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Bilal Abdulla and Mohammed Asha
Bilal Abdulla (L) and Mohammed Asha
Two alleged terrorists escaped in rickshaws after leaving car bombs close to a night club in central London, Woolwich Crown Court has been told.
The devices planted by Dr Bilal Abdulla and now-deceased Kafeel Ahmed were found after Tiger Tiger staff called an ambulance for a customer, jurors heard.
CCTV footage said to show the men driving a car filled with explosives into Glasgow airport was also shown.
Dr Abdulla, 29, and Dr Mohammed Asha, 27, deny conspiracy to murder.
Dr Abdullah, from Paisley, and Dr Asha, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, who is alleged to have helped in the planning, also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to cause explosions.
The court was told Dr Abdulla was the passenger in a Jeep 4X4 driven by Mr Ahmed into the doorway of Glasgow airport's terminal on the afternoon of 30 June 2007.
Mr Ahmed was said to have made number of attempts to crash through the entrance and "repeatedly struck the pillars or door frame until the vehicle became trapped".
Having failed to detonate the vehicles in London they were prepared to do literally anything to achieve an explosion
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC
The CCTV footage shown in court was taken by cameras inside and outside the building.
Passengers waiting to check-in could be seen turning, before running away in every direction.
Images from another camera outside the building showed the four-wheel drive vehicle engulfed with flames.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC said: "The airport was experiencing its busiest day of the year...
"For those present it must have been the most terrifying of experiences when they appreciated what was happening."
'Fire bomb'
Mr Laidlaw told the court: "It is clear that having failed to detonate the vehicles in London they were prepared to do literally anything to achieve an explosion which was bound, having been successful, to result in them losing their lives."
He said Mr Ahmed and Dr Abdulla lit and threw petrol bombs during the incident.
An expert who examined the vehicle described it as a "mobile fire bomb" that would be manually set alight, the jury heard.
Police found gas canisters, fuel containers and broken glass bottles which appeared to be the remains of petrol bombs.
Mr Laidlaw said: "It is possible that the liquefied petroleum gas cylinders could have exploded or ruptured during any fire, particularly if the regulators had been interfered with or opened.
"Such an event might well have resulted in a large fireball and the ejection of sections of the cylinders from the car with high velocity with the obvious consequent risk to persons some distance away."
Police also found a burned laptop computer in the Jeep that prosecutors said appeared to contain a draft of Dr Abdulla's will.
Mr Laidlaw said: "This document is addressed to, amongst others, the leaders of jihad in Iraq, to [Osama] Bin Laden and to the brothers or soldiers of jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine and other areas of the world...
"The attacks he was planning were intended to kill. They were in revenge for the injustices as the defendant sees them that the British and American people and their armies visit on the Muslim communities."
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