Glasgow Bomb Suspect

SADLY DIES yeah nowt effin sad aboot burn in Hell I say….. I question the fact we wasted NHS money on the Terrorist……………!!!

LONDON (AFP) – The man who crashed a vehicle packed with gas canisters into Glasgow airport died in hospital Thursday of the burns he sustained in the failed June 30 car bomb attack, police said.

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Kafeel Ahmed, 27, reportedly suffered 90 percent burns to his skin in the attack on Scotland’s biggest airport, which came a day after a linked failed incident in London.

Ahmed, an engineer from Bangalore in India, drove a Jeep Cherokee, laden with propane gas canisters, into the front of the terminal, setting the sports utility vehicle and part of the building ablaze.

He was in a critical condition and was being kept under armed police guard in a hospital specialist unit.

“We can confirm that the man seriously injured during the course of the incident at Glasgow airport on Saturday June 30 has died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary,” a Strathclyde Police spokesman said Thursday.

“The man died earlier this evening and the circumstances surrounding the death have been reported to the procurator fiscal.”

Ahmed’s parents said Friday they were still waiting official confirmation he was their son.

“We are waiting for confirmation of the identity of the person who received 80 percent burns,” family lawyer B.T. Venkatash told AFP.

“Till today, British authorities have not identified him as Kafeel Ahmed (to his family),” the lawyer said.

The Glasgow airport attack came the day after bungled bombing attempts in London, when two cars packed with gas canisters and nails were left in the city centre, one outside a popular nightclub and the other near Trafalgar Square.

Doctors at Glasgow Royal Infirmary said last month there was little hope of Kafeel Ahmed surviving his injuries.

A medic, speaking anonymously on July 11, said he had third-degree burns over most of his torso and limbs.

“It is beyond repair and because he has lost so much skin he is now vulnerable to infection and won’t be able to fight it,” he said.

Some commentators had hit out at the cost to the taxpayer of keeping Ahmed alive in hospital.

A spokesman for the Scottish Executive said: “We understand that the suspect being treated following the Glasgow Airport attack has now died.

“There has been some comment about the treatment provided for him by the National Health Service.

“It was perfectly right that he should have received the appropriate treatment our health service could offer as this reflects the value our society places on human life.

“The focus now should be on the criminal investigation that is under way.”

Three male doctors are in British custody charged in connection with the failed attacks.

One of them is Ahmed’s brother Sabeel, 26. He appeared in court last month and was remanded until August 13 charged with withholding information on terrorism.

Two others were remanded in custody on greater charges, including Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, who was arrested at Glasgow airport.

Abdulla and Jordanian doctor Mohammed Asha, 26, stand accused of conspiring between January 1 and July 1 this year to cause explosions “of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury.”

Asha and Abdulla are due to appear in court for a committal hearing on September 10.

Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, a cousin of the Ahmeds, spent three weeks in detention in Australia before being released due to a lack of evidence.

He returned home Sunday after Australian police dropped charges that he had “recklessly” supported the car bombing plot by giving his mobile-phone SIM card to one of two cousins implicated in the conspiracy.