Terrorism, Socialized Medicine and Immigration

You may think this is a stretch. As has become well known, the terrorists in the U.K. were recruited from the medical community, apparently by al Qaeda. But why were they there? CBS News reports on the recruiting of these terrorists:

Sources tell CBS News that al-Muhajir recruited the men between 2004 and 2005, while they were living in the Middle East, upon orders from then-al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Al-Muhajir was told to recruit young men who could easily move into Western countries, assimilate and lay low until the time came to attack. Britain has a fast-track visa program for medical students which makes it easier for them to enter the country.

This brings us to Socialized Medicine and Immigration. Remember about a week ago, FDT was talking about those who want the U.S. to emulate Canada or England in their health care system--aka socialized medicine.

Here is my leap in logic: The U.K. has socialized medicine that produces long waits due to a lack of service providers. So much so that they are fast tracking immigrants from the middle east to be their doctors. This makes it easy for al Qaeda to recruit terrorists that can easily immigrate into the target country. This is one reason why first, our health care system AND our immigration policy are national security issues.

UPDATE: The New York Sun's Daniel Johnson has an article with more research that comes to the same conclusion. The interesting aspect is that about 40% of their doctors are foreign trained, because the National Health Service can get them for less money.