http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/ap_on_re_eu/britain_terrorism
Canon Andrew White, a senior Anglican priest who works in Baghdad, said he met the man privately with a translator and sheik after holding talks with Sunni Muslim tribal and religious leaders April 18 in the Jordanian capital, Amman. He meets regularly with extremists in an attempt to calm Iraq’s sectarian violence.
He said religious leaders told him the man was an al-Qaida leader who traveled from Syria to the meeting. The man, an educated Iraqi in his 40s and dressed in Western clothes, warned of attacks on Britain and the United States, White said.
“It was like meeting the devil,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Baghdad. “He talked of destroying Britain and the United States and then said, ‘Those who cure you are going to kill you.’”
White, who runs Baghdad’s only Anglican parish and has been involved in several hostage negotiations in Iraq, said he did not understand the threat’s significance at the time. He said he passed the general threat along to Britain’s Foreign Office, but did not mention the comment that could be interpreted as hinting at the involvement of doctors in a terror plot.
Then came the news that six physicians were among the eight suspects detained in the failed attacks in Britain.
“As soon as I heard many of the suspects were doctors I remembered those words,” he said. “I work with a lot of people who are not necessarily good people. It becomes very difficult to distinguish what threat is real and what is not.”
White said he gave the man’s identity to the Foreign Office but would not say publicly what it was. He also said he gave the same details to American authorities in Baghdad.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy, denied White relayed the man’s identify but confirmed he reported his meeting with the alleged al-Qaida leader.
He also said that White did not pass on the reference alluding to medical practitioners and that because his information was vague it “didn’t really merit further analysis.” But White’s report has now been given to British police in their investigation, the spokesman said.
There are pictures at yahoo slideshow of the police removing propane cylinders and of one of the suspects meeting Queen Noor of Jordan not long ago.
Thanks, freema. I read some of this info earlier. It’s kind of hard to believe this White guy unless he told authorities to begin with. However, he is a priest, so he would tend to be a little more trustworthy in my book. Creepy if it’s true. It’s not clear if the alleged warning about “those who cure you” was only for Britian.
I still can’t believe this thread title! LOL.
Check this out, freema. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860916/posts
Spooky Website Calls Doctors to Jihad (USA)
“A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site, it has emerged.
Anti-terrorist police found details of the discussions on a jihadi site run by one of a three-strong “cyber-terrorist” gang.
They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south east London heard.
One message, thought to have been sent on February 12 2005, read: ‘We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.’......”