Britain To Probe Government Medical Recruits

LONDON — Britain's prime minister says the government is going to take a close look at the recruiting for his country's National Health Service. It employed all eight of the suspects in custody in last week's foiled terror plots. They include two doctors from India, and one doctor apiece from Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Prime Minister Brown also says the government will expand its checks on immigrants who are in the country to take skilled jobs.

Meanwhile, a government security official says several of the suspects had been on a Britain intelligence watch list. But a senior American counterterrorism official says none of the suspects was on any American lists of potential terror suspects.