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.

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.

A Kurdish chemistry teacher gave a harrowing account at Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial today of the death of 40 fellow villagers, including his mother and two daughters, in an alleged chemical attack in 1988.