If it was us ...

Remember THAT simcard? The one that was supposedly found in the burnt out jeep that had crashed into Glasgow bollards at the airport? The one which forms the 'real' basis of the charge of assisting a terrorist organisation against Dr Mohammed Haneef? The one that he gave his second cousin when he left the country? Where the sole thing which linked the giving of the card to the terrorist act was not really that it had been given to Dr Mohammed's cousin, but that it had been found in the wreck?

Well. The ABC has been reporting for over 12 hours now that the card was not found in the wreckage. Rather, it was found eight hours later, on the person of the cousin to which it had been given, in a different city. And the only substantial thing that this guy seems to have done is not tell the police immediately when he received a sms to look at a particular website (someone did look at the website from the guy's computer, the website contained a last will and testament). They aren't saying yet that it was this guy that looked at the website. But even if he did, it's looking pretty flimsy against him.

And if it's flimsy against him, then how flimsy is it against Dr Mohammed, who's sole offence so far seems to have given the bloke a simcard when Mohammed left the country? Eleven months ago? Not knowing that anyone involved was connected to a terrorist organisation (prosecution admit this at least), let alone that any of them were planning or would plan to commit a terrorist act?

The point of this all? Is simple - if the sole piece of real evidence which underlies the prosecution is not, as was said in court by prosecutors for the crown, found in guilty circumstances, and it is only those circumstances which really made the case have any legs at all, then poor old Dr Mohammed is sitting in solitary for, not only a trumped up case, but one which the prosecution have lied about in court to give it legs.

No wonder the government is refusing to comment.

Should they have a right to remain silent after all they've said so far? Or can we draw an inference from their sudden silence?

Afterall, they would if it was us that had been caught out ...