Varanasi blasts: Six LeT militants arrested [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:55:09 amPTI ]
LUCKNOW: In a major breakthrough in the Varanasi blasts, six Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, involved in the March 7 twin blasts in the temple town that claimed 20 lives, have been arrested in Lucknow. Five LeT militants were arrested from Sarojni Nagar and one from Gosainganj here, official sources said on Wednesday. The sources said some AK-47 rifles, handgrenades and other explosive material were found from them. Two explosions occurred on March 7 in quick succession at the Sankatmochan shrine and the cantonment railway station, killing 20 people and injuring over 50. The worst hit was the railway station where 14 people were killed and 30 injured. The other blast at the famous Sankatmochan temple occurred when it was teeming with devotees, killing six persons and injuring 25 others. Yadav said, 15 hand grenades, six kilograms of RDX, three kilograms of plastic explosives, one AK 47 rifle with magazine, 27 cartridges, 10 detonator fuses and a pistol along with some cartridges were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants. While five of them were arrested from Sarojini Nagar area of the city, another was nabbed from Gosaiganj. Acting on an intelligence information, STF sleuths arrested prime suspect Wali Ullah from Gosainganj and later on based on the information provided by him arrested five others from Sarojini Nagar area of the city, he said. Yadav said that Wali Ullah earlier worked for JEM and had been arrested along with his two brothers in 2001 and was currently the self-styled area commander of HUJI. Ullah had studied in Deoband from where he had travelled to Bangladesh with another student Bashiruddin, a resident of Bangladesh, Yadav said adding that the HUJI Commander Maulana Asad Ullah directed him (Wali) to prepare youths for being sent to Pakistan for training, he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
