Two more doctors charged over bomb attacks on UK
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Two more doctors charged over bomb attacks on UK*
By Jennifer Hill
Reuters
Saturday, July 14, 2007; 10:42 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Two more doctors were charged on Saturday with
involvement in the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, one
man in Britain and one in Australia, bringing the number accused to three.
British police charged Sabeel Ahmed, 26, of Liverpool, with failing to
disclose information that could have prevented an act of terrorism,
London's Metropolitan Police said.
Indian engineer Kafeel Ahmed, 27, Sabeel's brother, is under police
guard in hospital after being badly burned when a jeep was driven into
an airport terminal building in Glasgow, Scotland, and set ablaze.
That attack came 36 hours after the discovery of two cars packed with
fuel, gas tanks and nails primed to explode in central London.
Police think the two incidents were linked. All but one of the suspects
are medics from the Middle East or India.
Australian Federal Police on Saturday charged a 27-year-old Indian
doctor over his links with the alleged perpetrators.
After being held for 12 days, Mohamed Haneef, 27, appeared in a Brisbane
court charged with providing support to a terrorist organization. He was
remanded in custody until Monday when his bail application will be heard.
"RECKLESSNESS"
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said the police
charge cited recklessness, rather than intention.
"The allegation being that he was reckless about some of the support he
provided to that group, in particular, the provision of his (mobile
phone) SIM card for the use of the group."
Haneef's wife Arshiya said in Bangalore: "Everybody knows he is
innocent. His only fault was to give his SIM card to his cousin Sabeel
Ahmed."
Haneef was detained at Brisbane airport on July 2 as he was about to
board a flight to India.
Keelty said the charges came after 12 days of investigation, with almost
300 police and lawyers working on the case and sifting through the
electronic equivalent of 36,000 filing cabinets of material.
"That is the quantity of material that has been seized in electronic
form, from various locations," he told reporters in Canberra.
Iraqi-trained doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, was charged in Britain last week
with conspiring to cause explosions.
Three other suspects are still being held at a central London police
station, a police spokeswoman confirmed.
British police on Thursday released without charge the only woman among
those detained in the case.
Dana Asha was the wife of suspect Mohammed Asha, 26, and was arrested
with him on June 30 while the pair drove on a motorway in northern England.
British police can hold terrorism suspects up to 28 days without charge,
but must periodically seek the permission of a judge to continue
questioning them.
(Additional reporting by Victoria Thieberger and James Grubel in Melbourne)