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Bangalore cops probe Indian link in UK terror
Published on Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 16:30, Updated on Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:24 in 
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PROBE ON: Bangalore police say preliminary enquiries have been going on for two days now.
Bangalore: The Indian connection to the UK terror plot is turning out to be very strong. The Bangalore Police say Kafeel Ahmed, brother of detained Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, was the man who crashed a jeep into the Glasgow Airport.
Police say the brothers were fundamentalists, and used to organise radical meetings.
Dr Zakia Ahmed had never imagined that her two sons, one a doctor and the other an engineer, could have been terror suspects.
“God only knows, I don't know anything, I am here. I asked them ‘Should I come over there and help you? I even asked my son. He said if he needs me he will contact,” said Dr Zakia.
Sabeel was taken into custody soon after the terror bid attack was foiled but a more startling disclosure came when the Bangalore police claimed his brother Kafeel was the man who drove the burning jeep to the Glasgow airport building.
Kafeel is now in hospital with 90 per cent burns. Kafeel and Sabeel are also cousins of Dr Mohammmed Haneef, another Indian doctor detained in Brisbane.
As far as the Bangalore police are concerned, they have said that preliminary inquiries have been going on for two days now.
On Thursday, they questioned the families of Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed. Police are also probing if the brothers had links with the banned Islamic outfit SIMI.
“With the new development, any related issues, like their background, incriminating can be found,” said City Police Commissioner, Bangalore, Achuta Rao.
According to reports, both Kafeel and Sabeel were deeply religious and used to visit a local mosque frequently. But locals say they did not mingle with many people.
“We don’t know them too well, they used to come and go, basically from Saudi Arabia,” said President of Jamia Hazrat Tippu mosque, Sheikh Azghar Ali.
Investigators in the UK are also trying to decipher a conversation Kafeel had with his family before he left for the UK.
He had apparently told his mother and sister, "I am involved in a large scale confidential project on global warming. The project has to be started in the UK. During the project work in the UK, I will not be available by any means- phone or Internet- for a week."
Investigators suspect by 'confidential project', he may have been referring to the terror plot.
It might take weeks for police to unravel the entire plot as interrogation of suspects continues but one perhaps may not know what Kafeel was really up to with doctors saying his is unlikely to survive the burn injuries.
(With inputs from Reni Rajan)
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