Iraqi convicted over UK bombs

2008-12-16 16:01

This CCTV image made available in London Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008, by the Metropolitan Police, shows the scene when a Jeep Cherokee burst into flames during in a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport, Scotland, in June 2007. (Metropolitan Police, AP)

London - An Iraqi doctor who claimed he intended only to frighten Britons has been convicted of conspiracy to murder with car bombs in London and Scotland.

Bilal Abdulla, 29, was also convicted Tuesday on a charge of conspiring to cause explosions both in central London and at Glasgow airport in 2007.

His co-defendant, Jordanian neurologist Mohammed Asha, was acquitted on the same charges.

- AP