Click to play videoBangalore: The Bangalore police on Sunday confirmed that Kafeel Ahmed’s mother Dr Zakia Ahmed has identified her son as the Glasgow bomber.
Kafeel’s sister and mother were interrogated by the Bangalore police on Friday in connection with last week’s failed terror attacks in Glasgow Airport in Scotland.
“Their opinion is based on video clippings. They say the person in video clippings resembles Kafeel,” says Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Bangalore, Gopal B Hosur.
So as the Bangalore link to Glasgow terror plot becomes clearer, the city police have deployed several teams from the central crime branch and the cyber crime cell to see if Kafeel had other fundamentalist contacts in the country. For instance, seminars that he attended of radical organisations and contacts with extremist groups.
“All these things about the network is being scrutinised by the teams. All matters related to Kafeel and Sabeel are being examined,” says Hosur.
Sources say the cyber crime cell is now trying to decode and analyse the huge volume of computer data it's recovered from Kafeel's home. They say it contains jehadi propaganda and preachings that could be aggressive or provocative.
Meanwhile the British media are exploring possible links between Kafeel and the al-Qaeda.
The Observer quotes senior officials in a report as saying that Kafeel was a known associate of Abbas, a known operative of al-Qaeda and a bomb maker in Europe. It is believed that Kafeel knew him in Belfast between 2001 and 2004.
This also indicates Kafeel’s involvement and that perhaps it could have been Kafeel who was behind the making of the car bombs in London and Glasgow.
(With inputs from Akanksha Bannerji on London)
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