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| JeM planned suicide strike in Mumbai, says Anti-Terrorism Squad |
| 2006-09-04 |
| MUMBAI: Suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad members Mohammad Zuber and Mohammad Sohail, who were arrested in West Bengal in mid-August, have admitted that they were sent to carry out a terrorist mission in Mumbai, police said. The duo, which has not been linked to the July 11 train blasts yet, was arrested by a Border Security Force patrol when trying to sneak through the porous Indo-Bangladesh border. Joint Commissioner of Police KP Raghuvanshi, who heads the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the state police, said on Sunday, "Zuber and Sohail have admitted to us that they planned to execute a suicide mission in the city. Six of their associates, who infiltrated from Pakistani provinces, are still at large. We are trying to learn more about the kind of targets they had in mind." Raghuvanshi said Sohail and Zuber told police that they were awaiting instructions from a contact who was supposed to take them to Mumbai. Intelligence officials will also be interrogate Al-Badr's J&K chieftain Tohfooq Akmal Hashemi to find if there is an "al-Qaeda imprint" on the train blasts. |
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