‘Inshaallah things will hpn soon’

MUMBAI/BANGALORE: The police team investigating the Bangalore link has begun scrutinising the email, Internet chats and other communication modes of three suspects — Sabeel Ahmed, Kafeel Ahmed and Mohammed Haneef. “We are trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.

But it might take at least a week before there is conclusive outcome,” a police officer DNA. “We require at least 15 days to complete the investigations,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Gopal B Hosur said. Reacting to reports that Kafeel had held a protest meeting in remembrance of the Muslims, he said that the police had no prior information on the matter.

“We are investigating whether any such meeting ever took place and who the participants were if it did take place”. The investigating teams would be quizzing all those associated with the suspects before they arrive at any conclusion,” he added.

According to the UK police Kafeel Ahmed phoned his mother in Bangalore just hours before the attack and told her “the time has come now”.

Kafeel Ahmed is also said to have told his family that a previous “presentation” had failed — suspected to have been the attempted attack on a London nightclub the day before — and asked for them to pray for his success in a second attempt.

A Daily Telegraph report quoting unnamed resources said the devices built by the bomb makers included high explosive as part of the detonator, which failed to go off.

Sabeel Ahmed had a page on Orkut in which a series of messages had been left in the run-up to the attack by a user calling himself “mujahid” (holy warrior).

On June 11, it read “when is kafeel comin bk” and on June 15 “inshaallah things will hpn soon, ill pray 4 u”

.The last entry on June 25 read: “everythins fine here by the grace of ALLAH, will ask shahid and let u knw in my next scrap (entry).”  Shahid is a name, but also means “martyr”.