The Independent<\/em> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWhen Mohammed Asha told his family in 2004 that he was leaving Jordan for Britain to further his career in medicine, they were understandably optimistic about his chances of success. The exceptionally gifted student had graduated with top marks from Jordan University’s medical school and his prodigious academic talents had also earned him a meeting with the country’s former Queen Noor.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut Dr Asha’s father was yesterday coming to terms with the news of his son and daughter-in-law’s extraordinary arrest by police, who forced them on to the hard shoulder as they drove north on the M6 near the Sandbach services in Cheshire on Saturday night, in connection with the terror plot to bomb a London nightclub.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPolice were granted an extended warrant to detain the Ashas until Saturday, along with two other doctors Iraqi Bilal Abdulla of Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital and a 26-year-old Indian doctor arrested in Liverpool and believed to be from Halton Hospital in Cheshire. Another two doctors from the Royal Alexandra Hospital, aged 25 and 28, were also in custody last night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t() <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbDr Asha, 26, was born in Saudi Arabia on 17 September 1980 into a family with origins in Hebron, in the West Bank. He is one of six brothers and two sisters, three of whom have also qualified as doctors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHis father taught Arabic in Saudia Arabia until the family returned to Amman in 1991, where a young Dr Asha won a place at the Jubilee School, set up for gifted children in Amman by Queen Noor, which resulted in him meeting her. He was at the top of his class and comfortably won a place at the medical school between 1998 and 2003, graduating with a degree in medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe would know his subject so well that his questioning often sounded like an interrogation, said Azmi Mufazhal, who taught him immunology during his third year. Dr Asha could have chosen to work anywhere but he decided to move to Britain in the hope of eventually returning home with a certificate confirming his neurological skill.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbDr Asha spent 12 months in Shropshire, working mainly at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and also at the Princess Royal in Telford, 15 miles away, before leaving last August to take up a position at the Royal Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. His father said he had recently been offered a job as a specialist neurosurgeon in Birmingham and was excited about the new job.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnother man with a medical background who left the Middle East to work in the UK was Bilal Abdulla, the Iraqi-born doctor who has been arrested for Saturday’s attempted suicide bombing at Glasgow airport. The 27-year-old, who has lived in Britain for less than a year, was working as a locum at a hospital in the city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDr Abdulla obtained his medical qualification from Baghdad University in 2004. He was granted a licence to practice in the UK on 5 August last year and had been living unnobtrusively ever since in the nearby village of Houston. He is thought to have been renting 1970s house with another man, thought to be the second airport suspect.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 3 juillet 2007 \u00e0 12H06<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Des docteurs ! Et brillants, en plus, et bien not\u00e9s Le sc\u00e9nario excellemment \u00e9crit et jusqu’ici ex\u00e9cut\u00e9 de la terrrrible attaque terroriste contre Londres, de ce terrrrible \u00e9t\u00e9 2007, aurait d\u00fb \u00eatre relu tout de m\u00eame dans ses moindres d\u00e9tails. Des docteurs brillamment not\u00e9s, m\u00eame aux noms peu chr\u00e9tiens, en guise de terroristes hideux, cela… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2680,6814,3744,2993],"class_list":["post-68966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-londres","tag-medecins","tag-terreur","tag-terroristes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}