LONDON — A British jury Tuesday found a doctor from an Iraqi family guilty of plotting to murder on a mass scale in failed car-bomb attacks last year in London and Glasgow, Scotland.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, who practiced medicine in Britain, drove a Mercedes sedan packed with gas cylinders and nails into central London in June 2007 with the intent of killing hundreds, the prosecution said. After the homemade car bomb he had parked outside a nightclub failed to detonate, Abdulla joined an attempted suicide attack the next day targeting Glasgow’s airport, according to prosecutors. He faces life in prison in connection with both attacks and is to be sentenced today.
In the Glasgow airport attack, Abdulla’s Jeep ignited into a fireball when the driver, Kafeel Ahmed, rammed it into the main terminal; Ahmed, 28, an engineering student from India, had doused himself with gasoline. In critical condition for a month, Ahmed died with burns over 90 percent of his body.
Abdulla broke a man’s leg as he fought off passers-by and police at the airport before he was arrested.
The Washington Post
