Mohammed Asha

Dr. Mohammed Jamil Abdelqader Asha is a suspect arrested after the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack.

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A Palestinian who was born in Saudi Arabia, Asha moved to Jordan with his family in 1991. He received a medical degree in Jordan in 2004, and was given permission to work in the United Kingdom in 2005. He lives in the village of Chesterton with his wife and child. As a junior neurosurgeon he worked in the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.

According to the Medical Register, Asha obtained his medical qualifications in Jordan in 2004.^[1] He has been suspended from his medical duties.^[2]

On 1 July 2007 Asha and his wife were arrested in a rolling roadblock on the M6 motorway in Cheshire. On 20 July 2007 he became the fourth suspect to be charged in the attack, with conspiracy to cause explosions. A month earlier, it is believed that he had been offered the only ST1 training post in neurosurgery available in the West Midlands, one of a handful available throughout the country in the British government's now notorious and discredited MTAS system for junior doctor selection.

References

1. ^ Friends of Jordanian doctor detained in Britain insist he has no ties to terrorism
2. ^ List of Registered Medical Practitioners

• "Car bombing suspect 'on the run'," BBC website.
• "Two more arrests in hunt for terror cell," Times Online.
• "A Surgeon’s Trajectory Takes an Unlikely Swerve" New York Times.
• "Fourth suspect charged over British car bombings" Brisbane Times.

See also

• 2007 UK terrorist incidents