Doctors’ jihad plot: "who would have suspected two doctors to have been involved in such planning?"

Well, one who is convinced that poverty and/or lack of education causes terrorism might have been surprised. Of course, such a glaring exception to the theory should only point more strongly to the fact that there must be some other factor at work in jihadist violence -- something to do with jihad, for starters. Most, however, will continue to search for something else altogether: alienation, "otherness," British foreign policy, and so forth. "Terror trial: NHS doctors planned terrorist ’spectacular’," from the Telegraph , October 9: Islamic extremists Bilal Abdulla, 29, and Mohammed Asha, 27, plotted the "spectaculars" as "punishment" for Britain’s foreign policy in Iraq and Israel, it is alleged. Iraqi national Abdulla and a third man, Kafeel Ahmed, tried and failed to blow up cars packed with gas canisters, nails and petrol outside a nightclub in London’s West End in June 2007. When those devices failed to detonate, Abdulla and Ahmed launched the al...