Five people, suspected to be Arabs, were arrested in London on Friday over an alleged plot to harm Pope Benedict XVI, now on a state visit to the UK. The five men, in the age group of 26-50, were picked up by Scotland Yard on Friday morning in central London and were being questioned by counter-terror detectives.
The Indian doctor who is being questioned was working in a hospital in the western Australian city of Perth since April this year.
The plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight over American soil on Christmas Day demonstrates a new and lethal ability by a branch of the Al Qaeda to attack the United States directly, the New York Times quotes both government and independent counter-terrorism specialists, as saying.
The recent claim by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan that it had orchestrated the botched bombing plot at the Times Square in New York is a clear indication that terror patterns are changing. Terror outfits have realised that their operations are becoming all too familiar, and hence have decided to go in for a complete revamp of their entire strategy.
In an interview to The Australian published on Monday, Haneef said the inquiry should be given powers to ensure all documents are released, and witnesses, including Australian Federal Police Chief Mick Keelty and former immigration minister Kevin Andrews -- as well as investigators, prosecutors and bureaucrats -- are compelled to give evidence and face cross-examination.
The Australian police have said that Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of links to the failed UK terror plot, continued to remain under investigation despite the government ruling out an appeal against a court decision to reinstate his visa.
The Punjab police is learnt to have detained a man from Tarn Taran district in connection with the explosion at the intelligence wing headquarters in Mohali, sources said on Wednesday.
Giving his testimony on the second day of the trial of 26/11 co-accused Tawahhur Rana, a Canadian of Pakistani origin, Headley, a Pakistani-American, talked about the hatred against Shiv Sena among his Pakistani handlers. 166 people were killed in the November 2008 attack in Mumbai.
From the 'khiladi' brand of movies rocking his boat to a love for starring in biopics and scripts inspired by true stories to headlining endless remakes of South Indian hits, there's a pattern to the man and his methods.
A middle-aged individual who is suspected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other investigating agencies for being involved in the failed Times Square car bombing is a naturalised US citizen of Pakistani origin, media reports said on Tuesday.
During the interview Haneef talks about his relationship with his cousins Kafeel and Sabeel, allegedly involved in the terror plot in the UK
The National Investigation Agency filed a supplementary chargesheet before a special court in New Delhi on Monday against two terrorists of the Pakistan-based terror group LeT for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to commit subversive activities and wage a war against India, besides killing key personalities of the Hindu community in the country, an official said.
"(Andrews) has led the Australian public to believe that this is the secret information, it is hardly secret information if it was put to my client in the second record of interview," Russo told another media channel.
The Courier-Mail newspaper reported Ali had been suspended after it was discovered his resume included up to 12 months of hospital work in India that he never performed.
"The whole case against Haneef undermines the presumption of innocence," Australia-based Amnesty spokeswoman Nicole Bieske said.
Former Australia immigration minister Kevin Andrews and AFP chief Mick Keelty, who have both come under immense criticism for their handling of the Haneef case, have welcomed the probe and offered their full co-operation, but have stood by their actions. Meanwhile, an AFP spokesman has conformed that the investigation into Haneef has remained active.
Director General of Police, Karnataka, K Srinivasan on Thursday said that IT companies in Bengaluru should do a proper background check before recruiting people into their companies.
Investigations revealed that the Riyazuddin Naseer had emailed Hamza asking him to return to Karnataka, so that more operations could be carried out jointly.
The Zone Of Interest is technically flawless but lacks emotional pull, observes Mayur Sanap.
The Mumbai Police on Friday released sketches of three persons who apparently carried out reconnaissance of sensitive spots in the city like Mahim dargah, Haji Ali dargah and Mahalaxmi temple last week. Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) K L Prasad said that the three men, along with a burqa-clad woman, had used a taxi for traveling across the city for the recce on October 22 and 23.
While reporting the developments in the recently-busted assassination plot, the media has brazenly stated that many of the men arrested from Bangalore, Hyderabad and Nanded have connections with terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami.
Andrews had cancelled the visa, saying Haneef had failed the character test provided by immigration laws because he had an association with people suspected of criminal activity, namely his second cousins Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed.
Khafeel had been admitted to hospital after the UK terror plot with 90 per cent burn injuries. He died in hospital on Friday.
Sweets were distributed among friends and neighbours. There was a bustle outside Haneef's residence all through the night.
Haneef has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organisation after he gave a mobile phone SIM card to a second cousin, who was later allegedly involved in the failed car bombings in the UK.
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd said he is pleased with the way Australian Federal Police handled the case.
Haneef, who has been in custody for 11 days, is yet to be charged with any offence.
Words that appear to be otherwise innocuous and ones that would raise little doubt when used in a daily context are often used by terrorists while communicating with each other to steer clear of monitoring by authorities, the sources said.
"An Australian Federal Police officer has been sent to the home country of Gold Coast-based Dr Haneef," Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said.
Howard said the introduction of the new border security system had been accelerated by the recent link of Australia to the UK bombing attempts.
Pakistani intelligence agencies have freed many suspected militants, including two Jaish-e-Muhammed operatives, who were arrested over alleged links with Faisal Shahzad, the American citizen of Pakistani origin who has confessed to plotting the bungled Times Square bombing.Sources said intelligence agencies have released most of the 20 members of various banned terror outfits who were apprehended to probe their links with Shahzad.
The team led by Deputy Commissioner of Crime Ravikante Gowda, which included a policewoman, visited the house of Sabeel at Banashankari, a middle-class locality, and questioned his family, a senior police official said.
British police foiled a series of suicide bomb attacks at a Manchester United soccer match with the arrest of 10 people in anti-terror raids on Monday.
The interesting observation by Saeed, who has been blamed for many terrorist attacks in India and figured top of the list of wanted persons, was made during a sermon at a prayer meeting in Lahore on Friday.
Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of having links with the failed United Kingdom terror plot, on Monday said that the Australian authorities might have targeted him because of his race and religion. "It might be just because I am an Asian Muslim," the 27-year-old Bangalore medico was quoted as saying on ABC radio.
Immigration and citizenship minister Chris Evans said he would not proceed with an appeal to the high court in light of advice from the solicitor-general in the case of the 27-year-old Bangalore medico, who was wrongly accused of links to the failed United Kingdom terror plot in 2007 and forced to leave the country.
The test was incomplete and will continue on Tuesday also, sources at the Bowring Hospital in Bangalore, where the test was conducted, said.
The spotlight is on Hubli -- the commercial capital of northern Karnataka -- where a major terror module that was planning the assassinations of several high-profile personalities was recently busted. Five of the terror suspects arrested by the Bangalore police in connection with the plot are from Hubli.
The US on Friday warned that Al Qaeda and some other foreign terrorists may carry out attacks in New Delhi and Mumbai around Independence Day.
Forget comic chops, you'll not find an ounce of camaraderie between Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff as they go about firing ammo and flexing abs at a zombie-like army for nearly three excruciating hours of this noisy drivel, observes Sukanya Verma.
