Two Doctors in British Plot Inquired About U.S. Work

Via NYtimes.com -

LONDON, July 6 — Two of the medical doctors arrested in connection with the bungled London and Glasgow car bomb attacks had made preliminary inquiries about practicing medicine in the United States, an American law enforcement official said Friday.

The official confirmed a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer that the doctors had contacted the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia that screens foreign citizens wishing to train or work as doctors in the United States.

Nancy O’Dowd, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said one of them “was applying” for approval to practice in the United States. “But we don’t believe he took the test,” she told The Associated Press.

The law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation in Britain, said investigators had found no evidence that any of the eight people arrested in the case had ever been in the United States.