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If another terrorist attack were to happen again, do you think the three Mountain Strike Corps would be sufficient to ensure TSPA is engaged in isolation?
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No.

Meantime SM Krishna had asked for the list of all US officials in contact with DCH as potential witnesseses in the NIA case. US said two of them are in Canada!

Cant seem to find the news report.
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Would you then be in favour of a retaliation for the next terrorist strike or against it?
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Channels reporting arrest of Abu Hamza from IGI airprt- "Puki passport and vital documents recovered"
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Then, in what is believed to have been a major error of judgment, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) briefed the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) about the progress of its investigation.
We seem to keep doing this again and again .... and again! :-?
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kenop wrote:Channels reporting arrest of Abu Hamza from IGI airprt- "Puki passport and vital documents recovered"
Police arrest suspected handler of 26/11 attacks at Delhi airport
In a major catch, the Delhi Police claim to have arrested Indian Mujahideen member Sayeed Zabi-ud-Deen alias Zabi Ansari alias Riyasat Ali - one of the six handlers involved in the 26/11 operation - from the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

He was on the run since 2006.

Ansari was in Pakistan when the Mumbai attacks took place on November 26, 2008. He is believed to be one of the plotters of the 26/11 attacks and was giving instructions to the terrorists.

Ansari is also wanted in many other attack cases in India - like the Chinnaswamy Stadium attack in Bangalore in several terror attacks in Gujarat. He has been remanded to police custody for 15 days.
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^^ Seems that the police have graduated to suspects turning up at airports compared to the bus stands and railway stations earlier!

Congrats to the unsung IB/xyz intel agencies and their folks involved.
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Hope the pandu police can show the movie to the pig
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As expected:
The Delhi Police and the Intelligence Bureau had been keeping a watch on Hamza's movements.

After getting a tip-off that he was returning to India, the police arrested Hamza from the Delhi airport four days back itself.

His arrest was confirmed on Monday morning.
According to the officials associated with the probe, Hamza had told Lashker terrorists carrying out attack in Nariman House to convey to the media that the "attack was a trailer and the entire movie was yet to come".

In the intercepted tapes, Hamza was also heard using typical Hindi words like prashasan (government) and was directing the terrorists to conceal their Pakistani identity and identify themselves from Deccan Mujahideen hailing from Toli Chowk in Hyderabad.
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suryag wrote:Hope the pandu police can show the movie to the pig
Sir, I was once narrated a story by someone whose elder brother was in the Special Cell of Delhi Police.

The simple rule is this pig might not speak on torturing.

Though, the longer he keeps silent the stronger his wife, sister, daughter, mother, son, brother or father will wish that they never knew him.

The length of his silence will exact a proportionally steep price from his immediate loved ones.

Those who do it get disturbed but they say, there is no other way.

Please be assured he'll speak one way or the other. :D
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Press reports suggest another discreet handover by saudi's. 3rd known by Saudi to hand over terrorists

Official story was that he had been giving police slip and travelling in and out of country regularly. They got him with his fake paki passport. There is some confusion as this guy was meant to be facing trial in TSP!

He was on way to J&K per Delhi police. They are saying this is one of the biggest catches. He is one of the few operatives that has even involved in almost every major lashkar operation in recent times and he also knew about David Headley. This will reveal Paki perfidy and will tell us more about the TSPA involvement.

Ministers congratulating IB & Delhi police for a good job. Well done!
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Ministers congratulating IB & Delhi police for a good job. Well done!
Per media reports, he was deported to India by the Saudis. If that is true , the Pakistanis must be shell shocked. It is a clear loss of a "safe harbor" and their biggest benefactor turning against them.
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For quite sometime now, KSA has not been showing tolerance to terrorists. There has been a tremendous change in their approach when they decided to do away with the tags of 'good' and 'bad'. Otherwise, they would not have been able to successfully manage their own terrorism crisis by c. 2007. Nothing nowadays shocks Pakistan after KSA ordered that no citizen could apply for a Pakistani visa without first securing a clearance from the Saudi Home Ministry and that was four years back, IIRC.
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A Saudi coordinated op
Posted on June 25, 2012
For Indian investigators to properly ascertain the man who they have in their custody would need them to re verify the recordings of 26/11 they have on them. The voice samples will need to be matched with the recordings before they can come to a proper conclusion on the exact identity of the man.
However the operation to bring Hamza down to India would not have been possible had India not had the support of both the Saudi Arabian and Nepal police.
The questioning of an operative by the name Ahtesham helped the police get more clues on Abu Hamza. It was found that he shuttled between Nepal, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The first of the intercepts came to India when Hamza had moved to Nepal. From Nepal he is said to have moved to Saudi Arabia and this information was passed on by the Nepal police which again was shared with Saudi Arabia.
However Indian agencies say that he was not arrested in Saudi Arabia and deported. We had information that he was coming down to India from Saudi Arabia and managed to nab him at Delhi.
India has been working closely with Saudi Arabia and it is just the begining of the many operations that the two nations will carry out in the future. Saudi was considered to be a happy hunting ground for terrorists from Pakistan, but now that is likely to change, IB sources say.
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Mission was led by IB, RAW and Delhi police. RAW did the external coordination. Policy is in place for such cases and IB RAW are working closely.
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vina wrote:
Ministers congratulating IB & Delhi police for a good job. Well done!
Per media reports, he was deported to India by the Saudis.
MUMBAI: Did the 26/11 conspirator Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jindal came on his own or force to leave Pakistan? If sources are to be believed the international pressure from the US actually forced the ISI to push Jundal to Saudi Arabia from where he was deported to India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 393825.cms

Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
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Documentary Big 26/11 catch: The terror tapes expose
This is the story of what happened in Mumbai's Nariman House during the 26/11 attacks. NDTV brings you the telephone conversations between one of the terrorists and his Pakistani handlers.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 393825.cms

Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
I would think that the pressure forced TSP to send him to Saudi for a little R&R and deniability ( like most of D-company does) but Chankian SDREs were already waiting for him when he landed for his holiday trip.
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From a Beed village to 26/11 control room
Investigators are now alleging that the voice on the line was that of Maharashtra resident Syed Zabiuddin Syed Zakiuddin Ansari, deported from Saudi Arabia to India on Monday. Ansari, police say, told the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s assault team to introduce themselves as residents of Hyderabad’s Toli Chowki area. He instructed them to demand that the Muslims held in jail be released, “Muslim states” be made independent, and the Army withdrawn from Kashmir.

Ansari’s alleged role in 26/11, if established, will offer investigators invaluable insights into the attack. His improbable journey from the dusty village of Ghevrai, in Maharashtra’s Beed district to the Lashkar’s control room in Karachi, though, holds out hard questions for India.

Born on November 13, 1981, to insurance agent, Zakiuddin Ansari, Ansari was an only son, brother to five sisters. He studied at Ghevrai’s zilla parishad-run high school up to standard X, and then acquired an electrician’s qualification at the Indian Technical Institute in Beed. He was studying for a master’s at the Navgan Shikshan Sanstha college.

No one knows for certain just what led Ansari to make the decision to drop out of college — and, if police are right, to join the Lashkar. It is possible, though, that this choice had something to do with the communal violence which was part of the cultural fabric of his early life. Following a wave of communal riots across Maharashtra in the summer of 1984, the Shiv Sena took control of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and pushed forward communal mobilisations in rural areas. Umapur, not far from Ghevrai, saw murderous anti-Muslim violence in 1986. Later, tensions surged after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. :-?

In 2001, Gujarat police investigators say, Ansari met Khalid Sardana, a Jammu and Kashmir resident studying at a seminary in the State, to discuss the prospect of sending SIMI cadre there for weapons training. Later that year, Sardana took several of Aurangabad men to train with Lashkar units in the mountains of Surankote, near Poonch. At least one, Fahad Sheikh, is now known to have been killed in fighting with Indian troops in the Hil Kaka area of Poonch. It remains unclear if Ansari also trained there, or in Pakistan.
Police in Gujarat have separately said Ansari and Ahmad placed an improvised explosive device on a Mumbai-Ahmedabad train in February 2006. The device, packed inside a suitcase, went off on the railway platform, after it was fortuitously removed from the train by a thief.

Though media have reported that Ansari, using the code-name Abu Hamza, may also have been involved in a 2006 attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, sources familiar with the investigation said they had so far gathered no evidence for this claim.
So now Shiv Sena winning a muncipal election in 1986 is supposed to have caused him to join LeT? :-?

Am always in awe about the 101 excuses our "secular" media finds to justify every Indian Islamic terrorist. Wonder what was the justification for the Kerala muslims given!
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From a Beed village to 26/11 control room
Investigators are now alleging that the voice on the line was that of Maharashtra resident Syed Zabiuddin Syed Zakiuddin Ansari, deported from Saudi Arabia to India on Monday. Ansari, police say, told the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s assault team to introduce themselves as residents of Hyderabad’s Toli Chowki area. He instructed them to demand that the Muslims held in jail be released, “Muslim states” be made independent, and the Army withdrawn from Kashmir.

Ansari’s alleged role in 26/11, if established, will offer investigators invaluable insights into the attack. His improbable journey from the dusty village of Ghevrai, in Maharashtra’s Beed district to the Lashkar’s control room in Karachi, though, holds out hard questions for India.

Born on November 13, 1981, to insurance agent, Zakiuddin Ansari, Ansari was an only son, brother to five sisters. He studied at Ghevrai’s zilla parishad-run high school up to standard X, and then acquired an electrician’s qualification at the Indian Technical Institute in Beed. He was studying for a master’s at the Navgan Shikshan Sanstha college.

No one knows for certain just what led Ansari to make the decision to drop out of college — and, if police are right, to join the Lashkar. It is possible, though, that this choice had something to do with the communal violence which was part of the cultural fabric of his early life. Following a wave of communal riots across Maharashtra in the summer of 1984, the Shiv Sena took control of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and pushed forward communal mobilisations in rural areas. Umapur, not far from Ghevrai, saw murderous anti-Muslim violence in 1986. Later, tensions surged after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. :-?

In 2001, Gujarat police investigators say, Ansari met Khalid Sardana, a Jammu and Kashmir resident studying at a seminary in the State, to discuss the prospect of sending SIMI cadre there for weapons training. Later that year, Sardana took several of Aurangabad men to train with Lashkar units in the mountains of Surankote, near Poonch. At least one, Fahad Sheikh, is now known to have been killed in fighting with Indian troops in the Hil Kaka area of Poonch. It remains unclear if Ansari also trained there, or in Pakistan.
Police in Gujarat have separately said Ansari and Ahmad placed an improvised explosive device on a Mumbai-Ahmedabad train in February 2006. The device, packed inside a suitcase, went off on the railway platform, after it was fortuitously removed from the train by a thief.

Though media have reported that Ansari, using the code-name Abu Hamza, may also have been involved in a 2006 attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, sources familiar with the investigation said they had so far gathered no evidence for this claim.
So now Shiv Sena winning a muncipal election in 1986 is supposed to have caused him to join LeT? :-?

Am always in awe about the 101 excuses our "secular" media finds to justify every Indian Islamic terrorist. Wonder what was the justification for the Kerala muslims given!


The real reason is given in IE:
“We are aware that there has been a great deal of radicalisation in Beed, that has increased in the last decade or so. There are various events that have caused communal tension in the area, but there are historical factors that have led to the problem as well. The region was initially under the control of the Nizam, and when power changed hands after independence, it gave rise to a sense of resentment among Muslims living there.
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So, by this logic, we should have had loads of Brahmin terror attacks due to the resentment of loosing power and status.
Wonder why we whitewash all these acts with inane "secular" logic.
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Acting on a tip-off on May 9, 2006, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) chased and intercepted a Tata Sumo on the Aurangabad highway that was transporting RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles, and 2,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in CPUs and mango cartons. According to the ATS, the consignment was being sent to Gujarat and Hyderabad. Three persons, including Mohammed Amir Shakeel Ahmed, who were transporting the consignment were arrested. Although Ansari was following the Tata Sumo in a Tata Indica, he mysteriously managed to escape despite police vehicles tailing the Sumo and Indica, prompting speculation that Ansari was a mole of police and intelligence agencies who had gone rogue.

On May 12, a similar consignment being transported in a Tata Indica was recovered by an ATS team from Malegaon. The following day, more RDX was recovered from inside a culvert at Manmad, and another consignment was found at an electrical shop in Malegaon shortly after.
So, Abu Jundal/Ansari was a Indian informer earlier who went rogue, like Headley? :?:
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partha wrote:
MUMBAI: Did the 26/11 conspirator Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jindal came on his own or force to leave Pakistan? If sources are to be believed the international pressure from the US actually forced the ISI to push Jundal to Saudi Arabia from where he was deported to India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 393825.cms

Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
yeah...great massa doing us a favor.

I believe that. :roll:

Even without details, we are too eager to dismiss our own people and have such faith in the americans
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Errr, who is finally arrested?

Vicky Najappa ( which means the IB) is still talking about a Pakistani national, Abu Hamza,
The arrest of Abu Hamza in New Delhi [ Images ] on Monday is significant.

Hamza showed up in the intelligence radar following the Mumbai [ Images ] attack. They suspect Hamza was the handler who pieced together the chillingly coordinated attack that killed over 160 people.

Sources say that after the botched IISC attack in Bengalaru, his masters realised Hamza's skills lay elsewhere and definitely not in the field. In the three years since then, intelligence sources say the man who took jihadi terrorism to South India [ Images ] has risen to become one of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba's [ Images ] ace handlers

Intelligence sources believe the Pakistani national was first made a handler because he knew too much about the Lashkar. Sending him out on operations was a liability and making him a handler was the only way he could be turned into an asset.

while rest of DDM says it is Abu Jundal/Ansari? :-?
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partha wrote:Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
Absolutely not. Pakistan can never give up its assets, even minor ones, leave alone somebody who was directing a part of the 26/11 urban warfare. This guy was smoked out.
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SSridhar wrote:
partha wrote:Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
Absolutely not. Pakistan can never give up its assets, even minor ones, leave alone somebody who was directing a part of the 26/11 urban warfare. This guy was smoked out.
OK. But US helping here seems plausible to me. Achieves 2 objectives for them - pressure on Pakistan and India-Saudi good will causing Iran heartburn.
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partha wrote: Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
Well whatever the truth, it gives the man new life. The trial and investigation will take 5 years and he will be sentenced to death which will not be carried out for 25 years. When the man is 70, someone will ask for clemency.
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shiv wrote:
partha wrote: Did Pakistan give Jindal up?
Well whatever the truth, it gives the man new life. The trial and investigation will take 5 years and he will be sentenced to death which will not be carried out for 25 years. When the man is 70, someone will ask for clemency.
Shri B Raman on NDTV made some excellent points. He said we have already got conclusive evidence regarding Pakistan's involvement in the attacks. This guy will be of little use as far as 26/11 probe is concerned. He said focus of the interrogation of this guy should be about who helped him flee to Saudi (since he was supposed to be in jail in Pakistan since Pakistan claimed to have arrested him), what is the motivation behind his escape, future game plan. He also said his escaping could be part of new plan by ISI to launch fresh attacks in India.
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Wow. Thank God we have proof the Poaks were behind this attack. Can we move on to new topics? The GOI has/will do nothing about this crime against humanity just as it has done nothing in the past after innumerable attacks. Further concentration on this topic will derail the Indiapakistan peace process and even worse might offend the delicate sensibilities of the minority community in India.
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Please read the following two articles, in TOI and NDTV, before saying Pukis may have helped in his arrest.

The pig was in Saudi Arabia to collect money and actively planning and recruiting for the next major terror attack.

Abu Hamza was in Saudi Arabia to gather funds for big terror strike; Pakistan tried to prevent his extradition: Sources

Abu Jundal was plotting new attack, recruiting terrorists for LeT
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MHA is unhappy with the discussion on Saudi and they are saying it is jeopardising ongoing operations
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The only reason why 26/11 is getting some small result is because goras have died , so its like US/Western country pressure on Gelf thats getting some result.

Ofcourse such pressures dont work on pakistan who continue to deny any official involvement and not the Western country will push it beyond a point.

Coming back to Saudi and UAE , Dawood has visited those two countries quite a few times and they have not detained him or for that matters his brothers who are involved in 1993 mumbai blast , Seems they are selective on who to deport , the ground jihadi are first to be martyred while their bosses remains untouched
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Austin wrote:Coming back to Saudi and UAE , Dawood has visited those two countries quite a few times and they have not detained him or for that matters his brothers who are involved in 1993 mumbai blast , Seems they are selective on who to deport . . .
Austin, it is my understanding that in the last decade, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar has not travelled to these two countries. He did not attend the marriage reception of his daughter in Grand Hyatt, Dubai. There is speculation that he underwent plastic surgery and solemnized his daughter's nikah at Makkah. But, nothing conclusive. After c. 2003, when the US designated Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, as an international terrorist operating from Karachi, and also as a “foreign narcotics Kingpin” , he has found it impossible to travel. On c. 2011, he was forced to conduct his son's wedding in a Nairobi mosque and held the walima in Karachi itself. Of course, top PA & ISI officers attended it and they should have been disappointed that they missed an outing to Dubai or London. Dawood Ibrahim is the fourth in the Most-Wanted list of criminals internationally. Dawood's brother Iqbal Kaskar was deported to India in c. 2003 by UAE. It is doubtful if even his two trusted lieutenants Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh, AKA Chhota Shakeel, and Ibrahim “Tiger” Memon, travel outside Pakistan because on May 15, 2012, the U.S. designated them both as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers.

Added Later: Apparently, Abu Jundal was in KSA with a genuine Pakistani passport and had arrived in KSA from a Pakistani port of embarkation in a Pakistani flight. For him to be deported to India is something that must be noted. And, the guy is singing like a canary.
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Is Madame Maino going to shed tears for Abu Jundal? Send Digvijay Singh to meet his relatives and console them? Perhaps use his 'martyrdom' for the next UP election while campaigning in Azamgargh?

PUCL, Kafila et al must be readying articles and statements condemning GOI for torture if he is not served mutton biriyani every morning..
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sum, Also note this:
Though media have reported that Ansari, using the code-name Abu Hamza, may also have been involved in a 2006 attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, sources familiar with the investigation said they had so far gathered no evidence for this claim.
What BS! As if media has independent sources of reporting. The so called investigators are chastising their own colleagues who had linked the miscreant to IISC attack and are now blaming the media!

Also the entire group should make up their mind what they want to call this miscreant: Abu this or that and stick with that? Some one wants extra credit kudos and is feeding hogwash to his select reporters who lap it up and write these insightful articles.


shyamd, Are the terrorists in TSP supposed to wet their shalwars on the news of KSA cooperating and letting off small minnows to keep India happy? And the inspired reporting of how US leaned on TSP to send the miscreant to KSA!

US can't lean on TSP to even save their assets across the border in Af-Pak.
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Ramana ji - what IB says:
The Abu Jundal terror saga
Posted on June 26, 2012

Pic- Indianexpress.com

The communal riots in Gujarat and Maharashtra which made the resolve of Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal take up terrorism. Jundal who used this alias during a terror operation was born to an insurance agent on November 13 1981.

He was a normal student and had even joined the Indian Technical Institute in the Beed district of Maharashtra. His dossier says that he never showed any signs of being radical all through his teens. However the change began to take place when he witnessed the riots in Maharashtra. The year the Gujarat riots took place, he decided that he had to make a difference after which he joined the Students Islamic Movement of India which had by then shown signs of turning radical (only a part of it).

During his earlier days with SIMI, he was in charge of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra and often shuttled between these two states. He organised several camps in both these states and it was later in the year 2003-04 that he was sent to Pakistan to train with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. The transition into the Lashkar took place after a meeting with Rahil Sheikh, whose name figures prominently in the 2006 train bombings. Jundal who was attracted to the concept of Jihad bit the bait and left to train in Pakistan.

On his return to India, he was left to handle operations of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and he used the very same camps that he set up with the SIMI to carry forward the activities of the Lashkar. The manner in which he went about his job soon caught the eye of the Lashkar top bosses and from an ordinary foot soldier he had become a trusted operative for the dreaded outfit.

The initial operation thrown up to him was more of a dry run to be carried out in Maharashtra. It was at this time that a major haul of arms and ammunition was seized in Aurangabad. Although 12 of his accomplices were nabbed, he managed to give the slip. The intelligence bureau however believes that a large part of the cache of arms was not seized and this could have been used during the 2006 train blasts. While the train blasts were executed to perfection Jundal however was not present in the country at that time as he had left for Pakistan already.

What made Jundal stand out was the manner in which he was able to both raise funds and recruit cadres into the Lashkar. For a long time the Maharashtra module of the Lashkar was the strongest and this was largely thanks to this man who today is in India’s custody.

Over the years he also donned a bigger role and started recruiting cadres within Pakistan and also sending them to fight alongside the Lashkar in Kashmir. He even stayed in Kashmir for sometime after 2006 and handled operations over there. The Lashkar did realise the talent this man possessed and hence kept changing his base on and off so that the Indian agencies did not get a lurking doubt on what he was up to exactly.

In the year 2008, his name cropped up during the Delhi blasts which was carried out by the Indian Mujahideen. He is said to have provided support to the foot soldiers and using his skills in guiding attacks he managed to get those blasts executed. He was specifically asked to over look this operation as a Delhi blast meant a lot for the IM which was setting its foot hold in India.

However his biggest assignment came in the form of the 26/11 attack. It was during this time that he met with Hafiz Saeed and as per the preliminary investigations he was given a specific role about the attack. He was asked to identify a good target which would send a loud message to the international community and it was then that he suggested Nariman House as a target which was of course later surveyed by David Headley.

He played two roles during the attack. One he familiarised the terrorists to converse in Hindi and he instructed them to always say that they were from Toli Chowki Hyderabad in case they were caught. The other role was to guide the attackers at the Nariman House asking them to make various demands through the media which also included breaking of ties with Israel. Even while guiding the attackers he started off by saying that this is just a trailer and the real movie is yet to begin. Further there were words such as gathbandan (alliance), karenga (to do something) and prashasan (administration) which were used.

After the attack on 26/11, he was asked to lie low and remained in Pakistan. The fact that the Indian agencies remained clueless about his whereabouts and were not able to pin point his exact role in the attack gave him the hope that he could move out of Pakistan. He was then sent to Saudi Arabia. There are conflicting reports as to what he was doing there, but the general belief is that he was there to collect funds and was planning a major operation.

The Indian agencies had however got wind of his movement into Saudi Arabia through connections in Saudi, Nepal and also some intercepts from the United States of America. They watched his movements closely for several weeks and it was finally Saudi Arabia which picked him up and handed him over to the Indian agencies.

The interrogation of Hamza will revolve mainly around the 26/11 attack. The role played by Saeed, others in the establishment will all be questioning points during the interrogation. Sources in the Intelligence Bureau say that he is an important catch and we need to ascertain the lengths he has gone up to spread terror in India. However for Pakistan it is a worrying development. The establishment in Pakistan were aware of some operation leading up to Jundal a couple of days back and had even tried to prevent an extradition from Saudi. However the Saudi regime was very clear that it did not want to entertain any terrorists on its soil and they have a zero policy towards terrorism. This is what went in India’s favour finally
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SSridhar wrote:Austin, it is my understanding that in the last decade, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar has not travelled to these two countries. He did not attend the marriage reception of his daughter in Grand Hyatt, Dubai. There is speculation that he underwent plastic surgery and solemnized his daughter's nikah at Makkah. But, nothing conclusive. After c. 2003, when the US designated Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, as an international terrorist operating from Karachi, and also as a “foreign narcotics Kingpin” , he has found it impossible to travel. On c. 2011, he was forced to conduct his son's wedding in a Nairobi mosque and held the walima in Karachi itself. Of course, top PA & ISI officers attended it and they should have been disappointed that they missed an outing to Dubai or London. Dawood Ibrahim is the fourth in the Most-Wanted list of criminals internationally. Dawood's brother Iqbal Kaskar was deported to India in c. 2003 by UAE. It is doubtful if even his two trusted lieutenants Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh, AKA Chhota Shakeel, and Ibrahim “Tiger” Memon, travel outside Pakistan because on May 15, 2012, the U.S. designated them both as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers.
Dawood has many business interest in UAE and if you have been to Dubai there are couple of hotels that are known Dawood hotels where his chelas visit , his brother was caught with drugs in UAE and he was let go even though he was wanted in India.

If you see most of the top bosses from 93 blast Dawood , his Brothers , Chota Shakeel , Tiger Memon (spelling corrected from Menon to Memon - sometimes being admin has its value :D - JE Menon) have so far remain untouched , same goes for Hafeez Sayeed and other guest in jail , only the ground based jihadi were deported from Dubai and now Saudi ....they are easily replaceable folks for them , low value targets in the chain that serves nothing more than claiming we got those scoundrels and law has a long reach ....beyond that it does not mean much , the real high value targets remain untouchable by UAE and Saudi government.

BTW Dawood did visit Saudi couple of years back when things started heating i think this was after OBL was killed and he fled to saudi after news of India or US conducting similar ops and US designating them terrorist serves us no purpose if they remain beyond our reach , doesn't serve our purpose.
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I think the TSP is divesting of its non-TSP citizen terrorists/assets.

In above narrative, he doesn't show familiarity with Hyderabad, yet gives instructions on specific localities there.

Would be interesting to see Kasab's reaction on seeing him.
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Roperia wrote:Here is Reuters reporting on a source in Gulf saying that Pukis tried to prevent Abu Jundal's extradition to India
A Gulf-based source familiar with the Ansari case said Pakistan had exerted pressure on Saudi Arabia not to release him into Indian custody. "The ISI wanted Abu Hamza to be handed over to Pakistan rather than anywhere else," he said.
Alleged Mumbai plotter was planning new attack: police
And Ramana ji, what I am informed is that Praveen Swami article is not telling the entire story. Washington only provided some inputs (intercepts) but had no role in the coordination and extradition. The precise words used was KSA doesn't want its "soil to be soiled".
I can confirm that there are 4more ongoing operations with AlSaudsfor LeTIM operatives.
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Gujarat riots left a deep impact on Ansari

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/s ... 120626.htm
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