2 UK terror doctors applied to US

Two of the UK terror doctors applied for medical programs in the United States. One of those doctors is "Mohammed Jamil Asha, 26, a neurologist from Jordan who was arrested in a car on the M6 Highway near Manchester, England, with his wife and 1 1/2-year-old son after the failed attacks." The Philadelphia Inquirer said the two doctors "took preliminary steps to apply for graduate medical programs in the U.S."

After the Glasgow airport bombing attempt, FBI agents visited the Philadelphia headquarters of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. The nonprofit organization is a national clearinghouse that certifies the qualifications of foreign-trained doctors to work as medical residents in the United States.

Agents found records there on two of the British suspects. One of them, sources said, is neurologist Mohammed Jamil Asha, 26, a Jordanian who was born in Saudi Arabia and is of Palestinian descent. [snip]

It could not be determined when Asha expressed an interest in coming to the United States, but, according to British news accounts, he graduated from medical school in Jordan in 2004. [snip]

It could not be learned yesterday how far Asha and the second doctor had proceeded in the certification process, nor where in the United States they hoped to study.

Seeking certification from the educational commission, a nonprofit, private organization, is the first step in a multilayered process for graduates of foreign medical schools who seek a medical residency in the United States. Graduates of Canadian medical schools are exempt. (more)

Maybe we are doing something right, or perhaps the two doctors changed their minds and chose the UK for other reasons. As I understand it, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates does not check visas, backgrounds of the students or anything other than medical training documents and degrees.

Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post asks, "Why, then, is Britain under siege — and the rest of Europe threatened — while the United States, aka the Great Satan, hasn't been attacked since Sept. 11, 2001?"

It's quite possible that al Qaeda has decided not to waste time and assets on small-scale actions, and instead is determined to make its next assault on the United States even bigger and deadlier than the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

ABCNews.com, quoting an unidentified source, reported Sunday that U.S. officials fear a "spectacular" al Qaeda attack here this summer,

He could be right since, "Radioactive devices -- some of which have the potential to be used in terrorist attacks -- have gone missing in alarming numbers in Canada over the past five years."

Others reporting:
Faultline USA
Wake Up America
Captain's Quarters

Comments

[Debbie]

Flanders Fields, I think you are probably correct. Most of the terror cells plan years ahead of time. That puts us behind the eight ball for sure.

I also agree when you say, "are not criminals. They are spies and sabatours for an enemy -which is (caliphite and sharia focused) Islam."

To treat them as criminals is a serious mistake, but that is what many in the US want to do.

I thought the last presidential elections were the most important we had ever voted on, but now I believe the upcoming 2008 election is even more important.

Thanks so much everyone for your comments.

[Flanders Fields]

I think it is quite likely, Debbie, that nukes and sleeper cells trained to use them are long at home in US borders. Thanks to multiculturalism and greedy corporatists who advance those doctrines along with immigration, many citizens of our country will be killed.

The same happened in the UK for the same reasons. Our governments are being run by those business people, who are allied with leftists. They are not being run by the citizens. Dr. Kahn's assistence to Islam will inflict death and destruction on us once more, but it is not because of him or the Islamists.

It is because they are invited here, de facto, as part of an attempt to maximize markets and cheap labor supplies while engineering people to be susceptible to social management. We need to realize that big business and leftists are allied and that both are against "we the people".

Another point related to the above is that the terrorists who inflict this death and destruction on our people are not criminals. They are spies and sabatours for an enemy -which is (caliphite and sharia focused) Islam.

The ones who allow Islamists to come here and who comfort and protect them within our society are the criminals. They are treasonous also, just as are the terrorists, not only to our countries, but to our cultures and our civilization of the West.

[Stormwarning]

J-1 IMO, is not the issue. The H1B and the Visa Waiver program IMO are much bigger issues.

[Debbie]

Greg Siskind: Thanks for the information. I know this is your area of expertise. This was my understanding also.

[Greg Siskind]

The sole role of ECFMG is to verify the medical credentials of a foreign physician to determine if they are equivalent to US training. The administer the J-1 training program, but they are NOT a government agency and it is not their role to engage in security clearances. The Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the FBI are charged with this task and before a doctor ever is issued a visa to enter the US, they are required to be cleared by the US government.