07-08-2007, 03:26 AM
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Intelligence agencies have, meanwhile, gone on an overdrive to ascertain the terrorist network created by the "Bangalore boys" within India. <b>Police investigations in the last couple of days have thrown up sufficient ammunition to believe that Kafeel and Sabeel had created a network of associates in India to launch an attack within India</b>.
The investigating agencies are trying to ascertain whether the brothers and their cousin, Haneef, a doctor detained by Australian police, have an Al-Qaeda link.
An international driving licence was obtained from a Bangalore RTO in the name of Bilal Abdulla, the mastermind behind the UK plot, in April 2007, apparently to enable him to acquire an Indian nationality.
Prior to his departure from India on May 5, Kabeel is reported to have told his mother that he was going for an "important assignment" abroad after which he would return to Bangalore to take up a similar important assignment. Kabeel had also obtained a driving licence in Bangalore before going to the UK.
The police have seized the cellphones of Kafeel's sister and father which were used by the brothers during their stay in India. The Ahmed brothers were believed to have been in touch with a large number of foreign Muslim students studying in India.
Before he left for the UK to take up his PhD, Kafeel and Sabeel had developed differences with the administrators of the Hazrat Tipu Masjid, close to their house at Banashankari II Stage. According to the mosque authorities, the brothers had opposed some of the practices of the mosque and had asked the administration to remove the lights installed outside for illumination.
The brothers are also said to have joined the Tableeghi Jamaat, a radical Islamic group three years ago. The police are probing reports that Kafeel had organised a Chechnya Day in Bangalore in February 2006.
A computer and some hard discs seized from Kafeel's Banashankari residence and from his elder brother Sabeel are being analysed by the cyber crime cell for clues.
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Intelligence agencies have, meanwhile, gone on an overdrive to ascertain the terrorist network created by the "Bangalore boys" within India. <b>Police investigations in the last couple of days have thrown up sufficient ammunition to believe that Kafeel and Sabeel had created a network of associates in India to launch an attack within India</b>.
The investigating agencies are trying to ascertain whether the brothers and their cousin, Haneef, a doctor detained by Australian police, have an Al-Qaeda link.
An international driving licence was obtained from a Bangalore RTO in the name of Bilal Abdulla, the mastermind behind the UK plot, in April 2007, apparently to enable him to acquire an Indian nationality.
Prior to his departure from India on May 5, Kabeel is reported to have told his mother that he was going for an "important assignment" abroad after which he would return to Bangalore to take up a similar important assignment. Kabeel had also obtained a driving licence in Bangalore before going to the UK.
The police have seized the cellphones of Kafeel's sister and father which were used by the brothers during their stay in India. The Ahmed brothers were believed to have been in touch with a large number of foreign Muslim students studying in India.
Before he left for the UK to take up his PhD, Kafeel and Sabeel had developed differences with the administrators of the Hazrat Tipu Masjid, close to their house at Banashankari II Stage. According to the mosque authorities, the brothers had opposed some of the practices of the mosque and had asked the administration to remove the lights installed outside for illumination.
The brothers are also said to have joined the Tableeghi Jamaat, a radical Islamic group three years ago. The police are probing reports that Kafeel had organised a Chechnya Day in Bangalore in February 2006.
A computer and some hard discs seized from Kafeel's Banashankari residence and from his elder brother Sabeel are being analysed by the cyber crime cell for clues.
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