LET chief Saeed sent me to terror camps: Tunda
NEW DELHI: India’s case for seeking the extradition of LeT chief Hafeez
Saeed from Pakistan has been further cemented with arrested terrorist
Abdul Karim Tunda saying he was trained at the outfit’s
Muzaffarabad-based Chelabandi camp in 1996 and sent to Kunar camp in
Afghanistan a year before at Saeed’s behest.
The training was conducted by 26/11 main accused Zaki-urRehman Lakhvi and former Pakistan army special forces commando-turned -jihadi Abdul Qadir.
The Lashkar bombmaker’s preliminary interrogation report reads like a who’s who of global terrorism. His contacts include India-born Saudi terror financier Mahmood Bahaziq, Lashkar commanders Zafar Iqbal and Abdur Rehman Makki, Arif Qasmani Memon, accused by the US of engineering the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast, 7/11 Mumbai train blast accused Azam Cheema and of course, Saeed and Lakhvi.
The training was conducted by 26/11 main accused Zaki-urRehman Lakhvi and former Pakistan army special forces commando-turned -jihadi Abdul Qadir.
The Lashkar bombmaker’s preliminary interrogation report reads like a who’s who of global terrorism. His contacts include India-born Saudi terror financier Mahmood Bahaziq, Lashkar commanders Zafar Iqbal and Abdur Rehman Makki, Arif Qasmani Memon, accused by the US of engineering the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast, 7/11 Mumbai train blast accused Azam Cheema and of course, Saeed and Lakhvi.
Saeed, Bahaziq, Iqbal, Makki and Qasmani are all on a UN list of
individuals with Al Qaeda links who are subject to sanctions, and carry
multi-million dollar bounties. Qasmani, according to Tunda, is the man
who set up the LeT’s maritime capabilities and owns big vessels like the
one used in 26/11. He now works for Qaeda. The group’s naval wing is
now headed by Doctor Daud.
Tunda has told interrogators he delivered 27kg of RDX to three Pakistani operatives to carry out blasts at Delhi’s Sadar Bazaar and New Delhi railway station in 1996. The same RDX was also used for blasts in Ludhiana (1996), Rohtak (1997), Delhi’s Ghanta Ghar, Subzi Mandi and Amba Cinema and on the Golden Temple Mail (1997).
The Old Delhi-born Tunda — arrested by the Delhi Police near the Nepal border on Friday — was a cloth trader and homeopathic medicine representative before he turned to jihad, inflamed by communal violence in Maharashtra in 1985 and helped along by Ahle Hadis ideologues Azam Ghauri and Dr Jalees Ansari. The trio was responsible for the 1993 serial train blasts in Mumbai and several other cities to mark the first anniversary of the Babri Majid demolition. After Jalees’ arrest in January 1994, Tunda fled to Bangladesh. In July-August 1994 Tunda moved to Pakistan and with the help of Saeed and Iqbal got accommodation in Muridke
.Bahaziq, Lakhvi and Saeed — who first met Tunda in 1991 in Lahore — paid R3 lakh to get Tunda and his family settled in Pakistan. In 1996, Tunda was employed by LeT at a salary of R4,000, with free ration, and sent for terror training. At the camp he met Cheema, Abdul Qadir and Abu Dujana who taught him how to make improvised explosive devices. In 1996-98 Tunda targeted India through a series of blasts. He has given the names of accomplices in Bareilly and Aligarh.
Tunda has told interrogators he delivered 27kg of RDX to three Pakistani operatives to carry out blasts at Delhi’s Sadar Bazaar and New Delhi railway station in 1996. The same RDX was also used for blasts in Ludhiana (1996), Rohtak (1997), Delhi’s Ghanta Ghar, Subzi Mandi and Amba Cinema and on the Golden Temple Mail (1997).
The Old Delhi-born Tunda — arrested by the Delhi Police near the Nepal border on Friday — was a cloth trader and homeopathic medicine representative before he turned to jihad, inflamed by communal violence in Maharashtra in 1985 and helped along by Ahle Hadis ideologues Azam Ghauri and Dr Jalees Ansari. The trio was responsible for the 1993 serial train blasts in Mumbai and several other cities to mark the first anniversary of the Babri Majid demolition. After Jalees’ arrest in January 1994, Tunda fled to Bangladesh. In July-August 1994 Tunda moved to Pakistan and with the help of Saeed and Iqbal got accommodation in Muridke
.Bahaziq, Lakhvi and Saeed — who first met Tunda in 1991 in Lahore — paid R3 lakh to get Tunda and his family settled in Pakistan. In 1996, Tunda was employed by LeT at a salary of R4,000, with free ration, and sent for terror training. At the camp he met Cheema, Abdul Qadir and Abu Dujana who taught him how to make improvised explosive devices. In 1996-98 Tunda targeted India through a series of blasts. He has given the names of accomplices in Bareilly and Aligarh.
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