DAR AL HARB - U.K.: BRITS SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR FAULTY NHS SYRINGES

Faulty NHS syringes 'stopped London bombs'
by IAN SWANSON

FAULTY syringes stolen from the NHS were today said to be responsible for last week's London car bombs failing to explode.

Reports claimed the syringes were part of the detonation mechanism in the two cars packed with gas canisters and left in central London.

They are thought to have been taken from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where several of the eight suspects arrested in connection with the London and Glasgow terror attacks have links.

The two men in the blazing Jeep Cherokee which crashed into the front of Glasgow airport terminal last Saturday, Dr Bilal Abdulla and Dr Khalid Ahmed, both worked at the hospital.
Police are understood to believe they also drove the "bomb cars" down to London from Glasgow ahead of Friday's failed attacks.

Dr Ahmed remains in a critical condition with 90 per cent burns and Dr Abdulla is being held at London's Paddington Green police station, along with two unnamed trainee doctors from the Royal Alexandra and three other suspects.

Al Qaeda groups have used syringes in the past to trigger bombs. The syringe is connected to a nine-volt battery and a mobile phone. Once the mobile is rung, an electrical circuit is made, igniting the liquid in the syringe, which explodes and sets off the main charge.

But despite "multiple calls" to the mobiles left in the two London cars, the bombs failed to go off.

Police today refused to comment on reports that NHS syringes had been used in the car bombs.

Meanwhile, police in Australia - who have already detained another doctor, Mohammed Haneef, in connection with the attacks - carried out fresh raids today, seizing computers and other material from two hospitals in Perth and the Outback mining town of Kalgoorlie. They also interviewed at least four more doctors, but said none of them had been arrested or charged.

It has also emerged two of the doctors being held in Britain tried to get jobs in Australia, but were rejected. Khalid Ahmed, the driver of the Jeep, and his brother Sabeel Ahmed, who was arrested in Liverpool at the weekend, were turned down by authorities in Western Australia because their medical qualifications were not up to standard, a state official said.

Haneef, 27, was arrested on Monday as he tried to board a flight from Brisbane with a one-way ticket, believed to be to India, where his wife has just had a baby.

A judge last night granted police permission to hold him without charge for another four days.

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