A medical student? Doesn’t Tarik Hassane know that poverty causes terrorism? I trust that John Kerry is jetting over to London now to talk to this young man and explain to him how he is misunderstanding Islam. “Dramatic moment anti-terror police arrested medical student dubbed The Surgeon over alleged ISIS-plot to attack Britain – in a flat just yards from scene of raid on 21/7 bombers,” by James Slack, Chris Greenwood and Martin Robinson, Daily Mail, October 8, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
This is the moment a trainee doctor dubbed ‘The Surgeon’ was arrested on suspicion of planning an Islamic State-related murder plot in London – just a street away from the 2005 raid on the 21/7 bombers.
Neighbours photographed Tarik Hassane, 21, being taken away by police and MI5 officers who swooped on a flat in Dalgarno Gardens, Ladbrooke Grove, West London, yesterday morning.
Officers kicked in the property’s door, threw in three stun grenades and then Tasered Hassane before arresting him at 4.30am.
His arrest will shock the community which nine years ago witnessed 21/7 bombers Muktar Said Ibrahim and Ramzi Mohammed emerging from a flat in neighbouring Delgarno Way.
Their rucksack bombs failed to detonate on the London Tube and bus network and the terrorists were forced to surrender in their underpants after they were surrounded following a week on the run.
There is no suggestion of any links between the 21/7 plot and the suspect held yesterday because Hassane was arrested while staying with a relative after his recent return from medical school in Khartoum, Sudan.
It was revealed today that Hassane had tweeted: ‘Oi lads… I smell war’ shortly before he was arrested.
The medical student is believed to be among four men in their early 20s from London held by Scotland Yard and the security services.
Officials swooped amid heightened fears that fanatics who have returned from Syria are planning a high-profile gun attack or a beheading.
Hassane is nicknamed ‘The Surgeon’ because he is training to become a doctor and was arrested by armed police who rushed his aunt’s flat in North Kensington.
Father-of-three Michael Mwangaa, 32, described seeing a heavy police presence around Princess Alice House on Tuesday morning in the hours after MI5 agents swooped on the council estate.
He said: ‘I heard two or three loud bangs morning at around 5am, but I thought it could have been a gun – I didn’t want to go out and have a look.
‘Then when I was taking my two eldest kids to school we came out and saw all of the police. There was a van full of officers in uniforms, and a lot of undercover cops.
‘They were coming in and out of the estate. A few had bags with them, but they were keeping a low profile.
‘When I found out it was Tarik I was shocked. I couldn’t believe he would want to do something like this’.
Hassane had hoped to study at Kings College hospital in London but failed to get the grades, he admitted online.
Rather than accepting an offer to do biomedicine he decided to become a medical student in Khartoum Sudan checking with the General Medical Council that the qualifications would be accepted in the UK.
On Twitter he posted pictures of his medical text books and said: ‘This makes A Levels look like a joke.
In one post he denied rejecting Kings because it was kufr, a slur meaning non-Islamic.
He says: ‘Got an offer from Kings to do medicine, missed out by a couple grades.
‘Had the choice of doing biomed but that don’t fit in my future plans. Very close friend of mine already completed his first year in Sudan. Checked the uni with the ‘General Medical Council’ and they said a degree from their (sic) is recognised in the uk. So still get to study medicine + it’s recognised world wide + in a Muslim country.’
He also disapproves of women wearing make-up.
In another post he says: ‘Wearing make up outside of the home such as foundation/lip stick etc isn’t really permissible. And it’s better that sisters avoid these things.
‘Covering up has been enjoined upon women for a reason (I.e covering their beauty except for their husbands/in front of their mahrams) so wearing make up kind of defeats the purpose of hijab.
Senior sources said one of the four men was a suspected jihadist, who had recently returned to the UK from Syria….
John C. Barile says
A cancer metastasizes by detaching cells out to every part of the host. There sure are a lot o’ adventitious cells popping up in Dar al-Harb these days.
mariam rove says
someone should tell Ben Aflac this. M
umbra says
He is suffering from a brain aneurysm due to overloaded facts.
Carlos Danger says
the most frightening thing here (aside from his major fail writing in English) is the information that a degree from Khartoum would allow him to practice in the UK. Not to self….stay healthy.
Judi says
Just what I was thinking.
Beagle says
The UK NHS saves a lot of money hiring Muslim doctors who often later become mujahideen. Good thing there is no way a doctor could wage jihad merely by doing his or her job wrong.
Ah… Yeah, they never investigate that aspect of it anyway. So that means, officially, there has never been medical jihad.
Jen says
Ha. Medical jihad occurred to me as one route. I mean, why not? Many people trust their doctor’s opinion on their health without question. The person is already sick, so if they died it may not draw attention anyway.
CuriousGeorgette says
Beagle, ???
“Dr. Farid Fata, who was charged with intentionally misdiagnosing healthy people with cancer and pumping dying patients with chemo to make money, pleaded guilty.”
“Fata faced a long list of charges, including health care fraud, money laundering and naturalization fraud”
Published On: Sep 16 2014 03:45:21 PM EDT
Salah says
“Wearing make up outside of the home such as foundation/lip stick etc isn’t really permissible.”
It is permissible, Muhammad did it!!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/drawing-muhammad-dessiner-mahomet.html
nacazo says
it’s permissible for men, not for women. get islam straight: all rights for men, none for women.
Salah says
Come on, nacazo, how could you say such a thing. Remember, Islam elevates women!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/garbage-bagsac-ordures.html
John C. Barile says
That’s the Prophet’s example for men, Salah–women, though, should be covered or secluded. Am I right?
Salah says
Of course you are, see link above!
bernie says
Metrosexual men, who aren’t drag queens or even heterosexual cross-dressers, often wear make-up.
Islamisdeath says
He probably just wanted a sandwich.
David, Thailand says
I would wager that as their society was being overwhelmed, 7th century Obamas and Camerons in Medina were insisting that Mohamed has nothing to do with Islam.
Bezelel says
I can’t imagine what his version of the Hippocratic Oath sounds like.
Charlie Griffith says
Grudgingly, I say, “Kudos to the English police in on that job.” They must’ve had legal-challenge-racist-charge-proof solid intel and evidence.
Where’ve they been previously?
[……pssssttt!….just as an aside, can anyone here imagine what a Medical School in Khartoum is really like?]
dumbledoresarmy says
You said , “Kudos to the English police in on that job”.
Yup.
I *did* like this bit of the article – “Officers kicked in the property’s door, threw in three stun grenades and then Tasered Hassane before arresting him at 4.30am.”
4.30 am, BOOM: BAM! BAM! BAM! – ZZZZAP…then click-clack go the handcuffs and into the paddywagon with him, no nonsense, and no time whatever for him to try summoning the Mohammedan insta-mob.
Sounds like they were taking no chances.
Charli Main says
[……pssssttt!….just as an aside, can anyone here imagine what a Medical School in Khartoum is really like?]
Let me see ????
10 best ways to hack off heads
How to chop off arms and legs
Where to place nails when crucifying infidels
Best tools for strangling women and babies
Live practical burials of Christians and Jews
and best off all —-practical clitorectomy operations on 9 year old girls.
dumbledoresarmy says
When these arrests happen, the next-door neighbours (usually non-Muslims) are *always* so surprised. In this case, it’s one Michael Mwanga (whose name suggests Christian or secular background, not Islam):
‘When I found out it was Tarik I was shocked. I couldn’t believe he would want to do something like this’.
You better believe it, Mr Mwanga (indeed, since you’re from Africa, what is most shocking of all is that you *are* shocked that a Muslim would be caught plotting jihad! given that jihadis are running amok all over large chunks of Africa today) – and all the Jones, Smiths and Browns had better believe it, too. This is *exactly* what you must, alas, expect from the average Mohammedan Mobster.
When, O when, are we going to get a news report of this kind, in which a whole bunch of the non-Muslim neighbours – whether black, brown, white or yellow, and whether Christian, atheist, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist or Sikh – on being interviewed for the usual “neighbours think” soundbite shrug their shoulders, spread out their hands, raise their eyebrows, shake their heads and observe that actually they’re not surprised or shocked in the least, because, well, you know, Mr X who was just arrested was a *Muslim*, after all, and that some of them had gotten a real bad vibe off him. That they didn’t feel happy about having a Muslim next door and that they are going to be heading down to the local pub to celebrate the failure of his little plot and his sudden removal from the neighbourhood….
That’ll be the day we know the tide really *is* turning.
inMAGICn says
They may have had people with the reactions you described. But they may have only showed the one with Mr. Mwaanga.
If it had been CNN or MSNBC in the US, I can just about guarantee that negativeimages of the po’ muzzies would have been edited away.
Jayell says
Those in touch with events in the UK will not be surprised by this revelation (that this Jihadi character was a medical student). The infamous Glasgow Airport incident (when a bomb-laden car was driven through a door at arrivals lounge at Glasgow Airport some years ago) was perpetrated by a fully-qualified NHS hospital doctor in Glasgow. I believe that all four of the perpetrators of the horrendous 7/7 incident in London were supposed to be ‘respectable’, and one was even a qualified teaching assistant kin a school (everyone was surprised to learn of this particular character’s involvement, even his wife apparently didn’t suspect what he was up to when questioned by police – if you can actually believe THAT!!). Another charming character, whose plot to blow up a tube train under the Thames was foiled by the police, was also some kind of ‘respectable citizen’. A young muslim woman who was imprisoned for the attempted murder of an east London MP apparently had no previous ‘form’. It seems that you can’t afford to trust any of these people, which should not be a surprise when their ‘religion’ teaches them to lie and be generally deceitful towards non-muslims. I’m afraid that, for our own safety and security, we have to ignore all these idiots in high places who keep telling us about the ‘peaceful and law-abiding majority of muslims’, which seems as though it might just be a figment of their fanciful imaginations or perhaps a cowardly appeasement-ploy in order to duck a difficult issue. A good muslim is supposed to emulate the behaviour of the Prophet, and that was NOT ‘peaceful’. Likewise, a good muslim is supposed to obey only the Law of Allah (Sharia), and all man-made (democratic) laws are strictly non-halal, or whatever the term is supposed to be. So we shouldn’t be surprised by anything we learn about all these lovely new fellow-citizens in the UK whose company we are supposed to celebrate.
UneasyOne says
You have nailed the key issue.
muslims follow the prophet. To condemn the prophet is blasphemy.
The prophet was a rapist, a slaver, a thief, a liar, a torturer, a a child molester who demanded his pick and 20% of all captives (mostly women and children, because he chopped off the heads of all males with pubic hair) and the rest of the loot. If there is a better definition of pure evil, what is it? Oh, and he permitted women and children to be raped in front of their male relatives/husbands/fathers before the captive men were murdered. And he claimed god’s blessing on it all.
There is no such thing as a “good muslim.” Put most charitably, at best, the “good” ones are criminally ignorant. And fewer than everybody seems to think are actually that ignorant.
Gamaliel says
They will be operating on us soon.
Ancient says
Studied medicine in Sudan?
I wonder if Kerry knows the difference between “sedan” and “Sudan”?