British-Iraqi Jihadist Doctor Convicted Of Terrorist Attack In The Glasgow Bombing Attempt

Good, good news. And a reminder to the British as well as every other Western country out there that if you are foolish enough to believe that the islamic world is separated into two camps - jihadists and moderates, you are sorely mistaken. The convicted terrorist, Bilal Abdulla, is a doctor in Britain and you don't get any "moderate" than that - but lo and behold, this guy held some pretty deep grudges against the West and tried to kill a lot of Scots. Here's some of the details from the report at Breitbart:

A British-Iraqi doctor was convicted of conspiracy to murder Tuesday for failed car bomb attacks upon young nightclubbers and rescue workers in London and airport travelers in Scotland. Prosecutors said he plotted to kill hundreds in revenge for the deaths of loved ones in Iraq.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, who is due to be sentenced Wednesday at London's Woolwich Crown Court, was also convicted of conspiring to cause explosions in central London and at Glasgow airport.

"I wanted the public to taste what is going on, for them to have a taste of what the decisions of their democratically elected murderers did to my people," Abdulla said during the trial, referring to Iraq.
Abdulla, who holds dual British-Iraqi citizenship, was arrested with Kafeel Ahmed, a 28-year-old Indian engineering student, after they attempted to crash their burning Jeep through entrance doors to Glasgow airport's departure terminal.

So the debate will continue...is the Global War on Terror simply going to be against some known terrorists groups in some mountainous village in Pakistan or is the West going to wake up and start zeroing in on the islamists in our very midst who plot each and every day to kill infidels.

If a doctor can come this close to blowing up a couple of hundred people in a Scottish airport, you better believe there's a math teacher in New York State that can do the same thing...and is probably already planning it.

Doctor convicted in failed London, Glasgow attacks

LONDON (AP) - A British-Iraqi doctor was convicted of conspiracy to murder Tuesday for failed car bomb attacks upon young nightclubbers and rescue workers in London and airport travelers in Scotland. Prosecutors said he plotted to kill hundreds in revenge for the deaths of loved ones in Iraq.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, who is due to be sentenced Wednesday at London's Woolwich Crown Court, was also convicted of conspiring to cause explosions in central London and at Glasgow airport.
His co-defendant, Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Asha, 28, was acquitted of playing any role in the plot.
Abdulla represents an unlikely type of militant: a British-born doctor who had pledged an oath to protect human lives. Anti-terrorism officials said Abdulla's case challenged the British public to broaden their thinking about potential homegrown threats.
"I personally find it bizarre that people who have trained as doctors can seek to take life in such a cruel way," said John McDowall, head of anti-terrorism policing in Britain. "When you look at the profile of these individuals, they are very different from the terrorists we have dealt with in this country before—being professional people."
All of Abdulla's planned attacks fizzled. Lethal car bombs placed near crowded London nightspots did not go off, and an attempt to ram a blazing Jeep into the passenger terminal at Glasgow's airport was also thwarted.
Investigators said Abdulla, a Sunni Muslim born in Britain but mainly raised in a middle class Baghdad neighborhood, blamed the West for the deaths of friends and relatives in the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 invasion.
"I wanted the public to taste what is going on, for them to have a taste of what the decisions of their democratically elected murderers did to my people," Abdulla said during the trial, referring to Iraq.
Abdulla, who holds dual British-Iraqi citizenship, was arrested with Kafeel Ahmed, a 28-year-old Indian engineering student, after they attempted to crash their burning Jeep through entrance doors to Glasgow airport's departure terminal.
Ahmed, who drove the Jeep, suffered extensive burns and later died in a hospital. His brother Sabeel Ahmed—like Abdulla, a doctor with Britain's national health service—was deported to India in May after he admitted withholding evidence from police.
Investigators said mass carnage in central London was avoided only because of good luck.
London police discovered two Mercedes cars loaded with explosives on June 29 last year, after a paramedic saw one of the vehicles—parked next to the city's popular "Tiger Tiger" nightclub—emitting smoke.
The two Mercedes were laden with gas cylinders, packed with 1,000 nails and filled to the brim with gasoline, police said. McDowall said the car bombs likely failed because each vehicle's gas tank was so full there wasn't enough oxygen inside to cause an explosion.
"I think we would have seen mass casualties" if the bombs had worked, McDowall said, adding the blast would have hurled gas cylinders through the nightclub's windows, killing scores of people.
The second car bomb was deliberately left next to a bus stop where emergency vehicles would have parked as they responded to the nightclub blast, police said.
McDowall said bomb squad officer Paul Humphrey spent 90 minutes carefully defusing the bombs by hand under torch light, as police feared that normal, remote-controlled robotic equipment could produce sparks and cause an explosion.