New Delhi - Inflammatory speeches by al-Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden and propaganda against the United States and Britain have
been seized by police from the house of a British terror plot suspect
in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, a news report said Tuesday.
The material was found in three CDs that were seized along with a
computer hard disk from the house of Kafeel Ahmed, who is suspected
of being the person who drove a flaming vehicle into Glasgow airport,
the Times of India newspaper reported.
While Kafeel Ahmed is in a hospital in Glasgow with burn injuries
over 90 per cent of his body, his brother Sabeel Ahmed is being
detained by the British police. Their cousin Mohammed Haneef is being
questioned by the police in Brisbane, Australia.
The Times of India also quoted investigators as saying that Kafeel
Ahmed's mother Zakia Khan had feared that her son was straying down a
wrong path.
'I suspected him to be taking a wrong path, but I had no idea
exactly what he was up to. I still can't imagine he did something of
this magnitude,' she was quoted as saying by the police.
Kafeel Ahmed allegedly carried out the failed attack at Glasgow
airport along with Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah and the two were also
believed to have driven two Mercedes 'bomb cars' to central London a
day earlier. Those were discovered and defused.
Zakia Khan and her husband live in India's information technology
hub Bangalore, capital of southern India's Karnataka state. Both
their sons studied in colleges in the state before leaving for higher
degrees in Britain and Ireland.
Kafeel, 28 is an aeronautical engineer, while Sabeel, 27, is a
doctor.
Kafeel Ahmed worked in the Bangalore office of Indian outsourcing
major Infotech Enterprises between December 2005 and July 2006,
reports said.
Infotech provides development support to several aircraft
manufacturers including Boeing and Airbus and its clients include the
British Home Office.
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy is scheduled to chair a
meeting of senior officials from the state home and police
departments Tuesday to discuss the information gathered by the police
and intelligence departments on the two brothers and their cousin in
Australia.
A senior Australian police official is also expected to arrive in
Bangalore as part of the probe against Haneef.
The Times of India quoted police sources as saying that Kafeel
Ahmed and his associates were believed to have visited Pakistan more
than once to seeek approval for the Britain terror plot.
The police also suspect that al-Qaeda operatives have been at work
in India recruiting young people.
'Al-Qaeda operatives have infiltrated the country in a big way and
are acting as sleeper cells, spreading messages brainwashing youths.
They have a long-term, methodical plan. It will not be long before
these sympathisers turn operatives,' an official of Karnataka
Police's anti-terrorist cell was quoted as saying.
The official said al-Qaeda was targetting young educated Muslims
who could be sent to the United States and Europe for terrorist
activities.
He said al-Qaeda sleeper cells attempted to spread hatred through
e-mails, MMS, SMS and video and audio clips with incendiary speeches,
images of armed militants and torture of Muslims.
Some of the images being circulated include that of militants
riding tanks and firing in the air, of bin Laden firing a gun,
pictures of the 9/11 attack in New York and pictures of an American
soldier slitting the throat of an Iraqi man and then severing his
head.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur 
AlJul 10th, 2007 - 11:49:53
If this report is right and an Indian citizen is able to travel to Pakistan freely. Then there has to be collusion with the ISI. ISI has always looked to destablize India radicalising a minority India Muslims. Pakistan and Saudi are the hub of everything that is going on. Pakistan the manpower, and Saudi the financial resources. The Brits and the Americans just don't want to listen to the Indians or anybody else for that matter, because the truth is just too hard to bear. That their great friend Pakistan is playing both sides. Whist the US is deaf and dump, all of us will keep paying the price.
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