http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/11/mumbai_terror_carnage_now_brea.php
“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
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A Year After Mumbai Attack, Militants Thrive in Pakistan
The Wall Street Journal ^ | NOVEMBER 24, 2009 | Matthew Rosenberg
Posted on November 23, 2009 9:03:02 PM PST by cold start
ISLAMABAD — The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia’s nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the militant faction.
Indian officials and experts say at least six new plots against Mumbai by the Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been disrupted in the 12 months since 10 gunmen wrought three days of havoc on India’s financial capital, killing 166 people.
Lashkar’s infiltration of India’s part of Kashmir is again on the upswing, the officials say; and a U.S. citizen with alleged ties to Lashkar was recently arrested in Chicago, evidence of the group’s reach, U.S. officials say.
“Our aims are the same today as they were 10 years ago,” said a man who identified himself as a former Lashkar militant now working with its charity arm. “We are waging war on the enemies of Islam.”
U.S. officials and experts say hitting India remains the primary focus for Lashkar, which was nurtured in the 1990s by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency for use as a proxy against Indian forces in the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir. Pakistan banned the group in 2002 and officials here say they cut ties with it at the time.
But no one disputes that Lashkar continued to operate from Pakistan, repeatedly striking Indian targets in recent years. Another Mumbai-style attack, say officials from both countries, risks sparking a fourth war between the neighbors.
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