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Dr Haneef’s uncle Dr Kafeel Ahmed Most Suspected in Glasgow Blast Plot
ABC Online
Jul 6: AMA Gold Coast terrorism suspect Mohammed Haneef is the nephew of two of the bombing suspects being held in Britain, his family has confirmed.
Dr Haneef’s uncle, Dr Kafeel Ahmed, is one of the two men alleged to have driven a car full of gas cyclinders into the airport terminal at Glasgow.
He was badly burned in the attack and is still being treated in a Scottish hospital.
Dr Ahmed’s brother, Sabeel, is alleged to have coordinated the plot and was arrested in Liverpool, England.
It has also been revealed the Ahmed brothers had applied to work in Western Australia.
Late last night a Brisbane magistrate gave the Australian Federal Police another 96 hours to question Dr Haneef over possible links to the UK plot.
A police spokesman says investigators are still analysing 18,000 files on Dr Haneef’s laptop, and are being assisted by a counter-terrorism expert from Scotland Yard who arrived in Australia yesterday.
University of Queensland terrorism researcher Andreas Scholoenhardt says there are a number of legal options.
He says Dr Haneef may be extradited to the UK or may be charged in Australia.
Dr Haneef has been been offered a lawyer and is now receiving legal advice.
Dr Kafeel - File photo
Another seven people are being held by British authorities over the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has thanked Australia for its help with the investigation into the British bomb plot.
Prime Minister John Howard discussed the international terrorism threat with his British counterpart in a 20-minute phone call late yesterday.
Both leaders agreed their police forces had performed well in the current investigation into failed car bombs in London and Glasgow.
Please pray for us, says Kafeel’s mother
Afshan Yasmeen - for The Hindu
BANGALORE, Jul 6: “I only hope it is not my son. It was a different person who left Bangalore on May 5…†This is what Dr. Zakia Ahmed, mother of Kafeel Ahmed, told The Hindu on Thursday over telephone.
“But going by all that is being shown on television, it looks like it is him. Allah! What have I done to face such distress in my life? Please pray for us,†Dr. Zakia said. This was even as TV channels were beginning to confirm the identity of the driver of the car bomb in the terror attack at Glasgow last week.
Locked inside their residence, the family members were besieged by mediapersons and camera crew for most of the day.
On Wednesday too, the media camped out before the well-kept home in an upper middle-class locality in Banashankari following reports that their younger son, Sabeel Ahmed, had been detained by authorities in the United Kingdom. The doctor couple willingly spoke to the media.
But it was a different story on Thursday when news emerged of their older son’s involvement in the terror plot.
The dignified mother, vociferous and articulate the day before, seemed to have crumbled under the pressure of the news that her son was in a critical condition with 90 per cent burns.
“Kafeel was a rank student and he had gone to the U.K. to pursue a Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Mujhe pata nahin kisne mere bachon ko gumrah kiya hai [I don’t know who led my children astray],†she said.
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Times of India online reports :
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TURNING DEADLIER: 1996 file photo of Kafeel Ahmed, the man who allegedly rammed a jeep into Glasgow airport on Saturday, June 30. Kafeel, now in a Glasgow hospital with 90 per cent burns, is the brother of Bangalore doctor Sabeel (TOI Photo)
LONDON/BANGALORE: The Bangalore connection to the British terror web appears to be turning deadlier by the day. Two days after the suspected role of two cousins Sabeel Ahmed and Haneef Muhammed, both from Bangalore, in the foiled car bombings in London hit headlines, it has now emerged that the man who drove the flaming jeep into Glasgow airport on Saturday is Sabeel’s elder brother Kafeel. Kafeel, an aeronautical engineer with a PhD from UK, is lying in hospital with 90% burns.
While police and security agencies in London were cagey about confirming the identity of the man they had pulled out of the flaming Jeep, sources in Bangalore confirmed that the man was, indeed, Sabeel’s brother Kafeel, and not someone by the name of Khalid Ahmed, named as the driver earlier by British cops.
Kafeel is also suspected to be the chief designer of the car bombs which were defused by London police in the crowded Haymarket (near Picadilly) area last week. He was a doctoral researcher at the Anglia Polytechnic University in the department of design and technology. His CV mentions him as the author of papers on aerodynamic designs, computer-aided modelling and fluid behaviour.
The third Indian in what is widely assumed now to be an al Qaeda-linked terror cell is Mohammad Haneef, a 27-year-old doctor arrested by Australian police this week from Brisbane. Haneef, a cousin of the Ahmed brothers, was in close touch with Sabeel. He was nabbed as he tried to board a flight with a one-way ticket for India via Malaysia. Haneef, Sabeel and Kafeel’s families have denied they have any terror links.
A British investigator, meanwhile, was questioning Haneef, who like Sabeel, studied medicine at Bangalore’s B R Ambedkar College. The two doctors had also worked together at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire, until about six months back when Haneef moved to Queensland, Australia.
Reports said two of the suspects in the Glasgow attack rented a house just a few miles from the airport.
Special: Glasgow & the Indian connection Kafeel’s mother feared he was on wrong path
10 Jul 2007, 0002 hrs IST , Rakesh Prakash , TNN
Kafeel’s mother feared he was on wrong path
10 Jul 2007, 0002 hrs IST,Rakesh Prakash,TNN
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BANGALORE: Investigators working on the Bangalore connection to the UK terror plot have come across a startling disclosure: alleged Glasgow bomber Kafeel Ahmed’s mother Dr Zakia Khan seemed to be aware of his fanatical inclinations and tried to stop him.
Investigators quoted her as saying: “I suspected him to be taking the wrong path, but had no idea exactly what he was up to. I still can’t imagine he did something of this magnitude.”
But the 28-year-old aeronautical engineer’s alleged suicide attack was not a bolt from the blue for his family. Not only did the radicalisation of Kafeel and his brother, Sabeel, happen in their living room, Kafeel’s earlier actions and thoughts often led to altercations within the family with Zakia reportedly blaming her husband, Dr Maqbool Ahmed.
A member of radical group Jamaat-e-Islami, Maqbool is said to be a puritanical Muslim, which could have influenced Kafeel and Sabeel, the Bangalore-educated doctor also detained by the UK authorities for terror links.
Sources close to the family said the mother lived in fear of her sons being “trapped” by terror groups. As most of Kafeel’s formative years were spent in the Middle-East, where the couple worked, there was every likelihood that the boys could have been influenced by radical forms of Islam, like the ultra-conservative Saudi Wahhabi school.
Zakia should have been relieved when Kafeel returned to Karnataka to pursue studies. But he soon went abroad for higher studies. Every time he returned home on short breaks, his words only compounded Zakia’s fears.
Investigators said Zakia pleaded with Kafeel not to leave during his stay in Bangalore before he left for UK on May 5. She reportedly told him: “If you do something wrong, you won’t be my son. Even Allah will not forgive you.”
But he left. When the Bangalore connection to Glasgow bombings was first suspected, the family went into prayer mode, sources said. When Mohammed Haneef’s name cropped up, Zakia prayed her sons were not involved. But when Sabeel’s arrest was announced, the family knew deep down their worst nightmare was unfolding.
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These are random news in a world dry of news, the Lal Masjid and the failed Glasgow bombing hold sway…
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Mumbai Train Blasts that I shot late in the night ,on that inauspicious day , a night that does not move away from the gallery of my lifes images.
After reading much of the news like you I ask myself who is a good Muslim?
Being a Jamati, Salafi, Wahhabi Ahle Hadeed, Shia Sunni is certainly not a crime.
Islam is time and again been mentioned as a Religion of Peace and Brotherhood.
Yet a few disgruntled lot with their rumblings divert the cause of Islam..almost singlehandedly giving it a big blow.Hurting all of us sane and secular minded Muslims.
So who is a good Muslim?
A guy at flickrs called me Anti -Islam, because I show through pictures the sad lot of deprived underprivilged Muslim women begging in the streets.
Another pompous lady used harsher words,almost making me laugh when she says oor lot of deprivation is because of rich western society.She calmly forgets the Arabs , the rich filthy sytem promoted by the Arabs to enslave other Muslims to work for them for peanuts, ill treat them..these are what I saw read and I worked as a slave labourer in Muscat Oman..
Anyway I digress, a good Muslim is he who follows the five pillars ,does all this wanted of him as a Muslim , keeps the peace with his neighbour and respects the laws of the country of his Birth..defends her honor in times of war..
Even if he is a Muslim in any country.
Live and let others live too.
So now all of a sudden the Islamic perspective has changed..hate has crept in disillusionment , the Cold War , all other historical events that are not part of this purview..Madrsaas sprouting everywhere , nothing wrong , only when they start dessiminating hate for man and the country f their Birth , than it becomes a dangerous situation..
Calling these radical elements misguided is not enough.
The entire Muslim society is to be blamed.
First it was Ignorance that made people commit crime goaded by wrong teachings of Hate.
Than came the Kafeels, as alleged .
The new breed of terror is the change of guard .. Enter the Metrosexual Terrorist .
Says a report in the Times of India
New Intelleigent Recruits use the latest Gizmos, steganography , “a method of hiding cryptic information in pictures or video images in a way that no one but the intended recipent willonly know there s a message..Steganography can be through video or any multi -media device..”
You can read the Times July10 2007 for more details Mumbai edition.
When a Muslim wavers from his basic foundations corrupted by rogue preachers ,societies the cancer has set in even an educated doctor mother can do nothing..Today this single incident condemns the teaching of the Jamatis of this particular Kafeel group atleast.This is not Islam that the Holy Prophet preaced or for which Imam Husain gave his head but not his hand to Yazid..
Terrorism is not new , silence stitched lips in Islam is not new, let them kill who cares is not new.. here my detractors will say I speak as a Shia , so be it I am not a a Wahhabi, Salafi , Ahle Hadeed or Ahle Yazeed, I am not a Shia or a Sunni or a Jammati.. I am a human being ..
Yes I am a Muslim .
At Karbala it was the same scenario , only the victims were given a very bad deal, I call it the Cartoons on the Sands of Karbala drawn in blood by Yazidiyat.
The Lal Masjid , all this only is a modernised concept of Yazidiyat. Allowed to be tolerated by Islamic Soceity.
We are payinfg for their sins.
KHWAJA MOINUDDIN CHISTI (RA)says:
He gave his head, but did not put his hand into the hands of Yazid. Verily, Husayn is the foundation of la ilaha illa Allah. Husayn is king and the king of kings. Husayn himself is Islam and the shield of Islam. Though he gave his head (for Islam) but never pledged Yazid. Truly Husayn is the founder of “There is no Deity except Allah.”
Shah ast Hussain, Badshah ast Hussain,
Deen ast Hussain, Deen Panah ast Hussain,
Sar dad, na dad dast, dar dast-e-yazeed,
Haqaa key binaey La ila ast Hussain
Hussain is the Master, Hussain is the King,
Hussain is Faith, Hussain is Refuge for the Faith,
He gave his head but not his hand in Yazeed’s hand
Verily Hussain is the foundation of La’Illah.
A good Muslim was there also at Karbala shooting arrows at Namaz time on Hussain, than later decapitating his head…
The problem is I talk about good Muslims and Bad Muslims
But I am wondering where have all the good human beings have gone…
Firoze Shakir
Photographerno1
10 July 2007
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