VARIOUS: British and Australian authorities charge two with involvement in failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow

Record ID: 357663

  • Title: VARIOUS: British and Australian authorities charge two with involvement in failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow
  • Date: 15th July 2007
  • Summary: (BN11) LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - JUNE 29, 2007) (REUTERS) VIEW OF STREET WITH CAR AT END
  • Embargoed: 30th July 2007 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
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  • Story Text: Two more doctors were charged on Saturday (July 14) 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 organisation. He was remanded in custody until Monday when his bail application will be heard.
    Haneef was detained at Brisbane airport on July 2 as he was about to board a flight to India.
    Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said the police charge cited recklessness, rather than intention in providing his mobile phone SIM card for the use of the group.
    Haneef's wife Arshiya said in Bangalore: "Everybody knows he is innocent and they simply cannot do this injustice."
    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.
    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.
    Meanwhile police in Perth, Western Australia, carried out a raid on a town house as part of the investigation.
    The Age newspaper in Melbourne reported an Australian federal police spokesman had confirmed the investigation connected to the arrest of Mohammed Haneef.
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