(UK) Terror suspect's jet bomb plot link

Terror suspect's jet bomb plot link

Henry McDonald, Mark Townsend and Jamie Doward
Sunday July 8, 2007
The Observer

A terror suspect involved in bomb attacks on London and Glasgow
was a known associate of a senior al-Qaeda figure caught plotting
to blow up passenger jets four years ago.

Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian doctor, knew one of the terror group's
most high-profile bomb makers in Europe, according to senior
security sources.

Ahmed, 27, who remains critically ill in hospital after the failed car
bomb attack last weekend on Glasgow Airport, was involved with
convicted terrorist Abbas Boutrab when he was planning to target
airliners.

He met Boutrab in Belfast while studying for a master's degree in
aeronautical engineering at Queen's University between 2001 and
2004. The disclosure will raise fresh questions over the extent
of information held by MI5 on suspects involved in the attempted
car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

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