According to media reports, the medical practitioner has claimed himself to be an innocent pawn, wrongly deemed guilty by association and family ties to known British terror suspects. "He (Haneef) is not, he insists, a terrorist," The Australian said.

According to the paper, it has been seen that the determination of the AFP to keep him in a double cell at the Brisbane Watchhouse, where he is permitted to read magazines but not newspapers, and the paucity of incriminating evidence that has been so far recovered against the 27-year-old from Bangalore in India.

As the Law Council of Australia on Thursday described Haneef's predicament as "indefinite detention by stealth," top-level documentation reveals the reasoning of the AFP, its suspicions and vague circumstantial evidence.