Brother denied links to India death squads
AHMED’S brother Sabeel has been hunted as a terror suspect since the attack.
The doctor was jailed for 18 months for withholding information about Ahmed’s plans, then deported to India on his release.
And in 2013, Indian antiterror police named him as the man behind a campaign to recruit young jihadis.
Local reports said Sabeel had been traced and detained in Saudi Arabia.
They said India would try to have him returned for questioning over his alleged role as a recruiter for Pakistan-based al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent and terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, who sent the death squad that murdered 166 people in Mumbai in 2008.
The reports claimed Sabeel was a Lashkar-eTaiba member who had set up two meetings in Saudi to discuss “jihadist activities” against Hindu leaders. He denied the allegations and no charges were brought.
Sabeel was one of at least 13 people detained or questioned in Scotland, England and Australia after the failed attacks in Glasgow and London.
Only one stood trial – Ahmed and Abdulla’s friend Dr Mohammed Asha. He was cleared of conspiracy to murder and cause explosions.
Six doctors in Australia were questioned and released. And in Scotland, two men aged 28 and 25 were detained at staff accommodation at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where bomber Bilal Abdulla had worked.
The men, said to be Saudi student doctors, were freed without charge.
Two more men were held in Lancashire, but police later said they were not terror suspects. They were detained under drug laws.
Sabeel was arrested in Liverpool the day after the Glasgow attack and jailed at the Old Bailey in 2008.
The court heard he got a text from Ahmed half an hour before he and Abdulla drove to the airport. It told him to read an email.
Two hours later, Sabeel read Ahmed’s instructions to lie to police. He then did so for three days.
Asha and his wife Marwa, a hospital lab technician, were arrested on the M6 in Cheshire hours after the Glasgow attack.
She was freed without charge, but he spent a year on remand before a jury found him not guilty.
Prosecutors claimed Asha provided money and support for the plot. They said he gave cash to both Ahmed and Abdulla and extremist material was found on his laptop.
Asha said he did not know that £1300 he loaned Abdulla was for cars and bomb-making equipment.
A bid to deport him was withdrawn, and a report in 2009 said he was working as a doctor at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.