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Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: November 29, 2005
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=82880
Introduction: Describing Dawood as South Asia's Al Capone, US magazine alleges that he Al-Qaeda links
The pursuit of Dawood Ibrahim has just got merrier. The American investigating agency, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have ''actively'' joined in the hunt.
This has been stated by the US News and World Report as part of the magazine's investigative cover story on how jihadist groups are using organised crime tactics to finance attacks on targets around the globe.
The magazine describes Dawood as ''South Asia's Al Capone.''
It says Dawood, after the '93 Mumbai blasts went in to his present exile in Pakistan, allegedly aided by the ISI.
The story alleges that for 12 years now, Dawood has called Pakistan home. There he is believed to own shopping malls, luxury homes, and shipping and trucking lines that allegedly smuggle arms into India and heroin into Europe.
India's CBI, according to the report, puts the so-called D-Company's annual income at hundreds of millions of dollars and says it has up to 5,000 members.
The magazine also alleges that Dawood had maintained links with Al-Qaeda.
It claims he made a deal to share his smuggling routes with their operatives. That is the reason why the DEA is investigating Dawood's alleged ties to the global heroin trade while the FBI is tracing his assets and ties to terrorist groups through an unnamed Pakistani CD counterfeiter.
"Getting Dawood may be tough as Pakistani officials deny he is even in their country."
"But with Washington pressing for his capture, Ibrahim, now 50, may have outlived his usefulness to the ISI," concludes the story.
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