Chemist or Biochemist?

The international press has had a very hard time classifying the latest terror suspect in the London bombings. Half the stories call Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar a biochemist, and the other half call him a chemist. I was working up a really nice rant about this when I stumbled on the real story. I still think there is a substantive rant here, but some of the wind is knocked out of my sails by the fact that, yeah, he got a degree in chemistry from a biochem dept. and has been working as a biochemist.

My rant is that I think the media is looking for a mad scientist archetype to pin this on. OOOOOO! He studied chemistry! So did I! I have no clue how to make bombs! Most biochemists I know don't even know how a beaker from an erlenmeyer flask (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating). The point is, the worst explosions most biochemists make are when their beer batch over ferments and blows open the keg. Smelly, but hardly lethal. Why do they keep mentioning the fact that he's a (bio)chemist? They wouldn't mention it if he were a physicist. Physicists are twice as scary!!!