Jihadi Doctors Identified (Update) A Third Doctor...Now Five?

A picture of Mohammed Asha provided by his family during an interview with Reuters in Amman is seen July 2, 2007. Asha and his wife were among those arrested by British anti-terrorism police hunting those behind attempted car bombings, a police source said on Monday. Asha qualified as a doctor in 2004 in Jordan and is also a registered medical practitioner in Britain. British media said Asha worked at a hospital in central England. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

We finally have a couple of names of suspects picked up in the UK. Shockingly, one is named Mohammed.

Fresh arrests over British bomb plot, seven held

PAISLEY (Reuters) - Police arrested two more suspects in a widening hunt for members of a suspected al Qaeda cell which rammed a fuel-packed jeep into a Scottish airport and left two car bombs in London, police said on Monday.

A total of seven people are now in custody in connection with the attacks. Two of those arrested were confirmed to be doctors, one of whom qualified in Iraq and the other in Jordan.

The Iraqi-trained doctor was named by police sources as Bilal Abdulla and the Jordanian-trained doctor as Mohammed Asha. Asha's wife has also been arrested.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, outside Glasgow where the airport was targeted on Saturday, confirmed Abdulla had worked at the hospital as a doctor.

UPDATE: Sky News is reporting a third doctor is in custody.

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.

Coming soon: A story lamenting a shortage of doctors in the UK.

More from the Daily Mail.

Tonight it has been revealed that a third man, aged 26, arrested in Liverpool, was also reported to be an Indian doctor who works at Halton Hospital in Cheshire.

UPDATE II: Q&A: Mohammad Asha and foreign doctors

Engaging in bombings is hardly compatible with a doctor's normal duty of care, is it?

It is entirely alien to all that doctors have stood for since Hippocrates first drafted the oath than enjoins doctors to "do no harm". While not all graduates these days swear the Hippocratic Oath on graduation, its principles still bind their conduct.

There's also now an eighth arrest.

An eighth person has been arrested abroad as part of the inquiry into the failed car bombings at Glasgow Airport and in London, the BBC has learned.

Police have not specified in which country the arrest took place.

It is also understood the Metropolitan Police will be taking charge of both inquiries and are to transfer a suspect held in Scotland to the UK capital.

UPDATE III: John Gibson on Fox said there are now five doctors involved. A report from Sky News, which hasn't update yet as of 5:40 pm.

UPDATE IV: Latest suspect apparently captured in Australia.