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…A 27-year-old doctor has been arrested in Australia, while a second doctor is also being interviewed by Australian police.
State and federal police seized Dr Mohammed Haneef at Brisbane International Airport where he was trying to board a flight to Pakistan with a one-way ticket, Attorney General Philip Ruddock said.
He added Dr Haneef, believed to be an Indian citizen, had been working as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital in the state of Queensland. The total number to people arrested over the bomb plan is now eight.
Dr Haneef had been based at Halton Hospital at Runcorn in 2005, near Liverpool. He answered an advert placed in the British Medical Journal in March 2006 to work in Australia, according to Queensland Premier Peter Beattie…
Well, that should make the NHS happier. After all, at least they weren’t getting jobs just in UK hospitals.
But most media seem to miss this vital, additional point: far worse than doctors planning mass murder . . . are doctors who plan mass murder AND take un-CO2-offset long-haul flights, thus recklessly contributing still further to “climate change“.
On a BBC “London reacts to car bomb find” page back on Friday, remarkably the very first person interviewed — “Rami Harb, 36, doctor, from Camden” — had this to say:
When you hear about something like this, you become more cautious about going out.
I escaped the car bombs in Lebanon to come to London but I still think this is a safe city.
We don’t yet know who is behind this but the UK has become a target because of its efforts to promote democracy abroad.
Well, the following writer certainly will not be heartily agreeing anytime soon with Dr Harb’s assessment. Ironically, given the “doctors’ plot” in London and Glasgow, last Friday the Muslim News had carried this “nuanced” commentary by one Salma Yaqoob, of Respect and “Stop the War”:
Earlier this month, Tony Blair made his latest, and hopefully last, foray into Muslim affairs as Prime Minister.
In a speech at Lancaster House in London, to a carefully selected audience, Blair said he wanted the ‘voice of moderation’ among Muslims to be heard.
It is difficult not to be cynical about the Prime Minister’s motives. In light of the rivers of blood he has helped unleash in Iraq and Afghanistan, Blair’s lectures on tackling extremism ring hollow.
While Muslim leaders are constantly berated for ‘not doing enough’ to tackle the appeal of Islamic extremism, our Government still refuses to acknowledge the role of its foreign policy in fertilizing the ground from which such extremism crops…
Wiggle, wiggle. Foreign. Policy. Again. Let’s be clear here, this not about religion. It’s about the nation-state.
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