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UK plot: 'Radical' CDs found
08/07/2007 22:26 - (SA)
Bangalore - Indian police said on Sunday they had seized CDs containing "radical materials" from the homes of two suspects held in c9onnection with the failed British car bombings.
"They were found in the houses of Kafeel Ahmed and his brother, Sabeel, and we believe these CDs contain material on Islamic military movements in various nations," said a top police officer in the southern city of Bangalore.
"These are radical stuff," he told AFP as sources added the data contained on at least two seized CDs related to the conflicts in Chechnya and Iraq.
The two brothers are among three Indians arrested in Britain for the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow.
They hail from the middle-class district of Jayanagar in Bangalore, India's software capital.
Fake Bangalore driving licences
Police said they were also studying the database at the transport office in Jayanagar from where they had found the driving-licence details of a man who rammed a flaming car into Glasgow Airport on June 30.
Officers said they were interested in a man named as Saleem Ahmed, adding that investigators also were probing the possibility that fake Bangalore driving licences were used in the bomb plot.
Sabeel Ahmed has been identified as a doctor and his brother, Kafeel, an aeronautical engineer. Kafeel is suspected to be one of the two men who drove the blazing car into Glasgow Airport. One-way ticket to India
The third is identified as Mohammed Haneef, a doctor who worked at a hospital in Australia's Gold Coast where he relocated from Britain last September.
He was detained as he attempted to leave Australia for India on a one-way ticket.
Kafeel Ahmed began researching bomb-making techniques weeks before he travelled to Britain on May 5, said the Hindu newspaper on Sunday, citing unnamed intelligence sources with records of his internet activity.
Soon after reaching Britain, he acquired the components used to assemble the explosives fitted into the cars that had been intended to explode in central London, said the newspaper.
Findings by investigators suggest that Kafeel Ahmed acted without training or material assistance from organised groups, it said, adding the police had found no evidence of him being linked to Muslim militant organisations.
Loan 'against Islamic principles'
Kafeel Ahmed went to Britain for the supposed purpose of completing his doctoral work in computational fluid dynamics, which involves study of the movement of fluids and gases over objects such as aircraft, said the Hindu.
He had a masters of philosophy degree in aeronautical engineering from Belfast's Queen's University, but his doctoral work had been delayed because of his refusal to take an educational loan on grounds that it was against Islamic principles, it added.
Kafeel Ahmed, who was pulled from the burning wreckage of the Glasgow attack, remained in a critical condition under armed guard in a Scottish hospital.
The botched attack came after two failed car bombs in central London on June 29.
- AFP
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