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‘No proof to link Kafeel with Al-Qaeda’

K. Subramanya

— Photo: AP

This undated photo made available on Monday, by the tabloid Bangalore Mirror in Bangalore, shows engineer Kafeel Ahmed.

Bangalore: Intelligence and investigating agencies here have so far not found any evidence that suggests that Bangalore engineer Kafeel Ahmed, who attempted to drive a flaming jeep into the Glasgow airport on June 30, had direct links with the al-Qaeda.

A senior official in a Central Intelligence agency told The Hindu late on Monday night that there was no proof to link Kafeel with the al-Qaeda. It also transpires that Kafeel was not associated with any known jihadi groups such as Laskhar-e-Taiba, Jaish Mohammed or Harkat-ul Mujahideen operating in Kashmir or Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir. The official said a group from Iraq may have used Kafeel as a suicide bomber.

They believe that Kafeel was indoctrinated in the United Kingdom by an Iraqi doctor Abdullah Billal, who was said to be with him in the flaming jeep, the official said.

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