The news in Australia came as the terror investigations in Great Britain continued to move at a rapid pace. A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion of a vehicle at a mosque in Glasgow early Tuesday, Strathclyde Police said in a statement.
According to police, the vehicle was to be removed from a parking lot at the Forth Street Mosque in the Pollokshields section of Glasgow and would undergo a "detailed forensic examination."
In Australia, a 27-year-man -- identified by Scotland Yard only as "H" -- was a detained at the Brisbane airport Monday evening while waiting to catch a flight out of the country, Beattie said.
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.
Although Ruddock would not disclose his nationality, he did say the man was not an Australian.
Beattie said the 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.
Earlier, authorities identified Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, as one of two men who rammed an explosives-laden SUV into a terminal at the airport in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, a British source said.
British authorities said they believe those two men are the same ones who parked two car bombs in Central London on Friday. The cars, packed with fuel and nails, could have killed hundreds if they had been set off.
In addition to Abdulla, police also arrested Dr. Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian-educated physician who moved to England two years ago, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
Asha, 26, was picked up late Saturday on a motorway in the Cheshire area of northern England, a source said. Police say he was arrested with a 27-year-old woman, identified by Asha's family as his wife.
Asha's house in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, has been searched since his arrest Saturday night. Neighbors there said that another doctor is also part of the investigation.
Police have sealed the home of the unnamed doctor and his wife, which is about two miles from Asha's home in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Forensic teams are searching the house, where the doctor and his wife have lived for about a year, neighbors said. Police would not confirm any details about their search. |
