Doc plot goes down under

CNN:

A doctor taken into custody while trying to fly out of Australia has become the eighth person detained as British investigators focus on several foreign-born doctors believed to have played a role in the failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow over the weekend.

With the UK still at a critical state of alert, heightened security measures were in place at London's Heathrow Airport on Tuesday following the discovery of a suspicious bag. Police said they had carried out controlled explosions in London and Glasgow.

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told CNN the 27-year-old Indian national, identified in British media reports as Dr. Mohammed Haneef, had been detained at an airport in Brisbane, Queensland, "in the context" of the British investigation. He was reportedly holding a one-way ticket to India at the time.

"We are assisting the British rather than this being a standalone inquiry," said Downer.

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Haneef had previously worked at Halton General Hospital, near Liverpool, northwestern England, where another doctor who was taken into police custody late Saturday was employed, according to hospital and police officials.

A second doctor in Australia was being questioned, but had not been detained in police custody, according to Queensland Premier Peter Beattie.

Australian police were executing search warrants at locations in the Brisbane area, including at the Gold Coast Hospital in Southport, Queensland, where the man worked as a doctor, according to Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock. Watch how the probe has led to Australia »

Beattie said both doctors were recruited from Liverpool last year, through an ad in the British Medical Journal, to work in Australia.

The doctor who was in custody was considered a good employee in the emergency department and was "regarded as a model citizen, excellent references," Beattie said.

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There is much more.

The connection to the Liverpool terror incubators probably snared the Aussie Docs. My speculation is that their phone numbers were on the cell phones of some of the Docs arrested in the UK. There names may have also been found in the papers and computers found in the 19 searches by British authorities. The gathering evidence suggest a conspiracy of medical personnel by people who should be smarter than this scheme suggests. So far there is no evidence to suggest that there were terrorist targets in Australia.