பெங்களூர் முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதி டாக்டர் ஆஸ்திரேலியாவில் கைது

பிரிட்டனில் குண்டுவெடிப்புகளுக்கு தொடர்ந்து டாக்டர்களை கைது செய்து வருகிறார்கள் பிரிட்டன் போலீஸ்.

இதில் இங்கிலாந்திலிருந்து ஆஸ்திரேலியாவுக்கு ஓடிய ஒரு இந்திய வம்சாவளி டாக்டரையும் கைது செய்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

இவர் பெங்களூரைச் சேர்ந்த ராஜீவ் காந்தி இன்ஸ்டிட்யூட் ஆஃப் மெடிக்கல் சயன்ஸஸில் பணியாற்றிய டாக்டர் முகம்மது ஹனீஃப் என்பவர்.


Doctor arrested in Australia over UK terror plot
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The Gold Coast Hospital, south of Brisbane, where the arrested doctor was working

Jenny Booth, and Bernard Lagan in Sydney
The failed terror plot on London and Glasgow has taken on a still more international dimension after an Indian doctor was arrested in Australia - believed to be the sixth medic held in connection with the bomb attempts.

He has been named by the Queensland Medical Board as Dr Mohamed Haneef, 27, an Indian medic who had been working in the emergency department at the Gold Coast Hospital in Southport, in the eastern state of Queensland, since leaving a job in Liverpool last year. Anti-terror police arrested a suspect in Liverpool on Sunday.

News of the arrest - the eighth in connection with the attempted car bombings - came as the Muslim Council of Britain gave a press conference in which it condemned the terror plots and the rise of extremism.

Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary general of the council, said: "Let us be absolutely clear about this, that those who seek to deliberately kill or maim innocent people are the enemies of all of us.

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“There is no cause whatsoever that could possibly justify such barbarity. Those who engage in such murderous actions and those that provide support for them are the enemies of all, Muslims and non Muslims, and they stand against our shared values in the UK.”

Dr Daoud Abdullah, the deputy general secretary, told the meeting: "There is a radicalisation taking place in our communities and this is a long term problem. We will work together with our partners in civil society, including the police and other faith groups.

"At the present time our concern is to denounce unequivocally what has happened in the last week."

Dr Haneef was arrested at Brisbane International Airport yesterday evening after the Australian authorities received information from British police. Philip Ruddock, the Australian Attorney General, said that he had been trying to board a plane to leave the country with a one-way ticket.

A second doctor from the same hospital was also being questioned, although he has not been arrested. He has not been officially identified, although several Australian papers reported a name. According to reports he, too, is not an Australian citizen.

Dr Haneef qualified to practise medicine in 2002 at the Rajeev Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore, but it is understood that he then moved to Britain to take up a job at a hospital in Liverpool.

Police hunting the team that planned and carried out Friday and Saturday's attempted bomb attacks arrested a man in Liverpool at 1pm on Sunday, raiding two local addresses. It is not known if this arrest is connected to that of Dr Haneef.

Last year Dr Haneef responded to an advertisement in the British Medical Journal to work in Queensland. He was interviewed in June, and arrived to take up his post in September, moving with his wife into the Gold Coast apartment building only a couple of blocks from the hospital.


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