DAR AL HARB - AUSTRALIA: HOSPITAL RAIDS IN AUSTRALIA

BOMB PROBE POLICE RAID HOSPITALS IN AUSTRALIA

Police seized computers from two hospitals in Australia today as part of the probe into attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow.

Detectives also revealed that inquiries in Australia, where Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef was arrested in Queensland on Monday, had also widened to a third state, New South Wales.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said: "There are a number of people now being interviewed as part of this investigation. It doesn't mean that they're all suspects."

He said those being interviewed included foreign doctors of Indian background. Computers were taken from hospitals in Perth, Western Australia, and the outback mining town of Kalgoorlie.

The move came as Muslim groups in the UK launched a campaign to distance themselves from terrorists.

A coalition calling itself Muslims United has taken out advertisements in national newspapers condemning the attacks as contrary to the teachings of Islam.

Eight people have been arrested over the bomb plots in the UK and Australia.

Six are being held at London's high security Paddington Green police station.

Of those being held in London, five men are believed to be either doctors or trainee doctors.

Meanwhile, a seventh remains in a critical condition at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, following the airport attack.

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