LONDON - AN IRAQI doctor was found guilty on Tuesday by a court in south-west London of trying to murder hundreds of people in failed attacks on a London nightclub and Glasgow airport last year.

Bilal Abdulla, 29, was also found guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions, while his co-defendant Mohammed Asha, a 28-year-old Jordanian neurologist, was found not guilty of both offences.

Police discovered two Mercedes-Benz cars loaded with gas cylinders, petrol (gasoline) and nails outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub off London's Piccadilly Circus on June 29, 2007.

The next day, a Jeep carrying a similar deadly cargo was crashed into the front of the main terminal at Glasgow airport in Scotland in an apparent suicide attack.

Abdulla was arrested at the scene of the Glasgow incident, while Asha was arrested as he travelled on a motorway in north-west England with his wife and young son several hours later.

During his trial, Abdulla told the court he was a 'terrorist", but accused the British government of terrorism, too, and maintained that he was not trying to kill or injure anyone.

Lawyers for Asha, meanwhile, said their client would not have fitted in with the alleged attackers because he was too brainy, arguing that Abdulla and another man looked down on him because of his concentration on his work. -- AFP