[Reader-list] Kitnay Mastermind Thay?

[Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्]

infobox with the story posted earlier on this thread:

MUMBAI POLICE FINDS

MOHAMMED SADIQ SHAIKH (31)
One of the founding members of Indian Mujahideen and the
'controller' of Atif Ameen. A resident of Sanjarpur village in
Azamgarh, he was trained in Pakistan in 2004.

AFZAL MUTALIB USMANI (32)
A resident of Azamgarh, he stole four vehicles, used in the
Ahmedabad and Surat blasts, from Navi Mumbai. He parked
the vehicles at an Ahmedabad hospital and a market.

MOHAMMED ANSAR SHEIKH (31)
A software engineer close to the 'controller' Sadiq. Trained
in Pakistan.

MOHAMMED ARIF SHAIKH (38)
A resident of Mumbra, he prepared the electronic circuits
for the bombs. Trained in Pakistan.

MOHAMMED ZAKIR SHAIKH (28)
He is a scrap dealer from Bhiwandi. Trained in Pakistan.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्
<mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> The daily paper Mail Today, published in Delhi, has been doing an
> extraordinary set of stories on the investigations into the various
> blasts conducted by the "Indian Mujahideen". While the rest of the
> media has barely begun to use words like 'allegedly', 'police claim',
> Mail Today has been investigating the investigations. They
> unfortunately have only an epaper for a website. I have taken the
> pains to copy-paste, reformat and post on this list some of the
> reports.
>
> best
> shivam
>
>
>
>
> MULTIPLYING MASTERMINDS
>
> Mumbai Police claim they have nabbed the real Indian Mujahideen boss
> responsible for all bombings since 2005, including Delhi & Ahmedabad
> Karnataka rubbishes Delhi Police claims
>
> By Krishna Kumar in Mumbai
> Mail Today, Delhi, 25 September 2008
> mailtoday.in
>
> Days after the Delhi Police named Mohammad Atif Ameen as the Indian
> Mujahideen (IM) chief, the Mumbai Police claimed to have identified
> the real Indian Mujahideen mastermind responsible for terrorist
> strikes across India since 2005. In a hurriedly-convened press
> conference on Wednesday, Mumbai Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor
> announced the arrest of five IM members and said they were involved in
> the recent bomb blasts across the country and had plans to attack
> Mumbai. He named Mohammad Sadiq Shaikh as the man from whom Atif, the
> alleged leader of the Delhi bombers, reportedly took his orders.
>
> In the process, the Mumbai Police introduced new characters and
> debunked old theories of the police forces of Uttar Pradesh (UP),
> Jaipur, Gujarat and Delhi, each of whom had earlier claimed credit for
> arresting the 'real' terror mastermind behind bomb attacks in their
> states and elsewhere. Walliullah was supposed to have triggered the
> Uttar Pradesh blasts in 2006, Shahbaz Hussain was believed to be
> behind the Jaipur blasts in May, and Abu Bashar and Tauqeer had
> allegedly masterminded the Gujarat blasts in July. Those theories
> seemed to hold till the Delhi Police changed the script. They said
> that Atif plotted UP, Jaipur, Gujarat and the Delhi blasts. Now, the
> Mumbai Police has introduced Sadiq Shaikh as yet another mastermind
> and said he controlled Atif. Gafoor said that the five arrested men
> had planned the Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts and were behind every blast
> in the country since 2005. "It was not Atif Ameen who was the
> mastermind. He was just the operations guy. It was actually Sadiq who
> used to control Atif and made him do the terror attacks," said Gafoor.
>
> This contradicts the Delhi Police claim, made after the police action
> in Delhi's Jamia Nagar on September 19, that Atif had masterminded the
> series of terror attacks across the country since 2006. If this is
> confusing, read on. According to the Mumbai Police, even Sadiq is not
> the 'real' master mind. "Amir Razza, who is residing in Pakistan, is
> the one who is controlling Sadiq," claimed Mumbai's joint police
> commissioner (crime) Rakesh Maria. Since Razza is in Pakistan, it is
> not known who 'controls' him. Like the police from other states, the
> Mumbai Police insisted that the ones they had caught were the ones
> that had orchestrated the strikes in other states. The five have been
> identified as Afzal Mutalib Usmani (32), Mohammed Sadiq Shaikh,
> Mohammed Arif Shaikh (38), Mohammed Zakir Shaikh (28) and Mohammed
> Ansar Sheikh (31). The Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and the
> Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami had also allegedly trained them, Gafoor
> claimed.
>
> Fifteen detonators, eight kg of ball bearings, four fully-active
> electronic circuits which are used in bombs, one submachine carbine,
> two .38 revolvers, 30 cartridges of 9 mm carbine and eight cartridges
> of .38 revolver were reportedly found from them. Maria said, "The five
> (IM) members have assisted or been actively involved in the unexploded
> bombs in Varanasi, the Shramjeevi Express attack, the Sankatmochan
> Temple blast, the blasts in a waiting room in Varanasi railway
> station, the 7/11 blasts in Mumbai local trains and all other blasts
> in the country that have occurred from 2005."
>
> This runs counter to what the Uttar Pradesh police have claimed
> earlier. According to them, Walliullah was the mastermind of the
> Sankatmochan Temple blast in 2006. The perplexing series of claims on
> terror masterminds has resulted in a somersault of sorts in the Mumbai
> Police's own claims made earlier. On Wednesday, it said the five men
> whose arrests it announced had also engineered the 7/11 blasts by
> training and helping seven people — who are now in jail — to plant
> bombs. But, the state police's anti terrorist squad (ATS) has already
> arrested more than seven people for planning 7/11 blasts and said in
> its charge sheet that the men were given training by Pakistani
> nationals. So how could the five men, who are residents of India,
> become Pakistani nationals in the ATS charge sheet? When this was
> pointed out to Maria, he had a ready reply, "Those arrested for 7/11
> were told by these five men that they were Pakistanis. Hence they
> believed these five men and told this during our interrogation."
>
> In all, there is no mention of India's 'Osama bin Laden', Abdul Subhan
> Qureshi alias Tauqeer. Tauqeer was said to be the second-in-command
> after Abu Bashar but Tuesday's arrests show him missing from the
> picture. That's because the Mumbai Police has claimed that Sadiq is
> the IM founder. "We are looking for one more person, named Roshan
> Khan. It could be that Tauqeer is in touch with Roshan," said Maria
> when asked where Tauqeer figured in the terror mastermind jigsaw. The
> only thing common in all this is that, like the Delhi Police, all
> those arrested are from Azamgarh and the material for the bombs seized
> are allegedly from Karnataka. In spite of the spate of arrests of
> alleged 'terrorists' across the country, the police were not ready to
> guarantee safety. "This is just one of the modules busted, there could
> be more."
>



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