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Focus on contents of hard disk

K.V. Subramanya and Sharath S. Srivatsa

Family members interrogated again; Kafeel possibly indoctrinated in Ireland

BANGALORE: The Karnataka police are now banking on data stored in the high-capacity hard disk seized from the Bangalore home of Kafeel Ahmed in order to extract clues to the London-Glasgow terror attacks and its Bangalore angle.

The data have been copied here by experts from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Thiruvananthapuram, prior to analysis by the intelligence agencies.

Police sources expect that the information the disk would throw up could be of great value as the investigations so far have not yielded anything concrete that could help in taking the probe forward.

These sources said they suspected that Kafeel was indoctrinated by an Algerian national while he pursued a post-graduate engineering course in Ireland.

The police were looking into Kafeel’s contacts with the Algerian during his time in Queen’s University in Belfast where he did M.Phil. in Aeronautical Engineering before returning to India.

Interrogation

The police on Tuesday interrogated the family members of Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed for a second time.

They have so far not found any evidence that could indicate Kafeel’s indoctrination while in Karnataka. Nor have they established any link between Kafeel and fundamentalist or terrorist groups here.

Director-General and Inspector General of Police K.R. Srinivasan denied rumours that Kafeel had contacts with the Al-Qaeda.

Meanwhile, the antecedents of the three Bangloreans detained abroad in connection with the Glasgow terror attacks were being ascertained. The police sources said that though there could be sleeper cells in the State of banned outfits such as the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Al-Badr and the Lashkar-e-Taiba, there was no evidence of the organised presence of the Al-Qaeda.

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