THE brother of a man who tried to launch a bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has admitted failing to warn police about the plot.
NHS doctor Sabeel Ahmed, 26, told the Old Bailey he was guilty of withholding information about the terrorist campaign.
He is the brother of Kafeel Ahmed, who drove a flaming Jeep Cherokee into the airport's main terminal building.
The car was
laden with petrol and gas canisters but the improvised bomb failed to ignite.
Kafeel Ahmed suffered 90% burns and died of his injuries several weeks later in hospital.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said the bomber sent his brother a text message before the Glasgow attack.
It directed him to online documents containing his will and instructions on how to frustrate and mislead investigators.
Part of it read: "This is a project I was working on for some time now.
"Everything else was a lie and I hope you can forgive me for being such a good liar. It was necessary, just so that you know.
"Everything since last week was executed by me and my team. This is confidential on behalf of our Emir."
The attack came 24 hours after two Mercedes cars, also carrying petrol and gas canisters, were found in central London.
More than 500 people were evacuated from Tiger, Tiger nightclub in the Haymarket after one vehicle was found outside.
But the Old Bailey heard a mobile phone detonator failed, possibly because dense fuel vapours smothered it.
A second Mercedes, parked nearby in Mayfair, was towed to a Park Lane pound where it was defused later.
Bilal Abdullah, 28, and Mohammed Asha, 27, face trial later this year accused of conspiracy to cause explosions.
The Old Bailey heard that Ahmed was arrested near Liverpool's Lime Street station on June 30 last year.
The doctor, originally from Bangalore in India, was working for the North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Laidlaw said he was sent information about his brother's terrorist activities earlier that day.
When police searched his Liverpool home, they discovered a laptop carrying documents written by Kafeel Ahmed.
The court heard that Ahmed refused to help police when he was interviewed and concealed the information he had.
Mr Laidlaw said the documents would have been of "considerable assistance" to counter-terrorist police.
He said Ahmed "did not exercise his right to silence" but instead tried to mislead investigators.
Terrifying details of the attacks in Glasgow and London were also made public for the first time today.
Mr Laidlaw said the airport attack took place on its busiest day of the year so far as passengers queued just yards away.
He told the court that Kafeel Ahmed planned a suicide operation as he suspected the police were closing in.
He said: "When outside the terminal, Kafeel Ahmed, who was driving the Jeep, turned the vehicle sharply and crashed it into the pillars to the right-hand side of one of the entrance doors.
"He then, having found himself from his perspective out of position, reversed the Jeep and made the first of a number of attempts to drive the vehicle through the airport door, repeatedly hitting pillars and the door frame.
"Despite his efforts, the vehicle became trapped. Those who witnessed him described a set and determined face as he stared forward.
"At that point, the vehicle was then 20 feet from passengers queuing within the terminal building.
"His passenger lowered his window and threw a petrol bomb across the bonnet in the direction of the taxi rank and then threw a second of these devices in the opposite direction.
"At the same time the driver, the defendant's brother, began to pour and splash fuel from a can on to the area outside the car window and appeared to throw a petrol bomb.
"He got out of the vehicle and was engulfed in flames that swept around the Jeep and terminal building.
"He appeared to try and prevent others from getting to him or the vehicle. He kicked out but eventually, he being on fire, he was extinguished, subdued, handcuffed and arrested."
The attack caused panic within the terminal and a number of people suffered minor injuries in the chaos that followed.
Details of the two car bombs left in central London the previous day were also made public for the first time.
Mr Laidlaw said Kafeel Ahmed was one of the men who drove the cars from Scotland to London.
He said the improvised bombs were intended to be left outside nightclubs or other places of entertainment to maximise deaths.
The prosecutor said those behind the attacks wanted to co-ordinate a campaign of "large and spectacular" attacks.
He said the motive was "to maximise loss of life and maximise the level of fear felt by the general population of this country in the face of the threat from Islamic extremism".
A green Mercedes laden with petrol and gas canisters was found outside Tiger, Tiger nightclub, in the Haymarket.
It had been bought earlier that month in Warrington by a customer using a false name.
A second blue Mercedes with similar contents was parked nearby but was towed to a car pound in Park Lane. It had been bought in Sheffield.
Mr Laidlaw said staff from Tiger, Tiger saw vapour in the vehicle and alerted the emergency services.
He said one firefighter attempted to disassemble the device by pulling out a gas cylinder left on the rear seat.
The prosecutor said bomb squad officers were called to the Park Lane pound later that day.
He said a "small explosion" took place inside the car but it failed to ignite the main explosive charge.
Mr Laidlaw said: "These were potentially viable devices which could quite easily have killed, had they exploded with the desired effect, many, many people and that was what was intended by the bombers."
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