08-18-2008, 08:46 PM
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Pioneer.com
TN Raghunatha | Mumbai
SIMI e-mail emanated from his computer
American national Kenneth Haywood, from whose Internet Protocol (IP) address the terror-outfit Indian Mujahideen had purportedly sent an e-mail to media organisations minutes before the Ahmedabad serial blasts,<b> has fled the country</b>.
<b>Haywood is believed to have flown to the US from New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport in the wee hours of Monday. This was despite a look-out notice issued against him by the police to all airports and seaports in the country</b>.
Confirming the development, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare told The Pioneer on Monday evening,<b> "Haywood was to have appeared before the ATS for questioning in connection with an allegation made by him against a Navi Mumbai police officer. After he failed to turn up, we checked and learnt that Haywood fled the country from New Delhi."</b>
Mumbai Police has blamed its Delhi counterparts for the goof-up as he was allowed to pass through the immigration despite a look-out notice against his name, official sources informed.
What has shocked the ATS is that Haywood has fled the country even before the receipt of the final reports of the lie-detector and brain-mapping tests conducted on him on August 13 and the report of forensic examination of his two computers and a laptop. The ATS received all the test reports on Monday. Significantly enough, the lie-detector and brain-mapping tests have cleared him.
Haywood, who lived in two 15th floor flats (1503 and 1504) in C-wing of posh Gunina Apartments located on the upmarket Palm Beach Road at Sanpada, had been dodging ATS officials since August 15, when he was called for questioning over his allegation that a senior police officer had demanded a bribe to bail him out.
"When we called him on his mobile on August 15, he excused himself saying that he was pre-occupied. The following day, he said he was unwell. Finally, we summoned him on Monday. Since he did not turn up, we unsuccessfully tried to reach him on his mobile. Our officers went to his Navi Mumbai residence but found it locked. Later, we came to know that he has fled the country," Karkare said.
<b>As to why the ATS had not seized Haywood's passport, Karkare said that it could not do so since there was nothing against him to make him a suspect. </b>"Even the scientific tests conducted on him have turned out negative. But it is rather serious that he has chosen to flee the country without informing us and taking our permission. It is another matter we could not have held Haywood back in the event of his having made a formal request to us - especially in the light of the fact that scientific tests conducted on him have tested negative," Karkare said.
Haywood, who had all along claimed that he was innocent and that his IP address might have been hacked by the terrorist outfit to send the blasts message to the media, was among half a dozen persons subjected to lie-detector and brain mapping tests by ATS on August 13.
Haywood had come on ATS radar a day after the Ahmedabad serial blasts. It was after ATS established that an e-mail, which was received by news television channels from Indian Mujahideen minutes before the blasts, had been sent from Haywood's IP address. The ATS had raided his residence, seized his two computers and a laptop and put him and his wife to a thorough interrogation.
<b>The entire building had a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) facility, with Haywood being one of the users. He had claimed that his connection, which was not password protected, was used by the terror group to send the email. The Gujarat Police is already on a look out for a techie, who was working earlier with Wipro, as it claims that he could have possibly hacked Haywood's Internet connection. </b>
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Govt. let him go PERIOD.
Pioneer.com
TN Raghunatha | Mumbai
SIMI e-mail emanated from his computer
American national Kenneth Haywood, from whose Internet Protocol (IP) address the terror-outfit Indian Mujahideen had purportedly sent an e-mail to media organisations minutes before the Ahmedabad serial blasts,<b> has fled the country</b>.
<b>Haywood is believed to have flown to the US from New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport in the wee hours of Monday. This was despite a look-out notice issued against him by the police to all airports and seaports in the country</b>.
Confirming the development, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare told The Pioneer on Monday evening,<b> "Haywood was to have appeared before the ATS for questioning in connection with an allegation made by him against a Navi Mumbai police officer. After he failed to turn up, we checked and learnt that Haywood fled the country from New Delhi."</b>
Mumbai Police has blamed its Delhi counterparts for the goof-up as he was allowed to pass through the immigration despite a look-out notice against his name, official sources informed.
What has shocked the ATS is that Haywood has fled the country even before the receipt of the final reports of the lie-detector and brain-mapping tests conducted on him on August 13 and the report of forensic examination of his two computers and a laptop. The ATS received all the test reports on Monday. Significantly enough, the lie-detector and brain-mapping tests have cleared him.
Haywood, who lived in two 15th floor flats (1503 and 1504) in C-wing of posh Gunina Apartments located on the upmarket Palm Beach Road at Sanpada, had been dodging ATS officials since August 15, when he was called for questioning over his allegation that a senior police officer had demanded a bribe to bail him out.
"When we called him on his mobile on August 15, he excused himself saying that he was pre-occupied. The following day, he said he was unwell. Finally, we summoned him on Monday. Since he did not turn up, we unsuccessfully tried to reach him on his mobile. Our officers went to his Navi Mumbai residence but found it locked. Later, we came to know that he has fled the country," Karkare said.
<b>As to why the ATS had not seized Haywood's passport, Karkare said that it could not do so since there was nothing against him to make him a suspect. </b>"Even the scientific tests conducted on him have turned out negative. But it is rather serious that he has chosen to flee the country without informing us and taking our permission. It is another matter we could not have held Haywood back in the event of his having made a formal request to us - especially in the light of the fact that scientific tests conducted on him have tested negative," Karkare said.
Haywood, who had all along claimed that he was innocent and that his IP address might have been hacked by the terrorist outfit to send the blasts message to the media, was among half a dozen persons subjected to lie-detector and brain mapping tests by ATS on August 13.
Haywood had come on ATS radar a day after the Ahmedabad serial blasts. It was after ATS established that an e-mail, which was received by news television channels from Indian Mujahideen minutes before the blasts, had been sent from Haywood's IP address. The ATS had raided his residence, seized his two computers and a laptop and put him and his wife to a thorough interrogation.
<b>The entire building had a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) facility, with Haywood being one of the users. He had claimed that his connection, which was not password protected, was used by the terror group to send the email. The Gujarat Police is already on a look out for a techie, who was working earlier with Wipro, as it claims that he could have possibly hacked Haywood's Internet connection. </b>
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Govt. let him go PERIOD.