According to the report, he is said to have used a house in the village of Houston near Glasgow to make the bombs, packing the vehicles with gas cylinders and petrol.
LONDON: Kafeel Ahmed, suspected to be an Indian who had driven the explosives-laden burning jeep into Glasgow airport, is said to have used a house in the village of Houston near Glasgow to make the bombs, packing the vehicles with gas cylinders and petrol.
According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, "it has emerged that the alleged bomb-maker for the London and Glasgow attacks based himself in Cambridge where he studied engineering.
"Kafeel Ahmed, who lies seriously ill in a Scottish hospital with 90 per cent burns, is an engineer with a PhD, police now believe," the report said.
According to the report, he is said to have used a house in the village of Houston near Glasgow to make the bombs, packing the vehicles with gas cylinders and petrol.
After the mobile phone detonators failed outside the packed Tiger Tiger nightclub in the West End last Friday, Ahmed chose to drive a third vehicle into Glasgow airport himself. He was pictured in the aftermath of the attack with horrific burns.
Cambridge is thought to be at the heart of the terror plot and eight people, six of them doctors in the NHS, have been arrested.
Two suspects, Bilal Abdulla, who was with Ahmed in the Jeep Cherokee in the Glasgow incident, and Mohammed Asha, arrested on the M6 motorway on Saturday, studied together at the city's Addenbrooke's Hospital. It has now emerged that Kafeel Ahmed also spent time there recently.
In his CV last year, Kafeel gave his address as the Islamic Academy in Gilbert road, Cambridge, and said his expertise was in "computational fluid dynamics" in which computers are used to work out the interaction of fluids and gas with surfaces used in engineering.
Using the e-mail 'KingKaf', Kafeel said he had studied for an engineering degree in India and worked as a researcher at Queens University, Belfast, before studying fohis doctorate at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Kafeel was visited in Cambridge by his brother Sabeel, a junior doctor in Liverpool, and police believe they met Abdulla and Asha there.
The parents of the brothers are doctors in India and yesteay their mother Zakia said: "We are already in deep trouble and do not want to make the situation any worse."
In Australia, where another suspect, Mohammed Haneef, was arrested, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) said that Kafeel Ahmed and his brother had applied unsuccessfully to work as doctors in Western Australia.
Kafeel Ahmed is thought to have used the name Khalid. Geoff Dobb, the AMA state secretary said: "We have very thorough checks of their qualifications and references and, on assessment, it was decided not to offer employment."
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