09-19-2006, 11:52 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>LeT links from Malegaon to Ahmedabad </b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
<b>General Pervez Musharraf may have succeeded in convincing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of Pakistan's "innocence" behind the recent terror strikes in India</b>, but investigation into the Malegaon blasts and Tuesday's arrest of two Lashkar-e-Tayyeba men in Gujarat could be an eye-opener for India.
<b>Investigators suspect the involvement of LeT cadre Rahil who allegedly stockpiled RDX explosives in different towns of Maharashtra in May this year, including Malegaon.</b>
Rahil is also understood to be a recruiting agent for LeT in Maharashtra. Investigators are probing the role of Rahil's associates - Junaid Hussain, Abdul Latif and Munna. Evidence suggests that both Munna and Rahil were seen in Malegaon before they escaped to Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Gujarat Police on Tuesday busted a LeT sleeper cell with the arrest of four men in Ahmedabad. The police said they had recovered video <b>CDs featuring top terrorist leader Maulana Masood Azhar and footage of the 2002 sectarian violence in the State</b>.
Several documents, including literature in Urdu and the letterhead of the banned outfit, and numerous CDs used to recruit persons for LeT were seized during the arrests made on Monday and Tuesday, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Manoj Shashidhar told reporters here.
Shashidhar said the sleeper cell in Gujarat was part of a network of similar modules busted in West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Patna, among others.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>"These arrests are significant as they are part of a pan-national network of the LeT. They were members of a sleeper cell that was prepared for any sort of attack or series of strikes,"</span> he said.
Of the four arrested men, two are from Ahmedabad, one is a senior cleric at a madarsa in Bharuch district and another hails from Kashmir. Shashidhar described Khalid Kashmiri as "a prized catch" because he is the younger brother of Aslam Kashmiri, wanted by Maharashtra Police for setting up a LeT module in Aurangabad.
<b>"This module may not have weapons with them as their main purpose was recruitment. We have information that they recruited numerous youths from Maharashtra and Gujarat and sent them across the border for terrorist training," </b>Shashidhar said.
Gujarat police has been on an alert after the Mumbai train blasts and the Malegaon blasts and intensified surveillance at all public places and also certain other places, officials said.
The State police has also found links between the militants' module in Maharashtra and modules existing in Gujarat and has been keeping an eye on certain madarsas in Bharuch, Surat and nearby places
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Police should arrest SP MP Azmi for inciting communal violence by blaming Bajarang Dal.
Same goes to other Muslims organization who came out protesting against Hindu organization demanding ban.
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
<b>General Pervez Musharraf may have succeeded in convincing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of Pakistan's "innocence" behind the recent terror strikes in India</b>, but investigation into the Malegaon blasts and Tuesday's arrest of two Lashkar-e-Tayyeba men in Gujarat could be an eye-opener for India.
<b>Investigators suspect the involvement of LeT cadre Rahil who allegedly stockpiled RDX explosives in different towns of Maharashtra in May this year, including Malegaon.</b>
Rahil is also understood to be a recruiting agent for LeT in Maharashtra. Investigators are probing the role of Rahil's associates - Junaid Hussain, Abdul Latif and Munna. Evidence suggests that both Munna and Rahil were seen in Malegaon before they escaped to Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Gujarat Police on Tuesday busted a LeT sleeper cell with the arrest of four men in Ahmedabad. The police said they had recovered video <b>CDs featuring top terrorist leader Maulana Masood Azhar and footage of the 2002 sectarian violence in the State</b>.
Several documents, including literature in Urdu and the letterhead of the banned outfit, and numerous CDs used to recruit persons for LeT were seized during the arrests made on Monday and Tuesday, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Manoj Shashidhar told reporters here.
Shashidhar said the sleeper cell in Gujarat was part of a network of similar modules busted in West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Patna, among others.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>"These arrests are significant as they are part of a pan-national network of the LeT. They were members of a sleeper cell that was prepared for any sort of attack or series of strikes,"</span> he said.
Of the four arrested men, two are from Ahmedabad, one is a senior cleric at a madarsa in Bharuch district and another hails from Kashmir. Shashidhar described Khalid Kashmiri as "a prized catch" because he is the younger brother of Aslam Kashmiri, wanted by Maharashtra Police for setting up a LeT module in Aurangabad.
<b>"This module may not have weapons with them as their main purpose was recruitment. We have information that they recruited numerous youths from Maharashtra and Gujarat and sent them across the border for terrorist training," </b>Shashidhar said.
Gujarat police has been on an alert after the Mumbai train blasts and the Malegaon blasts and intensified surveillance at all public places and also certain other places, officials said.
The State police has also found links between the militants' module in Maharashtra and modules existing in Gujarat and has been keeping an eye on certain madarsas in Bharuch, Surat and nearby places
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Police should arrest SP MP Azmi for inciting communal violence by blaming Bajarang Dal.
Same goes to other Muslims organization who came out protesting against Hindu organization demanding ban.