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CLOSE BUT NO CIGAH!

Laskhar terrorists almost got passes for Retreat ceremony
Rajnish Sharma
New Delhi, January 27

The three Lashkar-e-Tayyeba terrorists arrested by the city police on Sunday almost managed to get tickets for the Beating Retreat ceremony on January 29. This has made the elaborate security drills ahead of the event seem like a joke.

The Delhi Police and the IB’s operations' cell are now verifying all passes issued for the ceremony. A massive 'verification exercise' is on.

Sources said they were verifying whether the passes had been issued in the terrorists' names or if they had got them under fictitious names. Sources said it was for this reason that the Special Cell sleuths hadn't disclosed the names of the militants arrested.

It was during questioning that one of the militants confessed that they were in the process of getting passes. "Security agencies usually take it easy in case of pass holders since there is a stringent process for issuing passes for such functions,'' an official said.

A team headed by a Joint Director in the IB is investigating if any senior government official had recommended passes for the terrorists. The place where the passes were to be delivered was to be disclosed just a day before the ceremony.

Investigations have also revealed the three terrorists were to be joined by another team, possibly from Hyderabad. This team was to smuggle explosives and ammunition for the final assault.

Though the police are tight-lipped on details of the case, it is suspected the arrested militants also came from somewhere in South India. They hadn’t taken a road route from the Valley.

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Another Intense Pic.

An Iranian asylum seeker known only as Hassan screams in pain after setting himself on fire outside the UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur on January 27, 2004. Hassan torched himself on Tuesday after failing to obtain political asylum and was due to be sent back. Hassan survived the self immolation and was sent to the hospital for treatment.

How far would you to escape the madmullahs.