Terror alerts: doctor charged
Updated on 19 July 2007
Mohammed Asha, a Staffordshire doctor, is charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in connection with last month's failed terror attacks.
A doctor from Staffordshire has become the latest person to be charged over the attempted bombings. Mohammed Asha was arrested on the M6 motorway at the end of last month.
Mohammad Asha's family in Jordan insists the 26-year-old doctor has done nothing wrong. But today police charged him with conspiracy to cause explosions.
Dr Asha was arrested on the M6 motorway nearly three weeks ago.
He is accused of conspiring with the two men in the Jeep that crashed into Glasgow airport and others unkown to cause explosions.
For the first time the police have named Kafeel Ahmed, the driver of the vehicle, as a co-conspirator. Suffering from serious burns, he still remains critically ill in hospital under armed guard.
Mohammad Asha is the fourth person to be charged, here or abroad. Bilal Abdullah, who was the passenger in the Jeep at Glasgow airport, is also charged with conspiring to cause explosions. Sabeel Ahmed, whose brother Kafeel drove the Jeep, has been charged with withholding information
Mohammed Asha is the fourth person to be charged, here or abroad, in connection with the failed attacks.
Mohammed Haneef is detained in Australia, accused of "providing support" for a terrorist organisation. Asha's wife, Marwa Dana, was arrested with her husband, but along with two trainee doctors from Liverpool, she has been released without charge.
Mohammed Asha is still being held at Paddington Green police station, where police have questioned him for nearly 20 days. He will appear at the City of Westminster magistrates court tomorrow morning.
