It is a photo similar to thousands taken of tourists during a visit to Sydney Aquarium.But this holiday image confirms for the first time that Indian-born doctor Mohamed Haneef detained in Brisbane over his alleged links to the botched UK car bomb plots also spent time in Sydney.
The photo of Dr Haneef and his wife Firdous Arshiyu was taken at the popular Darling Harbour attraction, a souvenir from one of a few trips they are understood to have made to NSW. The manipulated image shows the couple in a rowboat on the Harbour about to be attacked by a shark. The photo emerged as Dr Haneef's Gold Coast home was again searched yesterday as the AFP and a British counter-terrorism chief finally prepare to interview him later today over his alleged links to the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
Also searched yesterday was the Southport unit of Dr Mohammed Asif Ali, a second Gold Coast Hospital doctor questioned by police and released. Dr Haneef's blue Honda Jazz, which had been garaged at Dr Ali's unit block, was taken away on a tow truck for tests. "They (the search warrants) were required as a result of analysis of material seized during search warrants executed last week," an AFP spokesman said last night.