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Bangladesh LeT ex-chief helped Mumbai attackers
Published on Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 21:23, Updated on Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 22:43 in 
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New Delhi: Investigations into the Mumbai terror attacks have revealed Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Laskhar-e-Toiba's (LeT) hand in the terror strikes. New leads now show that LeT operatives based in Bangladesh, too, were involved in organising the attacks.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that the former Bangladesh head of the LeT arranged for logistical support to the 10 Pakistan-trained terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26 and held the city hostage for more than 60 hours killing over 200 people and injuring more than 300.
Faisal Nayeem, deported to Pakistan in 2006 under American pressure, was the LeT's commander in Dhaka.
Sources investigating the attack claim that Faisal got in touch with LeT's present Bangladesh head, Imran Mian to arrange SIM cards for the terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attacks.
During his stay in Bangladesh, Nayeem had set up an intricate network of agents which allowed him to take Indian youth to Pakistan via Bangladesh. They were trained in Pakistani terror camps and then pushed into India.
Faisal told Bangladeshi investigators that he had coordinated several fidayeen (suicide) attacks during his stay in Bangladesh including the attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters in Nagpur in 2004 and a Border Security Force post in Hyderabad in 2005.
Investigators are not just interrogating the arrested terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasab, they are also questioning six men, part of a LeT sleeper cell which was on a mission to blow up the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in March this year.
Two Pakistanis, Imran Shahzad and Bhattia and four Indians - Sahabuddin, Fahim, Arshad and Sohail - were recruited from Dubai by Pakistan's ISI and sent to LeT training camps and trained to be suicide bombers.
They were arrested just before carrying out the major strike on BSE.
India is planning to share all the evidence with Pakistan but problem is that LeT still functions openly in Karachi and other major Pakistani cities.
The terror organisation is controlled by ISI and the civilian government has no power over them.
So, even as the siege on Mumbai was on, LeT's frontal organisation, Jamaat-ud-Daawa was holding a meeting of its supporters on November 28 in Karachi.
Their leaders were giving inflammatory speeches, asking for an attack on Kashmir and demanding their government stop the peace process with India.
So the big question is which Pakistan will India deal with?
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