Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: June 9, 2006
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1716961,000900040003.htm
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat
police on Friday arrested two Lashkar-e-Taiba men and claimed to have cracked
the LeT module in the state that planned to target several commercial and
religious places, including the historic Somnath temple and the Kandla-Bhatinda
crude oil pipeline.
"Two LeT militants were arrested by a
team of ATS sleuths. The duo were identified as Vakil Ahmed Saiyed alias Taffo
and Umar Farooq Sheikh," Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of ATS DG Vanzara
said.
Vanzara said the ATS had tracked down the
two men after their names were revealed by two LeT militants Mohammed Chand
Miyan Chippa and Feroz alias Abdullah Ghaswala who were brought to the city
on a transfer warrant from Delhi.
These two were arrested by the Delhi police
on May 8 from Nizamuddin railway station with four kilogram of RDX, four electronics
detonators and Rs 50,000.
"With this arrest, we have cracked an
LeT module that was beginning to consolidate itself in the state and had planned
to target the historic Somnath temple in Junagadh district of the state,"
Vanzara said.
"Besides the temple, the terrorists had
planned to blow up the Kandla-Bhatinda pipeline which takes crude oil from
Kutch district to a refinery in Punjab," he added.
