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Cleared Terror Suspect to Leave Australia

Going home to India; but his work visa won't be restored

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(Newser) – An Indian doctor cleared of involvement in the failed UK bomb attacks is flying home to India to be with his family, but his Australian work visa won't be restored, the immigration minister announced today. Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef are demanding that his name be cleared completely and will mount a court appeal to restore the visa.

Haneef was jailed for four weeks, and his passport confiscated, after prosecutors claimed his mobile phone card was in the car that crashed into the Glasgow airport.  But charges against him were dropped after Australia's chief prosecutor admitted mistakes had been made in the investigation. The work visa was withdrawn on grounds that Haneef was of "unsuitable character."

Firdaus Arshiya, wife of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, cradles her one-month-old daughter Haniya Kulthum at her parent's home in Bangalore, India, Friday, July 27, 2007. Haneef was freed from custody after Australia's chief prosecutor said Friday that a charge linking him to failed terrorist bombings in Britain was a mistake....
Firdaus Arshiya, wife of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, cradles her one-month-old daughter Haniya Kulthum at her parent's home in Bangalore, India, Friday, July 27, 2007. Haneef was freed from custody...   (Associated Press)
Qurrath-ul-ain, right, mother of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef shares a light moment with her younger son Mohammed Shuaib, left, at their home in Bangalore, India, Friday, July 27, 2007. Haneef was freed from custody after Australia's chief prosecutor said Friday that a charge linking him to failed terrorist bombings in...
Qurrath-ul-ain, right, mother of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef shares a light moment with her younger son Mohammed Shuaib, left, at their home in Bangalore, India, Friday, July 27, 2007. Haneef was freed...   (Associated Press)
In this undated photo released on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore, India, shown is Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef. Police in Australia arrested Haneef, an Indian doctor late Monday, July 2, in connection with the foiled terror attacks in London and Glasgow as...
In this undated photo released on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore, India, shown is Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef. Police in Australia arrested Haneef,...   (Associated Press)
In this undated photo provided by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef is seen. Australia's top prosecutor on Friday, July 27, 2007 dropped a terror charge against Haneef, who was accused of supporting June's failed bomb attacks on London and Glasgow, Scotland. (AP Photo/RGUHS, HO)
In this undated photo provided by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef is seen. Australia's top prosecutor on Friday, July 27, 2007 dropped a terror charge...   (Associated Press)
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