Global email network used by bombers

Daily Mail:

Detectives investigating the NHS car bomb plot are today examining an international network of emails and phone records.

Police have seized computers from hospitals in Glasgow, Stoke-on-Trent and Liverpool. They are examining a theory that suspects planned the attacks in cyberspace while working at NHS hospitals.

The development was revealed as Scotland Yard sent a senior counter-terrorism investigator to Australia where one of the suspects is being held.

Today Australia invoked emergency anti-terrorism powers for the first time to extend the detention of Dr Mohammed Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian national who was arrested in Brisbane but who until last year worked in Liverpool.

Sources said there was evidence that Dr Haneef was in telephone contact with at least one of the would-be bombers. There was also evidence that a "guiding handî" may still be at large outside Britain.

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One of the suspects was known to MI5 as he had posted a comment in an internet chatroom condemning Danish cartoons portraying the prophet Mohammed.

Five doctors, two trainee doctors and a woman hospital laboratory technician are being questioned about the car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow. All are foreign nationals and they include Dr Mohammed Asha and his wife Marwah who were arrested on the M6 in Cheshire on Saturday.

Anti-terrorist detectives are working on numerous leads thrown up by evidence - notably mobile phones - recovered from the car bombs left in Haymarket and Cockspur Street in London last Friday.

Police believe they have arrested the main players though they cannot rule out the possibility that others are still at large.

The security services believe al Qaeda sent one or two extremists to Britain with instructions to recruit a network of terrorists within the NHS. One of those being held, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, had extremist links in Baghdad where he worked until a year ago.

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Other reports suggest that conversations with over seas contacts were probably recorded and used in the investigation. My speculation is those recordings may have tied the Indian doctor in Australia to the perps in the UK. It is also likely that he was on the phone list of the mobile phones used by the perps.