[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

I doubt this guy went to med school in the united states. He may gotten into a residency program as required of all foreign medical graduates, but thats about it.

[happygrl]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016408.php
Link says he was trained at Columbia Medical School.

[happygrl]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016408.php
Link says he was trained at Columbia Medical School.

[justiceseeker93]

I doubt this guy went to med school in the United States.

I agree with you. American med schools were not taking foreigners at the time when he likely went to med school. There weren't enough spaces to accomodate all American applicants, and many had to go abroad for their medical educations. He might have done his residency at Columbia Presbyterian, as you say.

[justiceseeker93]

Addendum: The AP story says the doctor is "New York born." I would want proof of that. There were very few of Arabic extraction in New York at the time he was supposed to have born there (c. 1955) and most of those were Christians, not Muslims.

[piasa]

His ex-wife Ingrid Doyle, 47, of Manhattan, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that Sabir was born into a large Catholic family in New York and converted to Islam while in high school. "While we were married he was a lovely father and husband and nothing if not a hardworking man," Doyle said. ----Two busted in Al Qaeda plot in U.S.," NY Daily News ^ | May 30 2005 | ROBERT F. MOORE and BILL HUTCHINSON