Haneef sent e-mail after failed UK attacks

MELBOUNE: Detained Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef sent an e-mail to an associate shortly after the failed UK terror attacks saying he would have to leave Australia in a
hurry and did not mention visiting his ailing wife and child,according to evidence obtained by federal police.
 
The e-mail is not enough to charge Haneef and much would depend on how he conducted himself during interviews which resumed last night, the 'Sydney Morning Herald' quoted counter-terrorism officials as saying on Saturday.
 
Haneef and his family have said he planned to visit his wife and newborn daughter in his  Bangalore.  Federal police were sceptical. In an affidavit presented before a magistrate Jim Gordon, an officer was quoted as saying he suspected Haneef "has not been entirely
truthful" about his departure.
 
Two sources have confirmed that much of that suspicion rests on an e-mail Haneef sent just before his thwarted departure and after news of the initial British arrests had been aired, the newspaper said. 

"He said he had to leave in a hurry. He made no mention of his sick wife or child," said an official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Haneef is related to two of the men detained in Britain over the plot, Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed. He shared a house with them in Liverpool before he came to Australia last
September.
 
Police allege Haneef remained in close contact with Kafeel after coming to Australia and had links with another man detained over the British plot, Bilal Abdulla.
 
Ahmed and Abdulla drove the Jeep Cherokee into the front doors of Glasgow Airport's passenger terminal. It failed to explode, and the two men then set themselves alight in an
apparent suicide attempt