Doctors on trial to be portrayed as terrorists

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.

Justice Colin Mackay also instructed jurors to set aside their prejudices and prepare for “an interesting case.”

Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 28, have been in jail awaiting trial since the abortive June 2007 attacks. The Iraqi-raised Abdulla and Asha, a Jordanian, had worked in British hospitals since 2004.