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Mumbai was on J&K ultras' terror map

Mumbai was on J&K ultras' terror map

Author: Times News Networks & PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: June 9, 2003

Defence minis­ter George Fernandes will visit Surankote in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday to review the army's ongoing Operation Sarp Vinash against terrorists in the Hill Kaka area.

Over 100 terrorists have been killed and around 120 of their underground bunkers, hideouts and caches destroyed in the last two months in the area.

Apart from arms and am­munition, a satellite phone, three cellular phones and a host of documents and pictures were found at the ter­rorist hideouts.  The seized material indi­cates that the terrorists, mostly Pakistani merce­naries, may have been planning strikes in oth­er parts of the country.

For instance, one of the terrorists killed had photo­graphs showing him point­ing towards India Gate and Parliament in Delhi.  Similar­ly, photographs of some high­-rise buildings in Mumbai were also seized during the operation.  Some militants had got themselves pho­tographed in south Mum­bai's Bhuleshwar locality, where several high-rise buildings and the Raj Bhavan are located.

Informed sources said there was evidence that mili­tants had reconnoitred the area and were planning to carry out their nefarious de­signs, including detonating a series of bombs, in a replay of the 1993 serial blasts.

The terrorists' intention was apparently to whip up communal tension in the me­tropolis and dub it "revenge for the communal riots in Gujarat", they said.

The militants had also planned to target the special­ly-designed colony of Vashi in Navi Mumbai, where flats of several prominent non­resident Indians are located, the sources said, and added that this was aimed at creat­ing a fear-psychosis among the NRIs and putting a check on their investments in In­dia.

Several photographs of mil­itants posing before the presti­gious South Block and North Block in the national capital were also recovered from the bunkers smashed in the Hill Kaka area by the army

Earlier, there have been similar instances of mili­tants posing in front of their targets before carrying out the attack, as was done by the terrorists who carried out an auda­cious attack on Parliament House on December 13,2001.

The five militants had recced the area and got themselves pho­tographed before it while posing as tourists.  They had managed to cover all sides and angles of the building.  The photographs were down­loaded from a laptop recov­ered from one of them.

Senior army officers will brief Mr Fernandes about 'Sarp Vinash' at Jaran Wali Gali, the '6 Sector' of 'the Rashtriya Rifles' Romeo Force, which is spearheading the operation.

"Terrorists from all major 'tanzims' like Lashkar-e-Tai­ba, Jaish, Al Badr and Hizbul Mujahideen even had a com­mon command post in Hill Kaka from where they coor­dinated action," said an army officer.

Militants were ruling the area and the nomads located there were virtually follow­ing their diktats because of the fear of the gun, added the sources.
 


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