Posted on 07/21/2007 4:33:17 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
MELBOURNE: Under fire for handling the case of Mohammed Haneef charged with supporting a terror group and crumbling evidence against him, the Australian government is planning to deport the Indian doctor to contain adverse political fallout at home.
Australian newspapers, quoting unnamed government sources, said a number of senior political figures wanted the case against Haneef "shut down" before more damage is done. They said such a move would contain any political fallout from a case whose legitimacy has come under question, The Australian said.
"Our best option is to cancel the criminal justice certificate, which was issued to keep Haneef in Australia after we cancelled his visa, and that is my understanding of what our intentions are," a source told The Age .
"Cancel the certificate and get this guy out of Australia. The story ends there and he can become someone else's problem," the source added.
Reports about the possibility of deporting 27-year-old Haneef came against the backdrop of Australian Federal Polices admission that the SIM card given by him to cousin Sabeel Ahmed, another Indian doctor arrested in the UK in connection with the failed UK terror plots, was not found inside the blazing jeep rammed into the Glasgow airport.
The Australian government's handling of the Haneef issue came in for flak from lawyers and civil rights groups, who were joined by the premier of Queensland state, Peter Beattie, who described the case against the Gold Coast doctor as "sloppy".
Haneef came a step closer to freedom with glaring mistakes showing up in a departmental briefing that led immigration minister Kevin Andrews to order his detention. "Even one error of fact could be enough to undermine the government's case," constitutional lawyer George Williams was quoted as saying by The Australian on Saturday.
Those mistakes are expected to be raised in the federal court by Haneef's lawyers on August 8 when they challenge the government's decision on Monday to revoke the Bangalore-educated doctor's visa.
They are the same mistakes that appear in an affidavit that was used in the Brisbane magistrate's court against Haneef by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) when he was granted bail.
Saturday's edition of TOI had reported that the loopholes in the case against Haneef could aid his release.
Wow, yet another case of trying to treat terrorism as being a criminal element. Betcha he’s picking out his house in Pakistan on the border of Afghanistan right now.
DUMBASSES! Screw politics, time to think of survival!
Evidently, political survival is the focus.
He’s off to see the wizard.
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070722/1984789.asp
AFP silent on Haneef attack investigation reports
July 22, 2007 - 8:04AM
Source: ABC
The Australian Federal Police has refused to confirm or deny reports it is investigating whether a doctor facing terrorism-related charges was plotting to attack a landmark building on the Gold Coast.
The AFP says it would be inappropriate to comment on the allegations reported in the media because the matter is before the courts.
The report suggests the AFP found documents about a Gold Coast building and its foundations when they raided Mohamed Haneef’s unit three weeks ago.
The Gold Coast-based doctor has been charged under new counter-terrorism laws in connection with failed car bombings in the UK and has spent almost three weeks in custody.
Haneef’s lawyer Peter Russo says the allegations are new to him and he would not know where one would get photographs of a building’s foundations.
Haneef’s cousin Imran Siddiqui flew into Brisbane from India overnight and will join a forum on the Haneef case being held in Brisbane today.
Unit?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22112165-661,00.html
POLICE are investigating whether Mohamed Haneef was part of a conspiracy to launch a terror attack in Australia.
Australian Federal Police are examining images of a Gold Coast building and its foundations found in documents and photographs seized in a raid on Dr Haneef’s Southport unit three weeks ago.
They are also are trawling through email conversations with his cousins, who are charged with terror offences in Britain, on two computers seized after Dr Haneef’s arrest on July 2.
A senior Government source confirmed yesterday that emails between Dr Haneef and his cousins, brothers Kafeel and Dr Sabeel Ahmed, were being examined as possible evidence that the Indian doctor was involved in a terror plot.
“The laptops have heaps and heaps of conversations, emailed conversations between Haneef and his cousins, as well as some from chat rooms. It’s all in Urdu,” the source said.
“They’re not easily readable.”
The source said the AFP had downloaded 31,000 pages of documents from the two hard drives.
“There is a range of potential evidence and a range of possible leads,” the source said.
Police sources said investigators were looking at documents referring to the destruction of structures discovered in the raid and information that Dr Haneef was allegedly one of a group of doctors who had been learning to fly in Queensland...
Unit = Apartment.
Thanks.
Leftist liberals always want to give these creeps a pass and treat the state as the enemy. This muslime gave his sim card to his terrorist cousin, hoping that his status as a medical doctor would keep it off the radar. He also took detailed photos of a Gold Coast building, including the foundations, which he claims are tourist shots. Listen up liberals - depraved followers of Islam are the enemy and they will kill you, not the Australian or US governments, get it?

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