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Doctors at heart of UK terror probe
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...ors/index.html

"Investigators believe a network of up to a dozen medics from the Middle East were sent to infiltrate [Britain's National] Health Service as a cover for terrorist operations," reported The Daily Telegraph in Australia, where two doctors were being questioned about the plot.

Police have identified one of the men suspected in the Glasgow attack as a 27-year-old Iraqi doctor, Bilal Abdulla, who worked at Royal Alexandra Hospital in the Scottish metropolis. The other man in the car is in critical condition with severe burns at Royal Alexandra. British media have identified him as Dr. Khalid Ahmed.

Police reportedly were tracking both men since Friday, when they were linked to two car bombs parked in central London.

Two other suspects, described only as 25- and 28-year-old men, were detained Monday at Royal Alexandra after police searched doctors' quarters there. Police have not indicated whether the men are doctors.

In Australia, police were questioning two doctors Monday, one of whom, Mohammed Haneef, 27, was an Indian national working at a Brisbane hospital, Australian officials said.

Haneef formerly worked at a hospital in Liverpool, England, where hospital and police officials say another doctor was detained Sunday. Haneef was detained at Brisbane Airport before he boarded a flight to India, police said.

The other doctor in Brisbane was being questioned by Australian authorities, but was not officially in police custody, said Queensland Premier Peter Beattie.

Wow. Doctors... Who's next? Engineers (and I don't mean of the Train variety)? Politicians? Janitors? Mechanics?