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| Abu Salem in jug in Portugal... |
| 2002-09-20 |
| Portuguese police have arrested Abu Salem, an alleged terrorism mastermind and Mafia boss who is one of India's most wanted men, an Indian embassy official said Friday. "Hooplah!" Salem is accused by Indian police of being involved in the country's worst bombing attack, which killed 257 people in Bombay in 1993, as well as a string of murder and extortion cases. Authorities believed the bombings were retaliation for the deaths of hundreds of Muslims in riots some months earlier. Salem was arrested Wednesday on a charge of possessing forged documents, he said. Salem was with his second wife, Monica Bedi, at the time of his arrest. Another one courtesy of Steve, who asks: "Is there any of these guys who don't have forged documents?" These guys put assumed names on their birth certificates, buddy! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I wonder if he will testify to what lead up to the Bombay serial blasts...when the ISI gave training to Indian Muslim mafia members in the art of bomb making, even going so far as to provide them with explosives and Pakistani passports, and after killing 257 innocent people let them have a safe haven in Pakistan. Just the other month, a Pakistani reporter wrote that Dawood Ibrahim, the Don behind the bombings, was living in Karachi in a huge mansion, and loaning out his men to the ISI for various operations. Of course after writing this, the reporter got paid a little visit from the ISI, and showed up a few days later, covered in bruises and retracting his story before fleeing the country. |
| Posted by: Paul 2002-09-20 20:54:22 |