Bilal Abdullah

Bilal Talal Samad Abdullah (born 1980) is a suspect arrested after the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. Dr. Abdullah and the driver of the Jeep Cherokee that was rammed into the terminal and set ablaze, engineer Kafeel Ahmed, who died from third degree burns on 2 August 2007, are believed by police to have been responsible for leaving car bombs in London two days earlier. Dr. Abdullah was the owner of the Jeepcite news|title = Police link suspects held over failed attacks |publisher = The Independent|date = 2007-07-05|accessdate = 2007-07-05|url = http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2737136.ece] and has been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions.cite news|title = British police charge Iraqi doctor over failed car bombings|publisher = The Hindu|date = 2007-07-07|accessdate = 2007-07-07|url =http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200707070301.htm] He was remanded in custody, and is currently in jail, awaiting trial. While Ahmed was aflame in the car, Abdullah reportedly attacked Sergeant Torquil Campbell at the scene, in an attempt to prevent him from approaching the burning vehicle, and running back to try to open the back hatch. During the scuffle, Stewart's colleague, constable Stewart Ferguson, was spraying the burning man with a fire extinguisher. Popping and banging could be heard coming from the vehicle.cite news|title = Duo who attacked Glasgow airport 'were resigned to death', say officers |publisher = Times Online|date = 2007-07-05|accessdate = 2007-07-05|url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2033389.ece] A suicide note left behind indicates that the duo intended to die in the attack.cite news|title = Glasgow suspects left suicide note|publisher = The Australian|date = 2007-07-06|accessdate = 2007-07-06|url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22026060-601,00.html]

A resident of Neuk Crescent, Houston, outside Glasgow, Bilal Abdullah was born September 17, 1980cite news|title = Our son is not a fanatic. This is a mistake|publisher = The Daily Telegraph|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/03/nterror303.xml] in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire,cite news|title = Airport terrorist in flaming Jeep was born in UK|publisher = Edinburgh Evening News|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1041142007] where his father, also a doctor, worked. He qualified in Baghdad in 2004 and first registered as a doctor in the UK in 2006. He was given limited registration by the General Medical Council (GMC) from 5 August 2006 to 11 August 2007. He worked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Ward 10, in Paisley as a locum house-officer in the diabetes department, dealing with outpatients at a drop-in clinic and obstetric clinics.cite news|title = Who are the car bomb suspects?|publisher = BBC|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6264230.stm] cite news|title = The middle-class militants seeking bloody martyrdom|publisher = Edinburgh Evening News|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1041142007] He had links to the Sunni Wahabistcite news|title = MI5 knew of some doctor suspects|publisher = Malaysia Sun|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/262119/cs/1/] sect and radical islamic groups,cite news|title = Terror warning in code|publisher = Herald Sun|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1041142007] and had been disciplined for spending too much time on the internet at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.cite news|title = NHS terror plot: police investigate global email network used by 'bombers'|publisher = ThisIsLondon.co.uk|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23402861-details/Police+track+bomb+plotters+by+email+across+the+world/article.do] He is also said to have come to the notice of the security service, after visiting Islamist websites.cite news|title = Police link suspects held over failed attacks |publisher = The Independent|date = 2007-07-05|accessdate = 2007-07-05|url = http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2737136.ece]

A silver Vauxhall Astra, which was subject to a controlled explosion by police on 3 July 2007, was believed to have been rented by Dr. Abdullah.cite news|title = Scottish Muslims vow to fight divisive terror evil|publisher = NewKerala.com|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=44341]

It has been reported that his motive was to avenge the death of a friend killed in the Iraq War by a Shia death squad,cite news|title = Police link suspects held over failed attacks |publisher = The Independent|date = 2007-07-05|accessdate = 2007-07-05|url = http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2737136.ece] hate against the West over Palestine, and that he had been radicalized by the teachings of al Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. The radical organization Hizb ut-Tahrir denies reports from the Telegraph that Abdullah was a member.cite news|title = He Wanted Revenge|publisher = Mirror.co.uk|date = 2007-07-04|accessdate = 2007-07-04|url = http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/07/04/he-wanted-revenge-89520-19402038/] cite news|title = Ties that bind terror car bomb suspects |publisher = Telegraph|date = 2007-07-05|accessdate = 2007-07-05|url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/05/nterror205.xml]

There are indications that Kafeel Ahmed and Bilal Abdullah were behind the 2007 London car bombs plot, and investigations are being carried out to unearth a possible involvement with the deadly 2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting, an attack with unknown suspects that are still at large.cite news|title =Bangalore terror link puts IISc attack under scanner = ibnlive.com|date = 2007-07-10|accessdate = 2007-07-10|url = http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bangalore-terror-link-puts-iisc-attack-under-scanner/44429-3.html]

As of 4 July 2007, 13:53 BST, he is detained at the Paddington Green Police Station in London.

Abdullah had been given limited registration by the United Kingdom's General Medical Council (GMC) from the period of 5 August 2006 to 11 August 2007.cite news|title = Australia drops doctor's terrorism charge as 'embarrassing mistake'|publisher = The Scotsman (Online)|date = 2007-07-28|accessdate = 2007-09-27|url =http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1177062007] The GMC's interim orders panel made a determination, subsequent to the Glasgow International Airport attacks, that Abdullah's registration should be suspended for 18 months, as an interim measure. However, since Abdullah's registration was already to expire on 11 August 2007, his registration was actually suspended only until then.

References

ee also

* 2007 UK terrorist incidents

External links

* [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23402861-details/Police+track+bomb+plotters+by+email+across+the+world/article.do NHS terror plot: police investigate global email network used by 'bombers'] - Photograph of Dr. Bilal Abdullah's arrest.