<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>City BPO manager planted bombs, held </b>
 Hyderabad, Sept. 30: A call centre manager was arrested by Mumbai police for the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts. Naveed Hussain, 26, IS suspected to be a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative. Naveed was picked up from his rented flat at Lake Shore Apartments in Neredmet on Friday evening. Hyderabad Task Force, Central Zone and Detective Department personnel assisted the Mumbai police in arresting Naveed. He was directly involved in the Mumbai blasts, said a police source.
A city police official admitted, He was not on our radar. He appears to be a member of the sleeper cell. Usually we do not concentrate on areas like Neredmet. Naveed is said to be related to Faizal, the main conspirator of the 7/11 blasts. Police will also question one Ibrahim who used to come to Naveeds room. SIT sleuths are questioning a woman BPO employee linked to Naveed.
Naveed was born in Kuwait, where his father still works, and did his graduation in commerce from Mumbai. His mother was a Pakistani and after her death, his father had married again. Naveed was staying in his Neredmet residence for the past two years. His neighbours were shocked at learning that he was a terror suspect.
I cant believe this, said Swasthik Chandrashekar, who was sharing the flat with Naveed. He is innocent and I dont think that he is involved in the blasts. R.G. Naidu, who stays in the neighbouring apartment, said that Naveed had left for Mumbai two months before the blasts. He said he was going for some training, said Mr Naidu. He came back only 20 days ago.
Swasthik, who is a quality analyst the BPO where Naveed worked, said, For the one month Naveed was not using his mobile phone and said it was infected with a virus. Police suspects that Naveed was not using mobile phone to avoid detection. Police also questioned Swasthik, who hails from Ooty in Tamil Nadu. Cyberabad police said that Naveeds brother Waleed was a journalist working with an English newspaper in Mumbai. He has also been picked up, said a police officer.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Neighbours shocked over Naveed's arrest</b>
Staff Reporter
<i>He rarely interacted with anyone </i>
Two days before leaving for Mumbai, he closed the front doors of his flat Naveed was using only the rear doors, said he was shifting some furniture
HYDERABAD:
The arrest of Naveed came as a rude jolt to his neighbours in the Lake Shore Tower apartment building at Neredmet. In a joint operation, the Mumbai and Hyderabad police picked up him at the high-rise on Friday night on charge of involvement in the 7/11 attacks at Mumbai.
"Naveed had been living in the flat for the past two years but rarely mixed with any of us," R. J. Naidu, Naveed's neighbour on the ground floor, said. An ex-serviceman, Naidu said that Naveed always kept the doors and windows of his flat closed.
He used to pay the mandatory maintenance amount of Rs. 300 for the flat much before other occupants paid. For some reason, he did not pay the amount for the months of June and July on time. <b>The Mumbai police announced that Naveed was in Mumbai a few days before the blasts were carried out.</b>
Speaks on phone
Once a friend of Naveed came to the flat when the latter was away. "When I raised objection, the stranger called up Naveed who told me over phone that he was in Mumbai on some work," Mr. Naidu recalled. Taken aback by his alleged involvement in 7/11 attacks, the neighbours are shocked that Naveed returned to Hyderabad quietly afterwards and lived amongst them like an innocent.
He had a Maruti car since he checked into the apartment two years ago. Two days before leaving for Mumbai, Naveed closed the flat's front doors and stared using only the rear door. When asked, he reportedly maintained that he was shifting some furniture.
<b>Naveed used to be close to a woman, a call centre executive</b>, who was living alone in a rented flat on the top floor of the same building. The Cyberabad police are questioning the woman and Naveed's roommates, Swasthik and Ibrahim.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Pak's napak game</b>
T N Raghunatha | Mumbai
The Pioneer
October 1, 2006
*11 men crossed border to blow up Mumbai
*Mumbai Police crack 7/11 blasts to last detail
After 10-week-long painstaking investigations into what they initially perceived
as "blinder of a case", the Mumbai Police have ripped the lid off the sinister
7/11 serial blasts' plot masterminded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) and executed by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), with the help of outlawed SIMI and
Jaish-e-Mohammed.  Â
Though it had been known for some time that the blast plot was hatched in
Pakistan, the Mumbai Police on Saturday came out with a shocking revelation
that Pakistan's State-run Intelligence agency was the brain behind the
dastardly act, which claimed 187 lives and left over 700 others injured. While
details of the plan brought out by the investigation establish Pakistan's role
beyond doubt, they also point to Mumbai Police's efficiency.
(A PTI report from Islamabad said that Pakistan had termed the findings baseless
and fabricated.)
The ISI may have drawn up a diabolical blast plot to cripple the country's
financial capital and unnerve Mumbaikars for the second time after the March
12, 1993 serial bomb blasts, but it was LeT which executed the plan, as Mumbai
Police Commissioner A N Roy conceded: "In a most professional, precise and
well-planned manner".
Lashkar-e-Toiba, which had begun its preparation to execute 7/11 blasts as early
as March this year, had chosen Azam Cheema for the job. It was this senior ISI
operative and the highly-placed Bawahalpur-based LeT commander, who handpicked recruits to carry out the job. "Cheema trained a majority of those involved in the blasts," Roy said. Police sources said that it was Cheema, who did most of the planning that went into the execution of the blasts.
The extent of Pakistan's involvement in the 7/11 blasts can be gauged from the
fact that as many as 11 Pakistanis - who sneaked into India through three
international borders - worked hand in hand with around 20 local operatives. Of
the 11 Pakistani terrorists, one died in the blasts, while another succumbed to
bullets in a police encounter. The remaining nine Pakistanis have either fled
the country or are at large within the country.
Severe flak notwithstanding, they received from various quarters, including the
media, for the "tardy probe" in the seven powerful explosions that ripped
first-class compartments in equal number of north-Mumbai bound suburban locals
on July 11, 2006, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and crime branch sleuths of
the Mumbai police cracked the "quite complicated" case in a relatively short
period of one and half months.
"It was a blinder of a case for us. Such was the precision with which the
attackers had carried out the task that we were left with no clues at any of
the blast sites to work upon. It was our scientific approach and the assistance
from the technical team that took us where we are today. Now we have enough
evidence to take the case to a logical conclusion during the trial," Roy said
on Saturday afternoon, he addressed the media along with State DGP Dr P S
Pasricha and ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi.
According to Roy, the ATS chanced upon its first outside clue, when it came to
know a person from Navi Mumbai had been repeatedly trying to make a telephone
call to a place along the Indo-Nepal border. Following this, the police
arrested prime suspect Kamaluddin Ansari from Madhubani in Bihar. "Before long,
we had other suspects in our net. But, the problem lay in mustering evidence to
substantiate our charges against them, Roy said.
The ATS, which had set up seven separate teams to investigate the seven blasts
and two technical research teams to supplement their efforts, rounded off
investigations on Friday night, with the arrest of a suspected bomber (Khar
blast) Naved from Hyderabad. Earlier on Friday, the ATS had arrested four blast
suspects - three from Mumbai and one from Kolkata, after prolonged questioning
of other 7/11 blast accused already in the police custody.
Together with the arrests made on Friday, the ATS has currently in its custody
15 suspects, of whom 12 are "directly involved". These 12 include four persons
who planted explosives in Jogeshwari, Matunga, Mira Road and Khar blasts.Roy
went on to add: "We are looking out for at least five more suspects, of whom we
are close to arresting one. We can say now, we have solved the case, but we will
carry on with our investigations".
According to Roy, the main players behind the blasts are Faizal Sheikh,
Kamaluddin Ansari and Ehtasham Siddiqui. While Faisal Shaikh is a resident of
Mira Road, Kamaluddin Ansari was arrested from the Madhubani district of
Bihar.
Ethesham Siddiqui, is the Maharashtra unit general secretary of SIMI. It was
from Faisal that 26,000 Saudi riyal were seized and he confessed to the police
during the interrogation that during the last four to five years he had
received nearly Rs 60 lakh.
Faizal used to get money from one Saudi Arabia-based Rizwan Davare, who used to get the money from Lashkar operatives in Pakistan and channel it to India
through hawala routes.
Of the 11 Pakistani who sneaked into India and took active part in engineering
the blasts, two of them came entered from Nepal on May 25 with the help of
Kamaluddin. While five others had smuggled themselves into India through
Bangladesh border, another four entered India through Gujarat border. On their
arrival in India, they stayed at Malad, Borivli-East, Mumbra, all rented flats,
and at Bandra residence of Faisal.
One of the Pakistanis, Salim was killed in the blast at Khar. "His body was
found between Khar and Bandra stations soon after the blasts. He would also
have escaped had he got down from the train before the blast.
May be he could not do so because of the peak hour crowd inside the train or he
did not know the topography of Mumbai well," Roy said. Another Pakistani,
Mohammed Ali alias Abu Umed alias Abu Osama, was killed during an encounter
with the sleuths of ATS at Antop Hill. Rest of them, whom Roy refused to name,
may have either fled to Pakistan or "are still in the country."
Dwelling on the modus operandi used in executing the blasts, Roy said that one
Eshamullah, a Pakistani, had brought nearly 15 to 20 kg of RDX from Pakistan
for use in the blasts.
<b>How They Got To The Bottom Of It</b>
# LeT begins preparation to execute 7/11 in March
# ISI operative Azam Cheema and the highly-placed Bawahalpur-based LeT commander
train local modules
# 11 Pakistanis sneak into India through Gujarat, Bangladesh & Nepal-Bihar
borders.
# Telephone call from Navi Mumbai to a place along the Indo-Nepal border gives
the first clue, leading to a vital arrest in Madhubani
# One Pak terrorist killed in train blast, another in police encounter
# Body of Pak terrorist reconstructed & DNA done. Body still with cops
# Police looking for five more suspects
# Nearly 20 kg of RDX brought from Pakistan
# Local modules visited Pak and get training several times
# One Pakistani accompanied every local module to plant bomb in seven trains
# Police deny link between 7/11 and 9/11. Al-Qaeda had no role in 7/11 blasts
# Fast-track court to try 7/11 accused
<b>The Deadly 15</b>
# Faisal-Ata-ur-Rehman Shaikh (bomber-Jogeshwari)
# Mohammed Kamaluddin Ansari (bomber-Matunga)
# Etesham Siddqui (bomber -Mira Road)
# Naved (bomber -Khar)
# Khaleel Ahmead Shaikh
# Maulana Mumtaz
# Mujjamil Ata-ur-Rehman Shaikh
# Tanvir Ahmed Ansari
# Jamir Chaviwala
# Sohail Shaikh
# Akmal Hashmi
# Mohammed Shafi
# Mohammed Shaikh
# Abdul Wahiuddin
# Moahmmed Majid
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I am surprised no information on whether they are from SIMI or not.
Any political connection ?
This is not possible without sugar daddy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->7/11 blasts: Security agencies intensify hunt to nab chief organiser
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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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>37 Pak nationals funded Delhi blasts </b>
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi: Investigations into last year's Delhi blasts have shown that 37 Pakistani nationals were financing terror networks across India.
"Thirty-seven people - all residents of Pakistan and active members of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) â funded many operations in India, which involved heavy loss of life and property," reads a Delhi Police Special Cell chargesheet on the blasts that shook the Capital's markets and crowded spots on Diwali and Id eve last year.
Huge amounts in Dollars and Riyals through Hawala and foreign remittances were sent to LeT operative and October 29 blast accused Tariq Ahmed Dar's accounts in Delhi and Srinagar from these 37 sources to fund terror strikes, especially last year's blasts which killed 67 people, police said.
Probe agencies are studying the probability if the same sources had funded the July 11 train blasts.
"Many parallels can be drawn from both cases. The nature of funding largely shows a similar pattern. We are still trying to know whether the same sources had supplied the money for both strikes," a senior Delhi Police official said.
According to the chargesheet, Dar had disclosed to the police that Abu Ozefa, a Pakistani national and Divisional Commander of the LeT, who was killed in Kashmir, controlled the flow of funds from Pakistan.
He disclosed details of clandestine meetings held with Ozefa in a forest near Harwan area of Srinagar to exchange funds, police said.
<b>"Financial dealings were strictly on cash basis, that too in Dollars or Riyals," the chargesheet said. </b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>MUSHARRAF'S LIES & ANTICS CREATE UNHAPPINESS IN PAK ARMY </b>
By B.Raman
According to reliable sources in the Pakistani military,there are signs of embarrassment and unhappiness in sections of Pakistan's Armed Forces over the way he conducted himself in public and TV interviews during his recent visit to the US and the UK. These are not confined to only retired officers. For the first time, even serving officers have been expressing their disapproval of the way Musharraf has been condcting himself.
2. In the past, skepticism over Musharraf's policies and conduct was largely confined to serving officers of the Air Force and, to a smaller extent, the Navy. Senior serving officers of the rank of Major-General and above in the Army, who largely owed their rise to him, refrained from any criticism. It is no longer so after his performance in the US, which many regard as undignified of a head of state.
3. Questions are being raised about the propriety of his misusing an official visit at Government expense for the private promotion of his book. It has been alleged that many of those connected with the publication of his book such as the ghost-writers, his local agents in Pakistan, translators etc travelled by the President's Air Force plane at the State's expense.
4. Lt.Gen.(retd) Mahmood Ahmed, who was the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) at the time of the 9/11 terrorist strikes and who was present in the US on an official visit on the day of the strike, has reportedly been telling his friends and colleagues that Musharraf's statement that Mr.Richard Armitage, the then US Deputy Secretary of State, had threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the stone age was not quite correct though he (Mr.Armitage) did use strong language. Lt.Gen.Ahmed, who now actively works for the Tablighi Jamaat, has been avoiding the media since Musharraf made his controversial statement in a TV interview in the US.
5. Musharraf's disclosure in his book about the payments made by the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the Government of Pakistan for every terrorist suspect caught and handed over to the US agencies has also come in for strong criticism. It is learnt that Lt.Gen. Ashfaq Ahmed Kiyani, the present DG of the ISI, has told his colleagues that he was not aware that Musharraf has disclosed this in his book. According to him, Musharraf never got the manuscript of his book cleared by the ISI and the GHQ before giving it to his publishers.
6. It is also being alleged that the Foreign Office was not kept in the picture by Musharraf regarding his various engagements and interviews in the US connected with the release of the book. These were handled directly by his agents in collaboration with the publishers.
7. Musharraf's remarks about the Taliban and Dr.A.Q.Khan, the nuclear scientist, have also not gone down well with his colleagues in the army and scientists in the nuclear establishment. His projection of A.Q.Khan as a greedy, money-minded individual has shocked many. It is being pointed out that the Taliban was steadfast in its loyalty to Pakistan and that A.Q.Khan was the only genuine hero produced by Pakistan since it became independent in 1947. That Musharraf has let them down under duress from the US has shocked many.
<b>8. Sections of the Urdu language press of Pakistan have described Musharraf as a habitual "u-turn maker", who keeps making u-turns depending on the circumstances. According to one of them, while he tried to project himself as a statesman par excellence, he has come out as a hypocrite par excellence. </b>
9. Commenting on a speech made by him at Brussels on his way to Havana describing the Taliban as more dangerous than Al Qaeda, the "Jasarat" wrote on September 14,2006: "Musharraf said that we are not the makers of the Taliban, but he forgot that the entire world is aware of the reality. Gen (retd).Naseerullah Babar (Mrs.Benazir Bhutto's Interior Minister in 1993-96) has been propagating throughout that it is wrong to consider the Taliban as a group of Afghans. They are our children, but under pressure Musharraf conveniently handed them over to the US."
10. The paper asked whether Musharraf would similarly betray Dr.A.Q.Khan as a foreigner from Holland, who was invited to work in Pakistan and who let down Pakistan. It further asked Musharraf whether he would tell the US under pressure that Pakistan did not ask A.Q.Khan to produce the atomic bomb and that he produced it on his own without the knowledge of the Pakistani military.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is freaking unbelievable !! This is a new theory in jurisprudence - present the evidence to the criminal and he will punish himself !
What is required Mr Sharma is not for TSP to see evidence that they are killers. What is required instead is for the aam-junta to see that evidence. Call a bloody press conference and present the evidence to all the newspapers and show to Indian people what you have done to investigate this issue. They are the judge not the pigs across the border.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/oct/02mumblasts.htm
It is a cover-up, pointing finger at Pakistan is easiest path. Indian Government should worry about involvement of Indian Muslim in Mumbai blast.
What they will get showing evidence to Pakistan? Who cares? What happened when Lt. Kalia and other bodies were examined by Red-cross? Pakistan violated Geneva Convention. But nothing happened. Who knows material was provided by Pakistan Govt or Madarasa crap? I donât think Indian Government can provide evidence against Pakistan Govt.
Indian govt. crap is good entertainment for Indian gullible public. It just shows short sight ness of Indian govt and lack of commitment to protect Indian citizens.
<b>Discuss blasts issue directly with Pak: US</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Islamabad: The United States has suggested that India discuss issues relating to Islamabad's involvement in the Mumbai train blasts directly with Pakistan instead of making allegations in public.
"India should communicate with Pakistan by having direct contact instead of talking about the Mumbai train blasts in the public," US Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan C Crocker was quoted as saying in the media here on Wednesday.
The United States wanted Indian and Pakistani governments to discuss all the issues between them, including the Kashmir dispute, to normalise their relations, Crocker was quoted as saying by local daily Dawn.
"We hope that both the countries would keep all their channels open to rectify their misunderstandings." Statements making accusations would serve no purpose, the US Ambassador reportedly said.
On the Havana meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Crocker said the United States appreciated the spirit and sense of understanding reached between both the leaders to resolve differences peacefully.
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Hahahha!!!
MMS talk to your new beau Mushy.
<b>11/7 brain admits to plotting abortive hit on Modi</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In his confession to police, a copy of which was made available to the Hindustan Times, Faisal Sheikh, the suspected mastermind behind the July 11 Mumbai blasts, has admitted to having planned the failed assassination attempt on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as well.
The plan was foiled by Ahmedabad police, which shot dead the four would-be assassins â including Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old BSc student from Mumbra, Mumbai â on June 16, 2004.
The 31-year-old engineering dropout, said to be a senior Lashkar-e-Taeba(LeT) operative, told his interrogators: âFrom 2001, when I returned from Bahawalpur in Pakistan after being personally recruited and trained by the LeT's 'India commander' Azam Cheema, I did everything Babaji (as the 53-year-old Cheema is called by his recruits) wanted."
"After our members who were sent on a mission to eliminate Modi were shot by Ahmedabad police, I tried to arrange help for Ishrat Jahan's family<b>," Faizal's confession said. "I gave money to Ehtesham Siddiqui (who has also now been arrested for the July 11 conspiracy), asking him to personally hand it over to Ishrat's family."</b> Faisal did not specify how much money he passed on.
According to the chief of Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) KP Raghuvanshi, Faisal himself planted the RDX-based 'cocktail bomb' which caused the train blast at Jogeshwari station.
He worked with 11 LeT operatives from Pakistan while carrying out the entire mission which caused seven blasts and killed 192 people.
Faisal was arrested by senior police inspector JK Hargude on July 27 this year. His team first hit the <b>Faisal trail when he heard of a "hyperactive member" of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who kept his face covered behind "layers of scarves and the dark visor of a helmet" every time he hit the streets on his motorcycle. Ironically it was Faisal's own cousin Noman Sheikh, who has also since been arrested, who provided the information</b>.
Hargude said<b> Faisal had revealed he spent six months at Bahawalpur in 2004</b>, undergoing intensive training in arms and explosives, and interacting extensively with Cheema and his Inter-Services Intelligence bosses.
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Secular brigade was supporting Ishrat's family. Now terrorist/mass murderers are claiming links with Ishrat.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Mumbai mockery </b>
The Pioneer Edit Desk
'Afzal flu' spreads to 7/11 suspects
<b>Reports from Mumbai that relatives of those accused of carrying out the horrific train blasts on July 11, 2006, have petitioned the Prime Minister's Office and Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh of Maharashtra, alleging police atrocities, are extremely disquieting. The affidavits sworn by the relatives - and facilitated by Muslim organisations, community lawyers and the usual gaggle of human rights activists - charge the police with extracting forcible confessions, and using relatives of those under interrogation as hostages. To cement the religious connotations the whole episode has acquired, a team of Muslim MPs has met the Chief Minister and expressed its anguish at the supposed "forced" confessions</b>. It is fairly clear than an attempt is being made to browbeat and de-motivate the investigating authorities in Mumbai even before the case comes to the courts. Their case is being sought to be discredited in advance of judicial scrutiny. Earlier this month, after his death sentence was confirmed, the supporters of Mohammed Afzal Guru, mastermind of the Parliament terror strike of December 2001, began a campaign saying "his story had not been heard", and that he had been convicted on the basis of fraudulent confessions. <b>What Afzal's friends sought to do after the judgement, the Mumbai train blast suspects are seeking to do at the initial stage itself; they are attempting to pre-empt the criminal justice system. Backed up by the political class, this clever but alarming move puts the Mumbai police under enormous pressure. The "Afzal flu" has jumped cities.</b>
Two inferences flow from the entire business. First, the potential unravelling of the Mumbai police's diligent detective work on the 7/11 terrorist attack - and this is a very real danger now - under religio-political bullying only strengthens the case for a strong and specific anti-terror law. In hastily removing the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA) from the statute book but replacing it with nothing, the UPA Government has seriously handicapped India's terrorism-fighting capacity. Among other things, a POTA-type law immunises the police against terrorists and witnesses who may want to change their testimony as per their convenience. Second, rather than merely play passive postman and "forward petitions" to the Mumbai Police Commissioner, the Maharashtra Chief Minister needs to bolster his force. Of course, credible complaints must be inquired into, but Mr Deshmukh would do well to issue a statement affirming his complete and absolute faith in the integrity of Mumbai Police and its leading officers<b>. In the past week, the Mumbai Police chief has been blamed for many things - for oppressing city Muslims and for, by implicating the ISI in the train bombings, endangering the so-called India-Pakistani anti-terrorism initiative.</b> This inquisition has to stop. The Congress-led Governments at the Centre and in the State cannot throw law enforcement agencies to the wolves. They have to stand by their men.
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Here goes India's credibility and another example of Moron Singh's moroness.
<b>Mumbai blasts: 'Evidence against ISI not clinching'</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India has "pretty good" but probably not "clinching" evidence of the involvement of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Mumbai train blasts of July 11, National Security Adviser MK Narayanan has said.
<b>âI would hesitate to say we have clinching evidence but we have pretty good evidence,â </b>Narayanan said on the programme Devil's Advocate on the newschannel CNN-IBN. This is the first time any Indian official has spoken about the quality of the evidence against the Pakistani spy agency's role in the Mumbai blasts.
"I think it is as good evidence as we can possibly get in terrorist cases," said Narayanan. <b>"Whether it is clinching, is for the courts (to decide). We have connectivity, linkages, confessions. We have a number of arrests which are pretty good but there are pieces of the puzzle that are not available."</b>
Not everyone is pleased with Narayanan's candour. Former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan G. Parthasarathy said it was a serious mistake to say India did not have clinching evidence. "This only strengthens Pakistan's claim that India is making unsubstantiated allegations about the ISI's role," he said.
"The probe is still on and you do not need clinching evidence under our laws. You only need evidence to show the links between the bombers, and those in Pakistan who are behind such acts of terrorism."
Security expert<b> B Raman said, "Unlike in the Mumbai blasts of 1993, where we managed to get material evidence of Pakistan's role, what the police have obtained this time is oral evidence. They have statements. Oral evidence is good enough with corroboration. I am sure the police is working to get more evidence."</b>
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To begin with, India will give Pakistan information on Pakistan-based terrorist groups active in India and ask Pakistan to get back with a report of the action taken against them.<b> "If every time we give them information, we get a negative answer, we will know the mechanism is not working and we will have to see what we can do,"</b> said Narayanan.<b> "Once we feel the mechanism is not working, we will call it off."</b>
He said the joint mechanism was aimed at putting Pakistan "on the spot". Pakistan would be given a "fair opportunity" before India decided whether the mechanism was working or not. India hoped to give Pakistan "specific" locations, names and telephone numbers. <b>"If Pakistan delivers on some, even if not all, then at least we will feel the mechanism is reasonably successful," </b>Narayanan said.
He added that Pakistan had "always told us if you give us the evidence, we will help you with the investigation. Now we are giving them an opportunity to prove in deeds what they have said in words. From our point of view, we see it as an opportunity.
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Never seen such fools and can't believe he is heading government and other spy agency.
<span style='color:red'>'RJD member involved in 7/11 blasts' </span>
Confessing that the plan for the serial blasts was hatched in Mumbai, the main accused Mohd Faizal Sheikh has said that 7/11 was a revenge for the Gujarat riots of 2002.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mohali, December 15: Faisal Sheikh, a prime accused in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai, has confessed to the police that he had gone to Pakistan in 2002 and attended a training camp near Muzaffarabad allegedly run by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.
Sheikh, in his confession to the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), said he attended a programme organised by the banned SIMI in May 2001 at Pune, where he was told about atrocities on Muslims during the 2002 sectarian violence in Gujarat and the Mumbai riots in 1992-93.
This influenced him to go to Pakistan, he said in the confession that was submitted on Friday to a MCOCA court in Mumbai.
<span style='color:red'>Sheikh travelled to Lahore by the Samjhauta Express </span>and met an Indian Lashker-e-Toiba operative from Hyderabad, Abdul Razzaq, who influenced him to undergo training in arms at a camp near Muzaffarabad.
During his stay in Pakistan, he met Lashkar-e-Taiba's commander for India, Azam Cheema, he said in the confession recorded by DCP (Zone I) Brijesh Singh on November 5.
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Life of Mumbai blasts judge
21 May, 2007 l 0113 hrs ISTlSwati Deshpande/TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Designated Tada judge Pramod Dattaram Kode goes to work every day in a bullet-proof ambassador in the halo of Z-plus security. For over eleven years he has been presiding over Asia's longest terror trial and he hasn't missed a single day. Not even when his father expired a few years ago. He has spent thousands of hours surveying the arguments for and against the people who were responsible for the serial blasts that rocked Mumbai in 1993.
The mood is not always grim in his court. The judge displays a mischievous streak at times. He would spring a joke on an unsuspecting lawyer and there would be a twinkle in his eye. Otherwise, his face is a sombre mask, hard to comprehend. His brooding eyes are transfixed on the lawyers, betel nut in his mouth. Most of his fingers are adorned with rings. He is somewhat affected by numerology (his favourite numbers are nine and one) and likes to pass certain orders on certain dates.
The nature of the case is so sensitive that he is one of the most guarded men in the country. Forty-five men stand sentry. He never steps out of his New Marine Lines home except when he has to go to court or when he goes on his annual Shirdi visit. He lives with his wife and two daughters, one of whom is now studying law. His security men accompany his daughters too, wherever they go.
Kode is regarded as a tough man with a soft core. He has allowed some accused to visit their ailing parents or to attend the marriages of their children. He has also been compassionate with those who had to travel for commercial reasons, like an accused who was dealing in fabric and said he had to go to Lucknow for a wholesale purchase. He has entertained more than 10,000 such miscellaneous applications, a record of sorts. The 57-year-old judge doesn't have any grey hair though.
His courtroom is large and stuffy. It may have been the first in Mumbai to be modernised â with a mike and a computer, which has its own story. The clerks kept reducing the point size of the fonts because the case history was becoming so voluminous. This Friday, the outdated computer broke down, probably in revolt. The courtroom resembles a classroom, with wooden benches and one man with all the authority.
Here, the 123 accused have lounged around like college kids catching up on the times whenever they met. The front-benchers, like the Memons, follow the proceedings seriously and don't do small talk, but the back-benchers enjoy a quiet chat. The judge rarely, if ever, raises his voice in court.
The accused had begun to treat him like family and a few years ago even presented him a large handmade Diwali card. It used to adorn the notice board until a few days ago. But now, with the sentences being handed out, it's hard to say if the warmth would stay.
Kode joined the judiciary in the 1980s. He was a sessions court judge trying ordinary Indian Penal Code cases
then and later in 1993 became a special judge under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act where for three years he tried several cases filed against notorious gangsters Dawood Ibrahim, Arun Gawli, Amar Naik, Ashwin Naik and Chhota Rajan. He was given Y-class security in 1994.
In 1996, when he was transferred to the Arthur Road court complex carved out of the high-security Arthur road prison barrack, his security was enhanced. He was upgraded to the Z-category by the year-end and later to Z-plus.
The judge does not have an insurance cover as the state government continues to drag its feet on its promise of a Rs 25 lakh life insurance policy. Earlier, when judge J N Patel was conducting the trial before his elevation to the Bombay High Court, the government had suggested a Rs 50 lakh insurance cover.
Kode has declared 100 accused guilty, including three women and acquitted the remaining 23. He is now going through the crucial task of sentencing the accused. Film star Sanjay Dutt's fate too, is in his hands. More than anybody, he is glad that it is all coming to an end. It's improbable though that he would ever walk like a free man.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Families of 7/11 victims still waiting for Govt relief: Advani </b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of the Opposition and senior BJP leader LK Advani has drawn the Government's attention to non-fulfilment of the assurances given for rehabilitation and relief to the victims of the 2006 Mumbai train blasts.
Advani demanded early compensation to the families of the victims of 7/11 train blasts and action against the perpetrators of the crime. The letter followed Advani's visit to Mumbai last week, during which he met two comatose victims of the serial bomb.
The Leader of Opposition reminded the Prime Minister of the promises made by him in his letter of August 20, 2006 regarding relief and rehabilitation of the blast victims and their families
"I am distressed to inform you although 11 months have elapsed since the terrorist attacks of 7/11, none of the above mentioned assurances has been fulfiled to any degree of satisfaction," he said.
<b>The BJP leader told the Prime Minister that a field-level study former MP Dr Kirit Somaiya showed that only 174 of the 1,077 victims had received compensation through the Railway Claims Tribunal. As for promise of employment to the kin of the dead and severely handicapped, only 15 of the 235 eligible cases had been cleared, the study had revealed.</b>
<b>He also complained about the delay in prosecution of those responsible for the terrorist attacks and pointed out that only 13 persons had been arrested, while 15 were still absconding</b>.
Advani, who had come to the city after the blasts as well, said he had written to the PM in August last year too and had been promised that the Government would bear the medical expenses of the injured and jobs would be provided to the next of kin of the victims. But this had not been done so far, he said.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>LET US SHED TEARS FOR OURSELVES - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR</b>---PAPER NO. 256
by B. Raman
Large sections of the nation shed tears on July 11, 2007, in memory of the 190 innocent Indians belonging to different religions who were killed a year ago in a series of explosions in suburban trains of Mumbai by jihadi terrorists inspired by the ideology of Al Qaeda. Their tears were also an expression of solidarity with the surviving relatives of these victims.
Just as millions of Americans and their leaders belonging to both sides of the political spectrum shed tears on September 11 every year in memory of the over 2,500 innocent civilians belonging to different nations who were killed by Al Qaeda in the US homeland on September 11, 2001, and in solidarity with their relatives.
Just as millions of Indonesians and Australians and their political leaders shed years every year on the anniversary of the Bali bombing of October, 2002, in which nearly 200 innocent civilians---Indonesians, Australians and others--- were blown to pieces by jihadi terrorists.
Just as millions of Spanish people, their royal family and their political leaders shed tears every year on the anniversary of the Madrid bombing of March, 2004, in which the jihadi terrorists targeted suburban trains, killing nearly 200 innocent civilians.
Just as millions of British, their royal family and their political leaders shed tears every year on the anniversary of the London bombings of July, 2005, in which jihadi suicide terrorists targeted the public transportation system killing over 50 innocent civilians.
There was a significant difference between the observance of the anniversaries of these great human tragedies inflicted on humanity by the jihadi terrorists in other countries and in India.
In other countries, the head of the State or Government participated in the observance of the anniversaries. On July 7, 2007, we saw on the TV touching scenes of Mr. Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, and his wife visiting the tube stations where the terrorists struck and placing flowers at the scene of the tragedy.
<b>In India, our so-called secular political class and elite kept away from the observance of the anniversary of the Mumbai tragedy of July 11, 2006.</b>
Forget about flowers.
Not a drop of tear.
Not a word of sorrow.
Not a sign of grief.
Not a single expression of solidarity with the relatives of the victims.
<b>I did not write this article yesterday because I waited to see whether our Prime Minister would fly to Mumbai and lead the people of the nation in remembering the innocent Indians----men, women and children--- who were blown to pieces by the jihadi terrorists last year. I was convinced in my mind that he would not. Still, I was hoping that he would prove me wrong by participating in the observance of the anniversary. He didn't.</b>
Why he didn't?
Busy dealing with grave crises confronting the nation?
No.
Lack of time?
No.
Bad weather?
No.
He did not attend because he was worried the Muslims might misunderstand.
He did not attend because he was worried that any public expression of sorrow for those blown up by the jihadi terrorists might be misinterpreted by the Muslims as stigmatising their community.
A few weeks after the Mumbai blasts of July 11, 2006, I had been to Kolkata to attend a conference. One of the eminent participants told me that a few days after the blasts there was a meeting in the Raj Bhawan chaired by the Governor of West Bengal to discuss some other subject. <b>One of the participants proposed that they observe a two-minutes' silence in memory of those killed in Mumbai</b>.
The Governor ruled his suggestion out of order.
Why?
Lest the Muslims misinterpret it as stigmatising their community.
Jihadi terrorists can go on indulging in one act of mass casualty terrorism after another.
But, according to our so-called secular political class and elite, we should not talk about it or even cry about it.
Our anger, our tears, our exasperation at the failure of the Government to deal with them might be seen by the Muslims as stigmatising their community.
<b>How many acts of jihadi terrorism we have had in India since the present Government came to power in Delhi in 2004?
Delhi, Varanasi, Mumbai, Malegaon, Bangalore, Samjota Express, Hyderabad</b>.
Shri Shekhar Gupta, the Editor-in-Chief of the "Indian Express", in a recent article drew attention to a fact to which I have been drawing attention in my writings for over a year. There has been no satisfactory progress in any of these investigations.
In the past, our Police might have been criticised in some instances for its inability to prevent acts of terrorism, but it had generally received very high praise for its successful investigation.
We all felt proud of the Mumbai Police of the 1990s recently when the case relating to the Mumbai blasts of March, 1993, in which about 250 innocent civilians were blown up by jihadi terrorists, ended in conviction. There were many other cases in which too the Mumbai Police of the 1990s had covered itself with credit.
So too the Delhi Police.
So too the Police of other cities.
Why there is a perception now that they are not as good as they were in the 1990s?
Has there been a deterioration in their competence?
No. In the 1990s, they received the full backing of the political leadership of those years, which took active interest in the investigation.
The political leadership of those years did not give sermons to the police not to do anything which might be viewed by the Muslims as stigmatising or targeting their community.
It refrained from inhibiting a thorough investigation through such sermons.
<b>The political leadership of the past provided leadership and guidance. It took active interest in the investigation. It was determined that the guilty will be brought to book, even if they be Muslims. </b>
<b>The political leadership of today gives sermons and no leadership. It avoids active monitoring and supervision of the investigation lest the Muslims misunderstand. </b>
I was in service at the height of terrorism in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir under leaders like Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao.
They never gave sermons.
<b>I had never heard expressions like "stigmatising a community" or "targeting a community" etc coming out of their mouth. </b>
In the past, we used to accuse Western countries of following double standards in counter-terrorism because of their reluctance to co-operate with us.
We accused them of adopting an over-legalistic approach in order to avoid co-operating with us.
Since the botched-up London and Glasgow terrorist strikes by a joint Arab-Indian jihadi cell, we have been guilty of the same sins of commission and omission which we attributed to the West in the past.
Much of the initial leads about the Indian participants and their jihadi background before they migrated to the UK came from the Karnataka Police. It is they who were the first to identify the man who drove the car, which crashed into the Glasgow airport, as Kafeel Ahmed, an Indian national.
They were also the first to identify him as an aeronautical engineer and not a doctor.
They were also the first to establish that he became Wahabised in Bangalore and not in London, Belfast, Cambridge or Glasgow. He was not infected in the UK. He carried the jihadi infection to the UK from India.
<b>Leaders of the Indian Muslim community are worried that digging out the truth might lead to a stigmatisation of the Indian Muslims abroad. </b>
They express their concern to the so-called secular political leadership. What does it do?
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The Australian Police want some quick check-up about the antecedents of an Indian Muslim doctor from Bangalore under interrogation by them. He is related to one of the Indian perpetrators of the London and Glasgow attempts and had lived with them in the UK before migrating to Australia.
<b>What do we do?
The Central Bureau of Investigation gives them a sermon about the importance of making their request through proper channel. </b>
Just as the Western Police and intelligence agencies used to tell us in the past when we asked for a quick check-up of a terrorism-related information.
<b>New Delhi is afraid that any over-enthusiasm by our police and investigative and intelligence agencies in co-operating with the British and Australian investigators making preliminary enquiries about the suspected Indian Muslims might be viewed by the Indian Muslim community as stigmatising them. </b>
So, the message is: Drag your feet in co-operating with the British and Australians.
<b>The sensitivities and feelings of the Muslims are more important than saving innocent civilians----whether in India, the UK or Australia---by exposing the jihadi iceberg and neutralising it before it is too late. </b>
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It was B.Raman who was so happy when UPA came to power, we jumping like as if he had won lottery. I will dig his articles in rediff just after NDA lost power. Finally he is also learning now Morons, jokers, scum bags, criminal and idiots are in power.
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With the arrest of three persons, the police claims to have solved the murder of Kashi Dutt Tripathi, brother-in-law of CBI director Vijay Shankar. Tripathi, a resident of Sainik Farms in south Delhi, was found murdered in his house on Wednesday.
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When CBI director relative murdered in Delhi, case was solved within 50 hours, In case of Mumbai blast, they have no clue after one year?
Is it necessary in India, for CBI relative or politician of ruling party to die in terrorist attack to get case solved?
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