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08-02-2006, 08:04 PM

Media is linking Mumbai blast to Gujarat, just to divert attention from Indian Muslims pan Islamic agenda.

08-02-2006, 10:00 PM

I dont know what media intention is. I guess the intention is to blame the gujaratis for what is happening for now. And infact from talking to people it is having an effect on people.

Gujaratis are now beginning to feel that :

1. Not muslim terrorists but MUSLIMS are carrying out bomb blasts (and hence all MUSLIMS are terrorists).
2. MUSLIMS retaliate like this onlee.
3. The same MUSLIMS who carried out Godhra-kand are carrying out bomb blasts all over the place.
4. Gujaratis can only be safe in Gujarat - in other places Gujaratis are not well protected - when Gujaratis are attacked by MUSLIMS in other places GoI looks the other way.

I dont know what the media intention is. If it is just to shame gujjus into not bringing back Modi then it is actually having an opposite effect.

08-02-2006, 11:16 PM

No way in hell media can shame anything on Gujjus. Media is severely dhimmified and may be lot of arab money is flowing there too just like in film industry. Plus they have cooperative UPA government in center. Sonia's top priority is to not let minority community not feel targeted. She doesn't care how many Indians died in the ghastly bomb blast, doesn't care how to tackle terrorism nothing. Eunuch PM is busy fighting Jaswant instead of dealing with real issues. PM is showing manhood to opposition party.

08-02-2006, 11:48 PM

Bricks for the victims, Bouquet for Terrorists
By Dr. Babu Suseelan

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**acharya** · 08-08-2006, 06:30 AM

Blasts in Mumbai a senseless act, says Rahul Dravid

Staff Reporter

Cricketers participate in charity dinner to raise funds for the survivors

FOR A CAUSE: (from left) Cricketers Irfan Pathan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar at charity dinner to raise funds for survivors of the recent Mumbai blasts, in Bangalore on Monday. â Photo: K. Murali Kumar

Bangalore: Members of the Indian cricket team joined hands in doing its bit for the survivors of the July 11 Mumbai blasts.

The team, led by "the wall" Rahul Dravid, participated in a charity dinner to raise funds for the survivors, in the city on Monday. "It was a senseless act," said Dravid.

Some survivors of the blast, who were present at the function, remembered their lost relatives.

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar along with his teammates consoled them.

It was one of the unique events held in Bangalore in recent times in which over Rs. 20 lakh was raised. An audio visual presentation on the Mumbai blasts touched hearts.

The event was organised by Vyas Giannetti Creative Sports along with members of the Indian cricket team. Funds were raised through the sale of donor tables to corporate houses such as Aditya Birla Group, Birla Sun Life Financial Services, Dimexon Diamonds Limited, Star TV, Tata Group and TV Today Network. The amount was donated to the Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund to support relief work.

The event also saw unveiling of the "Mumbai Not Out" wrist band, an initiative by Vyas Giannetti Creative Sports. The bands will be available at retail outlets at Rs. 30 each. The proceeds will go towards facilitating rehabilitation programmes in the city, said Atul Hegde, vice-president of Vyas Giannetti Creative Sports. The donors were presented autographed cricket bats by the cricket team while the remaining were auctioned.

Dravid called for taking steps to prevent recurrence of such incidents. Thanking corporates for contributing to the fund, he said that the response has proved that Indians could fight against any terrorist attack. People of Mumbai had proved that they could not be cowed down by those who used mindless terror, he added.

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utepian · 08-11-2006, 12:12 AM

QUOTEAsian Age, Mumbai publishes a letter from Mumbai's Commissioner of Police as well as editor's reply:

http://www.asianage.com/

Muslims and Mumbai probe 8/9/2006 10:49:49 PM

Sir, The news item Mumbai: Probe Muslims who travel (August 8), claims that the government of Maharashtra has issued some directives to Mumbai police to check all Muslims travelling abroad. This is to clarify that the government of Maharashtra had not issued any such directives. No such checking of all Muslims is being done or is intended to be done by the police. It is also absolutely incorrect to say that thousands of Muslims have been arrested from different parts of the city in blast-related cases. Arrests made in connection with the recent serial bomb blasts in suburban trains on July 11, have been immediately conveyed through the media. So far, eight persons have been arrested in this connection and their names etc. , have been given to the media immediately. Arrests were made by following the due process of law and all the arrested persons were produced before the magistrate and are in custody only under the orders of the magistrate. No particulars of arrests etc., and other information have been concealed by the police. In fact, the head of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) investigating these cases has been personally addressing the media every alternate day and giving all relevant information. During the course of investigation, the investigation agency has been making enquiries with various persons regarding arrivals and departures to and from Mumbai by railway, air or some other means. All this is without any religious, caste or other bias. The police has not demanded from any person any document or proof from their employer regarding their travel. It is necessary to establish the identity of the persons who have travelled by that name. In a large and extensive investigation of this magnitude, where 186 persons have died and more than 800 have been injured, extensive investigations are definitely justified. However, the investigation process does not have any bias of any kind. People of all religious, ethnic or any other background have been checked, verified or interrogated as per the requirements of the investigation from time to time. The news item seeks to create a totally erroneous impression by showing the investigation to be communally biased. The news item is likely to spread disharmony and ill-will between the communities and create communal tension, which is totally uncalled for. I have been wrongly quoted as having informed about large numbers of arrests and of not giving the exact figures when questioned by the journalist. No journalist of The Asian Age has met me in this regard nor have I made any statement to the media in this context. The chief of the ATS has been giving information about arrests etc., from time to time.

A.N. Roy, Commissioner of Police, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Seema Mustafa replies:

I am not surprised by Commissioner of Police A.N. Roy's response, as nothing more could have been expected from him. I note that he has pointed out that no such directive has been issued by the government of Maharashtra. Although he knows as well as I do that it has been, I will take him at his word and then ask why he has not taken action against the police officers who have been visiting the homes of Muslims travelling abroad and interrogating them. Mr Roy is either not speaking the truth, or has little control over the police force under him, as police officials have been visiting homes, asking for copies of passport, details of travel and letters from the employers certifying this travel. He is totally wrong in denying this, and we have sufficient evidence to prove the police commissioner does not really know what he is saying. As for arrests, again Mr Roy is well aware that any number of Muslims have been detained by the police for questioning. For the first two days after the blasts, hundreds of innocent Muslims were rounded up, and while the pace has slackened, it has not stopped. We are as aware as Mr Roy about the terrible impact of the terror attack on innocent people in Mumbai. We, like every citizen, are more than willing to extend a helping hand to the police and the authorities in tracking down the terrorists and bringing them to quick justice. But the answer does not lie in targeting a single community, as the Maharashtra authorities have done and creating terror in response to terror. The quote attributed to Mr Roy was given by him to reporters who had spoken to him in Mumbai at the time. The quote was reported by the newspapers and the news agencies. Finally, I am surprised that the political authorities of Maharashtra, the chief minister and the deputy chief minister, have chosen to hide behind the police commissioner's back.

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Note the text in bold. Most ordinary people know the difference between "arrested" and "detained for questioning" unless of course you are Seema Mustafa - you spread the word that being questioned in order to get leads means you are arrested. The police commissioner is absolutely corrrect n saying that the article is malevolent and was pubished to spread disharmony. As for Mustafa's offer of a helping hand, It'd be interesting to ask what that might consist? Looking for killers in kindergarten schools?

08-11-2006, 12:40 AM

QUOTEWe, like every citizen, are more than willing to extend a helping hand to the police and the authorities in tracking down the terrorists and bringing them to quick justice.

Wonder who "We" is ?

08-11-2006, 01:14 AM

QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Aug 10 2006, 03:10 PM)<div class='quotetop'>QUOTEWe, like every citizen, are more than willing to extend a helping hand to the police and the authorities in tracking down the terrorists and bringing them to quick justice.

Wonder who "We" is ?
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'We' as in me and my buddies. As in I speak for us "commons". Rest of the nation including police force are all from Mars - I think.

What I'd like to know is the track record of journolists like Seema in terms of "tracking down the terrorists and bringing them to quick justice". If they haven't produced any results in past what's the gurantee they'll ever do anything in future. Just take the muted response in media regarding delay of '93 Mumbai blasts verdicts - believe it's was just put off once again.

Mumbai's Commissioner of Police called her bluff and now she's trying to wriggle out the corner she's painted herself in.

08-11-2006, 07:56 PM

QUOTE(jayshastri @ Jul 26 2006, 11:43 AM)would there be a bomb blast on 15 aug? what is everyone's takes?
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U.S. issues terror warning in India

QUOTEThe U.S. Embassy in India's capital warned Friday that foreign militants, possibly al-Qaida members, may be planning to carry out bombings in two major Indian cities in the coming days.

An e-mail sent to American citizens registered with the embassy said New Delhi, the capital, and Bombay, the country's financial and entertainment hub, were the targets of the alleged plot, and that the attacks were believed to be planned around India's Independence Day, which falls on Aug. 15.


QUOTEThe news agency said the arresting officers believed they had foiled a terror plot by the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, which is believed to have ties to al-Qaida.

One of the two alleged Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants arrested is Pakistani, and both were arrested late Thursday with 4.4 pounds of a powerful explosive known as RDX, and a huge quantity of other ammunition, PTI reported. They were nabbed at New Delhi's train station.

The Pakistani was identified only as Anaz, a native of Islamabad, and the other man as Abrar Ahmed, from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, PTI said.

08-11-2006, 11:21 PM

From today's Asian Age
Brinda Karat chips in

Is being Muslim a crime, ask MPs 8/11/2006 10:50:40 PM
- By Our Correspondent

New Delhi, Aug. 11: "Is being Muslim a crime?" Ms Brinda Karat (CPI-M) on Friday wondered aloud in the Rajya Sabha after she raised the issue of targeting of the Muslim community in Mumbai in the wake of the July 11 serial blasts. Mr Abu Asim Azmi (SP) too raised the issue that was first reported by this newspaper. Ms Karat and Mr Shahid Siddiqui (SP) have written to Union minister of home affairs Shivraj Patil to prevent the recurrence of such incidents.

The Asian Age has reported over the last several days how the Maharashtra police personnel were picking up and harassing the Muslims in Mumbai including the senior vice-president of a multinational company, a dance choreographer known to film producer and director Mahesh Bhatt and others.

Ms Karat said it was "shocking" and a "matter of grave concern" that a community was being targeted because of its "religious affiliation". She said that identification, arrest and punishment of the persons guilty of the July 11 blasts "has to be priority" but the police were resorting to avoidable measures in order to "cover up the failure of their investigation".

"This defies the very basis of secular character of the nation," Ms Karat said. "There is a reign of terror in Mumbai ... what message are we sending out? Is being Muslim a crime ..? [Such incidents have] implications for the country ... [we] cannot demonise and victimise a community or subject them to social indignation and humiliation," she said.

Mr Abu Asim Azmi of SP, in turn, said the police were indiscriminately picking up the Muslims without a summon or notice.

He said that the Islamic Research Foundation library was checked and two persons arrested in Mumbai. Similarly, "Tableeqi Jamaat (Islamic preachers)" have been arrested and Muslim organisations were being targeted. He demanded stern action against the errant including suspension of the guilty police personnel.

Meanwhile, Ms Brinda Karat wrote in her letter to Mr Shivraj Patil that "the actions of the Mumbai police have wide repercussions and implications which are not helpful to prevent vested interests who want to divide people in the name of religion." Copies of her letter were released to media later in the day.

"There is a feeling of fear among the community because of indiscriminate picking up of Muslims in the city. It is as though the onus of proving themselves innocent has been shifted to a whole community. This is unacceptable and my party strongly protests against it," Ms Karat wrote.

"Any leads that the investigation agencies may have must be followed without giving quarter to anyone involved. But it is indeed a sad day for Indiaâs secular values when the Mumbai police flags and targets all Muslims who have travelled abroad for the sole reason they are Muslims," she added.

Mr Shahid Siddiqui (SP) too has written to Mr Shivraj Patil. The minister should put an end to the practice of indiscriminately picking up the members of a particular community on the basis of suspicion and take appropriate action against the errant policemen, Mr Siddiqui wrote in the letter.

In a statement released to media, Mr Siddiqui also said that the Muslims of Delhi, Mumbai and certain other places were being harassed, humiliated and insulted in the name of security measures. "Such incidents are condemnable and hurt the secular fabric of the nation," he observed.

08-17-2006, 09:48 AM

Corpse key to Mumbai blasts?QUOTEAt Sion Hospital's forensic department, a team of experts is hard at work, creating what could be a breakthrough link in the 11/7 probe.

They are building a clay model of Body No 41, a corpse that has been lying unclaimed in the mortuary for 35 days.

The corpse, little more than eyes and nose held together by a bit of skin, is decomposing fast. And the doctors do not want to lose the 'face' as the police suspect it could be one of the suicide bombers.

The model will be ready in two days and will provide the Anti-Terrorist Squad with a 3-D reproduction of the suspect's face.

"We reconstructed the face by wiring together 17 shattered bones," Dr Harish Pathak, head of forensic department, told HT. They established the victim's age (25-30) on the basis of the teeth.
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This is hilarious; either dork media at its best or Indian police is far behind using latest forensic technology.
They don't need body or face for that long.
Even if they want to keep part of face, they can preserve.

08-17-2006, 09:18 PM

QUOTEDate:17/08/2006
The Mumbai death cells
Praveen Swami
Investigations into the serial bombings in Mumbai might end in a replay of the 1993 terror strikes â with the perpetrators out of reach.

POLICE OFFICIALS are confronting the prospect that investigations into last month's serial bombings in Mumbai might end in a replay of the murderous 1993 terror strikes in the city: a wealth of detail has emerged on just who carried out the operation and why, but the perpetrators themselves are out of reach â perhaps forever.

Over the past four weeks, investigators from the Mumbai and Maharashtra police, acting with the support of the Intelligence Bureau, have put together a coherent picture of the Lashkar-e-Taiba cells which executed the Mumbai bombings. In essence, investigators now believe three interlocking cells, each acting with only limited knowledge of the others' work, implemented separate parts of the operation.

Two of these cells have now been identified, and their key operatives arrested. Mumbai businessman Faisal Sheikh, and his Bangalore-based brother Muzammil Sheikh, a computer engineer, are alleged to have run what can be described as the "Cadre Cell" â the group which organised training and funds for the dozens of men recruited from Mumbai-based Islamist networks by the Lashkar.

Cadre Cell recruits, the Maharashtra police say, were flown to Teheran using legitimate travel documents before being escorted by Lashkar operatives across the largely un-policed Iran-Pakistan border into Balochistan. From there, the men were driven to the Bahawalpur area of Pakistan's Punjab province for training under the personal supervision of the Lashkar's long-standing commander for operations targeting India, Azam Cheema.

Khalid Aziz Raunak Sheikh and Kamal Ahmed Vakil Ansari, who were arrested in Patna on July 21, ran what investigation insiders call the "Infrastructure Cell." Along with Mumbai resident Mumtaz Ahmad Chaudhuri, the men are alleged to have provided at least part of the explosive used in the bombings, after an earlier cache intended for the operation was interdicted by the Maharashtra police in Aurangabad in May.

Most important, though, was the "Perpetrator Cell": the group that actually organised the bombings. Rahil Abdul Rahman Sheikh, a long-standing Lashkar operative who is known to have been active since at least 2003, is believed to have had overall control of this third cell. Sheikh reported to a Pakistani national so far identified only as "Junaid" â most likely an alias â who he is thought to have periodically met in Kathmandu.

Zabiuddin Ansari, who handled the landing of the 43 kg of RDX which was found in Aurangabad, along with 16 assault rifles, grenades, and detonators, is in turn believed to have been assigned the task of ensuring the physical organisation of the Mumbai bombings. Fayyaz Ahmad Kagdi, the author of the attempted bombing of a Mumbai-Ahmedabad train earlier this year, was the third core member of the Perpetrator Cell.

Ever since a botched Delhi police-led raid in April, though, investigators seeking to locate Sheikh have had little success. Sheikh was identified as a key Lashkar operative in the course of the interrogation of Mumbai residents Feroze Abdul Latif Ghaswala and Mohammad Ali Chippa, who were planning large-scale terror strikes in Gujarat under the command of a Pakistani national, Bahawalpur resident Mohammad Iqbal.

Police sources said Sheikh had evaded arrest by jumping out of the Mahim building he was hiding in at the time of the raid, sustaining fractures in the process. "There were serious errors in the execution of the raid," a source in the serial bombing investigation told The Hindu, "as well [as] successive failures in coordination between the Delhi police and its counterparts in Maharashtra and Gujarat."

What little information is available on Sheikh's current location has come from Abdul Samad Samsher Khan, a Beed resident who was arrested in Manmad on July 27. Khan told investigators that he had briefly met Sheikh at a safehouse in Bangladesh shortly after the bombings. Police arrested Khan in Bihar after his return from the meeting â but by then the cellphone number he had used to contact Sheikh was no longer in use.

However, Khan's interrogation failed to yield any hard information on the bombings themselves. Khan has insisted through hours of painstaking questioning that Sheikh gave him hard information on the cell that actually executed the attacks. No progress has been made in locating Ansari, either, although intelligence officials believe he may be in Pakistan. On Kagdi, too, there is no word at all.

North, south, east, west
Not surprisingly, then, investigators have yet to identify the 12-odd men thought to have executed the bombings on the Perpetrator Cell's instructions â men who, police believe, boarded southbound trains at Grant Road or Charni Road, planted bombs in the luggage racks above the seat, and then got off as a wall of commuters rushed in for the return journey to Mumbai's suburbs from the Churchgate terminus.

Some believe that Sheikh may well have drawn on Lashkar cadre from Bangladesh to execute the bombings â or, in the alternate, provided the Perpetrator Cell's foot-soldiers with shelter there after the operation. Others speculate that Jammu and Kashmir-based Lashkar operatives might have played a role in the attacks, noting that three Sopore men linked to the terror group were arrested in Mumbai's Nagpada area in January.

Indeed, it is possible that more than one jihadi organisation may have collaborated to execute the Mumbai bombings. On August 14, for example, the Border Security Force announced the arrest of Pakistani nationals Mohammad Zubair and Mohammad Sohail from Hingalganj, along the India-Bangladesh border. Sohail, a Jaish-e-Mohammad operative, had been tasked with collaborating with Zubair, who worked for the Lashkar.

BSF officials say the men, both Karachi residents, were on their way to Uri to discuss the mating of several consignments of explosives they had smuggled into India since July with terrorist cadre from Jammu and Kashmir. Lashkar, Jaish, and Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami operatives have collaborated in several recent attacks on targets in India, most notably the bombing of Varanasi in March this year.

Part of the reasons for the blurring of organisational lines might lie in the fact that jihadi operatives in India are recruited from loose, subterranean Islamist networks, rather than structured bodies of the kinds which operate openly in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Sheikh, for example, recruited Ghaswala during an April 2003 convention organised by the Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadis, a religious sect from which the Lashkar draws much of its cadre.

Zakir Naik, a well-known Mumbai-based television evangelist, was the star speaker at the convention. Although there is no suggestion that Naik's Islamic Research Foundation itself played any role in the bombings, Sheikh and other Mumbai Lashkar operatives are known to have often visited the religious centre â which also, significantly, features as an approved source of religious-ideological information on the Lashkar's website.

Indeed, sources in the investigation said, the men arrested so far did not act as Lashkar agents. "From their interrogations," one official said, "it is clear most of the cell members did not know or care what the Lashkar even was." Instead, most believed they were soldiers in a global jihad, mining Islamist organisational assets like those of the Lashkar for their local cause â a war against what they saw as a Hindu state.

One major insight the Mumbai bombings holds out for India's intelligence services is the need to carefully monitor Islamist religious-ideological networks. While not a little success has been registered in classical criminal-intelligence work targeting jihadi groups and their operational leadership, State police forces simply do not have the specialist skills or technological assets necessary for sustained monitoring â a major deficiency.

"We could find the bombing perpetrators tomorrow â or never at all," says a senior Maharashtra police official. "A lucky break could lead to a breakthrough," he continues, "but the truth is it is very unlikely top operatives like Sheikh will ever return to India." The hunt for the perpetrators will, of course, continue for months to come. Finding them, though, is perhaps less important than learning the right lessons from the bombings.
http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/17/stories...81706120900.htm

08-18-2006, 12:07 AM

The Meaning of the Mumbai Blasts
Michael Krepon
The Henry L. Stimson Center, 7 August 2006

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In the wake of the Mumbai blasts, the governments of India, Pakistan and the United States acted in familiar ways. New Delhi expressed its outrage and struggled with poor choices in dealing with Pakistan. Islamabad sent condolences and hoped that the composite dialogue with India would resume without too great a delay. And Washington expressed solidarity with India in the fight against terrorism, only to quickly turn its attention elsewhere. These ritualistic statements serve to clarify that India is in a bind. But so, too, are Pakistan and the United States.

08-18-2006, 11:32 PM

Breakthrough in Mumbai blasts: CentreQUOTE"In a major breakthrough, we have understood the conspiracy behind the blasts although the accused are yet to be arrested," he said at the Mana airport.

"Many things are clear now after the investigation but it will take time to reach to the crux of the matter," he said

I don't understand what is break thorugh,
Which tublelight suddenly started flickering?

08-30-2006, 01:44 AM

Did he get too close to truth?

QUOTEACP probing 7/11 blasts found dead along railway track
TN Raghunatha | Mumbai
A senior officer attached to the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) investigating the 7/11 serial blasts, was found dead under mysterious circumstances along the railway tracks at Dadar in north-central Mumbai late on Monday night. The victim was identified as Vinod Bhat, an Assistant Commissioner of Police with the ATS.

While a case of accidental death has been registered, the police are not ruling out the possibility of a suicide. However, the police did not find any suicide note on the person of the deceased. As of now, they are not suspecting any foul play.

A post-mortem was conducted at the Sion Hospital on Tuesday. The report of the post-mortem is yet to be released. An efficient officer and a person of integrity, 54-year-old Bhat was recently hand-picked from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to be a part of the ATS. He had earlier been part of the team that investigated the 1993 serial blasts. His new assignment included compilation of statements, evidences and preparation of charge sheets. 

While refusing to pinpoint that Bhat's death was a case of suicide, ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi, however, said here on Tuesday that he might have had personal problems.

Senior police inspector MP Vhaval said the Dadar Railway police had registered a case of accident. Official sources said that Bhat was not carrying his service revolver.

Bhat, who lived with his wife, son and daughter at Prabhadevi in north-central Mumbai, had left his official vehicle at Dadar Railway Station saying that he wanted to go to Chembur and that he would catch a suburban train.

What has lent credence to the suicide theory is the fact that Bhat had given his golden ring and chain to his driver to be handed over to his family members.

Similarly, he had also given a packet of sweets for the driver's family, while going inside the Dadar railway station after parking the vehicle. 

Vhaval said that the statements of Bhat's family members were yet to be recorded. The investigators, are, however, baffled, as to what he was doing along the tracks in the night.

09-21-2006, 08:52 PM

7/11 and 9/11 connection:

Mumbai Police âclose to nailingâ 7/11 plotters

The channel, quoting government sources, said at least 50 people were involved in the bombings and some of the main accused had trained in an al-Qaeda camp with Mohammed Atta, leader of the hijacked plane attacks on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001. 

URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=74204

09-24-2006, 07:09 AM

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J Dey

Mumbai, September 23, 2006
As the Mumbai police prepare to reveal the conspiracy behind the 11/7 serial blasts, it has now emerged that they have the names of the seven men who allegedly planted the bombs in trains.

The seven suspects, all allegedly Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) operatives, have been identified as Fayak, Zakzi, Zanbruddin, Bashir, Fazal, Aklak and Basubhai, said sources close to the investigation team, requesting anonymity.

Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (literally the âarmy of the pureâ) has been designated as a terrorist organisation by Russia, India, the United Kingdom and United States.

According to the police, the seven men escaped to Asirgarh, a tribal village 600 km north of Mumbai, near Burhanpur in south Madhya Pradesh (MP), immediately after the 11/7 blasts. A team of officers, who were sent on their trail a week later, managed to get their names and descriptions from locals.

These revelations reinforce reports that LeT operatives are using MP as a training and operational base. While police officers refuse to go on record about this, the 11/7 remand application âfiled in a metropolitan court by the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) on September 14 â clearly states that MP has become a hub for terrorist activities.

Though ATS Chief Joint Commissioner K.P. Raghuvanshi refused to reveal details, he stated categorically: âWe have not given any false information to the court.â

The police team, which headed for MP, clearly established that MP is closely linked to the 11/7 terror attack. Team members reached Asirgarh on July 20 and learned that the bombers went to Kalyan by road immediately after the blasts.

They reportedly boarded the Mumbai-Allahabad-Kolkata Express from there and reached Khandwa in MP on July 13, from where they went to Asirgarh. They left the village after a night of revelry.

Officers have collected significant evidence, but not enough to lead them to the suspects, who are believed to have now escaped either to Bangladesh or Pakistan.

Officials who spent over a month in Asirgarh disclosed that one of the 11/7 suspects, Siddique, a resident of Temkar Mohalla in south Mumbai, belongs to this village.

Temkar Mohalla is the stronghold of Indiaâs most wanted gangster, Dawood Ibrahim â the mastermind of the 1993 serial blasts. Siddique, who is absconding, allegedly lent logistic support to the seven bombers in Mumbai.

**acharya** · (This post was last modified: 09-30-2006, 09:09 PM by acharya.)

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VIDEO OF MODI SPEECH IN MUMBAI AFTER THE BLAST

Speech of Modi in Mumbai after Chain Blast in Train

09-30-2006, 08:03 PM

LeT, ISI plotted Mumbai train blasts, says policeQUOTEAddressing a press conference in Mumbai to announce the completion of investigations into the blasts that killed nearly 200 people and injured over 700, Roy said 15 people had been arrested so far, with conclusive evidence against 12.

Roy added that there was not enough proof against three of the arrested and they could be freed.

Piecing together the gory plot, Roy said the blasts were planned in Pakistan in March and many of those arrested received training at the Bahawalpur camp in the neighbouring country from notorious LeT operative Azam Cheema.

After training, 11 Pakistani nationals entered India in three batches through different routes: three came via Nepal, another three entered through Bangladesh and a batch of four sneaked through the Gujarat border. Ehsanullah, another Pakistani, brought 15 to 20 kg of RDX explosive with him.

Roy said Faisal Sheikh of Mira Road in Mumbai, one of the three key accused besides Kamaluddin Ansari of Madhubani in Bihar and Ehtesam Siddique of Mira Road, made arrangements for the stay of Pakistanis at four places in Mumbai.

The police commissioner said the bombs were assembled at Shivaji Nagar in Chembur. The explosives consisting of RDX and ammonium nitrate were packed in five-litre pressure cookers, eight of which had been bought but only seven were used.

The bombs, which were fitted with quartz timers, were then put in bags and camouflaged with newspapers and umbrellas and taken to the seven railway stations by groups of two each, one Indian and the other a Pakistani, Roy said giving the details.

He said one of the seven Pakistanis, Salim from Lahore, could not get off the train in time and was killed in the blast. His body was the only one not to have had any claimant, Roy added.

The police commissioner said four of the seven Indians involved in the blasts had been arrested. They were Faisal Sheikh, Kamal Ansari, Ehtesam Siddique and Naved of Khar. Three were still at large, Roy added but refused to reveal their names, saying a hunt was still on for them.

Roy said of the 11 Pakistani nationals involved in the terrorist attack, two have been killed while nine are still at large and may have escaped to Pakistan. The two killed are Abu Umed, who was shot dead in an encounter, and Salim, who is believed to have died in the blast.

Giving details of how the Mumbai Police went about the investigations, Roy said the first clue came from technical analysis on the day of the blasts and all key suspects were rounded up on July 14-15. The first arrest, of Kamal Ansari, was made on July 19 when calls made from Navi Mumbai after the blasts were traced to Madhubani in Bihar.

A visibly pleased Roy took the opportunity to point out how the media got impatient at times with the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) that probed the blasts but explained that the police briefings were deliberately kept subdued so as not to affect the investigations.

Roy also praised the Crime Branch for cracking the module commanded by Faisal Sheikh. Two other modules led by Kamal Ansari and Ehtesam Siddique were busted by the ATS.

The blasts probe, which Roy said ranked among the most comprehensive to be undertaken in the country, was conducted by nine teams, two of which provided technical support.

This news is full of nonsense -
They are claiming all are Pakis but they are unable to catch anyone of them.
All arrested are Indian Muslim.
If it is planned by Pakis-ISI, it means it was not because of Gujarat riots but Pakis grand strategy.
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My take :
Indian Police and Indian govt are trying to cover up Indian Muslims new attachment to Pan-Islamic game plan.
Blaming other state won't will never bring peace in India.
India should prepare itself to counter Islamic ideology.

09-30-2006, 08:07 PM

11/7 blast probe: Police search for SIMI activistQUOTEPolice is looking for a Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activist believed to be the key suspect in the July 11 serial train blasts in Mumbai.
Identified as Junaid, police said he was wanted in two cases.

Junaid's alleged involvement in the blasts came to light during interrogation of other accused, police said.

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