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Arrests Made in Mumbai Terror Attack, but One May Be Indian Undercover Officer, Igniting Controversy Arrests made in Mumbai terror attack, but one may be Indian un... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/arrests-made-mumbai-... 3DS/DSi XL/DSi/DS Lite Wii Remote Controller DS/DS Lite R4 SDHC Karte Wii mini rot, Nintendo ab ab ab ab 24,50 € 24,98 € 10,98 € 99,99 € jetzt bei VARTIS SHOP jetzt bei VARTIS SHOP jetzt bei VARTIS SHOP jetzt bei EURONICS Monday, December 23, 2013 NYDailyNews.com / World Like Follow SIGN IN Jobs Classifieds Contests Reader Offers Home Delivery Services Apps Newsletters Search site SITE BLOGS news politics sports showbiz opinion living photos video autos More of News : U.S WORLD CRIME THE WEEK NEWS PICS BLOGS World Arrests made in Mumbai terror attack, but one may be Indian undercover officer, igniting controversy BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008, 3:58 PM 14 0 0 MOST POPULAR AP MOST READ MOST SHARED Tauseef Rahman, with his face covered, appears at a court in Calcutta, India, Dec. 6, 2008. Police arrested two Indian men accused of illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen. 1 Woman surprises husband 2 years AFTER her death SRINAGAR, India - One of the two Indian men arrested for RELATED STORIES 2 Release of Nike Air Jordan Gamma Blue illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the 11s cause brawls in shoe stores nationwide Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may Bombing outside Indian court kills at least 11 have been on an undercover mission, security officials said 3 Eliot Spitzer, still married, dating Blaz spokeswoman Saturday, demanding his release. Pakistani man faces gallows 4 Teacher had sex with student five times: after conviction for Mumbai cops The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the terror attacks 5 Grieving dad turns dead son into diamond first since the bloody siege ended. But what was touted as a Mumbai attack group Lashkar- rare success for India's beleaguered law enforcement agencies, 6 It's an underdog win for Joe’s girl as e-Taiba sees leader placed Jessica Namath recovers her dog quickly turned sour as police in two Indian regions squared off under house arrest against one another. 7 IAC fires PR exec Justine Sacco over Mumbai suspect's confession ‘racist’ tweet over AIDS sheds light on terrorists' plans Senior police officers in Indian Kashmir, which has been at the 8 Florida waitress gets $1G Christmas gift for selfless act heart of tensions between India and Pakistan, demanded the Real estate agent used customers' home release of the officer, Mukhtar Ahmed, saying he was one of 9 as sex pad: suit their own and had been involved in infiltrating Kashmiri militant 10 Obamacare comes Monday for Jan. 1 groups. coverage Indian authorities believe the banned Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has links to Kashmir, trained the gunmen and plotted the attacks that left 171 people dead after a three-day rampage through Mumbai that began Nov. 26. 1 of 4 23.12.2013 20:01 Arrests made in Mumbai terror attack, but one may be Indian un... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/arrests-made-mumbai-... The implications of Ahmed's involvement — that Indian agents may have been in touch with the militants and perhaps supplied the SIM cards used in the attacks — added to the growing list of questions over India's ill-trained security forces, which are widely blamed for not thwarting the attacks. Earlier Saturday, Calcutta police announced the arrests of Ahmed and Tauseef Rahman, who allegedly bought SIM cards by using fake documents, including identification cards of dead people. The cards allow users to switch their cellular service to phones other than their own. Rahman, of West Bengal state, later sold them to Ahmed, said Rajeev Kumar a senior Calcutta police officer. Both men were arrested Friday and charged with fraud and criminal conspiracy, Kumar said, adding that police were still investigating how the 10 gunmen obtained the SIM cards. But the announcement had police in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, fuming. BBeesstt CCiittyy AApppp IInn UPDATE A senior officer said Calcutta police were told that Ahmed is "our man and it's now up to them how to TT hh ee WWoo rr ll dd ! facilitate his release." He spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information. Other police officials in Kashmir supported his account. The senior officer said Ahmed was a Special Police Officer, part of a semiofficial counterinsurgency network whose members are usually drawn from former militants. The force is run on special funding from the federal Ministry of Home Affairs. "Sometimes we use our men engaged in counterinsurgency ops to provide SIM cards to the (militant) outfits so that we track their plans down," said the officer. Police said Ahmed was recruited to the force after his brother was killed five years ago, allegedly by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants for being a police informer. About a dozen Islamic militant groups have been fighting in Kashmir since 1989, seeking independence from mainly Hindu India or a union with Muslim-majority Pakistan. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over the Himalayan region, which is divided between them and claimed by both in its entirety. The Calcutta police denied the claims from Srinagar. "This is not true," said Kumar. The bungling and miscommunications among India's many security services comes as police said EDITOR'S PICKS they were re-examining another suspected Lashkar militant who was arrested nine months before the attacks carrying hand-drawn sketches of Mumbai hotels, the train terminal and other targeted Tenant deal caps 3 WTC construction sites. Developer Larry Silverstein will definitely be having a Rakesh Maria, a senior Mumbai police officer, said the man, Faheem Ansari, was being transported happy New Year, now that to Mumbai from northern India where he has been in custody for further questioning, hoping he could he has secured an anchor shed more light on the attacks. tenant for 3 World Trade Center. Sport involving Maria said there was a definite connection between Ansari and the Mumbai attacks. "Ansari was gunpowder is a boozy trained by Lashkar and sent to do reconnaissance," he said. good time in Colombia And a day after India's top law enforcement official apologized for security "lapses" that allowed the As sports go, it is rather old, quite boozy and a tad gunmen to rampage through Mumbai, there were new embarrassments — this time with holes in the explosive. It involves trying prime minister's security. to hurl a disc into a tube White House extends Police preparing for a visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh near Calcutta hired high-school Obamacare deadline by one day children for the equivalent of $2.50 each to sit in trees for the day and look out for suspicious people. The night before Christmas, Americans will be signing Local police chief L.N. Meena defended using children in the prime minister's security detail, saying up for Obamacare. The there were too many trees in the area and not enough policemen. Obama administration quietly delayed by one day Faithful dog Rusty "The area is full of trees, so to check them to see if there were any anti-social elements or anyone bids final farewell to making mischief, we employed the youths," he said. dying young owner Man's best friend bid Television footage showed dozens of the youngsters perched in trees, with yellow paper badges that farewell to his bedridden owner, who is expected to read "security pass" pinned on their chests. succumb to cancer in the coming days. Last week Meanwhile police continued the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks, Pregnant Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, who revealed that the gunmen had detailed pictures of the locations, Pennsylvania nurse fired for refusing flu Maria said. shot A Pennsylvania nurse got a "They were pretty elaborate photographs," he said, adding that they had also used maps from grim prognosis for the Google to study the targets. holiday season: unexpected unemployment. Dreonna Luxury gym trends forOnce considered something 2 of 4 23.12.2013 20:01 Arrests made in Mumbai terror attack, but one may be Indian un... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/arrests-made-mumbai-... Kasab has told interrogators he had been sent by Lashkar and identified two of the plot's 2014 and beyond masterminds as being involved, two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry said. Police of a niche hobby, had earlier identified the prisoner as Ajmal Amir Kasab. gym-based fitness training has steadily risen in popularity over the past few Lashkar changed its name to Jamaat-ud-Dawa after it was banned in 2002 amid U.S. pressure, decades. according to the U.S. State Department. The U.S. lists both groups as terrorist organizations. Pennsylvania woman busted trying to frame Kasab told police that a senior Lashkar leader, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the group's operations chief, husband with child recruited him for the attack, and that the assailants called another senior leader, Yusuf Muzammil, on porn: authorities a satellite phone before the attacks. A Pennsylvania woman was busted for putting child pornography on a home In Pakistan, the Interior Ministry chief told reporters he had no immediate information on Lakhvi or computer in a failed bid to Muzammil. Woodson fumes over Knicks losing battle of the boards According to the U.S., Lakhvi has directed Lashkar operations in Chechnya, Bosnia and Southeast Despite a 56-29 rebound Asia, training members to carry out suicide bombings and attack populated areas.
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