“He was a very bad man,” White said, “and I was told afterward that he was closely connected to Al Qaeda, but I don’t know definitely that he was connected to Al Qaeda.” He declined to identify the man by name but said he was a religious leader from Anbar Province.

'Those who cure you are going to kill you'

British cleric Canon Andrew White says an Al-Qaeda leader who met him in Amman on April 18 made a cryptic warning: "Those who cure you are going to kill you."

These are the doctors the British police now say are linked to the failed bombing plots in Glasgow and London

Khalid Ahmed Lebanon: Staff at Glasgow's Royal Alexandra Hospital identified this doctor as driver of the Jeep that was crashed into Glasgow airport

Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla (27) Iraq: Passenger in Jeep. Trained as physician in Baghdad. Diabetes specialist at Royal Alexandra Hospital

Mohammed Jamil Abdelqader Asha (26) Jordan: Of Palestinian descent,this Jordanian doctor worked at North Staffordshire Hospital

Marwa Asha (27) Jordan: Asha's wife, identified by British media as a medical assistant

Mohammed Haneef (27) India: Physician employed by Gold Coast Hospital in Australia's Queensland state. Held at Brisbane airport as he tried to board a flight. Worked earlier at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, England. Studied in Bangalore

Sabeel Ahmed (26) India: Held in Liverpool, worked at Halton Hospital. Also from Bangalore

Unidentified men (25 & 28): Said to be of Middle East origin. Staff identified them as a junior doctor and a medical student.

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