it until afterwards. Having opened the document on the website and realising your brother had been involved in a very serious offence, you kept that to yourself rather than complying with the duty imposed on you by statute of going to the authorities and sharing your knowledge.
“The maximum sentence is five years imprisonment. I accept there is no sign of you being an extremist or party to extremist views.
“The sentence for this offence is 18 months imprisonment, 270 days of which have been spent in custody, which will therefore effectively mean your immediate release from this sentence.”
11 April, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Throw his ass in the Clyde, with a nice pair of cement shoes. Let him swim back to India.