POLICE today will seek a third extension of the time they have to hold Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef who is being investigated over links to last month’s failed UK bomb plots.
Gold Coast Hospital registrar, 27, has been held without charge under federal counter-terrorism powers since his arrest at Brisbane airport late on Monday night last week.
He is being questioned over failed attacks in London and Glasgow, as well as his connection with an underground network of radical Islamist doctors.
Police are examining more than 30,000 documents seized in raids across Australia, including files on Dr Haneef’s laptop computer and mobile phone SIM cards left with the alleged UK bombers.
Lawyers for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will seek a third extension to Dr Haneef’s detention in the Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning.
The AFP applied for a five-day extension late on Monday, and were given a 48-hour interim order to allow them to compile their case for the application.
High profile barrister Stephen Keim, SC, will oppose the application on behalf of Dr Haneef.
If an extension order is granted to the AFP, Dr Haneef’s legal team will look at the option of an appeal to the Federal Court.
- Herald Sun (Melbourne, July 11, 2007)
7.30 am (Melbourne)
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