LONDON, England (CNN) -- One of the seven people arrested by British authorities investigating attempted terror attacks in Glasgow and London is Dr. Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian-educated physician who moved to England with his family two years ago, according to British media reports and a source in Jordan.
Asha, 26, was picked up late Saturday on the M6 motorway in the northern English county of Cheshire in a dramatic raid, according to the British Press Association, citing police sources. Police have declined to formally identify any of the suspects.
The doctor is believed to work at the North Staffordshire Hospital, near the Midlands town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, where police searched a house on Sunday. The hospital refused comment.
Police have confirmed a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were arrested in the M6 raid. PA reported that the woman is believed to be Asha's wife, who was wearing traditional Muslim dress at the time of her arrest.
He is the second doctor arrested in the raid. Another doctor, believed to have helped ram an explosives-laden vehicle into Glasgow's airport on Saturday, is in critical condition with severe burns at a hospital near Glasgow, sources told CNN's Nic Robertson.
Asha, a Palestinian, did his residency in Jordan in 2004-2005 just before moving to England with his wife and son, a source in Jordan told Robertson.
In Jordan, Asha's brother Ahmed told The Associated Press he had heard the media reports and said his sibling "is not a Muslim extremist, and he's not a fanatic."
"I can't believe this," he said. "It's nonsense because he has no terror connections."
Asha studied at the Jubilee School in Amman, a very exclusive program for gifted children, the source said
Asha is registered with the London-based general medical council that registers all doctors practicing in Britain.
According to the council's records, Asha was granted limited access to practice medicine in country based on a test that measured his written language skills and clinical competence.
Asha's qualifications were from Jordan and he was first registered with the council on October 20, 2005 until April 2007. He was registered again in May, which was set to expire in May 2008
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