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.
