The doctors who plotted mass murder for Allah

Independent:

Two muslim doctors motivated by a desire to punish Britain for its actions abroad plotted a nationwide car bombing campaign to commit "wholesale" murder which ended in a desperate suicide attack on a busy airport, a court heard yesterday.

Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28, who worked in NHS hospitals, were said to have become key figures in a terrorist cell that tried to destroy a nightclub in London's West End in June last year. The attack on the Tiger Tiger club on Haymarket, near Piccadilly, using two Mercedes saloon cars packed with metal gas canisters, cans of petrol and nails, failed because triggers rigged to mobile phones inside the vehicles did not ignite the improvised "fuel-air" devices, the court heard.

A jury at Woolwich Crown Court heard it was "no more than good fortune" that the car bombs driven into London by Dr Abdulla and another co-conspirator, Kafeel Ahmed, from their base in Glasgow did not kill scores of the 500 revellers inside the nightclub. Police found several "missed call" messages on each of the rigged mobile phones, indicating repeated attempts to set off the devices, the court heard.

The attack was allegedly to be the first in a series of remotely triggered bombings using five cars, designed to spread panic and "punish" the British people for the UK's involvement in what they saw as the persecution of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.

Jonathan Laidlaw QC, for the prosecution, said: "Their plan was to carry out a series of attacks on the public using bombs concealed in vehicles. No warnings were to be given and the cars were to be positioned in busy urban areas. These men were intent on committing murder on an indiscriminate and wholesale scale. By the carrying out of a series of explosions, with no warning as to where the next strike would occur, the terrorists knew the public would be gripped by fear."

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These doctors were not constrained by an oath to do no harm. They set out to do as much harm as possible because of their ridiculous religious bigotry. They evidently preferred the Taliban to the current Muslim government of Afghanistan notwithstanding the Taliban's penchant for indiscriminate killing an abuse in the name of Allah. They represent a strain of sickness that has infected some Muslims and has lowered respect for Islam around the world.