Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Times of India
Date: July 15, 2006
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=71127
Central intelligence agencies are believed
to have provided information to Mumbai police on June 27 and 28 that the metropolis
would be targeted by the Lashker-e-Toiba militants with the help of Students'
Islamic Movement of Indian (SIMI) activists.
Informed sources said Mumbai police was asked
to give an action taken report on the input provided by Intelligence Bureau
on June 27 and June 28 after the central agency had picked up two men in connection
with the Aurungabad arms seizure case.
The matter was believed to have come up for
discussions at the meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had with Maharashtra
officials in Mumbai during his trip on Friday, the sources said.
They said the two men had named Mohammed Rahil,
a key suspect behind Tuesday's Mumbai serial blasts and Zabiuddin Ansari as
the main persons who had been tasked to carry out some 'kind of terrorist
activities' in Mumbai.
One of the two persons was identified as Samad
Khan, a resident of Beed district of Marathwada, who was arrested at Manmad
on Friday night. He had said during interrogation that he had met Zaibuddin
in Bangaldesh who had asked him to get in touch with Rahil in Mumbai.
