Police joining the dots: Kafeel held Chechnya meet in Bangalore, the Net has fingerprints

BANGALORE, JULY 5: With the British media identifying the Glasgow airport attack Jeep driver as Kafeel Ahmed, brother of detained Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, and a court in Australia granting the police four more days to question Mohammed Haneef, the other doctor from Bangalore held for the plot, authorities here now believe that the man who organised a Chechnya Day meeting in Bangalore in February 2006 could be the same Kafeel Ahmed.

Called in the name of the ‘Forgotten People of Chechnya, Muslims in Crisis’, the meeting was held on February 19, 2006 at the Crescent School behind a mosque in Bangalore’s Basavangudi area. One of the chief organisers of this meeting, held four days before the World Chechnya Day on February 23, was a man called Kafeel Ahmed.

Police sources said the mobile phone contact number of Kafeel Ahmed, who organised the Chechnya meeting, was 9844021070 and it was traced to Dr Maqbool Ahmed, a resident of Bangalore’s Banashankari area and father of Sabeel Ahmed who was arrested in Liverpool.

A marble plaque on one of the gates outside the home of Dr Maqbool Ahmed and his wife Dr Zakia Ahmed has the names of their three children — Kafeel Ahmed, Sabeel Ahmed and Sadia Ahmed.

The family, which briefly interacted with the media yesterday, remained in their home today.

The e-mail contact that Kafeel Ahmed dropped for the Chechnya meeting was kingkafeel@hotmail.com, the e-mail id of the Kafeel Ahmed being named in the UK Terror plot is kingkaf@yahoo.com.

“We believe he was in India from sometime in early 2006. He returned to the UK in April 2007,” police sources in Bangalore said. The sources said Kafeel Ahmed was an engineer pursuing a Ph.D in computational fluid dynamics in the UK.

Dr Zakia Ahmed, Kafeel and Sabeel’s mother, confirmed that her elder son was pursuing a Ph.D but declined to say more. “He is pursuing a Ph.D, that is all I can say. I don’t want to speak about him,” she said.

An Internet jobs database for computational fluid dynamics experts, however, revealed a resume answering to the name Kafeel Ahmed with the e-mail id kingkaf@yahoo.com.

In the Internet resume last updated on March 5, 2005 Kafeel Ahmed is shown as a bachelor of mechanical engineering from India and an M.Phil degree holder in aeronautical engineering from the UK, with some work experience as research engineer in Belfast. He is shown as being in the UK from at least September 2003.

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