More on Kafeel Ahmed. "Indian suspect linked to Al Qaeda: report," from Agence France-Presse:
BANGALORE - An Indian man who allegedly drove a jeep into Glasgow airport had links to the Al Qaeda network, the Times of India reported Tuesday, citing evidence found at his Bangalore house.
Three CDs and a computer hard drive found at Kafeel Ahmed’s house contained inflammatory speeches by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as well as anti-US and anti- Britain propaganda, the newspaper reported in its Bangalore edition.
The hard drive contained videos of bin Laden and messages to Al Qaeda operatives, the report said, fuelling the hypothesis that the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow in late June could be linked to the group.
Ahmed, in his mid-20s, has been identified as the man who drove a Jeep Cherokee into the Glasgow airport terminal. He is being treated for severe burns.
Indian media reports say he is an aeronautical engineer who was studying for his doctorate in Britain, while an Australian medical official said he had applied for a doctor’s job in western Australia.
His younger brother Sabeel, a doctor, has also been held in Britain. A third Indian suspect, Mohammed Haneef, 27, also a doctor, was detained in Australia on suspicion of links to the plot.
The Times of India said Kafeel Ahmed’s mother had been aware of his “fanatical inclinations” and tried to stop him from travelling to Britain.
“I suspected him to be taking the wrong path but had no idea what he was up to,” Zakia Ahmed, a retired professor of medicine, reportedly told investigators. “I still cannot imagine he did something of this magnitude.”
She pleaded with the suspect not to leave before his departure for Britain on May 5, the report said, adding she threatened to disown him if he did “something wrong.”
“Even Allah will not forgive you,” she was quoted as telling her son, who did his basic engineering degree at a college in Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital, reports say.
The Times of India quoted a senior intelligence officer working on counter-terrorism strategies as saying that Al Qaeda was trying to use “Indian resources and infrastructure to create havoc in the US and Europe.”
The Times of India also notes:
Kafeel, before leaving for Britain on May five, had handed over the disk to his mother Zakia Ahmed, warning her that it contained some important information on his "project".
Kafeel also asked his mother to ensure the safety of the disk and not to let it slip into anyone's hands.
Zakia, taking the warning seriously, had handed the disk over to her daughter Sadia, a medical student. Sadia, in turn, asked a friend to keep the disk.
When Kafeel called his home here on June 30, he told his mother that he was working on an important "project" and asked his family to pray for its success, investigators said. They pointed out that the failed terror attacks in Britain occurred hours after Kafeel spoke to his family.
Kafeel had also told his family (again from The Times of India) that he was working on a "confidential project on global warming."
Times of India has already pulled that story off the net. Maybe the editors are doing some thinking. They have shown signs of sanity in the past, maybe they might just stop behaving like the stupid MSM.
what a waste of a Jeep Cherokee! can you imagine how much it would cost in GB? just for destroying a Jeep Cherokee this islamist should be jailed for life! ok... l think his burns all over his body will give him enough pain, but going to jail and no koran will satisfy me enough.
Arjun--
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had some trouble finding the original Times story. I did stumble across this, oddly, while looking through reporting on the Lal Masjid raid.
I've added the link in the main article above.
Marisol,
Thanks for putting up that link. It had disappeared and I was wondering what the editors of TOI were doing.
It really hurts me when I read the word "Indian" in the article above.
"confidential project on global warming"
I guess this is the new buzz word for "Global Domination".
"Confidential report on INSTANT global warming by worldwide simultaneous very vigorous explosions" I presume.
Speaking of explosions, Islam will end the very way it began, with a bang.
This just keeps getting better. If I could afford to give up air travel I would until they sort this mess out. At least I could take a few swings at a hijacker, but to think these bastards are infiltrating the airlines engineering as well?
After islam is outlawed there will have to be mandatory lie detector tests for anyone working in industries targeted by terrorism such as aviation and medicine etc.
""confidential project on global warming."
....sounds like he was working for Al Gore....
Any poster/reader who is into Google Earthing will want to check this out.
"Satellite View of The Red Mosque"
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/satellite-view-of-the-red-mosque/
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The above is what Catholic Answers Forum did to me because I said that the Koran told it's followeers to kill anyone Muslim that tried to quit this very large and well established religion. - and now they will not stop sending me their spam even though they promised they would do so! Don't fall for there invitation to post and chat - it is a trap! Their censorship has teeth!
Here is what I wrote to them! but alas, no one believes me! "Why do you keep bothering me and my family? I have been BANISHED for life from your site! It is not fair that you keep reminding my whole family of this great shame and insult by promising me you will stop bothering me with these mailing - and yet you keep on! Is it revenge that you want? You accused me of being "without Charity" because I wrote that the Koran supports the murder of those who would try to quit that large religion. Why lie to me? You hate me so leave me alone! "
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Iran said on Tuesday that a man convicted of adultery had been stoned to death in a village in northwestern Iran, the first time it has confirmed such an execution in five years.
"This case has been recently executed in the village that was mentioned," judiary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told reporters about the stoning of Jafar Kiani in a village in Qazvin province.
Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is still theoretically punishable by stoning although in late 2002, judiciary head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi had issued a directive suspending the practice.
In June, the Fars news agency reported that the judiciary had halted the stoning of a man and a woman in Qazvin province, believed to be the same man who has now been executed.
The judiciary had up until now vehemently denied any stonings since 2002, although rights activists and press reports have on occasion claimed that such verdicts have been carried out.
Under the punishment of stoning, a male convict is buried up to his waist with his hands tied behind his back, while a female offender is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried.
"confidential project on global warming"
The jihadist certainly warmed (burnt) himself with this warming project.They are a murdering bunch of thugs.
i have great difficulty explaining my friends who the .... these Indians are. Islam has been and will remain a curse on India for all times to come. i wish some day some one would wipe out this evil.
I guess they can mention he was Indian which had nothing to do with his terrorist actions. I guess its asking too much to mention the obvious.
Stoning confirmed in Iran.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288793,00.html
Well, well; those "Indians" arrested in the British bomb plots?
Incredibly enough it turns out that they are Muslims! Not Hindus or Buddhists (not that religion has anything to do with it of course).
Who would've guessed?!
arjun.sevak - This character is no more an "Indian" than the mokes who pulled off the 7/7 London attack two years ago are "British". If a cat chooses to live in a dog house, it does not become a dog. All of these villains are jihadists first and foremost, with no allegiance to the country where they happen to reside. The best historical comparison I can think of are the old-time "professional anarchists" who plagued Europe in the waning decades of the 19th century. They were stateless in their own minds- happy to take up residence wherever they could advance their cause and do the most damage.
MP, arjun already well knows that.
Ever have "one of those days?" Sure, all of us go through the occasional rough patch, but I swear there are times when I think Allah must really have it in for me. I mean, I know the "Big Guy" is supposed to have a sense of humor, but do I always have to be the punchline?
Take for example this last week. A few mates and I had been planning a big martyrdom weekend for quite a while; it's something we first began discussing a few years ago in medical school back in Amman. We were sitting around the dorm eating pizza, cramming for a big anatomy final, when Ali said "you know, after graduation, we should get together for something really big." We talked about a fishing trip to Canada or something, but most of the guys thought that sounded pretty boring. Abdul suggested a golf weekend in Cancun, but the all-inclusives there can get pretty pricey in-season. Hassan (who's really into motorcycles) suggested renting Harleys and going to Sturgis for the Biker Rally, but we heard that crowd can get pretty rowdy.
Anyhoo, Achmed finally says, "how about packing cars with explosives and killing hundreds of random infidels in a coordinated series of gigantic fireballs?" And we're like, fuckin' A! Not only would it be an awesome bonding experience (with plenty of Paradise poontang, LOL), we would be doing a valuable community service. Okay, so we high-fived and made a solemn promise that we'd target two years after graduation for the big weekend prank blowout.
I know how it usually goes with these kinds of fraternity things; what with starting up a medical practice, honor killing obligations, and starting a family, it's easy to lose touch with the old school buddies. But this thing -- our thing -- was serious, you know? Thanks to email we were able to keep in touch and keep the plan going. As luck would have it, we all won Achmedinijad scholarships to do our residencies in England for the National Health Service. We got our families together most every weekend for backyard cookouts and self-flagellation and TV football matches. Afterwards me and the other guys would slip out to the garage for cigars, and to pack shrapnel.
So okay, the big weekend arrives, and the guys come over to my place bright and early, everybody's jazzed about rolling up some kufr carnage. All the propane tanks and propellant and nail cannisters are ready to go. I look at Ali and say, "okay mate, back up your car to the garage and I'll start loading it up." He gets this dumbstruck look on his face and says, "my car? I thought Hassan was going to do the martyrdom." And then Hassan does a massive spit-take with his tea, and he's like, "whoa dude, I rigged the cell phones, I didn't agree to blow up. I thought Mohammed was going to do the blowing up." Then Mohammed's like, "don't look at me, pal, I thought I was just providing the spiritual guidance. Plus my car's in the shop for transmission work." From there it just descended into this big shouting match. Holy frickin' prophet, two years of planning this prank and now everybody wants to pussy out on the actual martyrdom.
Long story short, we decided to draw straws. And guess who wins? Yep, yours truly, good old sucker Khalid, the same guy with a pile of charge card receipts for petrol and propane and hardware. The same guy who ended up having to host two thirds of the martyrdom planning parties at HIS house, because his good old college "pals" always have some convenient excuse about "kitchen remodeling" or "MI6 surveillance," and never lift a finger to help clean up the empty bottles or paper plates or the C5 mess. Well, you know what they say: no good deed goes unpunished. Then the other short straw get pulled by Bilal, and I'm like, oh, great. Now I'll be banging some celestial virgin with that wanker looking over my shoulder.
So, I'm like, "okay, whose donating the cars?" And these dicks just look around at each other, and ANOTHER big argument breaks out, because "I still have 28 payments left," or "it's due for a tyre rotation," or some other lame excuse. So we draw straws again to pick the explosion cars, and guess who wins? Yup, my Benz, the same fucking car I just paid £129.95 to have detailed. So I go to the house and tell my wife Jumanah about the whole deal, and here it comes -- The Look. complete with the whole exasperated eye roll and head shake. I swear, if her dad wasn't my uncle, I'd be tempted to smack that irritating sneer right off her face. So she's like, "fine, go have your fun with your lazy jihad buddies and your 72 virgins. Just leave me the keys to the Jeep so I can get groceries."
After that, I guess I was pretty much ready to get it over with. I called up the office and had them cancel the rest of my patient appointments for the day and drove the Benz to London, which incidentally cost me another £40 for gas and tolls. When I got to Picadilly and parked in front of the nightclub and called Achmed on my cell to let 'er rip. Nothing. I sat there waiting 3 minutes waiting for the cell phone detonator to go off, nothing. I saw a cop walking toward the Benz, so I hopped out and started booking it and almost got run over by a double decker. I got on the Tube, thinking I was safe, but then all the stupid racist kufrs started giving me the stinkeye because apparently they're freaked by panting Arabs smelling of gasoline. I got out in Ealing and went to the mosque where the other guys were supposed to be, and they're all standing around like a bunch of sheepish idiots. So I'm like, "WTF? What happened with the detonation?"
Get this: Mohammed, whose only job it was to call in a simple fucking detonation code, switched his cell carrier to get the new iPhone and forgot to transfer his goddamn detonation contact list. So I'm like, "how about Bilal? Did he explode? Please tell me exploded." The dopey expressions around the room told me otherwise. Faaaack. Now there's NO dead infidels, NO horny virgins, and I'm out one leased Mercedes with a £12,000 balloon payment.
So I go, "here's the deal guys. I just put my ass on the martrydom line, and it was Allah's will that it didn't happen. So why don't we just call it good, and try again in another two years." Crissakes, you would have thought I just took a dump in their falafel. They started talking about "Ummah Pride," and "giving it all for ol' Central Jordan U.."
So I said fine, let's draw straws again. Because, hey, what are the odds of me pulling martyrdom duty twice in a row? Guess I should have been a stat major, because there I was holding the short stick again. When Bilal pulled the other short stick, I just went ahead and volunteered my Jeep because I figured the way this day was going it was gonna get blown up one way or the other.
When Bilal and I got back to my house Jumanah had just gotten back from Tesco and was unloading groceries. "I thought you were supposed to be in Paradise by now," she said, in that stupid irritating voice. "Change of plans," I said. "We need to head up to Glasgow to blow up the airport."
Here it came again. The Look.
"Um, and we need to use the Jeep."
The Look X 2.
"And our faces are all over the TV, so we need you to drive us."
I won't even bother trying to describe her face at that point. We loaded up the rest of the explosive cannisters in the back of the Jeep and headed north on the M1 in the middle of the out-of-town holiday rush traffic. Jumanah pretty much seethed the entire way, complaining about the traffic and the gasoline fumes. Needless to say when we finally got to Glasgow and dropped her off at a roadside cafe, I was pretty much geared up for the sweet release of death.
Okay, so Bilal and I get psyched up, check all the equipment to make sure it's ready for a big boom, point the Jeep at the terminal, and mash the throttle. I'm shouting "Allahu Akbar," and Bilal's shouting "Allahu Akbar" and "Go Martyrs" just like the old pep squad days at CJU. And I'm thinking, "oil up them virgins Allah, 'cause Dr. K's luck is about to change." BAAAAM! Right into the glass.
I was probably out for a two, three seconds. Bilal and I peeled our broken noses out of the airbags, which meant we were still alive, which meant the goddamn cannisters didn't explode, again. Maybe we went through into the terminal and killed some infidels, I thought, then I saw we hadn't made it in more than a couple inches into the terminal. I mean, WTF? The Jeep salesman kept going on about how the Jeep was this awesome unstoppable American SUV that crusader cowboys use to bulldoze their way through mountain forests, with an easy payment plan, and the damn thing can't make it through a bloody plate glass window. I restart the engine and now the piece of shit just sits there spinning the tyres. "All wheel traction," my arse.
Okay, plan B. Bilal and I start pushing backup detonation buttons and cell codes. A couple of pops, but they were all duds. Then I see the cops coming at me.
As Allah is my witness, I really can't explain what happened next; maybe it was stress, or confusion, or frustration. Whatever the reason, I decided it was a reasonable idea at that point to pour a can of petrol over my head and hit the Bic.
Here's a handy health tip from Doctor K: if you ever get a wild urge to start yourself on fire, sit down and relax until it goes away. Because (A) it's not a particularly useful method for killing infidels, and (B) it. hurts. like. a. motherfucker. So much that I almost enjoyed the distraction those high-pressure water canons and getting my lights punched out by that crazy mumble-mouthed Scottish baggage handler.
By the way, did I mention I also started the Jeep on fire? Only 37 more payments of £438 to go.
After that, I really didn't mind getting bludgeoned by those angry bagpipers. The sound was horrible, but at least they got the rest of the flames out. I was almost relieved when the cops were cuffing me face down on the pavement, because by that point I was pretty much reconsidering this whole college martyrdom pledge prank thIng and I figured the worst was over.
No such luck. Here's another handy health tip from Doctor K: if your skin is half melted and bubbly hot, avoid laying down on any surfaces that aren't Teflon coated. And please note: the Glasgow sidewalks aren't.
After a half hour with a spatula and ten cans of Pam, the cops finally got 95% or so of me peeled off the sidewalk. I looked down at my legs and realized that I'll be saving a lot of money on clothes from now on, because I'm sporting a permanent pair of melted-on black polyester trousers.
And then the kicker: I looked down at my package and noticed "Little Khalid" was AWOL. As they were loading me into the the police wagon I glanced back over my shoulder and saw what was left of him charbroiling on the sidewalk. Then one of the bomb sniffing dogs gobbled him down like a sausage. A fat lot of good those 72 virgin are going to me now.
Final box score: I'm out one Mercedes, one Jeep, £2000 in miscellaneous bomb materials, three layers of skin, and one very low-mileage penis. Infidels killed: nil. So the next time you want to bitch to me about how bad your day is going, don't expect a lot of sympathy.
Well, gotta go. The interrogators are coming, and afterwards I've got an appointment to have my arse skin grafted on to my face. But I will leave you with one more handy tip from Doctor K: no matter how many virgins they promise, don't ever join a fraternity
Uhm, excuse me, Robert, but how is this news?
We already knew there was a "connection" to Al-Qaeda. It's a book called the Quran.
Wow,OmegaMan, if that's an original JW post then mega-kudos to you for the massive entertainment. If it's a re-post from somewhere else then thanks for passing it along.
Actually, it got me thinking... you know the vehicle that the two jihadists crashed into the Glasgow airport terminal bldg? What was the passive guy thinking?
The one dude did just what we would expect of a Muslim Jihadist; Like a dog with rabies (an apt metaphor) he leapt out of the car shouting Allah is Great and pouring gas all over himself and trying to light their bomb up and all that. He even threw punches at the police and others who were trying to put the fire out that was immolating him while he was frantically trying to murder mass numbers of innocents. Yes, that's what we've come to expect.
But the other guy... Apparently he was just along for the ride. Just ready to be martyred nice and easy so he could breeze into paradise with the virgins etc. without expending too much effort (I almost typed "Scot-free"). No shouts of "Allahu Akbars" from him, no scrambling to set the bomb off, no struggle with the police. Just dumb passivity. In a way ya have to respect the fanatical one more even if he is a rabid dog.
kafeel ahmed, the punk who drove his jeep through a Glasgow airport terminal. 'He is being treated for severe burns.' Three cds and a computer hard drive found at kafeel ahmeds house contained 'INFLAMMITORY' speeches of obl.'FUELING the hypothesis that the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow in late june could be linked to the group. 'kafeel had also told his family that he was working on a confidential project on global WARMING. 'Pardon the you know whats.
Arjun
You may cringe at seeing the word 'Indian' in this article, just as Brits are likely to cringe when they see 'British' as the adjective used to describe the 7/7 bombers. I share the condemnation of the media in avoiding the M-word, but the entire blame isn't theirs alone.
Part of the blame for this should be put squarely on the door of Indian PM Manmohan Singh, who's been howling about the plight of the families of the suspects: "The Prime Minister has been perturbed by the trauma expressed by Haneef's family and has virtually been sleepless after seeing his mother airing her pain." He didn't lose sleep over the would-be victims of that thug's plan, or on the possibility that innocent Hindus and Sikhs will be suspected alongside not so innocent Muslims - he lost his sleep over that thug's relatives. When the Indian PM starts protesting like this, as though any Indian doc - Muslim or not - is likely to indulge in Jihad, he is just exacerbating the situation for Indians in general, who would already be under suspicions thanks to the media's preference to call the suspects 'Indians' rather than 'Indian Muslims' or simply 'Muslims'.
This is going to sound harsh, but if India isn't willing to separate out Muslims from the rest when tracking terror activities, Indians cannot blame Western authorities when they, following up on such trends, decide to suspect all Indians, instead of just Muslims. And I don't just mean the Indian government - I'm talking about mainstream Indian apologists for Muslims here in the US - like India Currents, or Siliconeer, and groups like FOIL (Forum of Indian Leftists).
One of the other points that has been made - in TOI of all places - is that until now, the Indian government used to boast that to date, there has never been any Indian Muslim members of al Qaeda. That myth now lies in tatters (even if the Mohammeds aren't al Qaeda members), and the politics of pandering to Muslims that has gone on for 50 years hasn't resulted in Indian Muslims being any less inclined to Jihad than Muslims elsewhere. It's high time the Indian mainstream sees Indian Mohammedans as no different from Paki or BD Mohammedans.
Foehammer has the right solution - boycott all Islam related businesses now!
"Kafeel and his associates are believed to have visited Pakistan more than once to seek approval for the UK terror plot."
from Times of India
So whom were they visiting in Pakistan - the sheikh who was just killed? Is Osama in Islamabad?
Speaking of explosions, Islam will end the very way it began, with a bang.
Posted by: proud-hindu
Let's pray they don't take humanity with them.
At the risk of being accused of turning this into a discussion about outsourcing, what about the companies that hire Muslims and send them abroad? Does India have non-discrimination laws? I would assume so. Most of the Indian outsourcing companies are, I believe, owned by Hindus. What will be their response?
Given that this man was taking a fanatical turn before he ever left India, Bangalore residents would have to wonder about their Muslim neighbors. How long before this jihad is unleashed within Indian cities like Bangalore, which must have seen themselves as insulated from this problem?
If the West closes more and more doors to Muslim immigration, won't would-be jihadists be forced to carry on their war at home? It's not unreasonable that Muslims would view the Bangalore operations of Western companies as valid infidel targets.
PMK
While India does have non-discrimination laws, very few Mohammedans ever make it to the top. Other minorities, in particular Parsis, who are probably < 1% of India's population, have made a major imprint in India's economical and technological progress, while Mohammedans, who are 13% of India's population, hardly surface there at all: when they are not indulging in Jihadi or Quran memorizing activity, they tend to focus on vocational activities, like leather goods, fixing bicycles and so on.
As for how long it would be before Jihad is unleashed on unsuspecting Hindus, that's already happened. Last year's 7/11 Mumbai blasts - which were said to be orchestrated in Bangladesh - was actually done by SIMI - an Indian Muslim outfit - that has as its goal the 'liberation of India from Islamic rule' - i.e. the Islamization of India. In Bangalore itself, there was that attack on the IIS/IIM (I forget which) - that killed a professor.
Problem is that even if most Hindus were suspicious of Muslim employees - and there's no evidence to suggest that - they'd be hard pressed to deny them assignments in the West as long as the West doesn't automatically block Muslims from coming here. If that were to happen, Indian companies could credibly claim that it's beyond them to send such people to the West, and instead, assign them to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman.
The West should by all means make it clear to India that if they are not going to screen Muslims for terror links, then either the West will do it for them, or ban Indian outsourcing altogether. If they do, they will be completely justified: they do not owe India dead Infidel Westerners just to make India's political elite happy. Looks like Gordon Brown is already thinking in that direction. If that forces India to treat Muslims differently from others who are going abroad, that will be a good thing.
Arjun & Marisol
One more thing - Times of India search engine sucks - I had the same problem searching for the links that I provided above. You can do it brute force - click on the archives and go to the date when the story you were looking for appeared. Of course, if you have the Google toolbar, you could do a 'search site' and excavate it.
TheOmegaMan:
All I can say is. WOW. and. ROFLMAO.
Fucking brilliant, to quote Billy Connelly.
Okay, so the jihad suspect is "Indian", and linked to Al Qaeda. Got it. But I wonder if there is anything missing in the above bit of reportage. Glaringly missing. Painfully obviously missing.
If the muslims don't like the decadant west, then they should move back to their country of origin. There are 55 islamic paradises to choose from.
TheOmegaMan,
lol That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time. lol hehehe
"I got on the Tube, thinking I was safe, but then all the stupid racist kufrs started giving me the stinkeye because apparently they're freaked by panting Arabs smelling of gasoline."
lol
As Allah is my witness, I really can't explain what happened next; maybe it was stress, or confusion, or frustration. Whatever the reason, I decided it was a reasonable idea at that point to pour a can of petrol over my head and hit the Bic.
Here's a handy health tip from Doctor K: if you ever get a wild urge to start yourself on fire, sit down and relax until it goes away. Because (A) it's not a particularly useful method for killing infidels, and (B) it. hurts. like. a. motherfucker."
lol priceless.
TheOmegaMan:
That was priceless. I'd love to see a stand up comic do that on Comedy Central or Mad TV; but that would be too much to expect. Maybe you (or someone you know who is funny) could make a video and post it on YouTube. It would probably get flagged, but there are other sites as well.
I am a firm believer in ridiculing this evil ideology every chance we can get. That pisses them off more and in their anger, they are more likely to screw up their devilish machinations.
Great post! It made my day.
TheOmegaMan has you in splits.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017335.php#c420688