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Two doctors held over bomb attacks
 | GulfBravoMC posted the same story from Sky News at almost the same moment. EFL. |
Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots in London and Glasgow. One was one of two men who tried to drive a blazing Jeep packed with petrol, gas canisters and nails into Glasgow Airport on Saturday.
Both doctors were working at UK hospitals and were apparently here legally.| The radio announcer thought it was unheard of, perhaps even "troubling" that doctors were involved in jihad. I s'pose he's never heard of Rantissi or Zawahiri. |
| The radio announcer doesn't understand that it's the smart ones that get you in trouble. The dumb bunnies are cannon fodder humping AK's around in Pashtunistan and serving as target practice for our Special Forces. The smart ones get enough education and life-experience to immigrate to the West and become involved in deep-laid plots. |
The revelation raises the horrifying prospect that Al Qaeda propaganda is reaching beyond disaffected young Muslims. "These are highly-educated, articulate and intelligent people," one security source said. "They are men trained to heal but they were planning unbelievable atrocities."
| Sporadic sudden jihad syndrome or a deep-laid plot? |
Two of the five people arrested were a woman of 27 and her 26-year-old husband, boxed in by unmarked police cars as they drove on the M6 in Cheshire. Other motorists said the woman was wearing a Muslim veil. The fifth suspect, a man, was arrested at Liverpool's Lime Street station shortly after the city's John Lennon Airport was closed following the discovery of a suspicious vehicle.
One of the doctors, the man arrested on the M6, was said to be a Jordanian-born doctor at the North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. He lived with his wife and baby in a rented house in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, where forensic officers were carrying out a detailed search last night. The doctor is suspected of having played a key role in the planning of the terror strikes.
| So very likely educated in Jordan and then came to Britain, obstensibly to complete his medical training. Thousands of young men and women with medical degrees from across Asia do this every year to both American and European graduate medical training programs. |
One of the two men overpowered as they attacked Glasgow Airport has 90 per cent burns and is too badly injured to be interviewed, but the second was being questioned last night. Police believe they are all part of a previously unknown Al Qaeda-linked cell made up of people of Middle Eastern origin.
| As opposed to Laplanders? |
| As opposed to Pakistanis, I think. |
The doctor involved in the Glasgow attack is an Iraqi who is thought to have been granted asylum in the UK while a third suspect comes from Lebanon. At least one other member of the cell was still being hunted last night.
More--a summary of the whole thing--at the link
Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-02 |
