The Toronto Star is completely unable to identify a common thread among the broad strata of the UK terror suspects: U.K. doctor plot thickens.

Subtitled: “All 8 detainess [sic] have ties to health service, but genesis of terror scheme still eludes investigators.”

LONDON–Were they sent to Britain with malicious intent, or did the will to wreak havoc come later? That is now the central question for Britain’s counter-terror command as it works to unravel the botched weekend car bomb attempts in London and Scotland.

With six foreign doctors, one medical student and a former lab technician in custody after a four-day manhunt, investigators are quietly satisfied the “major suspects” in the case are in hand.

The probe now is shifting focus, as Scotland Yard works to pinpoint the genesis of the plot that fell apart bloodlessly in a surreal series of events that began early Friday.

All eight detainees have ties to Britain’s National Health Service, overlapping in their duties at two hospitals in England and Scotland. Most also have roots elsewhere, but investigators have thus far found scant few common threads in their respective backgrounds in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, India and Saudi Arabia.

What could possibly tie this incredibly diverse group of non-Buddhists together?

It’s a real head-scratcher.

Previously at LGF:
Toronto Star: A Broad Strata