10-03-2006, 12:00 AM
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PIONEER.COM
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
Sheikh is reportedly hiding in LeT-sponsored safe house in Kathmandu
After having unearthed the conspiracy behind the serial blasts in Mumbai, the security agencies have now intensified the hunt to nab Rahil Abdul Rahman Sheikh, the principal organiser of the 7/11 terror attacks.
He is reportedly hiding in one of the several 'safe houses' operated by Pakistan-sponsored terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) in Kathmandu. Indian security agencies have proof to suggest that Lashkar and Pakistan's external intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have exploited the anarchy in conflict-ridden Nepal to advance their strategy of India's encirclement.
Sources in security agencies say that<b> Sheikh, originally a resident of Mumbai's Grant Road area, is believed to have handled the communication from his Pakistan-based ISI and Lashkar handlers with the sleeper cells in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi. Sheikh has been taking instructions from LeT's commander Prof Azam 'Baba' Cheema, who would have provided the funds and logistics to the operatives of LeT and Students Islamic Movement in India (SIMI), for targeting the country</b>.
<b>Sources said Sheikh, who has never been photographed, operates under the control of a Dhaka-based Pakistani LeT commander code-named 'Junaid'. </b>He is also said to be responsible for providing safe passages to Lashkar recruits comprising SIMI cadres in reaching the training camps in Pakistan. Sheikh was the one who managed the unhindered infiltration of three Bangladesh nationals into India. Sheikh, along with Zulfikar Fayyaz Qazi and Zabiuddin Ansari, set up escape plans weeks before the 7/11 blasts, sources in security agencies said.
As part of its new strategy, the ISI has started to outsource part of its subversive enterprise that targets India to tightly controlled groups and individuals in Nepal and Bangladesh and some elements in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. This has been obviously done to present the facade of deniability.
Investigations into the Mumbai blasts have revealed that all those involved in planting explosives in the suburban trains were trained in Bangladesh. They were sent to Bangladesh after having undergone training in Pakistan.
The evidence available with the Indian security agencies clearly indicates that the 7/11 outrage in Mumbai was masterminded by Lashkar. It remains the most lethal jihadi group with strategic networks across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and its headquarters in Muridke in Pakistan. Despite the moral posturing of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and his regime, Lashkar enjoys a high-level protection and patronage from the Pakistan Army and its covert agencies.
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PIONEER.COM
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
Sheikh is reportedly hiding in LeT-sponsored safe house in Kathmandu
After having unearthed the conspiracy behind the serial blasts in Mumbai, the security agencies have now intensified the hunt to nab Rahil Abdul Rahman Sheikh, the principal organiser of the 7/11 terror attacks.
He is reportedly hiding in one of the several 'safe houses' operated by Pakistan-sponsored terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) in Kathmandu. Indian security agencies have proof to suggest that Lashkar and Pakistan's external intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have exploited the anarchy in conflict-ridden Nepal to advance their strategy of India's encirclement.
Sources in security agencies say that<b> Sheikh, originally a resident of Mumbai's Grant Road area, is believed to have handled the communication from his Pakistan-based ISI and Lashkar handlers with the sleeper cells in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi. Sheikh has been taking instructions from LeT's commander Prof Azam 'Baba' Cheema, who would have provided the funds and logistics to the operatives of LeT and Students Islamic Movement in India (SIMI), for targeting the country</b>.
<b>Sources said Sheikh, who has never been photographed, operates under the control of a Dhaka-based Pakistani LeT commander code-named 'Junaid'. </b>He is also said to be responsible for providing safe passages to Lashkar recruits comprising SIMI cadres in reaching the training camps in Pakistan. Sheikh was the one who managed the unhindered infiltration of three Bangladesh nationals into India. Sheikh, along with Zulfikar Fayyaz Qazi and Zabiuddin Ansari, set up escape plans weeks before the 7/11 blasts, sources in security agencies said.
As part of its new strategy, the ISI has started to outsource part of its subversive enterprise that targets India to tightly controlled groups and individuals in Nepal and Bangladesh and some elements in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. This has been obviously done to present the facade of deniability.
Investigations into the Mumbai blasts have revealed that all those involved in planting explosives in the suburban trains were trained in Bangladesh. They were sent to Bangladesh after having undergone training in Pakistan.
The evidence available with the Indian security agencies clearly indicates that the 7/11 outrage in Mumbai was masterminded by Lashkar. It remains the most lethal jihadi group with strategic networks across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and its headquarters in Muridke in Pakistan. Despite the moral posturing of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and his regime, Lashkar enjoys a high-level protection and patronage from the Pakistan Army and its covert agencies.
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