Imam: Terror suspects 'radicalised'

For 10 years Mohammed Hassaan watched the two boys in the modest grey house across the street from his Bangalore mosque grow into young professionals and observant Muslims. But in the last few years, he said, things changed.

Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed moved away from India, taking jobs in Britain, and when they returned for visits they would attend a radical mosque, cutting themselves off from their more moderate Muslim upbringing.

The brothers had chosen "a different mosque ... a different school of thought", Hassaan, the imam of the Khudadaad Mosque, said.

Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is being treated for burns suffered when he set himself on fire after allegedly crashing a car into Glasgow airport in a failed terror attack. Sabeel Ahmed has been detained in Liverpool in connection with the UK terror attacks.

Two cars packed with gas cylinders and nails were discovered in central London on June 29. The next day, a flaming Jeep Cherokee smashed into security barriers at Glasgow's airport.

Eight people are in custody as suspects - seven in Britain and one in Australia. One has been charged - Bilal Abdullah, an Iraqi doctor identified as the passenger in the Jeep.

The Ahmed brothers' father, Hassaan said, had spoken to him sadly of his sons' turn towards a more militant form of Islam.

"Who can say how or why they changed, but they were different," said the imam.

Officials with the Bangalore mosque the brothers had later attended could not be reached for comment.