Kenneth Haywood slips out of country from Delhi airport

Mumbai: American national Kenneth Haywood has left Indian security agencies red-faced by leaving the country along with his family though a look-out notice had been issued against his name.
The American, who was living in the Sanpada area of Navi Mumbai, left for the US from the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on the intervening night of August 16-17.
The look-out notice had been routinely issued by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) as it had asked him not to leave the country pending investigations after the email warning sent by Indian Mujahideen minutes before the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts was traced to his Internet Protocol address.
Additional commissioner of police (ATS) Param Bir Singh said that there was apparently a security lapse at the Delhi airport and the police there would look into it.
Haywood fled even as the reports of the polygraph and the brain-mapping tests conducted on him turned out to be negative. Haywood and nine others were subjected to polygraph test and brain-mapping at the Kalina Forensic Sciences Laboratory by the ATS on August 13.
Preliminary reports also suggest that Haywood’s three computers the ATS had sent for forensic were not used to send the terror email and his WiFi network is suspected to have been hacked to send the terror message.
19/08/08 Somendra Sharma/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Aug 2008, Safety Aug 2008