Lashkar-e-Taiba operative details links to Pakistan

[TruthSeeker]

Lashkar-e-Taiba operative details links to Pakistan

The long War ournal
By Bill Roggio
December 21, 2008 11:45 AM

Indian police said that a captured Lashkar-e-Taiba operative has provided additional details on the terror group's operations inside India and Pakistan.

Sabauddin Ahmed, an Indian national who was captured earlier this year along with Fahim Ansari, have been involved with several attacks inside of India. Police believe Sabauddin and Ansari also were involved in scouting the locations for the November terror assault in Mumbai, which lasted for more than 60 hours and resulted in more than 170 people killed.

Both Sabauddin and Ansari trained at the same Lashkar-e-Taiba terror camps in Azad Kashmir as Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist captured during the Mumbai attack. Sabauddin admitted to meeting with Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's military commander, and Yusuf Muzammil, Lashkar's senior operations commander.

Lakhvi and Muzammil are two of Indian's most wanted terrorists. The Indian government demanded Pakistan turn over Lakhvi, Muzammil, and 18 other senior terrorists sheltering in Pakistan. The Pakistani government has refused to do so.

Police detained Sabauddin and Ansari ten months ago for their involvement in an attack on a police camp in Uttar Pradesh. Ansari was captured with maps that highlighted several of the locations in Mumbai that were targeted in the assault. Sabauddin, along with another terrorist known as Abu Hamza, were behind the 2005 attack and murder of a professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2005. "He told police that Bangalore had been chosen to carry out the terror strike as several IT majors were located in the city and since it was witnessing an economic boom," NDTV reported.

Earlier this year, Sabauddin admitted to being "radicalized by SIMI [Students' Islamic Movement of India] and trained in Pakistan by the ISI [Inter-Service Intelligence agency]." Sabauddin Later became the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Nepal, and aided in smuggling Lashkar terrorists across the border between India and Pakistan. He also established a Lashkar-e-Taiba base in Katmandu.

SIMI is a front group for the Harkat ul Jihad al Islami and Lashkar-e-Taiba's inside India. It receives support from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence and is an al Qaeda affiliate. SIMI provides logistical support for attacks in India.

These terror groups have been implicated in numerous mass-casualty attacks in New Delhi, Mumbai, Samjhauta, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Jaipur, Assam, and Uttar Pradesh over the past several years. Thousands of Indians were killed or wounded in the attacks.

The details on Sabauddin's involvement with Lashkar-e-Taiba emerged as the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has been interrogating Kasab in India. Kasab admitted to being recruited by Jamaat-ud-Dawa while he and a friend were "purchasing arms from a market in Rawalpindi."

The US has believes there is convincing evidence linking Jamaat-ul-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba to the Mumbai attacks, and has issued a stern warning to Pakistan to act against the terror groups operating on Pakistani soil.

 

[Captain03]

very unlikely if they are lakshar-e-taiba operatvies
even if they are what evidence does india have??? none
they probably just captured a bunch of innocent people and framed them

 

[sha123]

This is a post of NYTimes.com

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have obtained confessions from members of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that they were involved in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November that killed more than 160 people, a Pakistani official said.

The confessions are sure to put pressure on Pakistan’s leaders; senior Pakistani officials have repeatedly complained in recent weeks that India had not provided them evidence of Pakistani complicity.

American and British officials — and Indian investigators — have said for weeks that their intelligence clearly points to the involvement of Lashkar in the Mumbai attacks. That evidence has been deeply uncomfortable for Pakistan, whose premier spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, helped create, finance and train Lashkar in the 1980s to fight a proxy war against Indian forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/asia/01pstan.html?_r=1&ref=world

 

[koolio]

I think New york times and Indian Media both have lost credibility they have to keep making such stories for money and entertainment.

 

[Jihad]

*scratches head*
It's 2009 now, let's see if India really has some evidence this time instead of home-made cookies with sour milk.

 

[roopesh]

INDIA CLAIMING THAT ITS A DRAMA FROM PAKISTAN GOVT TO PROTECT ISI

Pakistan appears to be building a case for absolving ISI of any involvement in the Mumbai attacks, planning to use the confessions from Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists to prove its argument that non-state actors "operating on their own" were behind the terror strikes.

Pakistani authorities have obtained confessions from members of LeT that they were involved in the November 26 attacks, the New York Times reported on Thursday, a day after a similar report appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

"After weeks of stonewalling, it also seems clear that Pakistan may use its investigation to make the case that the Mumbai attackers were not part of a conspiracy carried out with the spy agency... ISI, but that the militants were operating on their own and outside the control of government agents," the Times report said.

The most talkative of the senior Lashkar leaders being interrogated is said to be Zarrar Shah, a Pakistani official told the paper. American intelligence officials say they believe that Shah, the group's communications chief, has served as a conduit between the LeT and the ISI.

Source: ndtv.com

 

[ajpirzada]

the whole world is sayin that ISI is not involved but indian media is determined to come up with some kind of link which proves ISI involvement. before doin this i guess india should first try to see wat RAW is upto in pakistan. anyways lets see how far can india drag this story