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Terror funds came from Gulf, routed through banks, hawala and money transfer channels

Express News Service Posted: Oct 09, 2008 at 0220 hrs IST Mumbai, October 8 Cops freeze bank accounts from which IM members withdrew money The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Wednesday revealed that it has frozen a certain number of bank accounts in the city from which money was withdrawn by some of the alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) members. According to the police, the IM operatives had been receiving money from Gulf countries through these accounts for the past two years. This is apart from what they had been receiving through the hawala network and the Western Union Money Transfer. “During interrogations, some of the arrested accused told us that they used to withdraw money from some bank accounts in the city, following which we have frozen the accounts. They are savings accounts in nationalised banks and are in the names of some individuals. Since 2006, money was being deposited by people in Gulf countries and was being withdrawn in small amounts by the IM members. A total of Rs 2

Spotted in class, inducted into terror

Mumbai, October 10 Software engineer Mohammed Mansoor Asgar Peerbhoy (31) had been identified for indoctrination as far back as 2004.A group people scouting for young Muslim men spotted Peerbhoy in an Arabic class. The group then kept tabs on Peerbhoy, alleged Indian Mujahideen suspect Asif Bashir Shaikh told the Mumbai Police Crime Branch dring investigation. Describing Asif as a “bad apple” in the class, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said: “The classes or the institutes that teach Arabic have nothing to do with such groups. People like Asif scout for such recruits at these places, without the knowledge of the institutes.” The group kept a watch on Peerbhoy. In 2006 he was again trailed from the local mosque in Pune. “Once it had fully indoctrinated him, the group sent him for the ethical hacking course. He was later sent to Bhatkal for other training,” said Maria. Maria also said that “quite a few” men who had been indoctrinated went on to leave the group as they

Terror attacks in Indi and analysis : India today

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Source: India today The emerging leadership - I Based on interrogations and follow-up investigations, this is the leadership structure of Indian Mujahideen: Abdus Subhan Qureshi Alias Tauqeer, 36: Now the most wanted man in India. A software engineer from Mumbai, he worked for a leading computer firm before he joined SIMI and took to jihadi activity. He also worked as the editor of two radical Islamic magazines called Movement and Shaheen Times. An expert in bomb-making and author of the virulent e-mails that precede every bomb blast by the Indian Mujahideen, Tauqeer is believed to have masterminded most of the blasts that have occurred in the past two years. He is an expert hacker. Safdar Nagori, 38: Architect of past terror strikes and the transformation from SIMI to Indian Mujahideen. He broke from SIMI moderates three years ago to take it to the terror route. A former diploma engineer from Ujjain, Nagori has been the strongest votary of the home-grown Jihadi movement. Mufti Abu B