After November 26, 2008 (26/11) Mumbai terror attacks, when
pressure mounted
on Pakistan
to arrest
Lashkar-e-Toiba's
(LeT)
‘operations
chief’ Zakiur
Rehman Lakhvi
from a camp
near Muzaffarabad
in Pakistan
Occupied Kashmir
(PoK), LeT’s
Indian command
Abu Jundal
was bailed
out by ISI,
as reported
on June 29,
by The
Times of India.
After being bailed out, Jundal was asked to stay off the radar
and he left
for Saudi
Arabia in
early 2010.
He was provided
two IDs, one
for internal
use in Pakistan and one for outside the country. His passport, in the name
of Riyasat
Ali, was arranged
by a senior
LeT ‘commander’
and 26/11
plotter Muzammil,
and then he
fled to Riyadh.
During interrogation, Jundal revealed that all LeT members
had done some
communication
practice for
Voice over
Internet Protocol
(VoIP) internet
calls and
understand
the network
areas of the
targets. The
LeT bosses
also checked
the SIM
cards and
handsets before
the 10 terrorists
left for Mumbai
and a last-minute
drill was
also conducted.
Special Cell
sleuths are
scanning Jundal's
email IDs
and conversations
and sources
said they
have recovered
a huge cache
of information
including
"numbers,
addresses
of various
module members
and hideouts".
With increasing suspicions that state actors have supported
LeT to conspire
and launch
26/11, the
Union Home
Ministry (UHM)
is unlikely
to oblige
a Pakistani
request to
share information
about Syed
Zabiuddin
aka Abu Jundal’s
arrest, as
reported on
June 29, by
Deccan
Herald.
Earlier, on
June 26, Union
Home Minister
P. Chidambaram
had said that
he had received
a note from
Pakistan Interior
Ministry Adviser
Rehman Malik
seeking information
gathered about
Jundal. The
UHM is concerned
that sharing
information
with Pakistan would hamper investigation.
Zee News adds that according to reports, Jundal has revealed on June
28, before
the Special
Cell of Delhi
Police that
LeT is running
several training
camps in Muzaffarabad
in PoK. He
said that
LeT has made
paragliding
an essential
part of the
training curriculum
of its cadres.
Based on his
submission,
the security
agencies are
now trying
to verify
whether Jundal
also received
paragliding
training.
Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) moved for
his custody
and registered
an FIR against
him and another
terrorist
Fayaz Kagzi
for planning
to organise
terrorist
attacks in
India. Earlier, the FIR filed on June 27, is under several sections
of the Unlawful
Activities
(Prevention)
Act.
According to the reports, Jundal was sent to Kathmandu in 2005 for training for
two months
in arms and
explosives.
After coming
back, he got
involved with
the February
19, 2006 Ahmedabad
blast.
Further, Jundal revealed that two days before the 26/11 attack,
LeT militants
carried out
a mock drill
in Pakistan, as reported on June 29,
by Indian
Express.
During the
drill, he
used the same
phone number
and the same
satellite
phone set
that he would
use during
26/11.
Meanwhile, according to Bengal Police, he used Bongaon District
in West
Bengal, to
sneak from
India into
Bangladesh before moving on to Pakistan in 2006. While he was in Bengal, he recruited youths from Murshidabad, Malda and North 24-Parganas Districts.
IBNLive reported on June 28, that Abu Jundal was planning to attack the Rashtriya
Swayamsewak
Sangh (RSS)
Headquarters
in Nagpur as well as the USA
and Israeli
embassies
in New Delhi.
Sources say
he has told
the interrogators
that Pakistani
intelligence
agency, the
ISI, destroyed
the Karachi
control room
after LeT
‘commander’
Zakiur Rehman
Lakhvi's arrest
(December
7, 2008) following
26/11.
Separately, it has been reported on June 28, by India Today
that Jundal
has been put
on a suicide
watch. Accordingly,
Delhi Police's
special weapons
and tactics
(SWAT) commandoes
have been
deployed to
prevent Jundal
from harming
himself in
the custody.
Over 100 commandoes
have been
deployed around
him, while
senior special
cell officials
were also
keeping a
close watch
on him. Apart
from revealing
Pakistani
agencies'
roles in various
terror attacks
in India,
including
26/11, Jundal
has also disclosed
LeT's plans
to target
various metros
in the country.
Further, NDTV added on June 29, that Abu Jundal had
nine Facebook
accounts and
email ids
that he allegedly
used to hunt
for new recruits
in Saudi Arabia
and in India
for LeT. | 
