http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1859901.cms Terrorists planning big hit: 7/11 accused MUMBAI: Kamal Ahmed, one of the main accused in the 7/11 serial blasts case, has stunned interrogators with disclosures that a terror module, which has already slipped into the city, is planning a "big hit."
Since terrorists operate on a need-to-know basis, Ahmed has no clue as to what the "big hit" would be. Security agencies presume it would be aimed at paralysing the city's economy. Police sources told TOI on Saturday that Ahmed, who was picked up from Bihar, should know what he is talking about since his primary job was to facilitate entry of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists across the Indo-Nepal border and escort them to different locations. In the recent past, he had escorted members of two modules. Some of them were brought by him to Mumbai for executing the train blasts and others were taken to Jalandhar before being brought back to Mumbai. The sources also said a couple of days before the blasts, two Pakistani experts, cooordinating with local mastermind Rahil Shaikh, helped marry the timers to the bombs and instructed local operatives on how to set them so there was no repeat of the incident when a timer failed to work on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai express on February 19. Soon after completing their Mumbai assignment, the Pakistanis were escorted out of the country by Rahil, a former Grant Road resident, who is now in Bangladesh under the protection of Qari Saheb of Harket-ul-Jihad-ul-Islam. "We have a fairly good idea of the conspirators involved. What is causing concern is information given by Ahmed about the possibility of a big hit,"a senior police officer said. Meanwhile, the Centre may rush para-military forces to assist police in providing security at Ganesh mandaps in Mumbai and Pune. Security agencies have, however, placed Navratri in a higher-risk category as the terrorists have been targeting Gujaratis. About 75 per cent of those killed in the blasts were Gujaratis. "Considering that thousands congregate for 'garba', we feel even more security should be provided during Navratri,"a police official said. It was also learnt that Rahil's mother had complained twice to the Mumbai police against her own son in the past. Rahil often used to get into fights with family members who he felt were not following "pure Islam." [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/
