Posted on 07/03/2007 6:16:20 AM PDT by traumer
Eight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.
Seven are believed to be doctors or medical students, while one formerly worked as a laboratory technician.
Australian media have identified a man held in Brisbane as Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, who formerly worked in Cheshire.
He was detained while trying to board a plane to India. A second doctor is also being interviewed in Australia.
Seven doctors or medical students have been arrested in England, Scotland and Australia in connection with the attacks. All worked in NHS hospitals.
Marwah Dana Asha, 27, who was arrested on the M6, is thought to have worked as a lab technician at an NHS hospital in Shrewsbury.
She was arrested with her husband, Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, who worked at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust.
Two men arrested in Scotland on Monday over the attack at Glasgow airport and one held at the scene of the airport attack have been handed over to the Metropolitan Police.
Six of the eight people arrested are now being held at London's Paddington Green police station.
Secondary searches are being carried out on passengers at Heathrow Terminal 4 in response to a suspect bag.
Controlled explosions have been carried out on a car at a Glasgow mosque and at a station in Hammersmith, west London.
British Transport Police said explosives experts performed a controlled explosion on three fire extinguishers left on a pavement outside Hammersmith Tube station, which serves the District and Piccadilly lines.
Three explosions were also carried out on the car in Glasgow as a precaution, but Strathclyde Police said there had been "absolutely no specific information" regarding a threat.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Australian police had acted on information from the UK authorities.
The man detained at Brisbane airport was an Indian national who had been trying to return to India with a one-way ticket, he added.
ARRESTS TIMELINE 30 June Two men arrested at Glasgow airport after burning car driven into doors of main terminal 30 June A 26-year-old-man, Dr Mohammed Asha, and a 27-year-old woman arrested on the M6 near Sandbach, Cheshire 1 July A 26-year-old man arrested near Liverpool's Lime Street station 1 July A 28-year-old man and a 25-year-old man arrested in Paisley 2 July A 27-year-old male doctor is detained in Australia, and a second doctor is questioned
Timeline: Failed bomb attacks
Australian authorities said police had executed search warrants at the Gold Coast Hospital in Southport, eastern Queensland - where the detained doctor worked as a registrar - and at other locations
They said the detained man and the doctor being interviewed by police had both been based in Liverpool before coming to work in Australia.
Dr Haneef is known to have previously worked at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire.
Speaking at a Muslim Council of Britain press conference, Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari said those who sought to kill or maim innocent people were "enemies of all of Muslims and non-Muslims".
He reiterated the government's view that it was "unacceptable to hold any one faith group or any community as being somehow collectively responsible for the actions of the few".
Meanwhile, Iraqi Bilal Abdullah - a doctor arrested at Glasgow airport on Saturday - has been taken from Scotland to Paddington Green police station in London.
Another man detained at Glasgow airport along with Dr Abdullah suffered severe burns and remains in a critical condition under armed police guard at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley - where Dr Abdullah was employed as a locum.
A forensic team was at the scene of the Glasgow Airport attack
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Dr Asha, who was brought up in Jordan and worked as a junior doctor at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, was arrested on the M6 in Cheshire on Saturday night.
Two men, aged 28 and 25, were arrested on Sunday at residences of the Royal Alexandra Hospital and another man, aged 26, was arrested in Liverpool on Sunday.
Dr Abdullah is said to have qualified in Baghdad in 2004 and first registered as a doctor in the UK in 2006.
Detectives are trying to trace the movements of the green Jeep Cherokee - registration L808 RDT - loaded with gas cylinders, which crashed into the doors of Glasgow airport's main terminal and burst into flames on Saturday afternoon.
The attempted attack came a day after two Mercedes containing petrol, gas cylinders and nails were found outside a nightclub in London's Haymarket and in a nearby street.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said 19 locations had been searched by police investigating the attacks.
These included properties in Houston, near Glasgow; Merseyside and two addresses in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Police are also searching Dr Asha's office at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, in Stoke-on-Trent.
Ah, maybe this is why Hillary wants National Health Care.
NHS stands for National Healthcare System I believe.
Socialized medical....
I guess there’s no Hypocratic Oath in Achmedworld...
So even “educated” muslims can’t get a car bomb to work right?
Another good reason to avoid socialized medicine.....
We now know a lot more about islam's power to degrade and warp the minds of those under its control.
“Well, thats British Rail for you.”
Apparently not. I’m waiting for the AMA to denounce these people. [sound of crickets.....]
Probably felt being doctors or med student would mean they are above suspicion. Wrong.
So much for that DBM broken-record that they can’t find work.
They probably could have killed more people by simply bungling in the National health Service, except they would not have had the recognition.
How do you screen these type of personnel for security?
We have hundreds like them in the US..ready to strike?
That maybe true - but they are all also linked by islam - and that is the thread that binds them...
Tolerance is a nice concept, unfortunately, bigotry is underrated, and serves an important defensive function in a hostile world.
In Britain we are always being told how we need immigrants to prop up the NHS, these immigrants almost produced hundreds of new NHS patients. Without the immigrants mugging people and blowing them up, as well as bringing previously eradicated diseases back into the country, we probably would not need to import as many Doctors.
I wonder how liberals will try to say how these Doctors were poor and oppressed, alienated members of society.
I have seen foreign doctors working in the chemistry labs of many US hospitals as lab technicians.
We need to check all of them out of the hospitals and Clinics... Send them outahere....
What makes you think their murders are not hidden now?
Liberalism at work again in the UK! They couldn't possibly make the poor islamist/muzzie Dr.'s be forced to prove they actually know what they are doing.
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