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UK Terror Watch: Terror “Ringleader” is NHS Doctor; Update: Third Doctor Detained for Questioning in Terror Plot; Update: An Eighth Suspect Has Been Arrested; Update:Terror Suspect Arrested in Brisbane, Australia; Update: Second Doctor Questioned in Australia

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Dr Mohammed Asha: Arrested on the M6

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Caring face: Dr Asha with his son Anaf, then two, in Amman, Jordan, last year

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Held: The couple are arrested on the M6

Jamil Abdelqader Asha, a 26-year-old neurologist who was born in Saudi Arabia but is of Palestinian origin and was travelling on a Jordanian passport. He and his 27-year-old wife, a medical assistant, were arrested on the M6 in Cheshire, in connection with the attempted bombings in London.

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Dr Asha was arrested with Dana, his wife, in a dramatic chase on the M6 on Saturday. Police in unmarked cars forced the couple off the road before arresting them (SKY)

‘Terror ringleader’ is brilliant NHS doctor

The Latest:

• Controlled explosion carried out at Royal Alexandra Hospital
• Two more men arrested over Airport attack bringing total currently under arrest to seven
• Police search second house in Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Kurdish terror group is linked to London attacks

An Iraqi junior doctor and a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS are among the suspects being quizzed over the series of bomb attacks across Britain, it emerged today.

Details of the suspects were revealed as police staged a controlled explosion at a hospital near Glasgow today.

The junior doctor has been named as Bilal Abdulla, who is said to have completed his medical training in Baghdad.

The suspected ringleader of the Al Qaeda car bombers is a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS.

Saudi Mohammed Asha, 26, was arrested with his 27-year-old wife, who was in traditional Muslim dress, on the M6 in Cheshire on Saturday night.

Update 2:23 PM:

Sky News: A third doctor is now being detained in terror invesitgation. This doctor was arrested in Liverpool. Was this the person tasered on Saturday night?

Search for clues: police remove belongings from the home of neurologist Mohammed Asha, 26, in Staffordshire today. He is one of seven men being held over three car bombs.

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Dr. Bilal Abdulla? or is this the as of yet unidentified Jhadi detained at scene of Glasgow Airport bombing; Out of harm’s way: Police officers hold down one of the badly-burned men outside the Glasgow arrivals hall moments after he had set himself alight

Three Doctors Held Over Attack

Three doctors are now being held in connection with the attempted Glasgow terror attack – one is an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad.

Sky sources named the Iraqi as Bilal Abdulla – he was left relatively unscathed in the incident, pictured being led away from the explosion by police.

He worked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow.

Police blew up a second suspect car outside the hospital on Monday – the first car was detonated on Sunday.

The other man detained at Glasgow airport had severe burns and remains in a critical condition at the Royal Alexandra – he was in the flaming jeep that was driven at one of the airport terminals.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Asha, 26, has been named as a man arrested on the M6 on Saturday night.

The Jordanian was detained with a woman of 27 dressed in traditional Muslim dress, believed to be his wife, on the M6 near Sandbach in Cheshire.

Dr Asha, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, worked at the North Staffordshire Hospital, where police have been searching his office.

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Dr. Bilal Abdulla arrested at the Glasgow Airport bombing

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Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla, an Iraqi from Baghdad who arrived in the UK in April 2006.

Sources told Sky News that a third man, aged 26, arrested in Liverpool, was a doctor.

He was reported to have worked at Halton Hospital in Cheshire.

A colleague told the Muslim News the doctor may have been detained because he was using the mobile phone and internet account of another man who has left the UK.

Update 3:38 PM

Sky News: An 8th suspect has now been arrested

Update: 7:41 PM

Five Doctors Held Over Attacks

Sources told Sky News that a third man, aged 26, arrested in Liverpool, was also a doctor.

He was reported to have worked at Halton Hospital in Cheshire.

AP: Terror suspect arrested in Brisbane, Australia.

Is this the 8th or 9th suspect in this case?

Doctor, father, husband…bomb suspect

He is Mohammed Asha, 26, a Jordanian-trained neurosurgeon whose family comes originally from Palestine.

Investigators believe a network of up to a dozen medics from the Middle East were sent to infiltrate the Health Service as a cover for terrorist operations.

At least five may have been involved in the plot to bring mass slaughter to the two cities.The details emerged as three more people – two of them trainee doctors – were arrested, bringing the number held to eight.

Worryingly, many of their profiles are quite unlike those of previous suspected followers of Al Qaeda. Dr Asha appeared to be a quiet and studious universityeducated doctor who dreamed of becoming a leading surgeon and raising his family in England as a good Muslim.

He was married to laboratory technician Marwah Dana, 27, a fellow Palestinian, and was said to dote on their son Anaf.

Lax immigration policies from UK former colonies is coming back to bite the Brits in the arse.

Since educated individuals are allowed to emigrate more freely, Flap wonders how many of these “doctors” have emigrated to the United States and whether ICE knows where they are?

Flap wants to know if anyone is home in immigration control?

Update 9:00 PM

Eighth Terror Suspect Held In Australia

Australian police have arrested a man wanted in connection with the terror attacks in Glasgow and London.

The suspect, described as a 27-year-old man, was arrested in the eastern city of Brisbane at the request of British authorities.

He was held at the city’s airport while trying to leave the country, Queensland state leader Peter Beattie said. He said the man was a resident of Brisbane but did not disclose his nationality.

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock said the man had been working as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland.

Sky News has already learnt that five of the eight people now being questioned over the terror attacks are trained doctors.

Terror arrest in Qld

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has confirmed the eighth person taken into custody over the recent British terror attacks, was arrested in Brisbane last night.

The 27 year old Brisbane man was detained at the international airport.

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has revealed more about the joint AFP and Queensland Police operation, saying the man was attempting to leave the country and did not have a return ticket.

The man is now assisting police with their inquiries.

It’s been confirmed he was working as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland.

A series of search warrants have been executed, following the arrest, including one on the man’s workplace.

Australian authorities acted on the advice of their British counterparts and are liaising with authorities in the United Kingdom as the investigation continues.

Update 10:30 PM

2nd Doctor questioned

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has revealed that a second Doctor is being questioned, in relation to the British terror attacks.

Mr Beattie refused to name the person, but said the Doctor is not an Australian citizen.

The second Doctor is being questioned as a precaution and there is no suggestion this person has done anything wrong at this stage.

Mr Beattie has also defended the recruitment process for foreign doctors, saying that appropriate checks were made and that the Commonwealth government is now reviewing the process that both individuals went through.

Eighth Terror Suspect Held In Australia updated

Australian police have arrested a doctor wanted in connection with the terror attacks in Glasgow and London. A second doctor is being questioned.

The suspect, described as a 27-year-old man, was arrested in the eastern city of Brisbane at the request of British authorities.

He was held at the city’s airport while trying to leave the country, Queensland state leader Peter Beattie said. He said the man was a resident of Brisbane but did not disclose his nationality.

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock said the man had been working as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland.

The man, described as a “model citizen” was recruited by the hospital in Liverpool but completed his studies in India.

At least five of the eight people now being questioned over the terror attacks are trained doctors.

Gold Coast doctor arrested over UK bomb plot

The man was arrested at Brisbane International Airport last night and a number of search warrants, including one at the hospital, have been executed across south-east Queensland.

The arrest came as reports from the UK said as many as six doctors with links to UK hospitals had been arrested in connection with the attempted attacks in London and Glasgow over the weekend.

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the man is an Australian resident, not a citizen, but he would not say how long he has been working in Australia.

Mr Ruddock did reveal that the man had been carrying a one-way ticket out of Australia when he was arrested.

Reports earlier said the man had been arrested as he tried to board a flight to Singapore.

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