British Terror Plot News Roundup

The British National Health Service (NHS) is reconsidering how they recruit people to come to the UK.

Ministers are also planning to strengthen background checks on highly skilled migrants.

The proposals come after it emerged the eight bombing suspects had links to the health service.

They were announced by Gordon Brown during his first Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.

Earlier it was revealed some of the alleged plotters were known to MI5 before the attacks took place.

Up to four are believed to have appeared on the MI5 database.

It also appears that my initial report that the person arrested in Australia in connection with the bombings in the UK was indeed headed to Malaysia after all.

n other developments, a British detective is flying to Australia to question the Indian doctor arrested over the bomb plots.

Police arrested 27-year-old Muhammad Haneef at Brisbane international airport on Monday.

He was trying to board a flight, believed to be to India by way of Malaysia, with a one-way ticket.

A second Indian doctor, a colleague, who had been questioned by detectives has been released without charge.

I guess a retraction to my retraction is in order. My original suspicions may yet be on the ball.

The two men arrested in Blackburn have been released and are no longer considered a part of the investigation.

With all those doctors involved in the plot, this makes for a scary read.

John Smeaton says that he isn't a hero. Well, quite a few people would beg to differ. An effort to buy him 1,000 pints of ale appears to have been quite successful.

UPDATE:
According to ABC News, the London bombs failed to go off despite multiple calls by the terrorists because of the failure of one component:

The London bomb plot allegedly planned by a cell of doctors failed early last Friday morning because a medical syringe used as part of the firing mechanism caused a malfunction, ABC News has learned.

According to nonclassified documents reviewed by ABC News, and confirmed by multiple sources, both mobile telephones initiated firing mechanisms rigged inside a Mercedes E 300 parked several yards from the front door of Tiger Tiger nightclub failed despite multiple calls to the cell phones designed to remotely trigger the devices.