Australia releases suspect's chat

CANBERRA, Australia, July 31 (UPI) -- The Australian immigration minister said Tuesday a doctor's on-line conversation with his brother in India justified canceling his work visa.

Dr. Mohamed Haneef was detained for about four weeks in Australia. He is a second cousin of Kafeel Ahmed, the doctor critically burned during an attempt to detonate a car loaded with flammable material at Glasgow Airport in Scotland.

In one exchange released by Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, Shoaib Haneef, the doctor's brother, told him "Nothing has been found out about you," The Melbourne Herald reported. The brother also advised Haneef to tell the hospital where he was working that he had to go back to India because he had a new daughter.

Shoaib also advised the doctor not to use his cell phone -- "Auntie told me that brother Kafeel used it: he is in some sort of project over there."

Andrews said the conversations show the brothers might have known about the abortive terrorist attacks in Britain. Peter Russo, Haneef's attorney, called the information "more smoke and mirrors from the minister."

British investigators have not suggested Haneef or his brother are suspects.