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Ball Hockey League: Mohammad Alizadeh

Calgary Herald Dept: That a brilliant Canadian pathologist might risk it all by allegedly turning to terrorism is so beyond the stereotype that everyone is seeking answers. "Was Khurram Sher so traumatized by his terrible Canadian Idol performance that he took up terrorism?" one blogger jokingly asked, according to Calgary Herald. Yet terrorists need not be disenfranchised loners. The three most common professions of radicals, according to one study, are medicine, engineering and computer science. A third suspect in the alleged plot, Misbahuddin Ahmed, is described as a diligent medical technologist who played in the same ball hockey league as Sher and was ranked 16th of 142 players and h e's a moonwalking, Montreal-born dad who plays ball hockey, sings Avril Lavigne songs and launched a promising medical career after graduating from one of Canada's -- if not the world's -- top medical schools. He even appeared on Canadian Idol while affecting an accent, donning traditional garb and pretending to a be a recent immigrant from Pakistan. The thought of fun-loving Dr. Khurram Sher answering the siren call of jihad is so shocking to those who know him that they simply cannot believe the allegations are true. One of his accused co-conspirators, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, better fits the accepted mould -- an Iranian immigrant who had difficulty with English and a history of job rejections who turned to his mosque for solace. As reported in the news.
@t top medical schools, traditional garb