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...about 11pm on the night of July 2, Australian Federal Police agents arrested Bosher's tenant, Dr. Mohamed Haneef, at Brisbane's international airport as he attempted to board a flight to Asia on a one-way ticket. The 27-year-old emergency medicine trainee is being held in connection with inquiries into the recent attempted terror attacks in England and Scotland, in which two cars packed with explosives were discovered in central London, while an SUV filled with fuel canisters was driven into a terminal building at Glasgow International Airport. A second doctor, an associate of Haneef...
...Authorities in the Australian state of Queensland, say there had been no clues that either Haneef or the second man had any association with terrorism. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, whose Health Department employed Haneef on a special visa in September 2006, said the doctor had responded in March last year to an advertisement in the British Medical Journal for work in Australia. Haneef was working at a hospital in Liverpool, England, at the time and all appropriate checks had been done to confirm his qualifications. "He was a good employee who was interested in learning his emergency duties...
...Bosher, the apartment manager, first learned of Haneef's arrest following a knock on his door about 7.30am Tuesday morning. "It was a group of feds [Australian Federal Police agents], seven of them. I thought it couldn't be [Haneef] and then they showed me the warrant. It said it was in connection with the London bombings," says Bosher, who had rented Haneef the apartment close to the Gold Coast Hospital in September...
...news that Haneef had attempted to leave the country was a surprise to Bosher. "I saw him on Friday. The last thing he said to me was could I come and fix his dishwasher." Haneef had a woman, believed to be his wife, living with him, but recently told Bosher that she had gone back to India. "I asked him but it was long-winded,'' he says. "She used to wear a veil, but not the thing that covered her whole face, just over her hair." Bosher recalls the couple only once having visitors. "The woman [visitor] was wearing...
...Tayyiba Haneef of Long Beach State, who jumped 1.88 meters on Friday, is now Gyorrfy’s closest competition at NCAAs on June 2. Gyorffy’s goal there is to clear two meters, which would be the best jump in the world this year if she can pull...