Queensland Premier Peter Beattie (L) and Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson (R) speak at a media conference to confirm that Australian police arrested a 27-year-old doctor at Brisbane International Airport last night. Photo / Getty Images
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie (L) and Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson (R) speak at a media conference to confirm that Australian police arrested a 27-year-old doctor at Brisbane International Airport last night. Photo / Getty Images
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Doctor held in Brisbane over UK bomb plot
Australian police have arrested a Queensland doctor in connection with the British bomb plot and say a second doctor is also being spoken to.
A 27-year-old man was taken into custody at Brisbane International Airport by Queensland and FederalPolice at 11pm AEST time yesterday, as he tried to leave on an international flight.
He worked as a junior doctor at Gold Coast Hospital in Southport.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said the man - who was not an Australian citizen - was arrested as a result of information provided by British authorities.
President George W Bush has spared former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby from going to prison for 2-1/2 years for obstructing a CIA leak investigation.
"I respect the jury's verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr Libby is excessive," Bush said in a statement.
"Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."
Bush's move came after intense pressure from conservatives who demanded he pardon Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, and saw him as the victim of an overly zealous special prosecutor.
Seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis were reported killed in a suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in the province of Marib, Yemen, yesterday.
The Spanish tourists wounded in the attack were taken to hospitals in Sanaa and Marib, about 150 km east of the capital, the official Saba news agency quoted an Interior Ministry source as saying.
The bomber targeted the tourists after their vehicles left a temple in Marib at about 5.30pm. (2.30am NZT), the source said.
Two of the tour group's Yemeni drivers and tourist guides were killed and two were wounded.
