Doctors of destruction

AP/Washington Times:

Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's No. 2. George Habash of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mahmoud Zahar, the Hamas strongman in Gaza. All trained as doctors — as did at least seven suspects in the failed bomb attacks in Britain.

The general public often is shocked to see that doctors — the world's healers — can become militants or even terrorist killers.

But some analysts believe it is part of a trend in which wealthy Muslim families highly educate their sons, who sometimes become radical and have the education they need to become leaders.

“People often assume that terrorists are poor, disadvantaged people who are brainwashed or need the money. But the ones who actually perpetrate violence without handlers and manipulation are highly intelligent by necessity,” said Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism analyst at the Swedish National Defense College in Stockholm.

“It's only the smart ones who will survive security pressures in a subversive existence. Sometimes they are doctors, a profession that provides a brilliant cover and allows entry to countries like Britain,” he said.

At least six of the eight suspects in the failed terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow, Scotland, were identified as doctors from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and India. Another was a medical student.

“It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted,” said Pauline Neville-Jones, former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which advises the British government.

“It means obviously that you can't make any assumptions, or have any preconceptions about the kind of people who might become terrorists. It does mean that you widen the net, obviously,” she told the British Broadcasting Corp.

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What liberals like those at the BBC fail to comprehend is that the root cause of Islamic terror is the religious bigotry of the true believers. They are too wrapped up in the multi culti mind set that all religions are equal and everyone is deserving of respect. It is a mistake to respect the views of radical Islam and it will get you killed. They view everyone who does not accept their weird religious beliefs as an enemy to be killed, and they are doing their worst to do so.