Brit doctor guilty in Glasgow terror trial

LONDON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A British doctor is guilty of plotting to carry out wholesale killings by detonating car bombs at Glasgow Airport and in London, jurors said Tuesday.

A jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court found Bilal Abdulla, a National Health Service junior doctor, guilty of planning the bomb attacks last year, the BBC reported.

Abdulla, 29, a son of Iraqi immigrant parents, was arrested near where a burning Jeep filled with gas canisters had been driven into Glasgow Airport on its busiest day of the year, authorities said. Abdulla was found guilty of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions and faces a life sentence.

An alleged accomplice in Abdulla's plans, Kafeel Ahmed, died following the June 30, 2007, Glasgow attack. The BBC said Abdulla admitted in court he fit the legal definition of "a terrorist" but added he believed Britain could just as well be accused of terrorism for its own actions in Iraq.

But his assertion he had only wanted to frighten people brought a rebuke from Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Karen Jones, who said: "If you are planning to scare people you do not pack cars with petrol, gas and nails," the BBC reported.