Biting back at terror suspects?

Sunday Times:

Guarded by armed detectives, Kafeel Ahmed yesterday lay in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with his life in the balance.

His body was so badly burnt when he set himself on fire after crashing a car into Glasgow airport’s passenger terminal eight days ago that parts of a mobile phone are said to have melted into his skin. Only the finest NHS medical care is keeping him alive.

He and his friend Bilal Abdulla, who was also in the car, are central figures in Operation Seagram, the wide-rang-ing international investigation into the Glasgow incident and the discovery a day earlier of two car bombs in London.

Yesterday Abdulla appeared in court in London, charged with conspiracy to cause explosions. He was remanded in custody.

Detectives from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) are also keen to talk to Kafeel who, it emerged yesterday, called his parents just hours before the burning Jeep Cherokee smashed into the Glasgow terminal and said: “The time has now come.”

Investigators are desperate to find out exactly why two well-educated young men – one a British-born Iraqi doctor, the other a skilled Indian engineer – were in the burning car packed with petrol and gas canisters, and who else, if anyone, was involved.

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I guess the obvious answer to why they were in a car bomb is too simple. But, just in case Scotland yard still has not figured it out I offer this theory. They were Islamist religious bigots bent on mass murder and they saw a car bomb as a tool for accomplishing that objective. Perhaps they are looking for a deeper answer to why they wanted to be mass murderers, but it appears to be found in the weird religious beliefs of several people who say they are Muslims.

The story does go on to give a very detailed background on the perps.