Author: Johnson T A
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: January 14, 2006
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=85918
IISc: Rehman's narco: 'he met Lashkar brass
in Saudi Arabia'
A narcoanalysis test conducted yesterday on
the lone suspect arrested in connection with the December 28 terrorist attack
at the Indian Institute of Science, 35-year-old Abdul Rehman alias Raiz-ur-Rehman,
has provided the Bangalore police the first insight into his Lashkar-e-Toiba
links but has provided few concrete leads to the conspiracy or the perpetrator.
Sources told The Indian Express that Rehman's
narco testimony needs to be cross-checked and has discrepancies on "various
occasions" but he has claimed, for the first time, that he met the Lashkar
top brass, while in Saudi Arabia. This includes Abdul Rehman Makki, Abdul
Aziz and Abu Hamza. He also claims to have worked for the Hizbul Mujahideen.
During interrogation, Rehman had claimed he
never visited Bangladesh despite a Dhaka visa stamp in his passport but during
the narco, sources said, he admitted he did go to Bangladesh in 2003.
Asked who carried out the IISc terror attack,
Rehman is said to have mentioned "Naveed and Naushad." Naveed is
believed to be Ghulam Yezdani-like Rehman, a native of Nalgonda in Andhra
Pradesh. He currently operates from Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh for the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami.
The name Naushad was mentioned for the first time by Rehman.
