Brits file more charges in Doc Plot

CNN:

British police said on Saturday they had charged a 26-year-old Indian doctor in connection with last month's failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow -- on the same day the man's second cousin, another Indian-born doctor, appeared in court in Australia.

Sabeel Ahmed, arrested in Liverpool on the same weekend of the attempted car bombings, will appear in court on Monday charged with having information that could have prevented an act of terrorism, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Ahmed is the third man to be charged in connection with the alleged plot after Mohammed Haneef, his second cousin, appeared in court in Australia on Saturday.

Haneef, 27, was bearded, handcuffed and seated behind a glass compartment, intently listening to the defense and prosecution's arguments in the magistrate courtroom, CNN-IBN senior correspondent Aditya Mehta said.

His court appearance came hours after Australian federal police charged him with providing support to a terrorist organization.

The Australian federal police said the maximum penalty for this charge is 15 years in prison.

Discussions during the court proceedings centered around allegations that Haneef provided a mobile phone SIM card to Ahmed who, along with his brother Kafeel, are among six other suspects being held in Britain.

"The specific allegation (against Haneef) involves recklessness rather than intention," said Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty on Saturday.

"The allegation being that he was reckless about some of the support he provided to that group, in particular the provision of his SIM card for the use of the group."

No one has confirmed if the SIM card was used in the failed UK terror plot, but as the investigation goes on details will become a lot clearer, Mehta said.

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I suspect that the SIM card is how they found Haneef and his connection to the plot. It was probably used by the other plotters in some way and may have been used in one of the phones that were to trigger the devices in the London car bombs. Once police had the phones they used the SIM cards int hem to trace ownership.

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