Oh, ... Never Mind.

BRISBANE, Australia - An Indian doctor was freed from custody after Australia's chief prosecutor said Friday that a charge linking him to failed terrorist bombings in Britain was a mistake.

Prosecutors withdrew the charge against Mohamed Haneef in the Brisbane Magistrates Court after a review of the evidence by the federal Director of Public Prosecutions Damian Bugg found that his office should never have recommended it.

"Mistakes are embarrassing. You're embarrassed if you do something wrong," Bugg told reporters in Canberra. "I'm disappointed that it's happened and I will first thing next week try and obtain a better understanding of how it came about." ...

Haneef has been in custody since July 2, when he was arrested at Brisbane International Airport as he was about to fly to India.

Haneef had been charged with providing reckless support to a terrorist organization because he gave his mobile phone SIM card to his second cousin, Sabeel Ahmed, in July last year. He had faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Bugg said there was insufficient evidence to prove the charge, describing the mistake as "upsetting."

British police have charged Ahmed, 26, with withholding information that could prevent an act of terrorism. His brother, Kafeel Ahmed, is believed to have set himself ablaze after crashing into Glasgow Airport and remains in a Scottish hospital with critical burns.

In Brisbane, prosecutor Alan MacSporran said authorities had erred in telling the court that Haneef's SIM card had been discovered inside the vehicle used to attack the Glasgow airport. The card was found in the possession of Sabeel Ahmed in Liverpool, more than 185 miles from the attack scene.

A second error related to claims that Haneef had lived with the Ahmed brothers in Liverpool before he moved to Australia from Britain last year. The trio had only spent time together in Britain.

Haneef has denied knowing anything about the British bomb plot, and told police he only gave his SIM card to his cousin so he could take advantage of extra minutes left on the account.

He told police he was rushing to India to join his family because his daughter had been born a few days earlier by emergency Caesarean section.

Luckily for Haneef, even Australia's conservative Howard government hasn't eliminated habeas corpus for terrorism suspects, and they don't send detainees to offshore prisons. He had a chance to prove that the executive authority wasn't telling the truth about him, that his participation in a supposed international conspiracy was a fiction. So he was set free.

Meanwhile, I'm just happy I've never given anything with my name on it to my cousin. Her brother is kind of a mess. I don't think he's got any radical political ideas, but hell, I don't know. I'd sure hate to be arrested and maybe sent to Gitmo just because he did something stupid.