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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - British anti-terrorism police charged a Jordanian national on Thursday with plotting to carry out failed car bomb attacks in London and Scotland at the end of last month.

Mohammed Jamil Asha, a 26-year-old doctor, was charged with conspiring with Bilal Abdullah and Kafeel Ahmed to cause explosions "of a nature likely to endanger life".

Iraqi-trained doctor Abdullah, 27, has already been charged by British police with the same offence.

Indian engineer Ahmed is seriously ill in hospital after being badly burned when a jeep was driven into an airport terminal building in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 30 and set ablaze.

That attack came 36 hours after detectives in London discovered two cars packed with fuel, gas tanks and nails. One was outside a packed nightclub.

Police believe the two incidents were linked and Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that al Qaeda could be behind the suspected car bomb plots, which prompted Britain to raise its alert level to "critical", the highest category.

Two other men have also been charged by police in connection with the incidents.

Last week British police charged Ahmed's brother Sabeel with failing to disclose information that could have prevented an act of terrorism.

Meanwhile Australian Federal Police have charged Mohammed Haneef, Sabeel's second cousin, with providing support to a terrorist organisation.

Asha, who was born in Saudi Arabia, qualified as a doctor in Jordan in 2004 and came to Britain later that year to study neurosurgery at a hospital in central England.

He was arrested by police on a motorway in Cheshire, northern England, hours after the attempted attack in Glasgow.

His wife, who was arrested with him, was questioned by police but later released without charge. Asha is due to appear in court in London on Friday.

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