| They were allowed to jump off when the train slowed down about 15 minutes to 20 minutes before the bombs detonated. |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Five detained in raids in Rajasthan, UP, Delhi Five persons, including a couple, were on Wednesday night detained for questioning in a coordinated raid by security forces in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and the walled city here in connection with last Sunday's blasts in Samjhauta Express. Sources said two persons each were held in Rajasthan and UP while one was detained in Old Delhi. A man and his wife detained at Naya Sahar locality of Bikaner following a raid by the army and Rajasthan police, Bikaner Superintendent of Police Ashok Rathore told PTI in Jaipur. The raids were conducted in Bikaner and other parts of Rajasthan, including Jaipur, based on intelligence inputs, he said. Rathore said names of the husband-wife duo could not be revealed now because of security reasons. The raids are still on, he added. The blasts in two coaches of the train near Panipat left 68 people dead. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 18:23 |
| #6 I think Usman is leading the Indian police down a blind alley. A visit from Sub-Inspector Daya Nayak of the Mumbai encounter squad is in order... Guard insists no one got off Samjhauta NEW DELHI: Did the terrorists get off the Samjhauta Express before the blasts on Sunday night? The mystery deepened on Wedneday when the guard of the train scotched the possibility of anyone doing so even as Pakistani passenger Mohammad Usman, who set off the speculation in the first place, stuck to his guns in a testimony to a magistrate in Panipat. In fact, Usman, who had first claimed to have seen two people getting down 15 minutes before the blasts, told the magistrate he had seen four people getting down. The statement of Usman, who had been detained after some passengers said they saw him throw out a suitcase, was recorded under CrPCÂ’s Section 164. The guard of the train, RD Singh, however, has told his superiors in Northern Railway that no passenger left the train before the blast forced it to stop half a kilometre ahead of the Deewana station. "None could have. The train was doing 100-110 kmph when it crossed Deewana," he said. Singh was also quizzed by Haryana police at the Old Delhi railway station on Wednesday. The guardÂ’s assertion adds a new twist to the puzzle whether the terrorists stayed on board till just before the devices they planted went off. While intelligence officials had initially doubted that terrorists would have risked staying put on the train, UsmanÂ’s claim forced them to look at all possibilities. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 14:42 |
| #5 Panipat, Feb. 21 (PTI): Usman Mohammed, a Pakistani national who is said to have thrown away a suitcase containing IED in the Samjhauta Express on Sunday night, today told a magistrate that four people had got off the train before the blasts ripped through the compartments killing 68 people. Mohammed, who hails from Karachi, was travelling in one of the ill-fated coaches that caught fire after the blasts, made the statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. He made a six-page statement before a city magistrate giving his version relating to the blasts that occurred near Deewana railway station, 10 km from here, on Sunday midnight. Mohammed, who may be cited as a prosecution witness, was later handed over to Pakistani officials and is expected to leave for home. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 13:11 |
| #4 "Usman, you know what this is?" "Ummm, no, [gulp], what is that?" "It's a truncheon. A Turkish truncheon. I'm told it's a number seven. Hand-tooled leather grip, finest mahogeny, real beauty, ain't it?" "[gulp] [gulp] ummm, say, what's it for?" "Well, it's for you, really. Should I demonstrate or do you just want to start talking now?" |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-02-21 11:38 |
| #3 Or even just soak him in giggle juice for a few hours. I understand the Indian flavors work very well. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-02-21 10:36 |
| #2 Usman needs to become real familiar with the interrogation technique known as the Indian police beating. Or send for the Mumbai encounter squad... |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 06:21 |
| #1 There is something very strange about this story by "Usman" the drunk Pakistani witness to these events. The two men were allegedly in an argument (he witnessed) with railway security. They were on the wrong train they said. They needed to go to Ahmedabad. Usman was suspicious about them (and very drunk he says) he threw their suitcase off the train. Later recovered, it contained an IED. They were allowed to jump off a moving train in the middle of the night? In the middle of a wheat field?. How did drunk Usman know about the bombs? |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 06:16 |