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Bilal Abdulla : Mystery man 'who hated the West's crusade'
To his hospital colleagues, Bilal Abdulla was a mystery man who seemed to lack interest in being a doctor.
His devotion to Islam always came first and he would disappear for long periods during the working day to pray or to log on to Arabic websites.
He told fellow staff nothing of his previous life in Iraq, claiming instead that he was Jordanian.
But yesterday suspicions were growing that he had direct links to Al Qaeda and had formed a terror cell inside the NHS.
Shiraz Maher, who knows the doctor well, told Sky News: "He was very angry about the West, particularly Britain and America and the invasion of Iraq.
"He saw it as the classic idea of a crusader war engineered by the West to impose Western views on an Islamic country.'
It was claimed yesterday that Abdulla was recruited by Al Qaeda in Iraq and ordered to travel to Britain.
Abdulla, who studied medicine in Baghdad, came from a family of Wahabist Muslims, an ultraconservative form of Islam that promotes Sharia law.
“The overseas-trained doctors who work in our system are very good and every day they save the lives of Queenslanders, and without them we wouldn’t have a health system,” Mr Beattie said.
AMA statement
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has itself stepped in to urge people not be afraid of overseas-trained doctors.
AMA president Dr Rosanna Capolingua today defended the recruitment of internationally trained doctors to Australia, saying they were an invaluable part of the health system.
She said she understood there might be some anxiety about seeing foreign doctors following the questioning of two overseas-trained doctors in Australia over the thwarted terror attacks in London and Glasgow.
“It is a natural feeling for people to feel disturbed about what has happened and I am sure Australians, particularly ones who are just encountering an overseas-trained doctor and don’t have a relationship with them, that they will feel a little anxious,” Dr Capolingua told reporters in Adelaide.
“Overseas-trained doctors have been an essential part of our workforce for many years.
“I don’t want patients to be frightened to see their doctor.”
http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/region.php?id=138180®ion=7
Well ya’ll just go ahead, I’ll just stick with my American doctors.