Airport car bomb footage revealed

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CCTV footage of an attempted car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has been released for the first time.

The images, shown at the trial of Bilal Abdullah, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 27, show dozens of travellers running away as a Jeep crashes into the terminal.

The Cherokee was driven by now-deceased Kafeel Ahmed the day after a failed car bombing outside a London club in June last year, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

Dr Abdulla and Dr Asha both deny conspiracy to murder.

Dr Abdullah, from Paisley, who prosecutors allege was a passenger in the Jeep Cherokee on 30 June, and Dr Asha, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, who is alleged to have helped in the planning, have also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to cause explosions.

The prosecution also claims Dr Abdulla and Ahmed drove two similar car bombs from Scotland to London's West End, but that mobile phone detonators failed to work in the early hours of 29 June.

'Gas cylinders'

The CCTV footage, shown to jurors on Friday, but only released on Monday because of technical problems, showed Glasgow Airport passengers being pushed over and injured as they tried to escape the attempted bombing, the prosecution told the court.

Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said Ahmed, 28, was at the wheel of the improvised car bomb, which contained gas cylinders and petrol. This was the same as two Mercedes cars left in London's West End the previous day, he said.

Mr Laidlaw went on to describe how the vehicle became stuck, and how Ahmed threw petrol bombs out of the window, became covered in fuel and caught fire.

Ahmed, an engineering student, later died from the critical burns he sustained in the incident.

Earlier, the prosecution told the court Ahmed and Dr Abdullah had discussed via internet messaging how they would "start experiments sometime soon" months before the London and Glasgow attacks.

A laptop seized by police contained a conversation in which Ahmed told Dr Abdulla: "Bro, inshallah [God willing], I think we are gonna start experiments sometime soon," the jury heard.

Prosecutors said Dr Abdullah replied "Oh cool" to Ahmed's message, before adding a smiley face symbol.

During the conversation, in February 2007, Ahmed continued: "Lol [laugh out loud]. Probably in a week or so we will have a meeting," the jury was told.

The trial continues.