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“Evidence building of Headley and Rana’s links to 26/11”
Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, November 19, 2009
First Published: 18:31 IST(19/11/2009)
Last Updated: 18:35 IST(19/11/2009)
SNIPPET: “Investigators probing David Coleman Headley’s links in India said they were close to nailing the connection between American terror suspect and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana with the larger module that had planned and executed the 26/11 strikes.
Top sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that has taken over the case said it had established that Headley and Rana were in touch with the same Pakistan-based handlers who gave directions to the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai.
Sleuths are now examining how the duo had corresponded with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) masterminds Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, who are currently in Pakistani custody, and also probing if there was another module at all involved in the Mumbai attacks.”
SNIPPET: “Sources also pointed out that both suspects, now in US custody for planning terror attacks in India and Denmark, used satellite phone during their visits to Mumbai and Kochi last year before 26/11.”
SNIPPET: “The costs for these print ads were reportedly paid by Headley’s job agency in Tardeo, Mumbai which was another front. However, sources said the advertisements were a signal to the sleeper cells of their presence and to let them know about the meeting point during their India sojourn.
Headley and Rana, who are graduates of a military academy in the town of Hasan Abdal in Pakistan, had maintained e-mail contact with other former students, including officers in Pakistan’s military.
They apparently belonged to a group of the school’s graduates who referred to themselves as the “abdalians” in internet postings, according to FBI affidavits.”
59 posted on November 21, 2009 2:08:19 AM PST by Cindy
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“Pakistani father-son duo held in Italy over Mumbai attacks”
Press Trust Of India
London, November 21, 2009
First Published: 13:53 IST(21/11/2009)
Last Updated: 15:01 IST(21/11/2009)
SNIPPET: “In a statement, police said the suspects managed a money transfer agency and helped fund the November 26 attacks.
The day before the attacks last year they transferred money to activate an Internet phone account that was used by the attackers and their accomplices, Stefano Fonzi, the head of anti-terror police in Brescia, was quoted as saying by AP.”
SNIPPET: “Italian police began the probe in December last year after being alerted by FBI that the money had been sent from Italy, Fonzi was quoted as saying, adding that the funds were transferred under the identity of another Pakistani who never visited Italy and was not involved in the alleged crimes.
The two men have been accused of aiding and abetting international terrorism as well as illegal financial activity.”
SNIPPET: “They said Indian agencies are also trying to find out whether the arrested persons had any links with David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, nabbed by the FBI in the US last month on charges of plotting a major terror attack in India at LeT’s behest.”
60 posted on November 21, 2009 2:11:02 AM PST by Cindy
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“Mumbai Terror Carnage: Now Breakthrough from Italy as well”
By Animesh Roul
SNIPPET: “In about less than a week, India will mark the first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks. After the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Chicago breakthrough, now Italy has achieved some headway in the investigations relating to last year’s terror events(26/11).
The Italian police have arrested, after almost a year long monitoring and surveillance, two Pakistani nationals (Father and Son duo) from Brescia city who are accused of sending funds from their money transfer agency and providing the logistical support to Pakistani terrorists. The suspects Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and Aamer Yaqub Janjua, owners of the Madina Trading telephone centre and a Western Union branch, were identified by the Mumbai’s terror investigating agencies and FBI earlier. Since then both were under constant surveillance. They were accused for transferring money (approx USD 229 on November 25, just a day before the carnage) under a false name to pay fees for the Voiceover Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone service which was used by the terrorists during the three-day terror attack.
In early this year (in Feb 2009), Mohammed Janjua denied the accusation when his name cropped up in the Mumbai investigation dossier and attempted to come clean. He instead blamed another suspect arrested in Pakistan that time, Javed Iqbal, a resident of Barcelona (Spain) who travelled to Brescia and transferred money to a US address in New Jersey in the name of Nizar al-Sharif. The money was used in buying five telephones, three of which were used by the terrorists and handlers in the Mumbai attacks.”
November 22, 2009 01:59 AM