Something doesn’t compute about doctors and car bombs. That’s pretty lame for a doctor’s bag. Something a lot worse seems more likely for a serious effort.
No?
I'd say their business is booming.
As a retired nurse with a lifetime career in infant and maternal health fields I cannot get my head around the men who trained as pediatricians and then became monsters:
http://www.totalsecurity.us/articles/article14.htm
Ayman Zawahiri - al-Qaeda’s #2 leader, an Egyptian pediatrician. His father was a professor of pharmacology and his grandfather was Grand Imam at the most distinguished university of Sunni Islam. Zawahiri has studied pharmacology and psychology. He is well traveled, including Russia, and has had a book published and is reportedly writing another.
from 2004:
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000199.html
RANTISSI’S SUCCESSOR
The Hamas leader in Gaza Dr Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, one of the world’s bloodiest terrorists, was killed yesterday. Hamas have already chosen a successor. Hamas’s Damascus-based supreme leader Khaled Mashaal has ordered his name kept secret, but Israeli army intelligence believes Rantissi’s heir in the Gaza Strip is Ismail Haniyah, who previously served as Sheikh Yassin’s bureau chief (with Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar serving as Haniyah’s deputy). In the West Bank, it is believed the Hamas head is Hassan Yusuf, who is now in Israeli administrative detention.
(For those wanting to know more about this supposedly working class-based organization - as some Middle East “experts” would have us believe Hamas to be - Khaled Mashaal is a physics teacher; Mahmoud Zahar is a doctor; and the other senior Hamas leader still alive, Moussa Abu Marzook, holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, and lived in the United States for 15 years. In 1995, he was detained by U.S. authorities on suspicion of activities in support of terrorism, but the Clinton administration expelled him rather than put him on trial. He is now in Syria.)