LeT's agenda: make India bleed

Srinagar/New Delhi: At the first glance, 22-year-old Muddasir Gojri alias Raju does not betray his gory antecedents and comes across as any other ordinary Kashmiri boy with his dreamy eyes and infectious smile.

However, the seemingly innocent facade conceals a terrifying truth.

Gojri was captured by the Jammu and Kashmir police this year and was the divisional commander of dreaded terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba.

He carried a reward of Rs five lakh on his head and his “influence” extended from Baramulla and Kupwara districts to parts of central Kashmir.

MISSION DESTRUCTION: Muddasir Gojri says he recieved instructions from commanders in Pak.

Upon interrogation, Gojri revealed a chilling truth. He told CNN-IBN that the LeT terror network has spread across India and has the ability to strike at will with its fully-operational cells in all major cities.

“Lashkar has the capacity to strike in almost all the metropolitan cities - Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Delhi or even Kathmandu. Its cells are present all across the country,” he said.

Gojri, brainwashed by a misplaced Jehadi ideology revealed that attacks on unarmed civilians including the serial grenade attacks in Srinagar and Mumbai 7/11 were all part of deliberate LeT plan.

He revealed that these were coordinated by Abu Alqama, a Pakistani LeT operative in charge of terrorist operations in India.

“Abu Alqama told me that grenade attacks in Srinagar should start early and later they had to strike elsewhere. Even people were sent from here . One group does not know the other to keep the operations secret,” Gojri said.

The serial attacks on tourists visiting the Kashmir Valley were also planned by Lashkar terror commanders based in Pakistan. “We were told to kill pilgrims, tourists and Hindus so that India bleeds. We would take orders from Alqama,” Gojri revealed.

Lashkar-e-Toiba has been active in Kashmir since 1993 and in 1999 introduced a new phase of terrorism in the Valley launching Fidayeen or suicide attacks.

The alarming rate at which the terrorist cells have mushroomed across the country has also made the Government press the panic button.

THE MASTERMIND: Abu Alqama was the man who coordinated 7/11, Srinagar attacks.

“Intelligence agencies have warned of further intensification in terrorist activities,” Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister said at the Chief Minister's Conference on Internal Security.

With sleeper terror cells across the country, and a clear preference for random civilian targets, the LeT is now a serious national security threat.

“There are terror modules, some known, some are suspected and unfortunately some are not yet known to us,” National Security Advisor MK Narayanan had told CNN-IBN in an interview.

At the Sher-e-Kashmir park just a few months ago, two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists narrowly failed to assassinate J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in what was clearly one of the rare failures.

However, going by the mounting intelligence inputs and the sudden spurt in the terrorist activities across India, it may not be long before such failures translate into horrifying success missions.

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