Movie on al-Qaeda leaders in Kafeel disc

NEW DELHI: A movie on Al-Qaeda, "atrocities" in Chchenya and Iraq and vitrolic speeches of secessionist leaders formed part of a computer hard disc seized from the Bangalore residence of Kafeel Ahmed, a suspect in the failed terror attack in the UK.

The forensic examination of the disc, being done by a special team of experts from central security agencies, found nearly 17,000 files stored in it  and this included a movie prepared by Al-Qaeda to "brainwash recruits" for global terrorism, official sources said here on Tuesday.

They said some literature in Arabic language was also part of the disc besides a history about the website visited by Kafeel on the internet relating to bomb-making.

The computer and other compact disc were seized by the police from Kafeel's Banashankari residence in Bangalore a day after the botched terror plot in Britain was reported.

Kafeel, who is suspected to have driven the flaming jeep into Glasgow airport, had stored some of his activities in "Support of Islam" which included an incident in January this year when he had stormed a Banaglore-based Muslim organisation's seminar on Schism in Islam.

The sources said British investigators were now claiming that Kafeel had been in touch with an Al-Qaeda leader in 2003. However, this information had never been shared with their Indian counterparts or Interpol earlier.