The facts in the case are simple. Haneefs sim card was found with terrorist who was blowing up an airport. he is also relaterd to the terrorists. When the police traced thw owner of the card he had left the country and so they traced him to australis where he was. he had left days beofre the blowing up. It was natural for australia or any other country to check the poeple out and found that haneef was on the point of leaving to india with a one way ticket. they detained him and the investigation was on. he would have been relased if there was no evidence and remeber in all this that austrlaia is a Democracy not like say China or the many guldf countires where if this was to take place you would not even kn ow hwere he was. After all the judicial systems with legal recourse kicked in and he was released. countires which havfe suffered from the impact of terrorisem take precautins to protects its citizens which is the primary duty of any governement. If we in India after suffering so badly from many terrorist attakcs and still are not proactive is it the foult of others. No. The bo;ttlom line giving your sim card is wrong. he shuld have called the call phone company and shut it down. Hosur
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by DM on Jul 30, 2007 05:04 PM Permalink
Mr. Ramkrishna, Thank god Australians don't think like you...They identify that there Haneef was a scapegoat and are up in arms against their government. I was going through some Aussie news websites and I was amazed to see the comments. The majority was supporting Haneef and I saw only a few messages against Haneef. Now contrast this scenario in India and there would be a lot of people like you who would talk against Haneef. We blame the west of being racist and being hypocritical but I guess I am seeing it in our own country and that too against our own citizen..This is the worst thing a man can live with..
Now coming to the so called facts in the case.. Haneef's sim was found with Sabeel and not Kafeel and this fact was enough for the Australian prosecutor to drop charges against him. He left the UK last year. He has been working in Australia for the last 1 year... So it is not what you say "Days before blowing up."
Agreed that you should hold people in detention but that doesn't mean you hold them for so long. This whole game was played by the Howard government to gain some political mileage for this year's election which in all indication he is going to lose.
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by srinivasan mv on Jul 30, 2007 06:23 PM Permalink
Mr. DM, Why the big fuss about Haneef being detained? There were some investigations based on some minor evidences. After all, legal processes has ensured that he is released. However, it is still doubtful that Haneef may not know the plans of the terrorists.
Leaving that alone, if he were a Hindu, will any politician support him. They will brand him as Bajrang Dal, or VHP and condemn him. In the South, they will say he is a Brahmin and condemn him without verifying his antcedants.
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by prashanth nagabhushan on Jul 30, 2007 04:01 PM Permalink
you have hit the nail on the head ramakrishna... haneef being accquitted doesnt make him clean. a study of the case, any simple person can understand the loop holes in the case and his possible involvement. as rightly pointed out by Emigrate replying to ur post, if the same had been an hindu, we have seen a long forgotten case and ofcourse with no media attention. our media is glorifying terror suspects with sympathy.
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by mukul shukla on Jul 30, 2007 04:14 PM Permalink
No one knows the intentions of hanfeef. its just a matter of destiny that australian police could not prove him guilty. i think australin stand was correct. our govt should stop the appeasment policy. Australian Prime Minister John Howard has ruled out apologising to Mohamed Haneef, jailed for almost four weeks as part of a bungled terror probe, and rejected the view that the Indian doctor was victimised. Howard said mistakes happened from time to time, and when dealing with terrorism, it was better to be safe than sorry.
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by Emigrate belford on Jul 30, 2007 03:50 PM Permalink
i m with u ramkrishna, u r perfectly right, haneef is involved and this was sufficient for gulf countries to hang him, if it was a hindu other then a muslim by now nobody would had cared for him not even a comment, c for a vote bank UPA has taken all its efforts first the govt should consider on development like linking rivers and solve border probs and other basic probs, as any true indians does want a terrorist to be encouraged... media plz do something gud for the country where lot of corruption hapenng and try to bring out to stop all corruption and other works to b done by govt, instead of standing for hours together at airport and also at haneef house like a guards, plz change yourself media and try to get some picture like a masjid or mosque which is blown or blasted or demolished in pakistan and afghanistan this wil awake muslims in our country to fight against pakis and let all these muslims who love pakistan can go to pakistan
