July 17: Mohammed Haneef tried to telephone a police officer in Britain after second cousin Sabeel Ahmed was arrested but the calls went unanswered, the Indian doctor has told Australian investigators.
Posted on 06/30/2007 8:15:09 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Burning Car In Airport Terminal Updated: 15:59, Saturday June 30, 2007
A car has driven into the terminal building at Glasgow airport and caught fire. More follows...
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Haneef’s lawyer wants terror laws overhauled
The Age ^ | July 15, 2007 - 3:51PM | AAP
However, Prime Minister John Howard defended the laws today and even spoke of strengthening them.
“I believe that the present laws are all necessary. I have an open mind as to whether they might need to be strengthened in the future.
“I won’t talk about Haneef’s case, but the present laws were all necessary. All of them. To the very last letter.”
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070716/1979611.asp
Haneef’s visa cancelled
July 16, 2007 - 2:05PM
Source: ABC
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has announced that Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef has had his visa cancelled and will be taken into immigration detention.
Haneef was granted bail in the Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning after being charged on Saturday with recklessly providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
Mr Andrews says he has used his powers under the Migration Act to cancel Haneef’s visa because he has failed the character test.
“In particular, a person fails the character test if - and I quote - ‘the person has or has had an association with someone else or with a group or organisation whom the Minister reasonably suspects has been involved has been or is involved in criminal conduct’,” he said.
Mr Andrews says Haneef will remain in immigration detention while the legal proceedings against him continue...
I have sympathy for the Brits, but they have not always had a good track record of caging their jihadis. When they do go to jail, they often end up running the asylum.
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070717/1980469.asp
Haneef will be deported regardless of trial: Andrews
July 17, 2007 - 11:47AM
Source: ABC
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews says Gold Coast-based doctor Mohammed Haneef will be deported from Australia, regardless of the outcome of criminal proceedings against him.
Haneef was granted bail yesterday after being charged with providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
But the Federal Government has revoked the Indian doctor’s visa and plans to detain him at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre.
Mr Andrews says Haneef will remain in detention until his trial and after that it is very unlikely he would be allowed to remain in Australia...
I hear Diego Garcia is nice this time of the year.
TERROR suspect Mohamed Haneef describes jihad as a life struggle rather than a violent revolution and reveals he feared being “framed”.
In his first taped interview with Australian Federal Police officers, a 142-page transcript of which was leaked to The Australian yesterday, Dr Haneef, 27, who is at the centre of a growing international furore, insists he is a Muslim with moderate views.
The barrister representing Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef today admitted leaking restricted police documents to the media. Stephen Keim SC this afternoon released a statement confirming he had released the transcript of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) interview following Haneef’s arrest at Brisbane Airport on July 2.
During the interview Dr Haneef told AFP agent Adam Simms that he had never had firearms, explosives or terrorist training, and that he knew nothing about the failed bombings, linked to his second cousins, in London and Glasgow. He also denied he had ever been asked “to take part in jihad or anything that could be considered similar to jihad”.
“Every drop of blood is human. And I feel for every human being,” he said.
More...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22093642-601,00.html
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070718/1981588.asp
Haneef document leak ‘may be in contempt of court’
July 18, 2007 - 12:47PM
Source: ABC
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty says authorities will consider contempt of court proceedings against anyone who has leaked confidential police documents relating to Mohamed Haneef.
http://www.bigpond.com/news/national/content/20070718/1981833.asp
(Here’s the Kicker):
Labor to consider any toughening of terrorism laws
July 18, 2007 - 4:00PM
Source: ABC
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says Labor will consider supporting any changes the Government proposes to anti-terrorism laws.
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says he is examining changing the law to make it harder for terrorism suspects to be granted bail.
Law Council of Australia spokesman Tim Bugg says it time for a review of whether the laws interfere with rights that have been built up over centuries.
Mr Rudd says the Labor Party is committed to strong counter-terrorism laws.
“Australia needs hardline, uncompromising anti-terrorism laws because we’re dealing with a real challenge to our continued national security,” he said.
“Therefore I’ve said before if Mr Howard comes forward with any practical proposals to strengthen our counter-terrorism laws then we’ll consider those proposals on their merits.”
July 17: Mohammed Haneef tried to telephone a police officer in Britain after second cousin Sabeel Ahmed was arrested but the calls went unanswered, the Indian doctor has told Australian investigators.
poor babies....
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070721/1984507.asp
Haneef predicament ‘every Muslim’s fear’
July 21, 2007 - 9:25AM
Source: ABC
A Muslim civil rights advocate says the handling of the case of the Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef has confirmed the Muslim community’s worst fears.
Dr Waleed Kadous from the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network says those fears date back to the introduction of the counter-terrorism legislation last year.
Dr Kadous says the Haneef case has left many thinking “there but for the grace of God go I”.
“[It was] every Muslim’s fear that this could happen to him,” he said.
“They can imagine being in the same situation as Haneef was in, that they left a SIM card with a relative before leaving country and then something happens a year later.
“They can imagine borrowing money from someone and paying the loan back, these are not unusual things.”
(reminds me of the soundbite from a member of the Soutport Hospital staff who commented; ‘All I care about is what a good doctor he was...what he does in his spare time is his own business’
So, it’s ok for muslim doctors to blow up nightclubs and airports...as long as they do it in their own time?)
There I was thinking their worst fear would be Allah announcing he was out of goats and virgins...
AFP silent on Haneef attack investigation reports July 22, 2007 - 8:04AM Source: ABC
Mohamed Haneef is facing charges of recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation. (File photo)
Photo: ABC TV
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.
(The images of Haneef published with almost every article are taken IIRC from a student application form. Enhanced and coloured, the original was B & W. Here is the current image provided by a Court Artist:)
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22112165-661,00.html
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.
http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20070722/1984954.asp
Haneef plot reports untrue: Keelty
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