'Jordanian doc involved in UK bombing plots'

Hmmmm, wasn't Southern Baptists after all.

AMMAN: One of the suspects arrested in Britain by police investigating three failed car bombings is a Jordanian surgeon called Mohammed Jamil Abdelkader Asha, officials in Jordan said on Monday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said his wife had also been arrested.

Asha is of Palestinian origin and carries a Jordanian passport, they said. He obtained his medical degree in Jordan.

Additional: Phone calls failed to set off UK bombs

THE attempted London car bombings were meant to be detonated by calls to mobile phones in the two vehicles, but failed for technical reasons, the Evening Standard reported today.

The calls made on the phones allowed police to trace those behind the failed attacks last Friday, the London daily evening newspaper said, without giving sources.

The phones were meant to set off blasts when they were called, but the devices failed to detonate the mixture of gas canisters and nails in the two Mercedes cars parked in London's entertainment district.