As far as I know Tariq Anwar is a Congressman [INC or NCP] from the Hindi belt, Bihar in all probability. He may not find these Tribune and PTI reports funny ;-(
The correct name of the tourist is , I believe, Tariq Ahmed Battlo Jalal. The Police are yet to produce evidence that he was a terrorist and , if so, why he was allowed to live for nine months in Goa before being delivered in the Police lockup. There is a confusion about the train and its final destination, too. If the Police know he boarded the train in Delhi, perhaps they can show the Press a xerox of the Delhi-Margao ticket to show they did not board the train in Goa. We will wait to hear more from Rupesh Sawant of the PTI Bureau in Goa. I thought it was easier to write 'two' than 'several'. May be this rule does not apply journos writing about detonators. Viva Goa. Miguel ----- Original Message ----- Tribune News Service Mumbai, March 10 Goa came face to face with terrorism this evening with the arrest of **Tariq Anwar**, a resident of Srinagar, with huge quantities of explosives. The police said Anwar was arrested at 8.30 this evening at the Margao railway station. Two kg of RDX, several detonators, a camera flash and several bits of equipment were seized from his possession. Sify.com PTI Saturday, 11 March, 2006, 10:57 Panaji: During his night-long interrogation, **Tariq Anwar,** who was arrested with explosives and firearms from Margao railway station, confessed that Pakistan-based Tariq-ul-Mujahid militant outfit, to which he belongs to, "was targeting busy tourist places in the state to execute a Bali-like explosion", sources said. Anwar was arrested while he was alighting from *Ernakulam (Kerala)-bound **Matsyagandha Express train at Margao, 30 km away from Panaji. SUSPECTED TERRORIST NABBED IN MARGAO MARGAO: A suspected terrorist, Tariq Ahmed Battlu, was nabbed at the Margao railway station on March 10, late evening, as he was getting off the **Mangala Express train headed for *Trivandrum. [GT] As the plot thickens, police enact high drama! BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, MARCH 10 - The arrest of Tariq Ahmed Battlo in Margao has opened a Pandora's Box as many questions remain unanswered in the case. While the police claimed that the Srinagar man was apprehended at the Margao Railway Station on March 10, highly placed sources in the police department told Herald that the man was detained by the police a week ago.** He was being interrogated by the bigwigs of the Goa police in the last few days. To questions from media persons earlier this week, top police officers had denied that any terrorists had been arrested. Tariq was however arrested today for the record. Interestingly, a Herald staffer had received a call at 2 pm** informing that a Srinagar man had been held with RDX. But the police told media that the police "swooped" on Tariq at the Margao Railway Station at 8.45 pm.** This only appears to have been dramatised by the police to record his arrest apparently to cover up for loose ends. What was astonishing was why the police went to the press within 25 minutes of the arrest.****
