Suspect charged over terror attacks

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Abdullah, who was arrested after a flaming Jeep was driven into the doors of the arrivals hall of Glasgow Airport last Saturday, will appear before magistrates in Westminster, central London, on Saturday.

He has been charged with conspiring to cause explosions, Scotland Yard said.

Abdullah, 27, was working as a doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, before his arrest. He was transferred to London's Paddington Green police station for questioning before being charged on advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.

Two trainee doctors, aged 25 and 28, arrested at the same hospital, are among a total of seven people to have been arrested in the UK over the plot. One other doctor was arrested in Australia and several others have been questioned there but not under arrest.

Of those held in the UK, a second man arrested at Glasgow Airport is being treated for burns. Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, was arrested with his wife, Marwa Asha, on the M6 motorway near Sandbach in Cheshire last Saturday.

Also last Saturday, a 26-year-old doctor from Bangalore, India, who worked at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire, was arrested in the Lime Street area of Liverpool. An eighth person was arrested in Australia - Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, who once worked at the Halton Hospital in Runcorn.

Several other doctors of Indian origin with experience working in the UK have also been quizzed in Australia.

The CPS said Abdullah was being charged under 1883 Explosive Substances Act. The charge, which covers a period from January 1 to July 1 this year, alleges that he "unlawfully and maliciously conspired with others to cause explosions of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the United Kingdom". It carries a maximum sentence of life.

Susan Hemming, head of the CPS Counter Terrorism Division, said: "Other individuals arrested by the police in connection with the bomb attacks remain in custody pending a charging decision."