Dr. Sabeel Ahmed is a suspect arrested after the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack

2007 Glasgow International Airport attack

The 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack was a terrorist attack which occurred on Saturday 30 June 2007, at 15:11 BST, when a dark green Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane canisters was driven into the glass doors of the Glasgow International Airport terminal and set ablaze...

. He was married to Sarah Fatima,his distant relative, on 21 July 2010 and now resides in Hafoof, Saudi Arabia and practises medicine there. He studied at the Dr B R Ambedkar Medical College - an affiliated college of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, centered in Bangalore, India, is a unitary university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, India, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences throughout the state of Karnataka....

 between 1998 and 2003 and completed his internship in 2003-2004, moving to the UK in November 2004 to pursue higher studies.

Dr. Ahmed is the brother of Kafeel Ahmed

Kafeel Ahmed

Kafeel Ahmed was one of two terrorists behind the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, who later died of his injuries sustained in the attacks.-History:...

, who was also arrested in the aftermath of the attack, and has been variously reported as the second cousin, uncle, or brother of Dr. Mohammed Haneef, with whom he studied medicine in Bangalore, and who was arrested at the Brisbane Airport

Brisbane Airport

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 on 2 July 2007. Dr Mohamed Haneef is a second cousin of Dr Sabeel as their grandparents are brother and sister. He was immobilized with a Taser

Taser

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 at the time of his arrest.

Dr. Ahmed was alleged to have been given Dr. Haneef's British mobile phone SIM

Subscriber Identity Module

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 card when the latter left Britain

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 last year to take a job at the Gold Coast Hospital

Gold Coast Hospital

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 in Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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.; but this allegation has since been dropped. He is reported to have applied for medical positions in Western Australia in 2005, but was rejected after officials because of concerns over their qualifications and references. He was a member of the Tablighi Jamaat

Tablighi Jamaat

Tablighi Jamaat is a religious movement which was founded in 1926 by Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi in India. The movement primarily aims at Tablighi spiritual reformation by working at the grass roots level, reaching out to Muslims across all social and economic spectra to bring them closer to...

 missionary sect.

On 14 July 2007, British police charged Sabeel Ahmed with failing to disclose information that could have prevented an act of terrorism.

See also

• 2007 UK terrorist incidents
  2007 UK terrorist incidents
  Two major terrorist incidents took place in 2007, in the UK, with significant national and international repercussions.-London:On 29 June 2007, two unexploded car bombs were discovered in London. The first device was found in a car parked near the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket and two large...