Author: Pioneer News Service
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: November 25, 2008
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/136693/Abdul-Jabbar-had-close-ties-with-LeT-Police.html
Abdul Jabbar alias Sattar (34) of Malappuram,
arrested in Hyderabad on Saturday in a joint operation by the special anti-terror
squads of Kerala Police and Andhra Pradesh Police, had close connections with
Pakistan-based dreaded terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, the police said. The
Kerala Police's special squad brought Jabbar to Edakkad police station, Kannur,
on Monday evening for thorough interrogation on transit remand from a Hyderabad
court.
Sources in the police said that Jabbar, a
native of Valamaruthoor, Mangalam, Tirur, Malappuram district, had recruited
several young men from Kannur, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Ernakulam, Palakkad
and Alappuzha districts to the LeT training camp in Hyderabad. They said though
information about Kerala extremists' connection to LeT had been received from
the interrogation of the other arrested persons, but the revelations by Jabbar
had established this fact.
According to the Kerala Police, Jabbar had
escaped from the security forces in Lolab valley, Kupwara sector, Kashmir
in early October with injuries while four other militants from Kerala had
been killed. Jabbar had already told the police that he, along with the four
terrorists killed in Kashmir - Muhammad Fayaz, Muhammad Faiz (both from Kannur),
Abdul Raheem of Parappanangadi, Malappuram and Muhammad Yasin alias Varghese
Joseph of Chakkarapparambu, Kochi - had got training at the LeT camp in Hyderabad
in September.
The police had collected the records to prove
their transit from Hyderabad to Kashmir and the details of the encounter in
Lolab valley. He had already admitted to the special anti-terror squad headed
by Deputy Inspector General TK Vinod Kumar that the encounter had taken place
when he and the other four - Fayaz, Faiz, Raheem and Yasin - had been trying
to sneak into Pakistan. He also confirmed that the other four had been killed
in the action by the security forces.
After fleeing the scene of action with injuries,
Jabbar had taken a train to Rajastan and from there to Delhi, the police said.
He then left for Hyderabad via Bangalore where he married Nafia, an Andhra
girl, at Chinthelpet. This was his third marriage. Jabbar was arrested on
Saturday from Nafia's house, the police said.
The police said that during his interrogation
in Hyderabad in which sleuths from the Intelligence Bureau and Research and
Analysis Wing (RAW) had taken part, he admitted that he had got training in
various terror activities including bomb-making. He also told them of secret
meetings between him and Nazeer of Neerchal, Kannur, said to be the topmost
LeT operative in Kerala, and Ibrahim Moulvi of Vellamunda, Wayanad, the chief
terror liaison man in the State, at Edakkad, Kannur.
A team of the special anti-terror squad under
Circle Inspector Prince Abraham had stayed back in Hyderabad to collect more
information after senior officials left for Kannur with Jabbar. The extremist
would be produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thalassery,
on Tuesday.
Sources in the police said that Jabbar, who
did not have much contact with his house in Tirur, used to come home only
occasionally. He had married earlier from Mannarkkad and Purathur, and had
two kids in his second marriage. Sources also said that Jabbar's brother Abdul
Samad was an NDF activist and an accused in an attempt to murder case.
With the arrest of Jabbar, the number of terror
men to fall into police net rose to eight. The other persons were NDF Abdul
Jaleel of Edakkad, Kannur, Muhammad Faizal from Thayyil, Kannur, Mujeeb of
Mouvanchery, Kannur, Nainar Ali, Feroze from Pathalam, Ernakulam, Badaruddin
of Kaloor, Kochi and Nawas. The police hoped that Jabbar's arrest would help
them in tracking down the top-most LeT recruiter Nazeer and his right-hand
man Ibrahim Moulvi.
