In Britain: A new "Doctors Plot"

Shortly before Josef Stalin's long overdue death in 1953, the fertile mind of that paranoid man suspected that doctors, mostly Jewish, were out to kill him and other leading Communist figures. Historians refer to it as "The Doctors Plot."

There is a different Doctors Plot in Great Britain. The MDs are Muslims, not Jews, and their plot appears to be real.

From the London 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.

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 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.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee -who suffered 90 per cent burns after setting himself on fire in the attack - is said to be a locum doctor working at the hospital where he is now being treated. Two of his colleagues at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Renfrewshire, were also arrested yesterday and another junior doctor is understood to have been the man police arrested in Liverpool.

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