The jury on Monday found four men guilty of conspiracy to murder
Posted on 06/30/2007 8:15:09 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Burning Car In Airport Terminal Updated: 15:59, Saturday June 30, 2007
A car has driven into the terminal building at Glasgow airport and caught fire. More follows...
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He'll know when we fully understand, because at that point everything even remotely related to islam will simply be gone.
Fascinating article. All of it. Needs to be posted complete!
During the trial, the court heard the would-be bombers had been under police surveillance in early 2004 while camping in a rural area of northern England.
Ibrahim was allowed to travel to Pakistan in December 2004 although he was on police bail and despite the fact he was carrying a large sum of cash, a military first aid kit and a booklet on how to deal with gunshot wounds.
It was on this trip that prosecutors say he was given training into how to make bombs. In 2004, the Eritrean-born Ibrahim applied successfully for a British passport, despite having a criminal record.
Sad to say, it appears an attempt to kill a large number of UK citizens needs to succeed before the British wake up...
Is this the trial where the idiot had her ipod on? If so, will the whole thing get thrown out??
No, different trial.
'Laughing at the court': Ruhela Khanom in her headscarf
A spokeswoman for the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde refused to comment on whether the suspect's condition had changed.
Bilal Abdullah, born in Britain and raised in Iraq, is the only suspect to have been charged in connection with the suspected car bomb plots.
The Bank of England notice linked Dr Abdullah to six UK addresses - three in the Glasgow area (Paisley, Houston and Greenock) and three in Cambridge.
It also revealed that he holds a British passport, issued in August 1998.
Dr Abdullah appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday and is due at the Old Bailey on 27 July.
Five other suspects are being questioned in the UK by police.
In this undated photo made available on Monday, July 9, 2007 by the tabloid Bangalore Mirror in Bangalore, India, shows Indian engineer Kafeel Ahmed. Indian investigators have seized a computer hard drive belonging to Kafeel Ahmed, suspected of ramming a Jeep into the Glasgow airport in a failed terror attack, a senior police official said Monday. (AP Photo/Bangalore Mirror)
By Ed Husain
A one-time jihadi looks at why so many radical Islamic groups include doctors and engineers—and how their involvement threatens the religion itself.
From correspondents in Karnataka, India, 07:30 PM IST
How to use a syringe for triggering explosions, films on Al Qaeda and speeches of Osama bin Laden are some of the information stored in the hard disc of Kafeel Ahmed, a suspect in the failed United Kingdom terror plot, sources said here Wednesday.
Kafeel's interest in syringe technology is significant because failure of syringes, found in the two Mercedes Benz car bombs in Britain, was said to have prevented the cars from exploding in London on June 29.
The next day, a blazing Jeep Cherokee crashed into the Glasgow airport terminal building, with Kafeel believed to be the driver. He suffered 90 percent burns and is being treated in a Scottish hospital.
The hard disc, said to have a huge memory capacity of 320 GB (giga bytes), is being analysed by the Thiruvananthapuram-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
The hard disc and several CDs containing jihadi material were seized last week by the Bangalore police from the residence of Kafeel's parents, Dr Maqbool Ahmed and Dr Zakhia Ahmed, in the city's Banashankari area.
Going through the thousands of files - one estimate of the number is 17,000 - is time consuming, the sources said quoting information they had received from CDAC.
Officially the city police were not saying anything on what information has been gathered from the hard disc. They say since it is being analysed, they would wait for the full report before commenting on the contents and their implications.
Meanwhile, the expected meeting of Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy with senior police officials did not take place Wednesday also as he was caught up in the assembly which witnessed a heated debate over the killing of five people, said to be Maoists, in Chickmagalur district on Tuesday.
There was no word also of the arrival here of an Australian Federal Police official to join the probe. The official arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday.
As a lot of procedure and protocol is involved in such visits, it may take time to complete them, an official in Bangalore explained.
Kafeel, a mechanical engineer, his doctor brother Sabeel Ahmed and their cousin Haneef Mohamed are suspected to be involved in the failed terror plots.
Sabeel was picked up by British police in Liverpool, while Haneef, also a doctor, was detained by Australian police in Brisbane last week as he was leaving for India on a one-way ticket.
None of the three has been formally charged. Haneef's lawyers in Brisbane are planning to challenge any request by Australian police to detain him further without formally charging him.
In related developments, it was virtually a quiet day for the media, particularly the news channels, after nearly 10 days of hectic reporting quoting sources and people said to be friends and relatives of the families of the three suspects.
The slowdown followed a detailed statement by the Karnataka Home Minister M.P. Prakash in the state assembly Tuesday confirming that Kafeel, Sabeel and Haneef were into jihadi movement and Kafeel had also made some provocative speeches at rallies in the city.
Prakash's statement was the first by the government on the Bangalore-link to a terror plot abroad, which too is a first for the IT capital of the country.
Mohammed Haneef: The Indian doctor is being held under anti-terrorism laws (ABC TV)
Haneef in 'limbo' under anti-terrorist laws Posted Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:23am AEST
TIME extended ... Mohamed Haneef's defence lawyer Peter Russo of leaves court yesterday amid a media throng. Picture: Annette Dew
GOLD Coast terrorism suspect Mohamed Haneef will be held in custody in the Brisbane watchhouse until 2.15pm tomorrow as the Federal Government yesterday defended his continued detention.
Haneef's wife Firdous meanwhile spoke out for the first time since the 27-year-old was arrested at Brisbane International Airport nine days ago. "That was good. I spoke to him after so many days," she said.
"He was inquiring about the health of his baby and everyone else here. I'm happy that at least he is holding up, he is OK, not very sad about it."
On July 4, White told The Associated Press that he had met the man in Amman, Jordan, in April who was identified by religious leaders as an al-Qaida leader. The man told him: "Those who cure you will kill you."
I thought he was pretty darn brave when I saw him say that in an interview. If he is legit then I hope someone gives him protection.
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