4th Indian interrogated in UK terror plot

Melbourne: Another Indian doctor is being questioned by the Australian police in connection with the UK terror plots and have seized computers and other equipments during fresh raids.

The 29-year-old Indian, who was working in a hospital in Perth since April 2007 is being questioning along with three more doctors, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) said on Friday.

"The Western Australian Police executed a number of search warrants overnight and interviewed four men, including a 29-year-old Indian doctor," it said.

However, none of the doctors who are being interrogated have been charged or arrested.

Police have also seized a computer and communications equipment for further forensic examination.

"Officers are questioning other doctors to try to establish any connections with the attempted attacks in Glasgow and London," Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty was quoted as saying by ABC news.

He said that the doctors who are helping police in Western Australia are overseas trained and of similar backgrounds as Mohammed Haneef, who is being detained in Queensland.

"I want to stress at this stage that nobody has been charged with any offence, but it is a very complex (one) in support of the investigation in the UK," he said.

"What we are trying to do here to establish those involved in the network had any association with the people who have been arrested and detained in the UK," he added.

Officials also searched two hospitals in Western Australia on Friday.

On Thursday a court judge in Queensland granted Australian police and a senior British counter-terrorism officer an extra 96 hours to question Mohamed Haneef, 27, who was detained at Brisbane airport on Monday as he tried to leave the country, under anti-terrorism laws.

Keelty said investigators were gathering information on Haneef before resuming formal questioning on Monday.

Police are examining 30,000 files on Haneef's laptop computer and a Sim card mobile phone device he left with one of the British bomb suspects.

Permission to extend Haneef's interrogation came as hospital authorities in Western Australia (WA) said two suspects in the suspected al-Qaeda car bomb plot in Britain had applied to work as doctors in the state.

Brothers Sabeel Ahmed and Kafeel Ahmed had applied for work and were rejected over reference concerns, said Dr Geoff Dobbs, the WA president of the Australian Medical Association.