Just two weeks ago,university and college lecturers have voted in favour of boycotting Israeli universities. It urges all members to "consider the moral implications of existing and proposed links with Israeli academic institutions".
I am sure that now they will be much more happy with the produce of the Palestinian's Universities.

S. Gemara, Toronto, Canad

How many British qualified junior doctors are unemployed this year due to there being no places for them?

Simon Holly, London,

Why are these junior foreign doctors employed at all, when so many of our own UK trained junior doctors cannot get employment or training?

Maurice Honeywell, Northamptonshire,

in response to previous comments.

Foreign doctors have for years and still are keeping the NHS afloat. Theres far too few national doctors to staff all the posts needed.

We DO NEED THEM.

And of course foreign doctors mainly occupy those posts that British doctors refuse (bad areas, bad jobs, those which do not look good in a doctors CV, and which are considered hard work or boring for example). This does not happen to all, but a fair share of the jobs does go this way.

I do doubt the new selection process has anything to do with doctors behaving this way. And I do not think the fact that they were doctors makes the problem any different. Did people believe only non professionals or no hopers became terrorists? The issues behind all this are far more complicated than a simplistic view like that.

A shock? Yes, but not a surprise...

tony, devon, devon

It just shows that religious indoctrination trumps intelligence and education. Religion is the most dangerous force out there,it is irrational and stupid,having been invented by our ancient ancestors,who knew even less about the real world than we do today. It has to go.

CDolin Nicholas, Vernon BC, Canada

This Jordanian doctor detained has not been charged with this act yet, let alone convicted, and his name is already being dragged in the mud. Whatever happened to innocent till proven guilty?

AQ, Chicago,

Thinking about Dr. Harold Shipman, is it safe to hire foreign doctors?

Peter, Oxford,

almost anyone can come to this country,after a while
become british it seems to me. to be british really means
not very much at all any more.

Michael Bell, basingstoke , england

I will not judge those concerned before it is proven that they did this terrible act, however, to those who think those doctors may have done this crime because of MTAS/MMC injustice that will end the careers of thousands and has reduced their moral to zero, doctors are an honourable lot; they won't even strike for fear of endangering their patients despite the immense suffering they are enduring now. Doctor have high moral values and are a resiliant, would not commit such a grave crime, no connection IMO

I hope this atrocity will not affect the employability of decent, hard working and dedicated British Muslim doctors in this country especially that the MTAS application system recorded the religious background of all applicants.

I am a British muslim who loves and values this country and wish Britain peaceful and prosperous always. I sometimes wonder why don't we send those who are religiously fanatical to be with their own, abroad!

Wamah, London, UK

Hippocrates comes after Islam as will country and King/Queen. Being intelligent does not prevent you from being gullible.
There are plenty of non-islamic doctors looking for jobs.

David Smith, Stourbridge, UK

Desperation and fundamentalism is a school of trickery where also study brilliant Forbes listed people. For all these human beings introspection is forbidden and, at large, both are guilty of the misery of our world. WHO CHEKS THE APTITUDE OF A POLITICIAN to become worth of this job?

Iñaki Oyarzabal, Madrid, Spain

why does everyone jump to conclusions so quickly? This guy is only a suspect at this point. Obviously there is a dearth of qualified UK doctors, which is why doctors from abroad are recruited. By all accounts so far, this Jordanian doctor was a bright and gifted individual. I am more skeptical about the tactics used in these investigations and wide net cast by authorities that leaves many innocents' lives ruined. Let's wait and see who the real culprits are and what their motives were.

Eddie S, London, England

You are lucky they are not proffessional.Al qaeda never miss the target.These people done that because they have problems of descrimination or maybe the politics let them down with their dodgy laws.

paratrooper, paris, france

If this was WW2 and we discovered the enemy was within, of course the solution would be have been to deport or incarcerate all who fit the bill. The time has long since arrived to dismiss PC and think about the future security of Britain.

The enemy has entered concealed within the trojan horse of political correctness.

Peter, Auckland, NZ

If it already has not been discredited, this terrorist case should discredit, once and for all, the "liberal-left" notion that poverty and ignorance is the root cause of terrorism. Even though the 9/11 terrorists were all from upper middle-class backgrounds (not poor) it is suprising how many people who should know better still believe this outdated notion that terrorism is caused by poverty and ignorance.

Kurt, Portland, USA

With the current reports of serious limitation of training place provision in the NHS likely to result in major unemployment for UK doctors, one must ask in these circumstances why on earth further foreign doctors are being allowed into the NHS?

Certainly the PLAB tests should have been stopped by now!

David L. Cox, Loggerheads, UK

The question is does the country really NEED the influx of doctors from abroad?? If not wouldn't it be better to fill these posts with people of similar qualifications already living in Britain, rather than using the limited resources that the country has trying to 'screen' those just wanting to work here for their own 'personal' reasons? It really is either a case of PC taken far too far or simply no common sense prevailing at decision making level - and both come under the heading of poor management!

T. Bishop, London, UK

I am waiting for some bright spark to make the rather obvious link between the recent MTAC/MMC scandal, resulting in thousands of doctors remaining without future training prospects, and the fact that at least two of the suspects were doctors. I would bet anything that these doctors were among those left out in the cold after the recent junior doctors recruitment mess created by Patricia Hewitt... How hard is it to see that "no professional future" + "family to support" + "cultural/religious disenfranchisement" could = "frustration", "resentment" and "act of rage/desperation"?

Mrs. M., London,

We have been involved in Whizz Kids for years and now we have to be veted to continue to be involved. How can some one like this work in England without being veted. we have more laws against our own people yet people like this can come and go as they please . It has to change

Johnny Norfolk, Mileham Norfolk, GB