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...still unknown how, if at all, Haneef is connected to the London attackers. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Tuesday that Australian police moved to arrest the doctor after learning that one of the suspects in the U.K. had made a telephone call to Haneef in Australia. While there has been no suggestion that Haneef participated in the attempted attacks, he is the eighth person to be detained in relation to the plot, as authorities have focused their investigation on several foreign-born doctors believed to have played a role. One of the suspects detained in the attack on Glasgow...
...Authorities in the Australian state of Queensland, say there had been no clues that either Haneef or the second man had any association with terrorism. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, whose Health Department employed Haneef on a special visa in September 2006, said the doctor had responded in March last year to an advertisement in the British Medical Journal for work in Australia. Haneef was working at a hospital in Liverpool, England, at the time and all appropriate checks had been done to confirm his qualifications. "He was a good employee who was interested in learning his emergency duties...
...thing that covered her whole face, just over her hair." Bosher recalls the couple only once having visitors. "The woman [visitor] was wearing a veil," he says. Bosher says he never had any complaints about Haneef apart from a mix-up over a parking space when the doctor first arrived. "I never saw him unless he wanted something. He paid his rent through the Internet," he says...
...Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor who picked up his qualifications in Baghdad in 2004 before working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital just outside Glasgow, is one of two men suspected of carrying out the attack on the city's airport building. The second suspect - who received severe burns after ramming the gas-packed Jeep into the terminal building and dousing himself in petrol before setting himself alight, according to witnesses - is being treated in the same hospital. That man is believed to be Lebanese, according to unnamed sources cited by Britain's Guardian newspaper...
...Tuesday, police in Australia detained Mohamed Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian doctor, as he prepared to board a plane to India at Brisbane airport, and a second Indian doctor was earlier arrested in Liverpool. Haneef left a hospital in the same city last September for a position at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland after answering a job ad in the British Medical Journal...