Dr Haneef's uncle Dr Kafeel Ahmed Most Suspected in Glasgow Blast Plot
ABC Online
Jul 6: AMA Gold Coast terrorism suspect Mohammed Haneef is the nephew of two of the bombing suspects being held in Britain, his family has confirmed.
Dr Haneef's uncle, Dr Kafeel Ahmed, is one of the two men alleged to have driven a car full of gas cyclinders into the airport terminal at Glasgow.
TV picture: Dr Kafeel Ahmed
He was badly burned in the attack and is still being treated in a Scottish hospital.
Dr Ahmed's brother, Sabeel, is alleged to have coordinated the plot and was arrested in Liverpool, England.
It has also been revealed the Ahmed brothers had applied to work in Western Australia.
Late last night a Brisbane magistrate gave the Australian Federal Police another 96 hours to question Dr Haneef over possible links to the UK plot.
A police spokesman says investigators are still analysing 18,000 files on Dr Haneef's laptop, and are being assisted by a counter-terrorism expert from Scotland Yard who arrived in Australia yesterday.
University of Queensland terrorism researcher Andreas Scholoenhardt says there are a number of legal options.
He says Dr Haneef may be extradited to the UK or may be charged in Australia.
Dr Haneef has been been offered a lawyer and is now receiving legal advice.
Dr Kafeel - File photo
Another seven people are being held by British authorities over the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has thanked Australia for its help with the investigation into the British bomb plot.
Prime Minister John Howard discussed the international terrorism threat with his British counterpart in a 20-minute phone call late yesterday.
Both leaders agreed their police forces had performed well in the current investigation into failed car bombs in London and Glasgow.
Please pray for us, says Kafeel’s mother
Afshan Yasmeen - for The Hindu
BANGALORE, Jul 6: “I only hope it is not my son. It was a different person who left Bangalore on May 5…” This is what Dr. Zakia Ahmed, mother of Kafeel Ahmed, told The Hindu on Thursday over telephone.
“But going by all that is being shown on television, it looks like it is him. Allah! What have I done to face such distress in my life? Please pray for us,” Dr. Zakia said. This was even as TV channels were beginning to confirm the identity of the driver of the car bomb in the terror attack at Glasgow last week.
Locked inside their residence, the family members were besieged by mediapersons and camera crew for most of the day.
On Wednesday too, the media camped out before the well-kept home in an upper middle-class locality in Banashankari following reports that their younger son, Sabeel Ahmed, had been detained by authorities in the United Kingdom. The doctor couple willingly spoke to the media.
But it was a different story on Thursday when news emerged of their older son’s involvement in the terror plot.
The dignified mother, vociferous and articulate the day before, seemed to have crumbled under the pressure of the news that her son was in a critical condition with 90 per cent burns.
“Kafeel was a rank student and he had gone to the U.K. to pursue a Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Mujhe pata nahin kisne mere bachon ko gumrah kiya hai [I don’t know who led my children astray],” she said.
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