Terrorist Attacks in Britain: 'Those Who Cure You Will Kill You?'

The Times of London reported that an al-Qaeda official warned two months ago of the recent bomb plots in Britain. He said, 'those who cure you will kill you.'

One of the most shocking facts about the terrorist attacks in Great Britain is the fact that most of the terrorists are Doctors, or work in Britain's much vaunted National Health Service. I have cause to be grateful to that health service myself, and believe me, it is a wonderful service; not only that, but the doctors are well respected and well paid.

Bearing in mind that in the past the nation has become inured to terrorism attacks from the Irish Republican Army, it is the 'Doctor' part of the news that will traumatize the British public most. Becoming a Doctor is the epitome of oneupmanship in the class ridden United Kingdom. It is every parent's dream profession for their child. If you can't trust your GP who can you trust?

From now on, every doctor, lab technician, nurse, or porter in the Health Service who looks as if they may have come from the Middle East - an estimated 80,000 of them - will be looked upon with suspicion. If the attacks were meant to spread unease, they succeeded in their aim even without the loss of life. It is difficult to understand how anybody could go through years of medical training to become a Doctor just to enable them to blend in so that they can kill their neighbors, but then 911 is still impossible to understand. Normal people will never comprehend utter fanaticism.

One of the things that must be chilling the spine of any British health service patient is the farcical way the car bombs didn't work, especially the childish attempt to drive through the crash bollards at the doorway to Glasgow airport - the barriers that are there to prevent exactly that. These terrorists are supposed to be intelligent, but they used their own cell phones as triggers in the two London car bombs?

They were so convinced that the operation would be a success, that they didn't wipe any fingerprints off the phones, and even left the list of callers on them. Is that the kind of inefficiency you would like from your doctor? How would you feel if you were going under the anesthetic for your gall bladder op, and you knew that the surgeon couldn't even assemble a car bomb - something a ten year old can learn on-line, for goodness sake? Perhaps the United Kingdom should be raising the bar in its medical entrance examinations.

As for the patients of the terrorist doctors in particular, they should be demanding re-examinations. Even the wife of one of the terrorists, who worked as a lab technician, could have started her terrorist activities at an earlier stage by handing out fake diagnoses.

There are innumerable ways in which 'those who cure you can kill you.'

Sources: MSN.
Ottawa Citizen
CBC News