Jeddah Suicide Bomber Was Indian, 'Confirms' Saudi Arabia After DNA Testing


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New Delhi: The suicide bomber who attacked the US Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah two years ago was an Indian national, confirmed Saudi Arabia on the basis of DNA tests.


A senior security official told The Indian Express that the DNA samples they sent to Saudi Arabia matched with those of the Jeddah bomber — Fayaz Kagzi, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative.


The Jeddah blast on July 4, 2016, which injured two security officers, was the first of three attacks to hit the kingdom that day. The other two were also in the form of blasts near a Shia mosque in Qatif and outside the Masjid-i-Nabvi in Medina.


TIE further reported that the National Investigation Agency has informed a special court in Delhi that the terror mastermind was dead. The NIA believes that Kagzi, who hails from Beed in Maharashtra, was the ‘mastermind’ and ‘financier’ of the 2010 German bakery blast, 2012 JM Road bombing. Kagzi was also wanted in the Aurangabad arms haul case and is said be involved in the 26/11 terror attack.


Saudi authorities had first released the picture of the Jeddah bomber and called him Abdullah Qalzar Khan, a Pakistani national. Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) officers identified the man in the picture as Fayaz Kagzi and subsequently, with the help of NIA, shared their suspicion with Jeddah.


Kagzi fled to Pakistan via Bangladesh in 2006 and shifted his base to Saudi Arabia to oversee the recruitment of Indian nationals to LeT. Sources say that it is possible that he took on a new name of Abdullah Qalzar Khan while in Pakistan.


TIE reported that Kagzi may have shifted his allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014 and later tasked with carrying out the Jeddah attack.


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