THREE men accused of helping to plan the 2005 London bombings have been acquitted of playing any role in the plot, a blow to investigators’ hopes of convicting anyone over the worst attack on Britain since World War II.

An Iraqi doctor was today found guilty of conspiring to murder hundreds of people with car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

An Iraqi-born doctor accused of involvement in the June 2007 attempted attacks on a West End nightclub and on Glasgow airport today admitted to plotting to set two cars on fire to give Britain a “taste of fear”.

Two doctors plotted to kill hundreds in a wave of car bombings across Britain, a court was told today.

TWO doctors charged with trying to bomb a Glasgow airport and London’s West End will be portrayed by prosecutors as terrorists in thrall to a fundamental form of Islam, a jury in London heard yesterday.

An Iraqi doctor today became the first person to appear in court charged in connection with the suspected car bomb plots in London and Glasgow.

Two of the men arrested in connection with car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow had links to a hospital in Cambridge, it was reported today.

Some of the suspects arrested in connection with the terror plots in London and Glasgow were known to MI5 before the attacks took place, it has emerged.

Medical colleagues of a Jordanian doctor arrested in Britain in connection with a string of thwarted car bomb attacks today said the man was absorbed in his studies and career and had no ties to terrorism.