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| New Australia raids over UK bombs | New Australia raids over UK bombs |
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| Police in Australia have seized new evidence and questioned at least four more doctors over last week's failed car bomb attacks in the UK. | Police in Australia have seized new evidence and questioned at least four more doctors over last week's failed car bomb attacks in the UK. |
| Computers and other materials were taken from four Western Australian hospitals, two in Perth and two in the Outback mining town of Kalgoorlie. | Computers and other materials were taken from four Western Australian hospitals, two in Perth and two in the Outback mining town of Kalgoorlie. |
| Police said the doctors questioned had not been charged or arrested. | Police said the doctors questioned had not been charged or arrested. |
| The raids came as Australian police were given more time to question a relative of two men held in the UK. | The raids came as Australian police were given more time to question a relative of two men held in the UK. |
| Mohammed Haneef was held at Brisbane airport as he tried to leave for India on Monday. He will be questioned by a team that includes a senior counter-terrorism officer from Scotland Yard. | Mohammed Haneef was held at Brisbane airport as he tried to leave for India on Monday. He will be questioned by a team that includes a senior counter-terrorism officer from Scotland Yard. |
| Eight people, all linked to Britain's National Health Service, have been arrested over the failed attacks in Glasgow and London. | Eight people, all linked to Britain's National Health Service, have been arrested over the failed attacks in Glasgow and London. |
| 'Complex investigation' | 'Complex investigation' |
| Australia's federal police chief Mick Keelty said the new people quizzed were "migrant doctors, of similar nationality and background to the other doctors that are being questioned". | Australia's federal police chief Mick Keelty said the new people quizzed were "migrant doctors, of similar nationality and background to the other doctors that are being questioned". |
| He said they had worked in the UK's National Health Service and had come into contact with Dr Haneef. | He said they had worked in the UK's National Health Service and had come into contact with Dr Haneef. |
| Mr Keelty said the investigation had also widened to a third state - New South Wales. | Mr Keelty said the investigation had also widened to a third state - New South Wales. |
| "There are a number of people now being interviewed as part of this investigation, it doesn't mean that they're all suspects but it is quite a complex investigation and the links to the UK are becoming more concrete," Mr Keelty said. | "There are a number of people now being interviewed as part of this investigation, it doesn't mean that they're all suspects but it is quite a complex investigation and the links to the UK are becoming more concrete," Mr Keelty said. |
| Mohammed Haneef is the relative of two of the suspects being held in Britain - Kafeel Ahmed, who was badly burned during the attack on Glasgow airport, and his brother, Sabeel, who was arrested in Liverpool. | Mohammed Haneef is the relative of two of the suspects being held in Britain - Kafeel Ahmed, who was badly burned during the attack on Glasgow airport, and his brother, Sabeel, who was arrested in Liverpool. |
| ARRESTS TIMELINE 30 June Dr Kafeel Ahmed and Dr Bilal Abdullah arrested at Glasgow airport after burning car driven into doors of main terminal30 June Dr Mohammed Asha, 26, and his wife Dana Asha, 27, arrested on the M6 near Sandbach, Cheshire30 June/1 July Dr Sabeel Ahmed (brother of Kafeel), 26, arrested near Liverpool's Lime Street station1 July A 28-year-old man and a 25-year-old man, thought to be medical students or doctors from Saudi Arabia, arrested in Paisley2 July Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, detained in Australia, and a second doctor is questioned3 July Second doctor questioned in Australia is released without charge4 July Police search house in Cambridge5 July Dr Haneef detained for further 96 hours UK Muslims denounce attacks | |
| It has emerged that the Ahmed brothers applied to work as doctors in Western Australia on numerous occasions but were rejected. | It has emerged that the Ahmed brothers applied to work as doctors in Western Australia on numerous occasions but were rejected. |
| "We checked their qualifications and references and decided that they did not meet the standard required," Geoff Dobb, the president of the Australian Medical Association in Western Australia, told the Associated Press. | "We checked their qualifications and references and decided that they did not meet the standard required," Geoff Dobb, the president of the Australian Medical Association in Western Australia, told the Associated Press. |
| "It had nothing to do with suspicions of any terrorist associations," he said. | "It had nothing to do with suspicions of any terrorist associations," he said. |
| Dr Haneef trained as a doctor in his native India, graduated from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore in 2002. | Dr Haneef trained as a doctor in his native India, graduated from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore in 2002. |
| He arrived in Australia in September 2006 following a period spent in Liverpool. | He arrived in Australia in September 2006 following a period spent in Liverpool. |
| He took a job as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital. | He took a job as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital. |
| A police spokesman said they were still analysing some 18,000 files on the Indian doctor's laptop. | A police spokesman said they were still analysing some 18,000 files on the Indian doctor's laptop. |
| Meanwhile, British police on Thursday searched an address in Cambridge as part of their investigation. | Meanwhile, British police on Thursday searched an address in Cambridge as part of their investigation. |
| It has emerged that four of the suspects were in Cambridge in 2005 and that they knew each other. | It has emerged that four of the suspects were in Cambridge in 2005 and that they knew each other. |
| Dr Ahmed and Dr Bilal Abdullah, both arrested at Glasgow airport after a burning car was driven into doors of main terminal, were "best mates", their associate in Cambridge, Shiraz Maher, has told the BBC. | Dr Ahmed and Dr Bilal Abdullah, both arrested at Glasgow airport after a burning car was driven into doors of main terminal, were "best mates", their associate in Cambridge, Shiraz Maher, has told the BBC. |
| Dr Abdullah was a resident in the city in 2001 and again in 2005. | Dr Abdullah was a resident in the city in 2001 and again in 2005. |
| It has also emerged that Dr Ahmed worked and studied at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for almost three years. |