This is a News from the today newspaper.Doctor no more...terrorist...murderer...
Is the world going mad or too many stress......
Why killing innocents people ?
When they do this, did they think of their parents, wife and kids ?
UK shock: Most bomb suspects are doctors
Worryingly, the eight held are professionals linked to the National Health Service
By Mark Rice-Oxley, For The Straits Times
LONDON - THE terrorist threat confronting Britain has taken a disturbing new twist, with the revelation that almost everyone arrested over last week's car bomb attacks were foreign-born doctors working in the National Health Service (NHS).
The BBC reported yesterday that of the eight people detained over the failed bombings, seven are thought to be doctors or medical students and the eighth a lab technician.
Jordanian Mohammed Asha, arrested in north-west England on Saturday night, is a neurologist, and his wife Marwah Dana Asha is thought to have been a laboratory technician.
Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, arrested on suspicion of driving a burning jeep into Glasgow Airport on Saturday afternoon, worked at the city's Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, arrested at Brisbane airport yesterday, worked at a British hospital before moving to Australia last year.
A fourth doctor, as yet unnamed, was arrested in Liverpool.
Three others in custody are also believed to be NHS medical professionals. Another doctor with links to Liverpool was being interviewed in Australia yesterday, but is not under arrest.
Britain's Guardian newspaper reported that staff at the Royal Alexandra Hospital - who are are now treating Abdulla's alleged accomplice after he suffered severe burns in the airport attack - were shocked to hear that one of their own was involved.
Said Dr Prasad Rao, chairman of the British International Doctors Association: 'We are a healing profession. It shocked me to hear that a doctor could remotely be connected to the people who are trying to kill and maim people for no reason.'
Security experts said the detention of so many doctors had serious implications for the country's efforts in fighting terrorism.
For the past two years, British intelligence services have been pursuing people with a profile similar to those of the July 7, 2005, bombers, all of whom were young, British-born radicalised Muslims.
Said London-based terrorism expert M.J. Gohel of the latest developments: 'It's incredibly worrying.
'It means that the challenges for the security ser- vices are multidimensional. They face threats from hardcore Al-Qaeda people coming from abroad, from home- grown terrorists, and now it seems from professional people working in the United Kingdom in good jobs.'
But the Toronto Star quoted London-based security analyst Bob Ayers as saying: 'We shouldn't be surprised that educated men are as involved as poor youngsters. They all subscribe to the same radical ideology, that's the only criteria they need to fill.'
Security analyst Katherine Baskerville, of London-based intelligence company Exclusive Analysis, said the involvement of an Iraqi was especially worrying.
'If you are dealing with a country like Iraq, they don't have a handle on their own situation, who is an insurgent and who is a refugee,' she said. 'Thousands are coming to Europe and there is no way of telling who is innocent and who is going to carry out attacks.'
Britain's NHS has attracted around 22,500 foreign doctors in the past three years, including around 900 from Iraq.
Overall, the BBC says almost 128,000 of the 277,000 doctors on the Gene- ral Medical Council register have been trained abroad, including 1,985 from Iraq.
While they are vetted for professional competence, there are no checks on their political affiliation, and some believe the medical fraternity may have provided a conve- nient network for terrorists.
'The profession might facilitate the connections and communications' between individuals, said Ms Baskerville.
'But the fact that these are doctors has shocked wider society because they are perceived as upstanding members of society.'
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