A Higher Degree of Terror
In Britain, the threat of educated extremists
By Thomas K. Grose
LONDON—If you can't trust a doctor, whom can you trust? The idea of physicians as healers was badly shaken last week when it was revealed that six of the eight suspects in three abortive terrorist attacks here were medical doctors. The failed attacks—two car bombs in London and a suicidal raid on Glasgow International Airport—have also raised questions about possible links to the Islamic terrorist group al Qaeda.
The United Kingdom's National Health Service employs almost 90,500 doctors who received their medical degrees in foreign countries, nearly 14,100 from predominantly Muslim nations. Gordon Brown, the new prime minister in the Labor government, promptly ordered a review of recruitment practices at the health service, known as the NHS.
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