pune terror link

August 19, 2008

From: Mrityunjay Bose
TERROR LINK

Blasts in Mumbai in past had Pune linksAccused had SIMI links

Mumbai/Pune: With terror-busters hunting for operatives of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives in Pune and deactivate sleeper cells in the wake of July 26 serial blasts in Ahmedabad and recovery of live bombs in Surat, one thing has become clear - Maharashtra's culture city is not immune to the presence of terrorists and their sympathisers. In the recent past - in two major bomb blasts cases - accused had been arrested from Pune. In the July 11, 2006 chain blasts in Mumbai's suburban trains - one Suhail Shaikh was arrested from Pune, who was a close friend of absconder Rizwan Daware, who had channelised funds from the Gulf for the blasts. Shaikh was a resident of Bhipmura, Lashkar area, Camp, Pune. Another accused in the same case, Abdul Wahid Din Mohammed Shaikh was also from Pune and he used to stay in Nanapeth, Bhawanipeth areas. Daware (also spelt as Dawrey) was resident of Permanand Park, Shivarkar Road, Vanawadi in Pune. Similarly, in connection with the March 13, 2004 blasts inside a suburban local in Mulund, one Anwar Ali was arrested and he was a part-time lecturer at the National Defence Academy (NDA), the premier armed forces training institute that churns out officers for the three services. It is also to be noted here that Mohammed Faisal Ataur Rehman Shaikh, one of the main accused in the July 11 blasts had allegedly travelled to Pakistan and Jeddah by a passport that was issued from Regional Passport Office-Pune. He was trained by Azam Cheema alias Babaji, one of the top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commanders based in Bahawalpur. Suhail Shaikh too has also undergone training under Cheema.Be it the July 11 blasts or the Mulund blasts - in both cases in suburban trains, Western Railway and Central Railway, respectively - the said accused are linked with a common thread - they were some time or the other were part of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
Suhail, the Pune youth, was one of the major players in the 11/7 blasts case. He along with Faisal and Zameer Ahmed Latifur Rehman Shaikh had surveyed places like World Trade Centre, Bombay Stock Exchange, Mahalaxmi temple, Siddhivinayak temple, local trains and large shopping complexes and had told the conspirators that local trains were the soft target and suitable for explosions. Investigators have found out that Faisal met Daware in the late nineties when both of them used to attend sessions of SIMI. Here only, they allegedly adopted the 'jehadi' ideology and in 2001, Faisal went to Pakistan with the help of contacts by crossing the Wagah border. There he contacted members of Markat-ul Dawa, the civilian wing of Lashkar and then penetrated into the core group of Lashkar. "After that he was trained by Azam Cheema," the sources said. When Faisal's house was raided by cops, they found 26,000 Saudi Riyals - of which 15,000 Saudi Riyals was apparently sent by Daware on July 6 - five days before the chain of explosions and 11,000 Saudi Riyals on July 12. When the police raided the Pune residence of Sohail, one passport having visa for Tehran was seized besides a photostat copy of Central-East Asia indicating route from India to Muzzafarabad in Pakistan via Tehran and 'jehadi' literature was seized. Investigations have also revealed that Sohail was detained for 15 days under Section 151(3) of the CrPC by the Lashkar police station in 2003. Besides transferring money to Faisal and other Indian operatives, Daware also used to pass on the messages of Cheema to them.

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