07-15-2006, 01:24 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>There were 24 armed fidayeen </b>
Pioneer.com
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
Conspirators used e-mails, hid behind women ---- <b>The men who planted explosives on Mumbai's train were heavily armed and numbered nearly two dozen. I</b>nvestigations by the security agencies into the 7/11 Mumbai blasts have revealed that the executioners of the plan were ready for a fidayeen encounter with the police in case of any confrontation. Â
<b>Those who executed the plot on that fateful Tuesday had arrived on the scene hours before the strike and are believed to have fled the country soon after the bombs went off</b>, highly placed sources told the Pioneer.
<b>Investigations have revealed the abject failure of the Mumbai Police, which was clueless even as seven groups of heavily armed fidayeen freely entered Churchgate railway station within a short span of time. The fidayeen who planted the explosives in the first class compartments exited unnoticed despite carrying heavy rexine bags stuffed with arms and ammunition.</b>
Security agencies are also worried about the deep penetration of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) in Mumbai's suburbs. <b>Local elements were drafted to hoodwink police and intelligence during the preparation of the assault.</b> Sources feel that the terrorists may have also conducted dry runs in Mumbai local trains and they chose Churchgate station due to its holding capacity.
<b>Sources feel that the entire bloody operation was carried out by a group of at least 20 to 24 fidayeen.</b> Investigations have revealed that they were given instructions to retaliate in the event of being challenged. Investigating agencies have come to this conclusion after carrying out an in-depth examination of the crime scene. It has now emerged that women members were also used in the conspiracy.
<b>The presence of women helped the terrorists to camouflage their identities</b>, the sources further said. Looking at the meticulous execution of the blasts, one thing is sure that the preparations for the blasts were made much in advance and the executors arrived on to leave their signatures, intelligence sources said.
The operation to bomb local trains running on the busy Western Line was planned on the lines of al Qaeda's attack on World Trade Centre (WTC), New York. It has now been revealed that the modules did not use cell phones to avoid detection. They instead used e-mail accounts with common passwords. The e-mails were not sent as they accessed the accounts by using the passwords and discussed their plan of action by saving the text in the draft boxes.
Sources said central intelligence agencies and Mumbai Police have come across such e-mail accounts containing operational details of the conspiracy leading to the serial blasts. Hundreds of cyber cafes of Mumbai were placed under the scanner by the agencies for the clues about the terrorists.
During the scanning of thousands of calls made at least 24 hours before and after the blast, special attention was paid to calls made to foreign countries. Emphasis was accorded to identify those who were in Mumbai and were using roaming services.
Sources said <b>the conspirators had stopped using mobile phones for communicating with each other</b>. They did this obviously to avoid detection. Agencies have now trained their attention on those who live in chawls and shanties and are reportedly missing after Tuesday evening.
The only hitch, which is bothering the agencies, is that they are yet to make final sketches of the suspects as there are so many who claim to have seen them.
Evidences at blasts sites are being studied to narrow down the search of the accused, sources added, describing the probe as one of the biggest ever manhunts by the central intelligence agencies. The probe is also focusing on whether the incidents like the recent disturbances at Bhiwandi in Thane district, or the crackdown on SIMI groups in the past few months has anything to do with the blasts, the sources said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pioneer.com
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
Conspirators used e-mails, hid behind women ---- <b>The men who planted explosives on Mumbai's train were heavily armed and numbered nearly two dozen. I</b>nvestigations by the security agencies into the 7/11 Mumbai blasts have revealed that the executioners of the plan were ready for a fidayeen encounter with the police in case of any confrontation. Â
<b>Those who executed the plot on that fateful Tuesday had arrived on the scene hours before the strike and are believed to have fled the country soon after the bombs went off</b>, highly placed sources told the Pioneer.
<b>Investigations have revealed the abject failure of the Mumbai Police, which was clueless even as seven groups of heavily armed fidayeen freely entered Churchgate railway station within a short span of time. The fidayeen who planted the explosives in the first class compartments exited unnoticed despite carrying heavy rexine bags stuffed with arms and ammunition.</b>
Security agencies are also worried about the deep penetration of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) in Mumbai's suburbs. <b>Local elements were drafted to hoodwink police and intelligence during the preparation of the assault.</b> Sources feel that the terrorists may have also conducted dry runs in Mumbai local trains and they chose Churchgate station due to its holding capacity.
<b>Sources feel that the entire bloody operation was carried out by a group of at least 20 to 24 fidayeen.</b> Investigations have revealed that they were given instructions to retaliate in the event of being challenged. Investigating agencies have come to this conclusion after carrying out an in-depth examination of the crime scene. It has now emerged that women members were also used in the conspiracy.
<b>The presence of women helped the terrorists to camouflage their identities</b>, the sources further said. Looking at the meticulous execution of the blasts, one thing is sure that the preparations for the blasts were made much in advance and the executors arrived on to leave their signatures, intelligence sources said.
The operation to bomb local trains running on the busy Western Line was planned on the lines of al Qaeda's attack on World Trade Centre (WTC), New York. It has now been revealed that the modules did not use cell phones to avoid detection. They instead used e-mail accounts with common passwords. The e-mails were not sent as they accessed the accounts by using the passwords and discussed their plan of action by saving the text in the draft boxes.
Sources said central intelligence agencies and Mumbai Police have come across such e-mail accounts containing operational details of the conspiracy leading to the serial blasts. Hundreds of cyber cafes of Mumbai were placed under the scanner by the agencies for the clues about the terrorists.
During the scanning of thousands of calls made at least 24 hours before and after the blast, special attention was paid to calls made to foreign countries. Emphasis was accorded to identify those who were in Mumbai and were using roaming services.
Sources said <b>the conspirators had stopped using mobile phones for communicating with each other</b>. They did this obviously to avoid detection. Agencies have now trained their attention on those who live in chawls and shanties and are reportedly missing after Tuesday evening.
The only hitch, which is bothering the agencies, is that they are yet to make final sketches of the suspects as there are so many who claim to have seen them.
Evidences at blasts sites are being studied to narrow down the search of the accused, sources added, describing the probe as one of the biggest ever manhunts by the central intelligence agencies. The probe is also focusing on whether the incidents like the recent disturbances at Bhiwandi in Thane district, or the crackdown on SIMI groups in the past few months has anything to do with the blasts, the sources said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->