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| Kafeel held Chechnya meet in Bangalore, the Net has fingerprints |
| 2007-07-07 |
| With the British media identifying the Glasgow airport attack Jeep driver as Kafeel Ahmed, brother of detained Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, and a court in Australia granting the police four more days to question Mohammed Haneef, the other doctor from Bangalore held for the plot, authorities here now believe that the man who organised a Chechnya Day meeting in Bangalore in February 2006 could be the same Kafeel Ahmed. Called in the name of the ‘Forgotten People of Chechnya, Muslims in Crisis’, the meeting was held on February 19, 2006 at the Crescent School behind a mosque in Bangalore’s Basavangudi area. One of the chief organisers of this meeting, held four days before the World Chechnya Day on February 23, was a man called Kafeel Ahmed. Police sources said the mobile phone contact number of Kafeel Ahmed, who organised the Chechnya meeting, was 9844021070 and it was traced to Dr Maqbool Ahmed, a resident of Bangalore’s Banashankari area and father of Sabeel Ahmed who was arrested in Liverpool. A marble plaque on one of the gates outside the home of Dr Maqbool Ahmed and his wife Dr Zakia Ahmed has the names of their three children — Kafeel Ahmed, Sabeel Ahmed and Sadia Ahmed. The family, which briefly interacted with the media yesterday, remained in their home today. The e-mail contact that Kafeel Ahmed dropped for the Chechnya meeting was kingkafeel@hotmail.com, the e-mail id of the Kafeel Ahmed being named in the UK terror plot is kingkaf@yahoo.com. “We believe he was in India from sometime in early 2006. He returned to the UK in April 2007,” police sources in Bangalore said. The sources said Kafeel Ahmed was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D in computational fluid dynamics in the UK. Dr Zakia Ahmed, Kafeel and Sabeel’s mother, confirmed that her elder son was pursuing a Ph.D but declined to say more. “He is pursuing a Ph.D, that is all I can say. I don’t want to speak about him,” she said. An Internet jobs database for computational fluid dynamics experts, however, revealed a resume answering to the name Kafeel Ahmed with the e-mail id kingkaf@yahoo.com. In the Internet resume last updated on March 5, 2005 Kafeel Ahmed is shown as a bachelor of mechanical engineering from India and an M.Phil degree holder in aeronautical engineering from the UK, with some work experience as research engineer in Belfast. He is shown as being in the UK from at least September 2003. He is stated to have been residing in Cambridge, UK at the time and pursuing a Ph.D in fluid dynamics at the Anglia Polytechnic University. Apart from fluid dynamics, Kafeel’s stated interests include aerospace design and fluid-structure interaction. An online 2005-06 report on faculty research at the Anglia Polytechnic University’s showed the presence of a post-graduate research student named Kafeel Ahmed at the Chelmsford campus of the college, researching a fluid dynamics topic ‘Computational Approach to Ink-jet Printing of Tactile Maps’. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The sources said Kafeel Ahmed was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D in computational fluid dynamics in the UK. Hmmm. Nice bit of science for developing your more aerodynamic missle or improving the explosive mix of say, an air bomb? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-07-07 12:16 |
| #2 Bangalore, July 6: Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed, the puritanical Bangalore brothers accused of involvement in the failed London and Glasgow bombings, had hardly spent a decade of their lives in India, sources said today. Both spent their formative years in Saudi Arabia. Their parents, Dr Zakia and Dr Maqbool Ahmed, lived in Iran from 1979 to 1983, a period when their sons were born. Zakia did travel to India for childbirth on each occasion, though. Later, in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war, the family left for Saudi Arabia and stayed there a further 11 years till 1994. When they returned to Bangalore, Kafeel and Sabeel would have been 14 and 13. Kafeel left for the UK just seven years later, in 2001, and Sabeel followed him a couple of years on. Zakia and her daughter Sadia, an MBBS student, were secretly questioned outside their home today by a Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) team that arrived in the city this morning. “They were asked if they knew that the brothers were planning attacks in the UK, if they followed the hardline sect Tabliqui Jamat, and when the brothers had turned radical,” a source said. The sleuths also interrogated the mother and siblings of Mohammed Haneef, the Indian doctor detained in Australia. Tomorrow, they are expected to speak to Haneef’s wife Firdous, who is staying with her parents. The move comes after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday offered to help the British government as well as the three suspects’ families in Bangalore. Sources said the agency has been asked to pass on all information to the Prime Minister’s Office. Delhi hasn’t decided about extending consular support to the accused. The city police had questioned the Ahmeds last night and this morning at their home. Immediately after that, the family’s lawyer, B.T. Venkatesh, left the house with Zakia, Sadia and a relative. Venkatesh told the waiting journalists the family was headed to a relative’s house. But sources later said the lawyer drove Zakia and Sadia to a guesthouse where the RAW team questioned them for over four hours. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-07-07 07:03 |
| #1 Let Russia ask for him... |
| Posted by: Matt K. 2007-07-07 00:48 |