Terror plot suspect charged in Australia

? Australian federal police charged an Indian doctor with providing support to a terrorist organization Saturday, allegedly linking him to last month’s failed British bombings.

Muhammad Haneef, 27, is accused of providing a group suspected in the botched attacks with access to his mobile phone SIM card, police said.

Haneef is the second person to be charged in the attacks on London and Glasgow on June 29 and 30. The other is Bilal Abdullah, who is being held in London on charges of conspiring to set off explosions.

“The specific allegation involves recklessness rather than intention,” Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty told reporters.

Haneef had been “reckless about some of the support he provided to that group, in particular the provision of his SIM card.”

British police raised suspicions about Haneef when they allegedly found his mobile telephone’s SIM card in the possession of one of the men accused in the failed car bomb attacks last month.

Media reports later identified the man as Sabeel Ahmed, Haneef’s distant cousin and former housemate, who is being questioned by British police over the foiled plot.

Official documents cited by The Australian newspaper on Friday said Haneef gave the SIM card to Ahmed before he moved to Australia so that his cousin could take advantage of free minutes left on his mobile phone plan.

Keelty confirmed that police would oppose bail when Haneef appears in Brisbane court later in the day.

The police chief said Haneef would be prosecuted in Australia unless British police “have any evidence in the U.K. that would sustain an extradition application.”

A suspect can only be extradited to another country if that country has enough evidence to charge the person with an offense.

In Britain, the office of the prime minister, the Home Office, the Foreign Office and London’s Metropolitan Police all declined to comment on the charges when reached early today.