BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A British Anglican cleric working in Baghdad said a man he met in Jordan issued a disturbing threat that is now feared to be a dire portent in the aftermath of failed British bombing attacks.
"Those who cure you will kill you," the man told Canon Andrew White, who spoke to CNN on Wednesday.
White said he spoke with the man in April in Amman, Jordan, at a meeting of Iraqi Sunni sheikhs attempting to foster peace in Iraq.
White -- who would not name the man at the behest of U.S., British and Iraqi authorities -- said the individual issued a litany of hostile statements about the United States and Britain and their role in Iraq.
Eight people are in custody as part of the wide-ranging investigation into failed car bombings in London and Glasgow. All have links to the medical profession.
Seven are doctors or medical students and the eighth is a laboratory technician. Two other doctors are being questioned about the case but are not in custody.
U.S. officials told CNN that some of the suspects were recruited by al Qaeda while they were living in the Middle East. One of the suspects is an Iraqi doctor and another is a neurosurgeon from Jordan.
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