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2007-07-20 Britain
Fourth UK Terror Plot Suspect Charged
Jordanian-trained doctor, Mohammed Asha, 26, was yesterday charged by Scotland Yard counterterrorism officers with conspiracy to cause an explosion following the attempted car bomb attacks in central London on June 29 and a Jeep attack at Glasgow Airport the following day. According to Scotland Yard, Asha, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, is accused of unlawfully and maliciously conspiring with Bilal Abdullah, Kafeel Ahmed and “others unknown” to cause explosions of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury. He will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court today.

Asha was arrested with his wife Marwa Asha, 27, a laboratory technician, on the M6 motorway in Cheshire on June 30. He is the fourth person to be charged in connection with the failed terror attacks in central London and Glasgow Airport.

In the first attack on June 29, Scotland Yard officers found two Mercedes saloon cars containing petrol and propane gas cylinders and a cocktail of nails and bolts in the Haymarket outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub and Cockspur Street in central London. Due to faulty connections, the detonators failed to explode. In the second attack the following day, a blazing Jeep Cherokee, similarly packed with gas and petrol cylinders and nails, was driven into the main terminal building at Glasgow International Airport. The Jeep failed to break through barriers and thus did not enter the actual terminal building where hundreds of passengers were gathered.

Eight suspects were originally detained in connection with the terror plot. Thus far three of the eight detainees have been released without charges, including Marwa Asha and two unnamed trainee doctors. The first one to be charged was Iraqi Dr. Bilal Talal Samad Abdullah, who is believed to be the driver of the Jeep involved in the Glasgow Airport attack. He was charged July 6 with conspiracy to cause explosions; and sent to trial at the Old Bailey on July 27.

The other suspect charged in the UK is Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, 26, of Liverpool who worked at the Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire. He was charged last Saturday under the Terrorism Act with having information that could have prevented an act of terrorism.

The third person charged is Dr. Mohammed Haneef, who worked at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland in Australia and was arrested at Brisbane Airport en route to Bangalore in India on a one-way ticket. He was charged by the Australian Federal Police with providing “reckless support” to a terrorist organization. He is alleged to have provided the mobile phone SIM card to his cousins Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed in the UK.
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Posted by Fred 2007-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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