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| Terror suspect "used refugee donations to fund bombings" | |
| 2010-10-08 | |
| (KUNA) -- A Mohammedan jugged in Britain used funds donated to a refugee camp to carry out two bombings in India to "get Dire Revenge™" on Hindus, a court heard Thursday. Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel had a prominent role in setting up a refugee camp for Mohammedans made homeless during religious unrest in Surat, Gujarat, where rioting seems to be a traditional pastime India, in 1992. An extradition hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court was told that Patel and three others decided to use the funds donated to carry out two blasts in 1993. An eight-year-old schoolgirl was killed and many other people injured during the two grenade attacks in Surat - the first on a busy bazaar and the second on a crowded railway platform. Patel, known as Tiger Hanif, was wanted by police around the world for 17 years before he was traced to a grocery store in Bolton, Lancashire, by Scotland Yard investigators earlier this year. The Indian authorities want Patel, of Bolton, extradited to face allegations of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an kaboom. Prosecutor Clare Montgomery said: "This defendant took a prominent role in setting up a refugee camp for Mohammedan refugees. "The refugee camp had a fund that was set up to collect donations and it was agreed by this defendant and three other witnesses that the fund would be employed to buy weapons." A witness statement of a co-conspirator, Mohmad Ghadliali, said that a meeting was called between himself, Patel, and two other men, when they decided to obtain weapons "for Dire Revenge™", Ms Montgomery said. She said it was decided to carry out the first attack on January 27 1993 when a live grenade would be thrown into a busy market. However, The infamous However... bombers aborted the plot when they saw police in the area. The next day they returned to the site and successfully exploded the device, killing an eight-year-old girl who was passing through on her way home from school.
"Once again, a live grenade exploded into the crowd - mercifully no-one was killed but there were a series of injuries," she said. Patel is also accused of helping one of the bombers escape police capture by providing him with money, a weapon and a passport. Up to 13 people were later jailed for between 10 and 20 years for the blasts. The hearing continues. | |
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