A laptop recovered from a flaming Jeep used to attack a Scottish airport indicates that the occupants were determined to kill, a prosecutor said Friday.
For a second day, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw outlined the case against Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28. Each faces two counts of conspiring to murder and cause explosions outside a London nightclub, near a West End bus stop and inside Glasgow International Airport in June 2007. They deny all charges.
Police captured Abdulla beside the burning wreckage of the sport utility vehicle that had rammed the airport’s pedestrian entrance. The driver, 28-year-old Indian Kafeel Ahmed, died later from his burns. Asha was arrested in England hours after the attack.
Abdulla claims the bombs were designed to make political points but hurt nobody, Laidlaw told jurors.
However, the laptop pulled from the wrecked vehicle contained what appeared to be a draft of Abdulla’s will, he said.
“This document is addressed to, amongst others, the leaders of jihad in Iraq to Bin Laden and to the brothers or soldiers of jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine and other areas of the world. The terms in which it is written, we submit, expose that the defendant’s position in his trial before you is a lie,” Laidlaw said.
“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.”
The hard drive also held video clips of attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and recordings of bin Laden’s speeches, Laidlaw said.
Laidlaw contends that Abdulla and Ahmed decided on a suicide attack in Glasgow because their two car bombs discovered in London the day before had misfired.
Shortly before the attack, Laidlaw said, Abdulla sent an e-mail to his employer in which he…