Doctor due in court over failed UK car bombings

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London, July 20: A doctor is due in court today charged with plotting to carry out failed car bomb attacks in London and Scotland last month.

Jordanian Mohammed Jamil Asha, 26, is charged with conspiring with Bilal Abdullah and Kafeel Ahmed to cause explosions ''likely to endanger life''.

Asha was arrested on the M6 motorway in Cheshire on June 30, hours after a car was driven into Glasgow Airport and set ablaze.

Born in Saudi Arabia, Asha qualified as a doctor in Jordan in 2004 before moving to Britain to study neurosurgery at a hospital in central England. He will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court.

Iraqi-trained doctor Abdullah, 27, has already been charged with the same offence as Asha.

Indian engineer Ahmed is seriously ill in hospital after being burned in the Glasgow attack. That came 36 hours after London police found two cars packed with fuel, gas tanks and nails. One was outside a crowded nightclub.

Police believe the two incidents were linked. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said al Qaeda could be behind the suspected car bomb plots which prompted Britain to raise its alert level to ''critical'', the highest category.

Two other men have also been charged in connection with the incidents.

Last week British police charged Ahmed's brother Sabeel with failing to disclose information that could have prevented an act of terrorism.

Meanwhile Australian Federal Police have charged Mohammed Haneef, Sabeel's second cousin, with providing support to a terrorist organisation.

Reuters>

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