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He graduated in medicine from the University of Baghdad in 2004 and then moved to Cambridge where he to took the exam to allow him to work and train as a doctor in the UK.

It was while living in Chesterton Road in Cambridge that the prosecution claim he became friends with Ahmed, who lived nearby, and Mr Asha.

After visiting Iraq between May and July 2006, Mr Abdulla joined the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, as a junior house officer in general surgery. He lived at hospital accommodation in its halls of residence in Corsebar Road in Paisley. The court heard that he gave hospital authorities Mr Asha’s name as the friend to be contacted in the event of an emergency.

Mr Abdulla’s passport shows that he had visited Iraq in May and July 2006, shortly before he took up his post in Scotland. It is claimed that the war in Iraq at this time provided the “principal motivation” for him becoming involved in the terrorist attacks in Britain.

Described in court as a “strictly observant Muslim”, he was well known for being knowledgeable about the Koran.

Mr Abdulla, who speaks and reads Arabic, used the names "drbilalabdu" and "osaidosaid" during internet messenger conversations with Ahmed, the prosecution claim.

Mohammed Asha

Mohammed Jamil Abdelqader Asha was born in Saudi Arabia where he was recognised as a gifted child.

The strictly observant Muslim won a scholarship to read medicine at the University of Amman in Jordan. He was to become known in his profession as an “extremely talented doctor and a man of considerable potential”, the jury was told.

He came to Britain in 2003 and trained at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, where it is claimed that he met Mr Abdulla, Ahmed and his brother, Sabeel.

After graduating in Jordan in 2004, he trained at the Prince Phillip Hospital in Llanelli in Wales before moving back to England and studying at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shropshire in August 2005.

At the time of the attacks he was working as a senior house officer in the neurology department at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

He lives with his wife and a son called Anas, now two, at a rented property in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. He gave his co-defendant’s name as a referee on the tenancy agreement for the property in Sunningdale Grove.

Mr Asha, also described as an “observant Muslim”, and his family had been due to go on holiday in Jordan in mid-July last year, before the doctor took up his next medical post in neurosurgery at the Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry.

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