New Haneef terror reports 'inaccurate': Australian police

Melbourne, July 22 (UNI) Australian Police today dismissed reports of Mohammed Haneef planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Queensland.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty has bunked the allegations of the Indian doctor's plans to attack a landmark building in Queensland by calling the reports published by News Corporation newspapers as ''inaccurate'' News reports had quoted an anonymous source to allege that the AFP had found photographs of a landmark high-rise Gold Coast building and its foundations during the raid on the incarcerated doctor's Brisbane flat.

It was also alleged that Haneef belonged to the group of foreign doctors learning to fly in Queensland.

The AFP Commissioner denied the allegations and said there was no truth to the reports. He also denied the role of AFP in such 'leaks'.

Police took the step of commenting on media's speculation following criticism from Haneef's lawyers over the way the case was being handled. ''There has been significant misreporting on many aspects of this case,'' Mr Mick Keelty said in a statement.

The AFP, which earlier refused to confirm or deny the allegations provoking Haneef's solicitor Peter Russo to lodge an angry protest, said, ''It is neither practical, nor the role of the AFP, to correct every wrong assertion or piece of speculation that has been put forward.'' We would be taking the extraordinary step of contacting Haneef's lawyer to correct the record, the AFP chief said.

''Consistent with the AFP's position in this and all other cases, it is inappropriate to discuss or speculate on potential evidence,'' Mick Keelty added.

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