Hardline Hurriyat leader Geelani's link to Lashkar militant?
NDTV
March 02, 2012
New Delhi: Police sources have told NDTV that that hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had recommended the name of one of the two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants who were arrested in New Delhi on Wednesday for a Pakistani visa.
Sources say that papers seized from Ahtesham Malik include a visa recommendation by Mr Geelani. The 24-year-old suspected militant had gone to Pakistan in December last year, police say, for training in explosives and to learn how to assemble Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
The Delhi Police had, on Wednesday, recovered bomb-making material, including wires, flash powder used in crackers and sulphuric acid from Malik. He, along with another man, both of who were nabbed by the police at a railway station, were part of a group that was planning a major attack in Delhi.
Home Minister P Chidambaram said the men were planning to bomb a crowded area of Delhi. The police said both men had been trained in Pakistan and were found with flash drives that showed videos of how to assemble bombs.
The two suspects were arrested on the tip off of a third suspect who was earlier arrested in Jharkhand. A Delhi Police team arrived in Hazaribagh on Thursday to interrogate the arrested terrorist. He was handed over to Delhi Police on two days' transit remand by a court in Ranchi, Jharkhand police said on Thursday.
"Pir Mama was handed over to Delhi Police on two days' transit remand by a Hazaribagh court," a police official told IANS. However, a Jammu and Kashmir Police official identified him as Tauseef Ahmad Peer and the other two as Ahtisham Malik and Shafqat Ahmad.
Mama, living in Hazaribagh's Pelawal area, was arrested three days ago.
Meanwhile, in a press conference in New Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arun Kampani said: "Peer, a resident of Sopore in north Kashmir, was to go to Pakistan for training."
According to Mr Kampani, Peer was aware of the plans of the two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, whose arrests were announced on Wednesday, to strike in New Delhi.
Addressing a press conference to present his ministry's monthly report for February, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday announced that a LeT-sponsored module had been busted in Delhi in an operation jointly carried out by national agencies and a couple of state police forces and two people arrested by the Delhi Police.
He also clarified that the module was not targeting VIPs in the national capital, but was planning to carry out explosions in crowded areas of the national capital.
Meanwhile, a police source told IANS that Jharkhand Police provided some inputs to Delhi Police based on the interrogation of Pir, and based on that, two terrorists were arrested in Delhi.
In Srinagar, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S.M. Sahai said that the three's arrest was the result of coordinated pooling of intelligence by police of Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Delhi.
He said Malik had been on the radar of the state Police for quite sometime.
(With IANS inputs)
source http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/hardline-hurriyat-leader-geelanis-link-to-lashkar-militant-181674
March 02, 2012
New Delhi: Police sources have told NDTV that that hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had recommended the name of one of the two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants who were arrested in New Delhi on Wednesday for a Pakistani visa.
Sources say that papers seized from Ahtesham Malik include a visa recommendation by Mr Geelani. The 24-year-old suspected militant had gone to Pakistan in December last year, police say, for training in explosives and to learn how to assemble Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
The Delhi Police had, on Wednesday, recovered bomb-making material, including wires, flash powder used in crackers and sulphuric acid from Malik. He, along with another man, both of who were nabbed by the police at a railway station, were part of a group that was planning a major attack in Delhi.
Home Minister P Chidambaram said the men were planning to bomb a crowded area of Delhi. The police said both men had been trained in Pakistan and were found with flash drives that showed videos of how to assemble bombs.
The two suspects were arrested on the tip off of a third suspect who was earlier arrested in Jharkhand. A Delhi Police team arrived in Hazaribagh on Thursday to interrogate the arrested terrorist. He was handed over to Delhi Police on two days' transit remand by a court in Ranchi, Jharkhand police said on Thursday.
"Pir Mama was handed over to Delhi Police on two days' transit remand by a Hazaribagh court," a police official told IANS. However, a Jammu and Kashmir Police official identified him as Tauseef Ahmad Peer and the other two as Ahtisham Malik and Shafqat Ahmad.
Mama, living in Hazaribagh's Pelawal area, was arrested three days ago.
Meanwhile, in a press conference in New Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arun Kampani said: "Peer, a resident of Sopore in north Kashmir, was to go to Pakistan for training."
According to Mr Kampani, Peer was aware of the plans of the two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, whose arrests were announced on Wednesday, to strike in New Delhi.
Addressing a press conference to present his ministry's monthly report for February, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday announced that a LeT-sponsored module had been busted in Delhi in an operation jointly carried out by national agencies and a couple of state police forces and two people arrested by the Delhi Police.
He also clarified that the module was not targeting VIPs in the national capital, but was planning to carry out explosions in crowded areas of the national capital.
Meanwhile, a police source told IANS that Jharkhand Police provided some inputs to Delhi Police based on the interrogation of Pir, and based on that, two terrorists were arrested in Delhi.
In Srinagar, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, S.M. Sahai said that the three's arrest was the result of coordinated pooling of intelligence by police of Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Delhi.
He said Malik had been on the radar of the state Police for quite sometime.
(With IANS inputs)
source http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/hardline-hurriyat-leader-geelanis-link-to-lashkar-militant-181674
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