6 doctor terrorists

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, i heard on the news that 6 of the terrorists arrested yesterday were docotors.
Dont doctors have to take some sort of oath to pledge to try to save life, no matter what?

[jake-the-peg]

Like Harold Shipman you mean?

[tiny e.a]

Isn't that the Jedis?!

[Loosehead]

yes but slaying the infidel takes precidence over Hippocrates!

[jake-the-peg]

...Or there was Dr. Joseph Mengele of course

or how about Dr. Baruch Goldstein an Israeli Jew who in 1994 shot and killed 29 arabs worshiping in a in a mosque.

I don't think Doctors are immune from being murderers

[jno]

I wonder how they decide which oaths take precedence, Loosehead - surely they could not in conscience have taken the second oath (whichever one it was)?

One other possibility of course is that they are not guilty of anything, being merely Brazilian plumbers; I'll wait and see. A few people have been arrested in recent years in relation to terrorism and then released without charge.

[Neilzulu1]

They used the Dr guise as a cover for being terrorists. Who would have thought that doctors would do this. Almost a perfect cover. Hang them now.

[jno]

no point waiting for a trial then, Neilzulu? Tut, people are in such a hurry these days.

[Pippa68]

My Asian doctor is gonna get some stick, isn't he?

jake ~ was Mengele a bona fide Dr? I am sure I read that he wasn't. I shall have a google :o)

[Gromit]

No wonder I can never get an appointment.

[jno]

Mengele studied medicine and got an academic doctorate at Frankfurt University (which they revoked in 1964, a little late); he also had a PhD in anthropology. He was a researcher than a practising doctor - it was basically research he was doing at Auschwitz - so I don't know if this makes him a 'real doctor' or not.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, next you will be saying doctor who is a bad guy.
The fact that is scary is that doctors should be there to protect and serve people, not try to kill them. They are supposed to be educated. Thats why they get paid so much money, sign passports, etc...

[Gromit]

One of the doctors is an Iraqi. Aren't we currently at war in Iraq and it is full of 'the enemy'? Isn't is that a bit lax to say the least? Don't remember an influx of German doctors between 1940-45.

[sp1814]

One thing...before we all jump to conclusions - some of the doctors have been arrested because of mobile phone records from two of the suspects were traced to them.

At the moment, that's all we know.

[jno]

in theory, Gromit, it is full of our 'friends' whom we have liberated from the tyranny of Saddam. I think this doctor may have been in Britain since before the war, though I'm not sure; so he might be a refugee.

[sp1814]

Oh, following on from the earlier thread - let's not forget Dr Crippen.

...and Dr Jeckyll.

[Gromit]

jno

He qualified in 2004 in Iraq and I believed we liberated mesopotamia in 2003.

[jake-the-peg]

I'd quite forgotten Crippen jno.

There do seem to be an awful lot of them - I feel a conspiracy theory coming on!

[jno]

you're right, Gromit - apologies. And credit sp1814 for remembering Crippen. But before you create a conspiracy, remember Dr Who is on our side.

[sp1814]

Dr Who may be on our side now but ask yourself this - if there were a war between humans and Time Lords...who's side would he be on then</>.

Yeah...I think we all know.

[Gromit]

On the other hand, it is good they have been making themselves useful to society before enacting their murderous plot.