Kafeel Ahmed
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| Born |
Kafeel Ahmed 1 January 1979 Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Died | 2 August 2007 (aged 28) Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Other names |
Khaled Ahmad Khalid Ahmed |
| Relatives | Sabeel Ahmed (brother) |
Kafeel Ahmed (1 January 1979 – 2 August 2007) was one of two Islamic terrorists behind the 2007 London car bombs plot and the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. He died of injuries sustained in the latter attack.
Ahmed was an Indian Muslim born in Bangalore, India and raised in Saudi Arabia during his doctor parents' tenure there. He was an engineer who was studying for a PhD in computational fluid dynamics. He was often mistakenly referred to as a medical doctor in news reports.
Mobile phone records have shown that, during his 2005-2007 stay in India, Ahmed had frequent communications with Malta, the UK, Finland, Saudi Arabia and Oman. In May 2007, prior to departing to Britain from his native Bangalore, he entrusted his mother with a compact disk he said contained some important information on his "project." The disk has been handed over to police for analysis. Although the analysis is not yet complete, it had been revealed that the disk contained speeches by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, propaganda against the United Kingdom and the United States, some Jihad literature and the plight of the Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya. It transpired that Ahmed attentively followed campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, and frequented Islamist chat rooms on the internet. Digital material found included graphic depictions of real-life occurrences of torture in Chechnya, and hundreds of bomb designs from the internet.
Kafeel was the brother of Sabeel Ahmed, also arrested in the aftermath of the attack. A suicide note left behind indicates that the passenger of the vehicle, Bilal Abdullah, and himself, intended to die in the attack.
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