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...plot, as authorities have focused their investigation on several foreign-born doctors believed to have played a role. One of the suspects detained in the attack on Glasgow's airport has been identified as Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi physician. British police have also detained a Jordanian-educated doctor, Mohammed Asha. At least five of the people in custody in the U.K. are believed to be foreign citizens...
Coming from a talented family, Jordanian Mohammed Asha had to be special to stand out. Of the eight other siblings who grew up with Asha in Amman, two also became doctors. Another qualified as an engineer. But Mohammed, now 26, seemed particularly gifted. As a youngster in the mid-'90s, he tried out for a spot in a local school for gifted kids, and got in. Studying medicine at the University of Jordan, his grades were exceptional. With such a strong track record, Asha won a scholarship to study neurology at University of Birmingham in central England...
...After a string of jobs at local hospitals - most recently at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire - Asha was making plans ahead of a visit to his family back home. Eager to pick up presents for his six brothers and two sisters before his July 12 British Airways flight, he telephoned his parents to check on the family's clothing sizes...
...Those travel plans are now on hold. Driving on a highway in northern England this weekend, with his Jordanian wife Rawan and their young son in the car alongside him, Asha was picked up by police on suspicion of involvement in the attempted bombings of targets in London and Glasgow. His wife was also detained. Police are currently questioning Asha at a central London police station. Neither has been charged...
...Asha's family, news of his arrest brought disbelief. "The only problem my brother has is that he is a genius," eldest brother Ahmad told TIME at the family's four-story Amman home. Ahmad insists his little brother has never been an extremist. Friends say his devotion to his studies left no time for student politics. Dr. Imtinan Smadi, who taught a young Asha Arabic, remembers his pupil as "brilliant, tactful, full of joy and humor...