"Airport bomber left "suicide" note"

Thursday, July 5, 2007

UK bomber left suicide note
Reuters


BRITISH police investigating the al-Qaeda-style car bomb attacks in London
and Scotland have found a suicide note left by one of the men who rammed a
vehicle into Glasgow airport, CNN reported.

The US broadcaster did not say where the note was found but, citing sources
close to the investigation, said it had been left by one of two men who
rammed a jeep into the terminal last Saturday and set the vehicle ablaze. 

Police declined to confirm the report. 

The driver of the vehicle, who has not been named by police, was severely
burned and is in critical condition in the Royal Alexandra Hospital near
Glasgow. 

Media reports have named him as Dr Kafeel Ahmed, also known as Khalid Ahmed.
He also is alleged to have been involved in the failed attempt to set off
two car bombs in central London last Friday. 

The other jeep occupant, named by police sources as Bilal Abdulla, an
Iraqi-trained doctor, is being held with other suspects in London, including
Kafeel Ahmed's brother, Sabeel Ahmed. 

Britain yesterday lowered the national terrorism threat level by one notch
to "severe," saying there was no longer evidence to suggest another attack
was imminent. 

Detectives believe they have now arrested all the main participants in the
plot, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in office for barely a week, has
said may be linked to al-Qaeda. 

A total of eight people are in custody, including Indian national, Dr
Mohammed Haneef, who had been working in an Australian hospital and was
arrested trying to leave the country. 

Haneef is the cousin of brothers Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed, media reports
said. 

Security sources say all eight have links to the medical profession. 

The daily newspaper The Mirror reported that four of the suspects had met in
Cambridge in 2005, suggesting the group may have been formed then.

 Do you have an opinion about this story?
Share it with other readers in our CAA Discussion Forums

http://www.californiaaviation.org/dcfp/dcboard.php


*****************************************