8 Doctors Arrested in UK Airport Bombing

This should prove once and for all that the liberal thinking that 'poverty causes terror' is false (as well as the other shibboleths like lack of opportunity, intellectual manipulation or legitimate grievances). Rather, as most conservatives believe, it's the ideology.

Every terror solution based on this flawed politically correct idea, such as John Edwards' 10,000 new peace corps workers and George Bush's endorsement of a Palestinian state, is therefore inconsequential or worse because it misses the diagnosis:

The suspected al-Qa'eda terrorists behind the attempted car bomb attacks on Britain were almost all foreign doctors working in the NHS, it can be disclosed today.

It comes as an eighth person - also a foreign doctor who has worked in the UK - was arrested in Australia in connection with the attacks.

A second doctor who has also worked in the UK is being questioned by Australian police but has not been arrested....

In a development that will raise questions over the vetting procedures for medics from abroad, it has emerged that five of the seven suspects held by British police are young Middle Eastern men employed at British hospitals.

There are no vetting procedures for any immigrants to any Western country on the basis of whether they are jihadists. And until this most minimal element of the understanding that jihad ideology causes jihad attacks is implemented, we will continue to be slaughtered in ever increasing numbers.

One is Mohammed Asha, a "brilliant" neurosurgeon from Jordan. Another being questioned over both the London and Glasgow attacks is Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi junior doctor who was a passenger in the car that rammed Glasgow airport.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee -who suffered 90 per cent burns after setting himself on fire in the attack - is said to be a locum doctor working at the hospital where he is now being treated. Two of his colleagues at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Renfrewshire, were also arrested yesterday and another junior doctor is understood to have been the man police arrested in Liverpool.

Disclosures of the suspected terrorists' backgrounds - which came as the hunt for any others who may have been connected to the terrorist incidents continued - surprised detectives and the intelligence services.

Five men have been arrested, while a sixth, the Jeep driver, is under police guard in hospital. He was operated on yesterday but doctors said his chances of survival were slim.

He has not been officially arrested because detectives are waiting for him to recover and do not want to trigger the 28-day maximum time limit for detaining him as a terrorism suspect.

The seventh person arrested is Dr Asha's wife.

Every Republican contender (Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney) seems to thoroughly understand that jihad ideology causes jihad. Both serious Democrat candidates (Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton) are diehard believers that poverty causes crime. Unfortunately it is our lives in the hands of their diehard faith.