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| Mansur Ali wanted by US too |
| 2009-07-22 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Detained Indian national and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Moulana Mohammad Mansur Ali is on two lists prepared by the intelligence agencies of India and the US for his involvement in militancy, sources said. According to sources, Mansur's position is 16th on the list prepared by the US. A total of 280 names of militants who took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir are on the US list while another 77 militants on the Indian list. DB sources said they have collected the two lists from two countries recently. The listed militants are the citizen of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa, sources added. Sources said some 13,000 Bangladesh nationals were Afghanistan and Kashmir war veterans. According to the sources, hailing from Padmapukur village under Bagdah Police Station in North 24 Pargana district of West Bengal, Mansur came under Indian intelligence observation after Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), which works together with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, founder Asif Reza Khan and some of his close aids were arrested from Gujrat and later killed in an encounter with the Indian law-enforcers in 1994. Asif Reza and his associates were arrested from a meeting. But Mansur, however, had managed to flee, sources said. Deputy Commissioner Monirul Islam of DB-South told The Daily Star that Mansur had regular communications with Pakistani leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba and ARCF. Besides, he had close links to the senior leaders of Harkatul Jihad al Islam (Huji) in Bangladesh and also to the network of international mafia don Daud Ibrahim. Monirul Islam also said "Mansur had also contact with Daud Ibrahim's close aid Indian national Zahid Sheikh and Daud Merchant." Daud Merchant and Zahid Sheikh were arrested from the country about two months back. Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, detained Indian militant Mansur admitted that he is one of the most wanted Indians and he knows a number of Huji leaders in the country as they were his fellow fighters in the two wars. |
| Posted by:Fred |