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New Delhi: Suspected 26/11 handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Hamza alias Abu Jundal, who was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 21, was sent to Saudi Arabia by the Lashkar-e-Taiba to gather funds for another major operation the terrorist group was planning in a year's time, sources have told NDTV.
Abu Hamza was reportedly asked to befriend Arabs and persuade them to fund the attacks. He is said to have revealed to his interrogators that in Saudi Arabia, he was asked by the LeT to hunt for Indian people as possible recruits for Indian Mujahideen. (Who is Abu hamza?)
Hamza was one of the six instructors or handlers of the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26/11. Operating in pairs, they moved to different landmarks. In 72 hours, they killed 166 people. Ansari was instructing the duo at Nariman House. He asked them to let their victims know that "Yeh to sirf trailer hai, asal film baaki hai (this is just the trailer, the film has yet to start rolling)." He was of special interest to Indian intelligence officials because he used a smattering of Hindi words, rather than Urdu, in his lengthy tutorials. He talked of "Prashasan" (administration), "Udharan" (example) and "yuvak" (youth). Indian intelligence officials believed this was a "local hand."
The Delhi Police officially maintains that he was picked up from the Indira Gandhi International Airport - without explaining why he would risk travelling to India, or how he boarded a plane given that there's an Interpol red corner notice (the equivalent of an international arrest warrant) for him. But some reports say he was deported from Saudi Arabia. Home Minister P Chidambaram however did not confirm or deny these reports. "The person who goes by the pseudonym of Abu Jindal has been apprehended and remanded to the custody of our law enforcement agencies," he said. Police sources say Ansari has been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Explosives Act and the Passport Act.
The arrest of Abu Hamza, who had 10 aliases, is a big breakthrough for India in the 26/11 investigations. He is named in both the case chargesheet and the dossier that India has handed to Pakistan. This is the first time that investigating agencies have in their custody a man who was on the inside of the 26/11 plot.
He belongs to the Beed district of Maharashtra, and is also wanted for the attacks on local trains in Mumbai in 2006 in which 180 people were killed.
Sources in the Delhi Police say that they were given vital information on Abu Hamza by another terrorist arrested last year in connection with the blast at Delhi's Jama Masjid in 2010. The police was told that the 26/11 handler had stayed in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was recruiting and raising funds for the Lashkar-e-Taiba in countries including Saudi Arabia.
Abu Hamza's voice samples will now be matched against the recordings. Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested after the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, has mentioned Abu Hamza's role in court. He said that while he was training in Pakistan, it was the handler who taught Hindi to him and the others who executed the 26/11 attacks.
Ansari, who has trained at the Indian Technical Institute at Beed, is believed to have become a jihadi after the Gujarat riots. Among the many terror plots that security agencies believe he played a role in, was also an alleged plot to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He is alleged to have first joined the banned group SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India), then the Indian Mujahideen and later, the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Intelligence sources believe he has been a vital link between the Indian Mujahideen and the Lashkar.
Lashkar sent Abu Hamza to gather funds in Saudi Arabia for big terror strike: Sources | NDTV.com
Abu Hamza was reportedly asked to befriend Arabs and persuade them to fund the attacks. He is said to have revealed to his interrogators that in Saudi Arabia, he was asked by the LeT to hunt for Indian people as possible recruits for Indian Mujahideen. (Who is Abu hamza?)
Hamza was one of the six instructors or handlers of the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26/11. Operating in pairs, they moved to different landmarks. In 72 hours, they killed 166 people. Ansari was instructing the duo at Nariman House. He asked them to let their victims know that "Yeh to sirf trailer hai, asal film baaki hai (this is just the trailer, the film has yet to start rolling)." He was of special interest to Indian intelligence officials because he used a smattering of Hindi words, rather than Urdu, in his lengthy tutorials. He talked of "Prashasan" (administration), "Udharan" (example) and "yuvak" (youth). Indian intelligence officials believed this was a "local hand."
The Delhi Police officially maintains that he was picked up from the Indira Gandhi International Airport - without explaining why he would risk travelling to India, or how he boarded a plane given that there's an Interpol red corner notice (the equivalent of an international arrest warrant) for him. But some reports say he was deported from Saudi Arabia. Home Minister P Chidambaram however did not confirm or deny these reports. "The person who goes by the pseudonym of Abu Jindal has been apprehended and remanded to the custody of our law enforcement agencies," he said. Police sources say Ansari has been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Explosives Act and the Passport Act.
The arrest of Abu Hamza, who had 10 aliases, is a big breakthrough for India in the 26/11 investigations. He is named in both the case chargesheet and the dossier that India has handed to Pakistan. This is the first time that investigating agencies have in their custody a man who was on the inside of the 26/11 plot.
He belongs to the Beed district of Maharashtra, and is also wanted for the attacks on local trains in Mumbai in 2006 in which 180 people were killed.
Sources in the Delhi Police say that they were given vital information on Abu Hamza by another terrorist arrested last year in connection with the blast at Delhi's Jama Masjid in 2010. The police was told that the 26/11 handler had stayed in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was recruiting and raising funds for the Lashkar-e-Taiba in countries including Saudi Arabia.
Abu Hamza's voice samples will now be matched against the recordings. Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested after the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, has mentioned Abu Hamza's role in court. He said that while he was training in Pakistan, it was the handler who taught Hindi to him and the others who executed the 26/11 attacks.
Ansari, who has trained at the Indian Technical Institute at Beed, is believed to have become a jihadi after the Gujarat riots. Among the many terror plots that security agencies believe he played a role in, was also an alleged plot to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He is alleged to have first joined the banned group SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India), then the Indian Mujahideen and later, the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Intelligence sources believe he has been a vital link between the Indian Mujahideen and the Lashkar.
Lashkar sent Abu Hamza to gather funds in Saudi Arabia for big terror strike: Sources | NDTV.com
