Haneef's barrister lashes out at Aus govt
Haneef is charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation, with the Australian Federal Police alleging he supported foiled plans to detonate truck bombs in the UK.
By PTI |
MELBOURNE: The barrister of Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, charged with supporting a terrorist organisation, on Tuesday accused the Australian government of using the anti-terror laws to conceal their probe from the public.
Haneef is charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation, with the Australian Federal Police alleging he supported foiled plans to detonate truck bombs in the UK.
"The record with regard to secret information is that it's secret when it's convenient to the Coith these people (Haneef's cousins who were accused in the failed UK terror plot), he's their second cousin, that's as high as the AFP was able to put it."
"Now the minister is making his decision on the basis of what the AFP tells him and on what he says is secret information and yet we're seeing what is secret information published in the newspapers today," he said.
A major leak from the investigation into Haneef was published in News Ltd papers, and Keim said he had seen nothing to suggest from the report that Haneef had a more than trivial role in the thwarted attacks.
"My client's computer had been 95 per cent interrogated (by the 11th of July) and the best that they could say was that he chatted online and he had these two conversations," he said.
"If they had information that was condemnatory of my client why would they only charge him with recklessness, why wouldn't they charge him with knowing that it was a terrorist organisation?" he added.
Haneef is charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation, with the Australian Federal Police alleging he supported foiled plans to detonate truck bombs in the UK.
"The record with regard to secret information is that it's secret when it's convenient to the Coith these people (Haneef's cousins who were accused in the failed UK terror plot), he's their second cousin, that's as high as the AFP was able to put it."
"Now the minister is making his decision on the basis of what the AFP tells him and on what he says is secret information and yet we're seeing what is secret information published in the newspapers today," he said.
A major leak from the investigation into Haneef was published in News Ltd papers, and Keim said he had seen nothing to suggest from the report that Haneef had a more than trivial role in the thwarted attacks.
"My client's computer had been 95 per cent interrogated (by the 11th of July) and the best that they could say was that he chatted online and he had these two conversations," he said.
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"If they had information that was condemnatory of my client why would they only charge him with recklessness, why wouldn't they charge him with knowing that it was a terrorist organisation?" he added.
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