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Britain
Mustapha Skingraft is no more
2007-08-03
I think this is the third time we've run this.
A terrorist suspect who was being treated for severe burns following the failed car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has died in hospital.

Ahmed, 27, was being cared for at a specialist unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary after the incident on June 30. 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 and spent 33 days in hospital before succumbing to his injuries.

A spokesman for the Scottish Executive defended Ahmed's treatment.He said: "There has been some comment about the treatment provided for him by the NHS.

"It was perfectly right that he should have received the appropriate treatment our health service could offer as this reflects the value our society places on human life.

"The focus now should be on the criminal investigation that is under way."

The Glasgow Airport attack followed two suspected car bomb attempts in central London when police discovered two vehicles allegedly laden with gas canisters and fuel.

Ahmed's alleged accomplice Bilal Abdullah, 27, an Iraqi doctor, was arrested and charged with conspiring to cause explosions. Mohammed Asha, 26, from Newcastle-Under-Lyme, who was arrested on the M6 motorway near Sandbach in Cheshire on the day of the airport attack, is also accused of conspiring to cause explosions.

And Liverpool man Sabeel Ahmed, 26, has been charged with not disclosing information that could have helped police arrest a suspected terrorist.
The NHS succeeds where a jeep full of gas cannisters and petrol failed.
Posted by:Howard UK

#5  Burns over more than 60% of the human body are difficult to treat, and usually unsuccessful - in the range of 10-25% success rate. There's just not enough area left for skin to renew itself, and the threats of secondary infection go through the roof. Deep burns, the kind that not only roast the skin but the flesh under it, are the worst. I'm surprised he lived 33 days, myself.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-08-03 15:26  

#4  Ahmed AKA Khalid AKA Crispy AKA Dead.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-08-03 08:39  

#3  33 days of the most delicious torment that there is in this world. That has to be the most painful death possible. I have a friend that got badly burnt and he tells me there is no drug that can quell out that pain, only take a little of the edge off it. And I don't think it could have happened to a nicer murderer.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-08-03 07:52  

#2  Point of trivia. Quite fitting he finally expired in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The GRI was built upon the ruins of the Bishop's Castle of the old Glasgow Cathedral. If the GRI's superb burns unit couldn't save the bugger, he was meant to die. Bury the others with him, call it a day and retire for sundowners.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-08-03 06:19  

#1  90% burns; slow and painful death.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2007-08-03 05:18  

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