Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Call this one "the doctors plot"

Local suspects linked to UK plots - National - theage.com.au:
"Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, was picked up by members of a joint federal and Queensland police taskforce as he was about to leave Australia to India via Malaysia.

"He had a one-way ticket but had not resigned from the hospital."

Another Indian-trained Muslim doctor, Dr. Mohammed Ali, who also arrived from Britain a year ago, is currently under questioning. Police authorities in Australia were at pains to say that Dr. Ali's case was not related to the British investigation of the attack on Glasgow airport and the two car bombs found in London.

This disavowal seems odd since the article also points out that the car belonging to the fleeing Dr. Haneef was found in the garage of Dr. Ali.

Let's see, six of seven suspects arrested in Britain are doctors and two more doctors are being questioned in Australia. Another blow the the sociological interpretation which holds that radicalism is bred by poverty and lack of opportunity. Of course, 9/11 also showed the falsity of such explanations in that several key players in that affair were engineers, a profession respected and in demand in most of the world.

Unlike the "doctors plot" in which Stalin - either from delusional paranoia or political calculation - accused Jewish doctors of trying to poison him, this one appears to be real.

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