Saturday, August 19, 2006
Chilling alert from train blasts suspect
Mumbai Mirror, Saturday, August 19, 2006
Barely three days after the horrific 7/11 blasts, four Pakistanis trained in making explosives entered India through the Nepal-Uttar Pradesh border, Faisal Shaikh, one of the blasts accused has told Anti-Terrorist Squad officials. Faisal, allegedly the Lashkar-e-Taiba's western India commander picked up on July 27 along with his Bangalore-based software engineer brother Muzammil, has said that he himself helped the four enter Indian territory and dropped two of them near Punjab and the other two in Uttar Pradesh. Before the blasts too, he brought in four other Pakistanis through the same route, Faisal has disclosed in his statement, an ATS officer who did not wish to be named said.
Police have taken Faisal's revelation as a stark warning and are seeking more details about the Pakistanis. However, officials said they had information that the intruders would not be living alone but would try to set up a family, as that could create suspicion, but were likely to become part of some thickly-populated and predominantly Muslim locality. The attempt was to make detection difficult, police said.
Barely three days after the horrific 7/11 blasts, four Pakistanis trained in making explosives entered India through the Nepal-Uttar Pradesh border, Faisal Shaikh, one of the blasts accused has told Anti-Terrorist Squad officials. Faisal, allegedly the Lashkar-e-Taiba's western India commander picked up on July 27 along with his Bangalore-based software engineer brother Muzammil, has said that he himself helped the four enter Indian territory and dropped two of them near Punjab and the other two in Uttar Pradesh. Before the blasts too, he brought in four other Pakistanis through the same route, Faisal has disclosed in his statement, an ATS officer who did not wish to be named said.
Police have taken Faisal's revelation as a stark warning and are seeking more details about the Pakistanis. However, officials said they had information that the intruders would not be living alone but would try to set up a family, as that could create suspicion, but were likely to become part of some thickly-populated and predominantly Muslim locality. The attempt was to make detection difficult, police said.
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