An Iraqi doctor accused of plotting car bomb attacks in London and Scotland admitted on Monday he was a “terrorist” but said he had not planned to kill or injure anyone. Bilal Abdulla, 29, who was in a car packed with gas and petrol canisters that was rammed into Glasgow Airport and then set on fire, told Woolwich Crown Court he had said to Scottish police shortly afterwards that he was a terrorist. However he said he had not planned to take part in a suicide attack, the Press Association reported. The dramatic attack in Glasgow in June last year came a day after two cars also packed with fuel containers, gas canisters and nails were left outside a busy nightclub in central London. On Monday, Abdulla was asked whether he had told a police officer he was a terrorist after his arrest at Glasgow airport. “I said something along those lines, but it was more like a question,” he told the court. “Everyone was saying you are a terrorist, you are arrested under the Terrorism Act and so forth. That is my case in a nutshell. I am told I am a terrorist, but is your government not a terrorist, is your army not a terrorist? “By the definition of the Act, according to English law, yes. That is my aim – to change opinion using violence, using fire devices.” Abdulla, who is on trial with Jordanian doctor Mohammed Asha, 28, said he planned to flee Britain via Turkey after attacks in London failed. But as they approached Glasgow airport his friend, Indian Kafeel Ahmed, 28, swerved the Jeep into the terminal building without warning. Abdulla and Ahmed, 28, who later died of burns he sustained in the attack, had wanted to highlight the plight of people in Iraq and Afghanistan with a series of incendiary device attacks, the defense has said. “I never had such an agreement with Kafeel, from the beginning, from day one, we said we will not kill or injure any innocent person,” he said. “Look at this incident. This incident, if it was to kill people or cause an explosion, we would not have done it that way. It looks very clumsy.” The court has already heard that Abdulla supported insurgents in Iraq but that he “loved England”. Abdulla and Asha deny charges of deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. The trial continues.
