Deuxième surprise (?) : les terroristes sont des gens fréquentables

Des docteurs ! Et brillants, en plus, et bien notés… Le scénario excellemment écrit et jusqu’ici exécuté de la terrrrible attaque terroriste contre Londres, de ce terrrrible été 2007, aurait dû être relu tout de même dans ses moindres détails. Des docteurs brillamment notés, même aux noms peu chrétiens, en guise de terroristes hideux, cela fait désordre.

Etrange, étrange tout cela. La guerre contre la terreur nous réserve bien des surprises. Vous comprenez : c’était nous qui étions censés leur envoyer des médecins, pas eux…

Nous nous expliquons… Nous pensions que nous (nous, les Occidentaux, c’est-à-dire les Anglo-Saxons, c’est-à-dire the civilisation), — nous étions censés leur apporter, en plus des chars, des smart bombs et d’Halliburton, notre miel civilisateur le plus subtil, et notamment les médecins pour sauver ces frêles vies enfantines menacées non par les bombes de l’U.S. Air Force mais par la barbarie de Saddam (lequel avait fait en sorte qu’il y eût des médecins en Irak, et qu’ils y restassent, — mais passons). Voilà qu’il s’avère qu’ils ont, eux, des médecins, et qu’ils nous les envoient pour poser d’horribles bombes qui pourraient blesser des gens.

Well, well, voici ce que nous en dit aujourd’hui The Independent :

«When 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.

»But 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.

»Police 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.

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»Dr 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.

»His 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.

»“He 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.

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»Dr 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”.

»Another 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.

Dr 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.»

Mis en ligne le 3 juillet 2007 à 12H06