July 15, 2007	Sunday	Jamadi-us-Sani 29, 1428

LONDON, July 14: Two Indian doctors were charged with terrorism offences in Britain and Australia on Saturday in connection with the three failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last month.

Cousins Sabeel Ahmed and Mohammed Haneef bring the number of people facing charges to three, following an Iraqi doctor accused earlier this month, with three more still detained at a high-security London police station.

One suspect has been released while an eighth, Mr Ahmed’s older brother Kafeel, 27, remains critically ill with severe burns and under armed guard in hospital after the Glasgow attack on June 30.

Mr Haneef, 27, was charged by Australian police with providing ‘reckless’ support to a terrorist organisation allegedly behind the attempted bombings on June 29 and 30 by providing a mobile phone SIM card to members of the unnamed organisation.

He has been in custody in Australia since July 2. He will appear before the Brisbane magistrate’s court on Monday.

Sabeel, 26, was arrested in Liverpool after the Glasgow attack. He worked as a doctor at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire.

Scotland Yard said he was accused of having information that could have helped police prevent another person committing an act of terrorism or arrest and prosecute him for terrorist offences.

He is to appear before the city of Westminster magistrate’s court on Monday.

In India, Mr Haneef's wife Firdous said the accusation was ‘senseless’ and she had asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Defence Minister A.K. Anthony to intervene.

According to Australian media reports, the SIM card was found in Mr Ahmed’s car. Mr Haneef had allegedly given it to him before he moved to Australia last year so that his cousin could take advantage of remaining minutes of call-time.—AFP