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London, Apr 12: “It’s about time that we give up our lives and families for the sake of Islam, to please Allah.” India-born terrorist Kafeel Ahmed wrote that in an e-mail to his younger brother Sabeel two days before he rammed a jeep into Glasgow’s airport last year.

Sabeel, who was on Friday sentenced to 18 months in prison for withholding information about the terrorist attack, has pleaded guilty to receiving the e-mail about terrorist attack but says he did not read it until the evening after the attack took place.

''This is the project that I was working on for some time now. Everything else was a lie," Kafeel wrote in the e-mail. "It's about time that we give up our lives and our families for the sake of Islam to please Allah."

“After much deliberation I have decided to write this message so that you are prepared to take the knock-on effects of my actions. My sincere request that you do the following:

“Pray to Allah for acceptance of my deeds. Pray to Allah to give you calm and composure and strength (for you will need this). Do not inform any one about me or my deed—and I mean anyone,” he said in the e-mail.

An explosive-laden jeep was halted only yards from airline passengers at Glasgow airport on June 30, 2007, when Kafeel and another man attempted an attack as part of a botched plot to bomb a London nightclub and the Glasgow airport. Kafeel later died from severe burns.

As Sabeel has already served half his sentence and agreed to leave Britain, he was being released late Friday from jail to be deported back to India, said the court in London which convicted him.

Kafeel’s E-mail Sabeel

This is what Kafeel wrote in an e-mail two days before he rammed an explosive-laden jeep into the Glasgow airport:

"After much deliberation I have decided to write this message so that you are prepared to take the knock-on effects of my actions.

My sincere request that you do the following:

Pray to Allah for acceptance of my deeds.

Pray to Allah to give you calm and composure and strength (for you will need this).

Do not inform any one about me or my deed (and I mean anyone).

If they figure out it was me (I have tried to clear up my tracks as much as possible) then go ahead and tell them whatever they ask of you (about my PhD and the project on global warming and my trip to Iceland and give them my comp if they ask).

Try to continue as normal but appear shocked. Try to put off telling Abbu-Ammi (mother and father) for as long as possible.

But it's about time that we give up our lives and families for the sake of Islam to please Allah.

If I am caught, then try to maintain calmness and don't try too hard to get me released, I am prepared for the long haul (May Allah save me from the dreaded prisons). It will be your task to explain to people at home. I and the team are making maximum efforts to prevent this.

In any of the above cases, leave this place and go back home or elsewhere as soon as possible.

At any time, don't hold back from joining the Jihad, by money, words and actions. Allah makes it easy for those who do so.

May Allah reward you for the troubles."