Bin Laden speeches found in Kafeel Ahmed’s house in Bangalore
MIL/Agencies/TOI, Jul 10, 2007.
New Delhi: July 10, 2007 – The authorities have seized the recorded CDs of inflammatory speeches by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and propaganda against the United States and Britain from house of Kafeel Ahmed, the suspect in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. The CDs are connected with the British terror plot.
The material was found in three CDs along with a computer hard disk. Kafeel Ahmed is the suspect who drove a flaming vehicle into Glasgow airport.
While Kafeel Ahmed is in a hospital in Glasgow with burn injuries over 90 per cent of his body, his brother Sabeel Ahmed is being detained by the British police. Their cousin Mohammed Haneef is being questioned by the police in Brisbane, Australia.
The Times of India also quoted investigators as saying that Kafeel Ahmed's mother Zakia Khan had feared that her son was straying down a wrong path.
'I suspected him to be taking a wrong path, but I had no idea exactly what he was up to. I still can't imagine he did something of this magnitude,' she was quoted as saying by the police.
Kafeel Ahmed allegedly carried out the failed attack at Glasgow airport along with Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah and the two were also believed to have driven two Mercedes 'bomb cars' to central London a day earlier. Those were discovered and defused.
Zakia Khan and her husband live in India's information technology hub Bangalore, capital of southern India's Karnataka state. Both their sons studied in colleges in the state before leaving for higher degrees in Britain and Ireland.
Kafeel, 28 is an aeronautical engineer, while Sabeel, 27, is a doctor.
Kafeel Ahmed worked in the Bangalore office of Indian outsourcing major Infotech Enterprises between December 2005 and July 2006, reports said.
Infotech provides development support to several aircraft manufacturers including Boeing and Airbus and its clients include the British Home Office.
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy is scheduled to chair a meeting of senior officials from the state home and police departments Tuesday to discuss the information gathered by the police and intelligence departments on the two brothers and their cousin in Australia.
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