NRI doctor
from Bangalore sentenced 18 months over Glasgow airport car bomb
plots
(Voluntarily
deported back to India)
Glasgow, April 11, 2008
Udham Singh
NRI doctor, Sabeel Ahmed, 26, of Ramillies Road, Mossley Hill,
whose brother died after a failed suicide car bombing at Glasgow
airport has pleaded guilty to withholding information from police
about the attack.
The doctor hails from Bangalore who worked at Halton hospital
in Runcorn, was given an 18 month sentence. He has previously
appeared in court alongside Bilal Abdullah, 28, and Mohammed Asha,
27.
Sabeel Ahmed's brother Kafeel Ahmed, PhD in engineering, drove
the car and later died in hospital after sustaining serious burns.The
previous day, police found two cars laden with gas canisters and
fuel in central London, designed by Kafeel Ahmed
Ahmed, who worked at Halton hospital in Runcorn, has previously
appeared in court alongside Bilal Abdullah, 28, and Mohammed Asha,
27. The later two are accused of conspiracy to cause explosions
likely to endanger life between January 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007.
The later two are accused of conspiracy to cause explosions likely
to endanger life between January 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007. It
is alleged Asha and Abdullah planned an attack in Haymarket, central
London, on June 29 in which an unexploded car bomb packed with
gas cylinders and nails was found outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub.
The court told: Sabeel Ahmed will be released from custody almost
immediately and voluntarily deported back to India because of
the time in jail he has already served.
The prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said:
- Sabeel Ahmed came into possession of "significant information
about the attack and those responsible for it.
- Just before the attack, Kafeel Ahmed sent his brother a text
message directing him to read an email he had sent him, which
Sabeel Ahmed did later that day.
- It read: "This is the project that I was working
on for some time now. Everything else was a lie." He
added: "It's about time that we give up our lives and
our families for the sake of Islam to please Allah."
- Kafeel Ahmed instructed his brother not to tell anyone about
his "deed" and to maintain a cover story that he was
in Iceland on a global warming project.
- Kafeel Ahmed drove the car with petrol and gas canisters failed
to ignite the bomb. He crashed the car and his passenger lowered
his window and threw a petrol bomb out side of the car. Ahmed
began to pour and splash fuel from a can on to the area outside
the car window. He tried to run, his body was on flames and
suffered 90% burns.
- The airport attack was intended to be a suicide mission after
the earlier attacks had failed.
He apologised for being "such a good liar", adding:
"It was necessary. This is confidential on behalf of our
emir."
