Australian police arrested a 27-year-old Indian doctor they believe was connected to the foiled terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and were interviewing a second doctor in the case, officials said Tuesday.Meanwhile, a bomb disposal team in Scotland carried out a controlled explosion on a vehicle there Tuesday, a day after at two other physicians - an Iraqi and a Palestinian - were also identified as suspects in a series of failed car bomb attacks.Police seized 27-year-old Muhammad Haneef at the international airport in the eastern city of Brisbane, where he was trying to board a flight with a one-way ticket late Monday, Attorney General Philip Ruddock told reporters in the capital Canberra.

Ruddock said the man was not an Australian citizen but did not give his nationality. He had been working as a doctor at Gold Coast Hospital in eastern Queensland state."The individual concerned was seeking to leave Australia and I understand did not have a return ticket," Ruddock said. "The man is currently assisting police with their inquiries."

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Haneef was being held under counterterrorism laws that allow him to be detained without charges being immediately filed.He said Australian police acted on information received from British authorities during the weekend to move against Haneef, and to get warrants to search several properties in northeastern Queensland state.

"The grounding for the search warrants was that we were alleging that Dr. Haneef was connected to a terrorist group," Keelty told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.Keelty said permission was being sought from a judge for police to continue to hold Haneef without charge, but added that the suspect was cooperating with police and may eventually be released.

"Dr. Haneef may have done nothing wrong and may at the end of the day be free to go," he said.Before authorities identified Haneef by name, Queensland state leader Peter Beattie said the suspect had completed his medical studies in India but came to Australia from Liverpool, Britain after answering an advertisement in the British Medical Journal.

"The doctor was regarded by the hospital as, in many senses, a model citizen - excellent references and so on," Beattie said, adding that the doctor had not resigned before attempting to leave the country.No charges had been filed by late Tuesday, Keelty said. Under Australian counterterrorism laws, suspects can be held without charge for three days and for longer periods with court approval.Beattie, speaking to reporters in Brisbane, said that police also were interviewing a second doctor in the case, but that authorities are not aware of any specific link between the man and the foiled attacks.

No charges have been filed yet. Under Australia's counterterrorism laws, terror suspects can be held without charge for three days and for longer periods with court approval.Prime Minister John Howard identified the arrested man as an Indian national who was granted a temporary work visa last year to work as a doctor at a hospital in eastern Australia.

The Indian doctor is one of eight people - including at least two other doctors identified by British authorities - arrested over a string of failed terror attacks in Britain. The attack plots include two car bombs that failed to explode in central London on Friday, and two men who rammed a vehicle with gas cylinders into an airport entrance in Glasgow, Scotland, and then set it on fire Saturday.

Officials would not say what the man's alleged involvement in the British terror plots was, but said they detained him on advice from British officials. They also declined to tell reporters where the man had been heading when he was arrested.

The second doctor also was recruited from Liverpool, Beattie said. It was not clear where he completed his studies.Local media reports said the arrested man was about to board a flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a view to getting a connecting flight to India, but officials would not confirm the reports.Police executed a number of search warrants across Queensland state overnight, including at the hospital where the man worked, but there was no sign that Australia was a possible target for attack, Ruddock said.

"While a terrorist attack could certainly be possible in Australia, we have no specific information about any such planned action here," Ruddock said.The controlled explosion in Scotland was carried out early Tuesday morning on a suspicious car parked outside the Forth Street Mosque in Glasgow, the city were two men attempted to set off a car bomb at the airport on Saturday. Police said there was no indication that the mosque had any connection to the bombing attempt in Glasgow, or to two cars packed with gasoline and gas canisters discovered in London on Friday.

A British security official said Monday that Pakistan and several other nations were asked to check possible links with the suspects. British-born terrorists behind the bloody 2005 London transit bombings and others in thwarted plots here were linked to terror training camps and foreign radicals in Pakistan.

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