I have been watching and reading the news of the UK terror plots over the last few days. One thing that struck me is that very little has been mentioned that one of the people that drove the Jeep into the Glasgo airport was from Iraq, and had lived there at least until 2004, well into bush's invasion.
Specifically from the UK's Telegraph:
The other man detained at the airport was named today as Bilal Abdulla, who qualified as a doctor in Baghdad in 2004. He is thought to be an Iraqi.
He was working at a NHS hospital - thought to be the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley where his fellow bomb suspect is currently being treated - under a renewable year-long licence.
Certainly the fact that this person is an Iraqi is important. Especially since bush's oft repeated message is that "we are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here." Though many more details need to be revealed, it would appear that fighting "them" there caused them to come to the west wanting to create terror.
So why is this important detail being left out?
UPDATE: AP just started running the following headline:
U.K. probe nets Iraqi, Jordanian doctors