Australian Police find no evidence against Haneef: reports

MELBOURNE: Australian police have not been able to find any "incriminating" evidence against Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef detained in connection with the UK terror plot, a media report claimed on Friday.

Haneef has told Australian Federal Police (AFP) of his family ties and telephone contact with accused suicide bomber Kafeel Ahmed, and revealed how they shared a house in the British city of Liverpool for up to two years, the Australian newspaper said.

"Police have been unable to find any evidence against Gold Coast Hospital terror suspect Haneef to justify charges despite executing several search warrants in a massive investigation over the past 10 days," it said.

Current documents circulated by senior public servants in the Howard Government show the AFP acknowledges that while it has scant or no evidence against Haneef, agents still suspect he has "provided support to the terrorist organization responsible for terrorist acts in London and/or Glasgow during 29 and 30 June, 2007".

Haneef is a second cousin of Ahmed, who is allegedly involved in the failed attempt to blow up Glasgow airport with a burning Jeep Cherokee.

The AFP has been delaying further formal questioning of Haneef, 27, because without incriminating evidence, which officers still hope to obtain from a vast volume of material, they cannot test his knowledge.