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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Al Qaeda Warned British Cleric: 'Those Who Cure You Will Kill You' Al Qaeda Warned British Cleric: 'Those Who Cure You Will Kill You' Wednesday, July 04, 2007 LONDON — Months before failed bombings in Britain that were linked to several foreign doctors, a British cleric says an Al Qaeda chief made a cryptic warning to him: "Those who cure you are going to kill you." Canon Andrew White, a senior British cleric working in Baghdad, said Wednesday that he met with the Al Qaeda leader and Sunni Muslim tribal and religious leaders in the Jordanian capital of Amman on April 18. He said the alleged Al Qaeda chief who traveled from Syria warned of several British attacks during the meeting. "It was so awful that, in my update for the day, I wrote that I have met with the devil today," White told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "At one moment in the meeting he said, 'Those who cure you are going to kill you."' Click here for http://FOXNews.com's Europe center. White — who runs Baghdad's only Anglican parish and has been involved in several hostage negotiations in Iraq — said he did not understand the threat's significance at the time. Although he said he passed the general threat warning on to Britain's Foreign Office, White said he did not mention the comment hinting at the involvement of doctors. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meanwhile, announced a crackdown on immigrants taking skilled jobs such as doctors. Recruitment practices of health service staff will be reviewed, and background checks will be expanded, he said. As the new information surfaced, more details emerged about the eight suspects arrested after last week's failed car bombing attacks. Several of the men were on an MI5 watch list, a British government security official said, indicating their identities previously had been logged by agents. One of the men on the list had posted a comment on an Internet chatroom condemning Danish cartoons portraying the prophet Mohammed in a derogatory way, The Evening Standard reported, using unidentified intelligence sources. It was unclear why the other suspects might have been put on the watch list. One suspect, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, reportedly had links to radical Islamic groups, and several others were linked to extremist radicals listed on the MI5 database, The Times of London reported. "Some, but not all, have turned up in a check of the databases, but they are not linked to any previous incident," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the material. The official said Britain's security services are currently watching around 1,600 people and have details logged of hundreds more. Shiraz Maher, a former member of a radical Islamic group, said he knew Abdulla at Cambridge University. "He was certainly very angry about what was happening in Iraq. ... He supported the insurgency in Iraq. He actively cheered the deaths of British and American troops in Iraq," he told BBC television's "Newsnight." He said Abdulla berated a Muslim roommate for not being devout enough, showing him a beheading video and warning this could happen to him. He also said he had a number of videos of Al Qaeda's former leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike last year. Abdulla had been disciplined at the at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, outside Glasgow, for spending too much time on the Internet, according to the Evening Standard, suggesting the men may have planned the attacks in cyberspace. Police seized several computers from hospitals in Glasgow, Stoke-on-Kent and Liverpool. While information held on a British security service database did not alert authorities to the attacks, it did help police to round up suspects quickly, British media reported, quoting several unidentified government sources. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said none of the eight suspects was on any American lists of potential terror suspects. The eight suspects include one doctor from Iraq and two from India. Others include a physician from Lebanon and a Jordanian doctor and his medical assistant wife. Another doctor and a medical student are thought to be from the Middle East, possibly Saudi Arabia. All employees of the National Health Service, some worked as colleagues at hospitals in England and Scotland. Experts and officials say the evidence points to the plot being hatched after they met in Britain, rather than overseas. No one has yet been charged in the plot, in which two car bombs failed to explode in central London Friday and two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas cylinders into the entrance of Glasgow International Airport and set it on fire the following day. The family of one suspect — Muhammad Haneef, a 27-year-old doctor from India arrested Monday in Brisbane, Australia — professed his innocence. He had worked at Liverpool before. "He has been detained unnecessarily. He is innocent," Qurat-ul-ain, Haneef's mother, told The Associated Press in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Sumaiya, Haneef's sister, said Wednesday he was coming to Bangalore to see his daughter, who was born a week ago. Sumaiya uses one name. Another suspect arrested in Liverpool was named in British media as Sabeel Ahmed, but police refused to confirm his identity. He is believed to be a 26-year-old doctor. Investigators believe the main plotters have been rounded up, though others involved on the periphery, including at least one British-born suspect, were still being hunted, the British security official said. British-born Muslims who were behind the 2005 London transit homicide bombings and others in thwarted plots here have been linked to terror training camps and foreign radicals in Pakistan. The education of the suspects in the car bomb attempts is in sharp contrast to the men who killed 52 bus and subway passengers in the London transit bombings. The ringleader of that attack, Mohammed Siddique Khan, had a degree in business studies, but with low marks, and his three fellow homicide bombers had little or no higher education. Haneef worked in 2005 at Halton Hospital near Liverpool in northern England, hospital spokesman Mark Shone said. Investigators believe the same men who parked the explosives-laden cars in London may have also driven the SUV in Glasgow, the British security official said. Click here for http://FOXNews.com's Europe center.
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#1. To: All, christime, Zipporah, wudidiz, wbales, richard9151, Diana, IndieTx, Jethro Tull, Destro (#0)
2 points: 1. The Comrade Academics and their Government Fellow Travellers have allowed the Enemy inside the gates for two decades and more....to our detriment, Balkanization and eventual destruction. 2. Read carefully and see if you can pick out why you should disconnect your computer, throw it away and never touch it again and never sign on to any web site.
Sounds like the set up for a false flag bio attack.
This is the most chilling from above. Find the two paragraphs?
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