THE TELEGRAPH: The suspected al-Qa'eda terrorists behind the attempted car bomb attacks on Britain were almost all foreign doctors working in the NHS, it can be disclosed today.
It comes as an eighth person - also a foreign doctor - was arrested in Australia in connection with the attacks and police carried out a series of controlled explosions on a car parked outside a Glasgow mosque.
In a development that will raise questions over the vetting procedures for medics from abroad, it emerged that five of the seven suspects held by British police are young Middle Eastern men employed at British hospitals.
One is Mohammed Asha, a "brilliant" neurosurgeon from Jordan. Another being questioned over both the London and Glasgow attacks is Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi junior doctor who was a passenger in the car that rammed Glasgow airport. Seven doctors held over al-Qa'eda bomb plot (more) By Duncan Gardham, Nigel Bunyan, Auslan Cramb and Richard Edwards
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