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Transcript of Australian Police Questioning Mohammed Haneef: Secondary Source: The Hindu (PDF format) Original Source: The Australian (pulled) NOTE: These PDF files are very SLOW in loading, since they are large files. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12

Bangalore, July 30 (PTI): Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, who returned here after Australian authorities dropped terror charges against him, today said he wanted Australia to apologise to his "peace-loving country". "I don't expect an apology from the Australian government or the authorities but I would appreciate if they apologise to my peace-loving country and citizens," he told a press conference here. Asked whether he would sue the Australian Government for the trauma he had suffered, Haneef said "I have not sought any legal advice at this time. That will be later on." "I would like to return. I want the...

FACED with hostile media questions about the laws governing the detention of Mohammed Haneef last week, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock cut to the chase. "I tell you," Ruddock shot back, "you would be asking me different kinds of questions if these inquiries were truncated unnecessarily and some terrible event happened in Australia. You'd be after me unmercifully." Dr Mohamed Haneef Ruddock is absolutely right. His response goes to the weakest of the many weak points in the soft Left polemic against the Government's anti-terror laws and how they were applied in the Haneef case. And it's this: these laws are not...

Gold Coast-based doctor Mohammed Haneef has now been charged with a terrorism offence. The 27-year-old has been in Australian Federal Police (AFP) custody since his arrest almost a fortnight ago over alleged links to the recent UK terrorism plots. He has been charged with recklessly supplying a mobile phone sim card to a terrorist. Dr Haneef will face the Brisbane Magistrates Court later this morning. Yesterday afternoon AFP officers dropped a court application for more time to investigate whether Dr Haneef is linked to the failed terrorism plots in the UK, and a 12-hour questioning period began. Dr Haneef's...