Metastasis

‘Those who cure you will kill you’

An al-Qaeda leader in Iraq boasted before last week’s failed bombings in London and Glasgow that his group was planning to attack British targets and that “those who cure you will kill you”, The Times has learnt.

The warning was delivered to Canon Andrew White, a senior British cleric working in Baghdad, and could be highly significant as the eight Muslims arrested in the wake of the failed plot are all members of the medical profession.

Canon Andrew White

Canon White told The Times that he had passed the general warning, but not the specific words, to a senior official at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in mid-April. A Foreign Office spokesman said last night that it was forwarding the actual words to the Metropolitan Police.

The Times also learnt yesterday that one of the suspects, the Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, had links to radical Islamic groups, and that several of the eight suspects have now been linked to known extremist radicals listed on MI5’s data base. Canon White, who runs Baghdad’s only Anglican parish, said that he met the al-Qaeda leader on the fringes of a meeting about religious reconciliation held in Amman, the Jordanian capital.

“He talked to me about how they were going to destroy British and Americans. He told me that the plans were already made and they would soon be destroying the British. He said the people who cure you would kill you.

Dr. Kahlid Ahmed has been identified as the driver of the Glasgow Car Bomb

Dr. Bilal Abdulla arrested at the Glasgow Airport bombing

Dr. Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla, an Iraqi from Baghdad who arrived in the UK in April 2006.Dr. Bilal Abdulla has been transferred to Paddington Green high-security prison in London as the investigation continues

Yet, the good Anglican cleric will NOT reveal with which Al Qaeda leader he was talking?

And, why not? 

NHS terror plot: police investigate global email network used by ‘bombers’

Detectives investigating the NHS car bomb plot are today examining an international network of emails and phone records.

Police have seized computers from hospitals in Glasgow, Stoke-on-Trent and Liverpool. They are examining a theory that suspects planned the attacks in cyberspace while working at NHS hospitals.

The development was revealed as Scotland Yard sent a senior counter-terrorism investigator to Australia where one of the suspects is being held.

Today Australia invoked emergency anti-terrorism powers for the first time to extend the detention of Dr Mohammed Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian national who was arrested in Brisbane but who until last year worked in Liverpool.

Sources said there was evidence that Dr Haneef was in telephone contact with at least one of the would-be bombers. There was also evidence that a “guiding handî may still be at large outside Britain.

Dr Mohammed Haneef was arrested at Brisbane Airport as he tried to board a plane to Pakistan or was it Inida?

Dr Haneef was arrested shortly before he was due to board a flight to India with a one-way ticket. The manager of his apartment block in Brisbane, Steve Bosher, said he had left in such a hurry that his washing was still drying on the balcony – raising the possibility that he was tipped off about the failure of the car bomb plot by accomplices in Britain.

Ministers were today facing a security row after it emerged that at least four of the eight suspects being questioned had their details logged on MI5’s databases before the attacks took place, and one was on a Home Office warning index.

Whitehall officials denied any “cock-up” and said that the suspects had merely “crossed the radarî of the security service and were among thousands of peripheral contacts of extremists.

Well, Britain and the United States had better learn from their mistakes and naivety and understand that the Islamofascists will use any means at their disposal to destroy the West. How about as a first step to restrict travel from countries that are state sponsors of terrorism? Or requiring super-visas for limited amounts of time?

However, another problem for Britain is their failed NHS that relies on foreign doctors to provide universal, socialized and crappy medical care for their overtaxed citizens.

But, what about the United States? What precautions are the American Immigration and Customs Service using to ensure we are not granting access to foreign terrorists?

Update 1:55 PM

The UK has lowered its terror level to severe from critical.

Terror Threat Level Is Reduced

Britain’s terror threat level has been reduced from ‘critical’ to ‘severe’.

That means a terror attack is no longer imminent – but is still likely at any time.
“It still means the authorities believe it is highly likely that there will be an attack at any moment,” Sky’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt said.

The threat level was raised by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on Saturday evening following the failed terror attacks on London and Glasgow.

The decision to lower the threat level was made by the Joint Terrorism and Analysis Centre (JTAC), according to a statement by the Home Secretary.

She said: “There is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is expected imminently. However, the reduction of the threat level to severe does not mean the overall threat has gone away.

Stay tuned for breaking news.

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