On June 30th 2007 at 3 pm a green jeep smashed the glass doors of the Glasgow airport terminal in order to blow up the airport. The occupant of
the jeep Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian, after a failed attempt to blow up the
gas canister in his Jeep Cherokee, tried to immolate himself. The UK Police investigating to the failed bomb attack arrested four foreign doctors based in
UK, two of them were Indians and the rest were from Middle-Eastern countries. As a follow up to the investigation Dr Haneef arrested by the Australian police under counter-terrorism laws.
The 27 year old Dr. Haneef had come to Australia from England on a Visa sponsored by Queensland Health. Just after the botched bomb attack on Glasgow airport in UK, Mohammad Haneef who was working in Gold Coast Hospital was taken into custody while he was trying to leave the country.
Dr Haneef despite being given a bail by the local magistrate was once again
put under house arrest by the Australian police as his visa was revoked on character grounds. The Indian government extend all consular assistant to Dr Haneef to fight
his case. They believed that the Australian government was detaining him
on clumsy ground and that he was innocent.
Dr Haneef was arrested on the ground that he lend support to the UK terror
plot as his SIM card was found in possession of Kaleef, the man who tired
to blow himself up after the failed Glasgow bomb attack. The fact was that Haneef’s SIM card had been found in the possession of the brother of a terrorism suspect in Liverpool.
The Prime Minister of India gave clean chit to Dr. Haneef a terror suspect.
He had no business to question the right of the Australian police to pick up
a terror suspect, and question him.
At the same time, he has been freed within few days, acknowledging lack of evidence.Haneef was held without charge for 25 days only following his arrest
at Brisbane International Airport on July 2.
Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef described the ordeal he had gone through during his detention in Australia on false terror charges as death-like.
"'I think it was a reminder for me of the final day - the day of death. Being in the grave. The ordeal reminded me of that death when one is alone in the graveyard,' Haneef told reporters here, recalling how he felt during the 25 days he spent in detention.
Mohammad Haneef was not a superstar. He was a terror suspect. The Australian police found a remote link (SIM card) to terrorism but could not find any solid evidence, of his Terrorist's activities carried out by him from Australian
Territory, or against Australia.
However, it is to be noted that just because the police could not find evidence against Haneef, it does not mean Haneef is not at all linked to terrorism.
To think otherwise is to commit a logical fallacy.There should be further investigation to establish that this guy is as clean as the Indian government want him to be.
What is the Indian govt. going to do?
Will Indian police do their own investigation or will the government, just roll
out a red carpet and arrange superstar treatment for the terror suspect?
A terror suspect, however, gets celebrity status just because he'd been arrested and questioned by a nation which believes in itself, its values, its laws, cares for its citizens and, unlike India, witch routinely fails in delivering justice to victims of terrorism, murder, rioting, blackmail and extortion.
He could not be charged by the Australian police because of lack of solid supporting evidence. He was jailed for a few days. They accused Australian
law of being draconian.It is the same apparently draconian Australian law that saved the day for Haneef within 25 days.
"If you're guilty, you'll be proved guilty"
If he was arrested in India, he'd have spent many years in a jail without trial.
It is the logical fallacy of believing that Haneef is innocent just because no evidence had yet been found against him by Australian police.
However, the evidence may be found tomorrow, it may be found in Bangalore or it may be found in London. But we've been made to feel that it'll never be found.
After all they were Haneef's cousins and not Haneef himself who drove flaming jeeps full of explosives into airports full with hundreds of innocent people.
Chat-room conversations Mohamed Haneef had with his brother suggest that the Indian doctor may have had prior knowledge of the botched terror plot in the UK, There was a computer room conversation, a chat room conversation, with Dr Haneef's brother in India on the afternoon before his attempted hasty departure from Australia.
Friday, August 3, 2007
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