[Note from Hindu Vivek Kendra: This clearly indicates the danger India faces due to infiltration from Bangladesh, an infiltration that is encouraged by political parties who claim to be secular, and rationalised by intellectuals who claim to be secular. The article says that the Mumabi police is downplaying the role of Dawood, etc. It clearly shows that the police in Mumbai will not allowed to work with autonomy.]
Even as Mumbai police are looking for one Nissar, the alleged mastermind behind the August 25 twin blasts, sources have said that Moin Khan, possibly the man who played a big role in assembling the bombs, has fled the country. He has apparently escaped to his Cox Bazaar house in Bangladesh.
Khan had carefully planned his exit even before the bombs could be planted in the taxis on August 25, sources said. He left for Kolkata a day before the blasts. On August 25, after confirming that the blasts had occurred, he quietly slipped out of the country, sources added.
Khan, a Bangladeshi army engineering officer, is an explosives expert and has been on the rolls of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ever since his retirement. According to sources, after the war in 1971, Khan was disenchanted with India. Now, in his sixties, he hardly invites suspicion when he moves around assembling bombs and executing the ISI’s plans.
According to sources, Khan had visited Nepal on August 19 to collect money for the blasts operation from ISI officials at Baneswar restaurant in Kathmandu. Loaded with an unspecified amount of money, he entered India via the Raxaul border and immediately headed for Mumbai.
There he was received by members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who took him to their various hideouts. Sources added he had started assembling the explosives two days before the blasts and handed them over to SIMI operatives on August 24.
However, sources admit that SIMI does not have the necessary backup to execute a plan of this magnitude. They believe SIMI had been actively supported by the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
While Mumbai police have played down the Dawood connection in the twin blasts case, officials in New Delhi claim the ISI was using the ground created by the D-company. Investigating agencies say Dawood helped the ISI to establish basic contacts and mobilise resources.
Interestingly, just two weeks before
the blast, ISI official and first secretary of Pakistani embassy Mohd Arshad
Cheema was arrested by the Nepal police for possessing 16 kg of RDX. According
to officials, the explosive material that was used in the blasts arrived
in India from Bangladesh and Nepal.