Australia Police End Bid to Hold Suspect (Indian doctor in bomb plot)

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Source: Associated Press

Australia Police End Bid to Hold Suspect
Australian Police Drop Request to Extend Detention
of British Terror Suspect

By MERAIAH FOLEY Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY, Australia Jul 13, 2007 (AP)

Australian police on Friday resumed their interrogation of an
Indian doctor suspected in failed the British terrorism attacks
after dropping a request to extend his 11-day detention without
charge.

A massive investigation has established links between Muhammad
Haneef and at least two of the British suspects, but has not
uncovered enough evidence to charge him, according to official
documents cited by The Australian newspaper Friday.

Under Australia's counterterrorism laws, police can hold a suspect
without charge only with judicial approval. Police dropped their
application to extend Haneef's detention on Friday, leaving 12
hours to question him before he must be either charged or released
unless police make a new application for detention.

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Haneef's lawyer, Stephen Keim, said he expected the questioning
to be complete in around 24 hours.

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Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3373342

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1. Aust Police Charge Indian Doctor

Source: Associated Press

Aust Police Charge Indian Doctor

Saturday July 14, 2007 12:46 AM

By DENNIS PASSA

Associated Press Writer

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Australian federal police charged an
Indian doctor with providing support to a terrorist organization
Saturday, allegedly linking him to last month's failed British
bombings.

Muhammad Haneef, 27, is the second person to be charged over
the botched attacks on London and Glasgow on June 29 and 30.
The other is Bilal Abdullah, who is being held in London on
charges of conspiring to set off explosions.

Haneef “has been charged with providing support to a terrorist
organization,” police said in a statement. The maximum penalty
is 15 years in prison.

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Official documents cited by The Australian newspaper on Friday
said Haneef gave the SIM card to Sabeel Ahmed before he moved
to Australia from Britain last year so that his cousin could take
advantage of free minutes left on his mobile phone plan.

Local media reported Saturday that the SIM card transfer was the
basis for Haneef's charge.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6778686,00.html