Profile of Bilal Abdulla Bilal Abdulla, who worked as a diabetes specialist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, was arrested at the scene at Glasgow airport.
Profile of Bilal Abdulla Bilal Abdulla, who worked as a diabetes specialist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, was arrested at the scene at Glasgow airport.
His guilt was not in doubt but he denied the charges against him and claimed he wanted to make a spectacular protest without harming people.
The nails packed around the bombs left outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub suggested otherwise.
The 29 year old British born Iraq came from a middle-class Sunni Muslim family with a long tradition in medicine and regarded England as his second home.
As an elite student in Iraq he came to Britain to pursue medicine where he met his co-conspirators. He had to leave the UK after failing to secure funding to complete a medical degree.
Frustrated he returned to Iraq and was radicalised, he claimed, by the insurgency that followed the US and British invasion in 2003. Police believe Abdulla may have fought coalition troops after joining a band of Mujihadeen fighters in 2006.
Profile of Kafeel Ahmed Kafeel Ahmed, the driver of the Green Jeep, died from severe burns four weeks after the attacks on Glasgow airport. The image of him ablaze from head to foot created the defining symbol of the Glasgow airport bombing.
A PhD engineer Ahmed was the brains' in the terror cell who spent months in India working on a design for the car bombs.
He modelled the devices on those used by insurgent forces in Iraq, and designed an electrical circuit which would enable the bombs to be triggered by mobile phone detonators.
The eldest of three children, Ahmed was born in Bangalore in the Karnataka region of India in 1979. His parents Maqbool and Zakia are both doctors and worked in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
He arrived in the UK as a student on October 1 2001, studying in Belfast and Cambridge.During his time in Cambridge he became radicalised and mixed with members of the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir. It was here he also met Abdulla, who would become one of his closest friends.
