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CCTV OF PANIC AT TERROR AIRPORT.


CCTV CCTV
abbr.
closed-circuit television


CCTV closed-circuit television
 film of a terrorist car bomb attack on Glasgow airport released yesterday showed passengers being pushed over and hurt as they fled in panic.

Dozens can be seen running in fear as the Jeep crashed into a door of the main terminal.

Many abandoned their luggage but others with trolleys blocked exits in the mayhem.

A court heard there were long queues of passengers on June 30, 2007, the airport's busiest day of the year.

One camera showed the vehicle being engulfed in flames, which quickly spread to the terminal building.

Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28, are on trial accused of conspiracy to murder and cause explosions. The two, who were doctors at NHS NHS
abbr.
National Health Service


NHS (in Britain) National Health Service
 hospitals in Glasgow and Staffs, deny the offences.

Abdulla was a passenger in the Jeep and tried to fight off police and bystanders, the jury was told. Kafeel Ahmed, 28, was at the wheel and died from burns several weeks later.

Yesterday the court was shown internet messages from months earlier in which engineering student Ahmed told Abdulla: "We're gonna start experiments sometime soon."

The prosecution also claim Abdulla and Ahmed drove two car bombs from Scotland to the West End of London The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, businesses, and administrative headquarters. It also includes most of its major theatres, and indeed the term "West End" has become synonymous with London's .

Phone detonators in those cars failed to work in the early hours of June 29, 2007.

Asha's three-bed house in Newcastle, Staffs, was turned into a bomb factory, the prosecution alleged.

The trial, at Woolwich crown court Woolwich Crown Court, located at 2 Belmarsh Road, Thamesmead is one of twelve Crown Courts serving Greater London.

It stands adjacent to both HM Prison Belmarsh and Belmarsh Magistrate's Court.
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Glasgow airport 30/6/2007 INFERNO CCTV of Jeep and terminal alight; 'PLOT' Abdulla and, right, Ahmed
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Oct 14, 2008
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