Doctor Jailed in Failed Glasgow Attack

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Doctor Jailed in Failed Glasgow Attack

AP foreign, Friday April 11 2008

By DAVID STRINGER

Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) - A British court sentenced an Indian doctor
Friday to 18 months in prison for withholding information
about last year's botched terrorist attack on crowded
airport in Scotland.

Sabeel Ahmed, 26, pleaded guilty to receiving an e-mail
about the mission from his older brother Kafeel Ahmed two
days before he attempted to ram a jeep into Glasgow's
airport - although the younger brother did not read the
e-mail until the evening after the attack took place.

In the message, Kafeel Ahmed wrote: “This is the project
that I was working on for some time now. Everything else
was a lie.”

-snip-

Since Sabeel Ahmed has already served half his sentence
and agreed to leave Britain, he was being released late
Friday from jail to be deported back to India, Judge
David Calvert-Smith said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7456230

[krkaufman]

1. wtf? He was found guilty of receiving an email?

this is getting seriously ridiculous. (this article provides woefully little information on what the guy supposedly did)

[AP]

3. No. He was guilty of a crime related to not cooperating with the investigation.

[struggle4progress]

2. Sabeel’s parents happy over son’s imminent return to Bangalore

Sabeel Ahmed .. was sentenced to 18 months in jail Friday after admitting he failed to inform the police about his brother’s suicide bombing of Glasgow airport .. Judge Calvert-Smith of the Old Bailey court agreed there was no sign of Sabeel Ahmed being an extremist or party to extremist views ..
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/sabeels-parents-happy-over-sons-imminent-return-to-bangalore_10037267.html

Car bomb case doctor thrown out of country
... When police searched his south Liverpool home they found a laptop with documents written by his older brother Kafeel Ahmed ... The email said he should keep it secret for as long as possible and should appear shocked about the attack ... Jonathan Laidlaw, prosecuting, told the court the email amounted to instructions from Kafeel to frustrate the police ... http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/04/12/car-bomb-case-doctor-thrown-out-of-country-100252-20754809/

Chilling e-mail of an airport bomber
... The court heard Sabeel refused to help police when interviewed and concealed the information he had. Mr Laidlaw said he "did not exercise his right to silence" but instead tried to mislead investigators ... http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/-Chilling-email-of-an.3975462.jp

Hundreds of clubbers escaped as car bombs failed, court told
... After his arrest at Lime Street station in Liverpool after the airport attack, Sabeel Ahmed repeated his 28-year-old brother's story about being in Iceland researching the effects of climate change ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/12/uksecurity.scotland

Terrorist's brother kept silent on attack e-mail
... He will be released from custody and voluntarily deported to India almost immediately because of time in jail he has already served ...
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/terrorists-brother-kept-silent-on-attack-email-1345825.html