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HuJI men held post Headley's interrogation by FBI
Published on Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:40, Updated on Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 16:30 in World section
Tags: FBI, Lashkar-e-Toiba , New Delhi
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New Delhi: It seems this is one terror plot that is unraveling across continents.
David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussein Rana's interrogation led police in Bangladesh to arrest two HuJI militants in Dhaka including HuJI's operational chief Ilyas Kashmiri.
Now the focus is firmly on this Madrassa in Chittagong, Bangladesh - Jaimaitul Ulum al-Islamiya Madrassa - from where three alleged Lashker-e-Toiba operatives were arrested. Their names are Mufti Harun Izahar, Shahidul Islam, Al Amin alias Saiful.
Sources in Dhaka have told CNN-IBN that these three men had two targets: the US Embassy and the Indian Embassy in Dhaka.
Police have collected the evidence that all the three suspected militants have visited the US Embassy area last week and taken pictures of the location as part of their attack plan.
All three made several calls to some Pakistani militant leaders over their cellphones.
All the three persons have admitted their links to the HuJI and LeT. One of them is an Indian, one is a Pakistani and the third from Bangladesh and all three were being trained in the madrassa.
The man who founded the madrassa, Mufti Izaharul Islam, is a top-ranking member of the radical Islami Oikya Jote party, which was part of the government in Dhaka when Khaleda Zia was in power. His son - who has been arrested - had recently received $10,000 from the two LeT operatives arrested in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, sources in Dhaka say that more arrests would be made by the end of this week.
(With Samaresh Baidya in Chittagong)
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