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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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 test was incomplete and will continue on Tuesday also, sources at the Bowring Hospital in Bangalore, where the test was conducted, said.
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With the role of India-focused terror outfits such as the Laskhar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed likely to come under scanner in the Times Square bombing plot, Pakistan's response would be a "litmus test" for future engagement with the US as Islamabad has been reluctant to act against these groups, a top American expert has said.
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.
The Punjab Police has arrested five people in connection with the RPG attack at its Mohali office and pointed at the nexus of militant outfit Babbar Khalsa International and Pakistan's spy agency ISI.
It is said the hard disks contain jihadi material used to brainwash and recruit youth.
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India's concern was conveyed by Ministry of External Affairs to the Australian High Commission in Delhi.
Khafeel Ahmed, a suspect in the failed terror plot in Britain, showed no distinct leadership qualities and did not significantly stand out from the crowd during his tenure with Infotech Enterprises in Bangalore.
Sources said that questioning of parents of Kafeel-Sabeel and Mohammed Haneef has not thrown any light on possible terror links.
The team subjected parents of Dr Sabeel Ahmed and Kafeel Ahmed to questioning on Friday.
Dr Sabeel Ahmed was arrested in UK in connection with the failed UK terror plot in the year 2007. His brother Kafeel Ahmed, who allegedly drove the burning SUV into Glasgow airport, died of burn injuries in hospital nearly three months after the incident. Dr Sabeel Ahmed remained in custody for nearly 8 months. The police had charged him with concealing information regarding the terror plot.
The United States on Friday said it has briefed the Indian government about the progress made in the case of David Coleman Headley, who was nabbed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October, for plotting a major terror attack in India at the Lashkar-e-Tayiba's behest."I know that our ambassador (Tim Roemer) has briefed the government of India on the case, and we continue to follow the case," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told.
The body of the suspect in the botched UK terror plot, who died of burn injuries on August 2 at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland, has been identified as Khafeel Ahmed
Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was cleared of charges in the failed UK terror plot, is determined to regain his Australian visa so that he can return to work in Australia as currently he is unemployed in India.
The new guidelines were issued a day after the unearthing of a terror plot targeting US-bound airliners by police in London.\n\n
The new security measures came a day after police in London said they had arrested 24 men in connection with a plot to target some 10 passenger jets flying from Britain to the US.
The Bangalore police may have to wait a while longer before they get the contents of the hard disc belonging to Khafeel Ahmed, the suspect in the UK terror plot who died a month back.
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