World | Posted on Jul 05, 2007 at 11:53am IST

UK terror suspects had Cambridge connection

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London: There has been a new turn to the UK terror investigations. It's found that two of the suspected terrorists were residing in the university town of Cambridge at one point of time and this has left locals shocked.

With the new revelation that two of the arrested doctors - Mohd Asha and Bilal Abdulla - had links to the city, investigations into the attempted bombings have switched to Cambridge.

Twenty-seven-year-old Dr Bilal Abdulla who was held after allegedly driving a blazing jeep into Glasgow Airport lived in Cambridge from 2001 to 2004.

Says Secretary, Cambridge Mosque, Hicham Kwieder, "It's very shocking because you don't expect something like this from a student. One does not really expect an educated person to turn to violence."

Locals say Abdulla began as an easygoing member of the mosque, but later became agitated at western foreign policy.

Says the News Editor, Cambridge Evening News, John Deex, "He was a nice man, relatively pleasant, but he then came back to the city in 2004 and apparently at that time he was getting increasingly upset by the US and British foreign policy."

Twenty-six-year-old Dr Mohammed Asha, a neurosurgeon, also spent two months in Cambridge, working at a local hospital. He's a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian descent and his terror connection too is confounding this peaceful university town.

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