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2007-07-07 Britain

Kafeel held Chechnya meet in Bangalore, the Net has fingerprints

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Let Russia ask for him...

Posted by Matt K. 2007-07-07 00:48|| 2007-07-07 00:48|| Front Page Top

#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 Haneefs 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 Ministers Office. Delhi hasnt 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 familys lawyer, B.T. Venkatesh, left the house with Zakia, Sadia and a relative.

Venkatesh told the waiting journalists the family was headed to a relatives 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|| 2007-07-07 07:03|| Front Page Top

#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!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-07 12:16|| 2007-07-07 12:16|| Front Page Top

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