Two foreign doctors plotted "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder in a wave of car bomb attacks across Britain, a court heard yesterday.
Iraqi Bilal Abdulla, 28, and Jordanian Mohammed Asha, 29, travelled to Britain to further their careers in medicine at university and NHS hospitals.
But prosecutors said the pair were secretly members of an Islamic terrorist cell who wanted to plunge the nation back into the terror of july 2005.
Woolwich Crown Court was told the men turned their attention to planning a series of devastating car bombs in busy urban centres.
They used their intelligence and academic knowledge to conceal their tracks as they spent six months buying vehicles, renting a property and preparing the bombs.
Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC said the men had access to extra bomb materials, including mobile phone detonators, and at least two more vehicles for further attacks.
He said only "good fortune" saved hundreds of late-night revellers when two Mercedes cars packed full of fuel, gas canisters and nails were left in London's West End on June 29 last year.
The cars failed to detonate leaving Abdulla, and a third conspirator Kafeel Ahmed, 28, on the run with the police and security services close behind.
The next day the two men drove a four-wheel drive, also prepared as an improvised bomb, into the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport on its busiest day of the year.
The explosive materials inside the green Jeep Cherokee also failed to detonate, leaving Ahmed with fatal burns.
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