Eight suspects ‘have links to NHS’
Press Association
Wednesday July 4, 2007 4:53 AM
All eight people arrested in connection with car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow have links to the NHS.
Seven are believed to be doctors or trainee doctors while the one woman under arrest is a trained laboratory researcher.
A man arrested at Brisbane Airport on Tuesday was identified as Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, who once worked at hospitals in Cheshire. Dr Haneef, 27, who was arrested at Brisbane Airport where he had been due to catch a flight on Monday night. One more man, also a doctor with links to Cheshire, is being questioned by police in Australia.
The doctor was named in Australian newspaper reports as Mohammed Asif Ali, a near neighbour of Dr Haneef. He has not been arrested. Details of the link between the arrested men and women and the medical profession sent shockwaves through the health industry. Dr Hamish Meldrum, of the British Medical Association, said: “Like others we were shocked to hear of the recent attempted bombings. The news that members of a caring profession may be involved in these atrocities was even more appalling.
Overseas doctors have made an invaluable contribution to the NHS over the years and it would be dreadful if the trust that exists between patients and doctors, whatever their background, was harmed by these events.” blah blah blah...
That’s 10 altogether so far, there might be more, depends on the intel recovered from phone records and computers...Australian police are apparently in possession of e-mails. They may be ‘doctors’ but they are muslim dimwits above all else...programmed killing robots.
The alleged bomber Bilal Abdulla, born in Aylesbury, England, and trained in medicine in his ancestral land of Iraq, was described as a key member of the gang Tuesday, as he was interrogated in London’s high-security Paddington Green police station, along with six of his colleagues. (Dr. Ahmed is in critical condition in hospital with burns, and is unable to speak.)
Friends described Dr. Abdulla as the son of secular and well-educated parents, a man who was considered an extreme and zealous believer in political Islam, whose beliefs alarmed even fellow extremists.
“He supported the insurgency in Iraq, he actively cheered the deaths of British and American troops in Iraq,” while he lived in Cambridge, England, with family members who worked at the university, his ex-roommate and former extremist Shiraz Maher told the BBC program Newsnight last night.
“And he also, which is quite unusual, supported the sectarian conflict, he actively supported the deaths of Shias at the hands of Sunnis. … He believed in the creation of an Islamic state, and in the imposition of sharia law in Iraq and eventually across the entire world.”
Dr. Abdulla, his friends say, was infuriated by what he saw as un-Islamic behaviour by Britons and especially by fellow Muslims – he once was so outraged by his roommate’s guitar playing that he threatened to behead him for playing music, which extremist Muslims consider sinful.
But months after returning from Iraq, Dr. Abdulla was practising medicine at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, as a diabetes specialist. His colleagues regarded him as aloof, unfriendly and not very committed to his work.
But British medical authorities said Tuesday that they cannot and will not do anything to prevent religious extremists from entering their employ.
The reason is simple: The British medical system, like Canada’s, is overwhelmingly dependent on foreign-trained doctors and nurses.
There are currently 80,000 foreign doctors employed in the National Health Service, many of them from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
“While doing all they can to prevent unsuitable people taking up employment in the NHS, employers also have a duty to look after the rights of their staff and this includes not discriminating against employees in any way on the grounds of their religion or belief,” the NHS said in a statement Tuesday.
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