Author: Nishant A Bhuse
Publication: Mid-Day
Date: July 15, 2006
URL: http://ww3.mid-day.com/news/city/2006/july/140580.htm
Introduction: Intelligence sources say a call
was made from Matunga station to don's aide in Dubai immediately after blast,
saying 'Thank You'
Immediately after a blast ripped through a
local train in Matunga on Tuesday, a call was placed from Matunga to an associate
of Dawood in Dubai, saying 'Thank You', Intelligence Bureau (IB) sources said.
They added that it was possible that Dawood
provided financial assistance for the blasts, even if did not directly engineer
it.
Thirteen years after Dawood masterminded the
1993 Mumbai serial blasts, his role in the present blasts is being probed.
This time, however, it is believed the help did not come through expertise
but through hawala transactions.
The call from Matunga is the third call after
the blasts, which the police are probing. The other two were made to Karachi
and Afghanistan from Borivli and Jogeshwari respectively.
IB sources said the outfit that planned the
recent blasts had used D company and its allied agencies for logistical purposes
and hawala transactions between Pakistan and Mumbai.
Nepal training
Adding weight to the Dawood angle is the fact
that the two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, Fayaz Kazi (32) and Mohammad
Jabiuddin alias Jabi (30), suspected to be the masterminds of the July 11
blasts, are believed to have been trained at an LeT camp in Kathmandu, Nepal
in February (See A06). Dawood has a strong hawala base in Nepal.
Kazi and Jabi are also the main suspects in
the Aurangabad RDX seizure in May this year and the Karnavati Express blast
in Ahmedabad in March.
Local support
Intelligence sources say Dawood's aides could
have helped those who carried out the blasts with a place to stay and also
local travel.
Director General of Police Dr P S Pasricha
said yesterday, "Without the involvement of local modules the explosions
could not have been possible but it is too early to comment on who is involved."
