Jordanian doctor’s father says his son is no terrorist

THE father of a Jordanian doctor reportedly arrested by police investigating three failed bombings said yesterday his son was devoted to becoming a surgeon and incapable of carrying out such attacks.

Mohammed Jamil Abdelkader Asha, the 27-year-old father of a small boy, could be the mastermind of the bomb plots, officials in Jordan said on condition of anonymity, adding that his wife Marwa Dana was also arrested.

A second doctor, Bilal Abdulla was named last night as one of two men who drove a flaming Jeep loaded with gas canisters into the arrivals hall at Glasgow Airport. The Iraqi doctor was working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, near Glasgow Airport. A third doctor is also reportedly among the arrested.