Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian-born aerospace engineer, who the British authorities say drove a burning Jeep Cherokee into a terminal at Glasgow Airport in a botched terrorism attack died Thursday night in a hospital in Scotland, the police said.

The man, 28, sustained severe burns over 90 percent of his body and had remained in critical condition since the failed attack on June 30. The Jeep was loaded with gasoline and burst into flames as it hit the airline terminal.

On Dr. Marranci’s blog a very interesting, personal and sensitive entry about Kafeel Ahmed who was a ‘respondent’ of him in one of researches. A must read:

The day I met the ‘respondent’ Kafeel Ahmed « Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist

I still remember his jokes about me being Italian, and the references to the film ‘The Padrino’. Kafeel, the Kafeel who I knew from 2001 to 2003, when I left Belfast, was a very welcoming person, very reserved and shy. Yet when you came to know him better, you discovered his intellectual side, his strong belief in Islam as justice and God’s love. He was a very calm, quite ‘westernised’ Muslim, ever ready to laugh at jokes. Interested in sport, particularly cricket, we spent time speaking at my preferred coffee shop in Botanic Avenue about Muslim identity, the experience of living in Northern Ireland as a Muslim, the tension between India and Pakistan, and the Palestinian Intifada.