Official: Haneef file has nothing criminal

SYDNEY, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The dossier used to cancel the Australian visa of a relative of accused terrorists contained nothing incriminating, an official said.

A government official told The Australian that the documents were used to establish an association between

Mohamed Haneef, a physician, and his cousins, Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed, the men accused of the botched terror attacks in London and Glasgow last year.

"The brief didn't go to criminality," a former Howard government official told The Australian. "It wasn't concerned with any incriminating evidence against Haneef but went to the question of his association with the guys in the U.K. who were suspected to have been involved in criminal conduct."

Haneef was arrested last year after his mobile phone was linked to the British attacks. He was charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, a charge later dropped.