‘Ayodhya attackers came from Pakistan’

Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: July 15, 2005
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1172068.cms

Ten days after the sensational terror attack at the makeshift temple complex in Ayodhya, Police today said all the five Lashkar-e-Taiba militants invloved had come from Pakistan and their two accomplices who had provided logistical support have been arrested in Jammu region.

The police identified two of the five militants killed by security forces when they made an unsucessful bid to storm the makeshift temple at the disputed site on July five and said they had their bases in Delhi. The operation was coordinated by LeT 'area commander'in Jammu and Kashmir Mohammad Kari.

Addressing a crowded press conference here, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Yashpal Singh gave the names of the two slain militants as Yunus and Arshad alias Asif and said efforts were on to identify the remaining three.

Giving details of the investigations by Special Task Force which spread across various states, he said the killed Lashkar militants had come to Delhi from Pakistan in August 2004.

Describing the plan to carryout the attack as the "most organised operation", Singh said the militants had stayed in Delhi at two different locations - Kishangarh (Southwest Delhi) and Deoli village (outskirts of South Delhi).

He said Farooq and Nadeem, arrested from Mendhar area of Poonch district, had helped in transportation of arms and ammunition in their vehicles from Jammu region.
 


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