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The Scottish Procurator Fiscal ordered a postmortem on the body of Dr. Kafeel Ahmed, one of the two terror suspects involved in the terror attack at Glasgow Airport on June 30.Kafeel, a 27-year-old from Bangalore in India, died late Thursday evening at Glasgow Royal Infirmary as a result of 90 degree burns he received to his torso after driving a blazing Jeep Cherokee laden with gas and petrol cylinders, and nails, into the main terminal building at the airport.Because of the severity of his burns he was later transferred to the specialist burns unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where doctors...

A terror suspect being treated for severe burns following a car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has died in hospital. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, was being cared for at a specialist unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. After being doused with a fire extinguisher by an off-duty policeman, Ahmed was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley. Ahmed, who is also known as Khalid, suffered 90% burns. The alleged attack on Glasgow airport came a day after two attempted car bombings failed in London on June 29. Ahmed spent 33 days in hospital before succumbing to his injuries. A spokesman for...

LONDON - A man critically burned after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died of his injuries Thursday, Strathclyde Police said. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, had been in the hospital for a month with burns from the alleged attack on June 30, which followed a day after two failed car bombings in London. The other man in the car, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah, has been charged with conspiring to set off explosions. "We can confirm that the man seriously injured during the course of the incident at Glasgow Airport on Saturday June 30 has died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary,"...

Glasgow Terror Suspect Dies Updated: 23:08, Thursday August 02, 2007 The terror suspect badly burned in the failed attack on Glasgow airport has died. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is believed to have been the driver of the Jeep Cherokee which burst into flames as it was rammed into the terminal building. Scene of the failed attackAfter being doused with a fire extinguisher by an off-duty policeman, Ahmed was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley.

Glasgow Airport attack man dies A man injured in the Glasgow Airport attack on Saturday 30 June has died in hospital, police have confirmed. A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said that the man seriously injured during the incident died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Kafeel Ahmed, one of two men held at the airport after a Jeep struck the terminal, died on Thursday evening. The circumstances surrounding the death have been reported to the procurator fiscal.

SEVERELY burned Glasgow Airport attack suspect Kafeel Ahmed is being kept alive on the orders of MI5, senior police sources have told Scotland on Sunday. Ahmed has third degree burns to 90% of his body and virtually no chance of surviving but insiders claim the security services are keeping him alive to avoid a backlash from radical Muslims. The 27-year-old doctor is on life support at Glasgow Royal Infirmary but two separate police sources - as well as medical staff - claim the decision to keep him alive has more to do with politics than clinical judgment. One insider estimated...

Doctors use shark skin grafts to treat burned terror suspect 24.07.07 Surgeons treating the terror suspect burned in the Glasgow Airport car bomb attempt are going to use "grafts" of a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cow tendons. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is being treated at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The process is called Integra Dermal Regeneration Template. "It tricks the body into creating new skin cells," explained Steve Jeffrey, a surgeon who worked in Australia perfecting the treatment. Silicone implanted with shark skin extracts is laid on the burns for two weeks before it is removed and replaced...

EDINBURGH, Scotland - A man who was engulfed in flames after allegedly crashing a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders into Glasgow's airport is unlikely to survive his severe burns, a doctor who treated him said Tuesday. Police believe Kafeel Ahmed, 27, was driving the Jeep when it rammed into the airport entrance June 30, shattering the glass doors, and then ignited into a raging fire. Witnesses saw his body in flames after the attack, which came a day after police found two unexploded car bombs in central London. "The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to...

BANGALORE: "I am involved in a large scale confidential project. It is about global warming. I cannot reveal the details. It involves a lot of travelling. I have to present a lot of papers at various places. The project has to be started in the United Kingdom. After starting it there, I will come back to Bangalore and continue it from here. Various people from various countries are involved in this. There is an Indian with me and he is helping me out. He has given his car to me for travelling. During the project work in the UK, I...

Duo who attacked Glasgow airport 'were resigned to death', say officers   (Daily Record) One of the men who attacked Glasgow airport being hosed down with a fire extinguisher. He is currently in a critical condition (Daily Record)       Adam Fresco   Two police officers today described the moment they foiled the plans of two would-be bombers to bring death and destruction to Glasgow aiport. The officers said that the two men, one of whom was trying to keep them away from the car while the other was covered in flames, “were resigned to death”. Constable Stewart...