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The secret connection of Mumbai underworld with Pakistan’s ISI The Mumbai underworld is buying arms and receiving training and other help from “Foreign Governments” including ISI of Pakistan. There are also signs that insurgent arms from Iraq may be coming in too. Some of the sophisticated arms include RPGs, firepower, Mortars and Missiles. Mafia gangs here are major buyers of small arms in the international market, and police here are not surprised by reports that they are now making purchases from Nepal's Maoist guerrillas. The mafia has established links in the international drugs, arms and human trafficking circuit for several years, police officers say. Apart from different guns, the mafia is known to buy assault rifles and huge amounts of ammunition. The underworld is known to show a preference for grenades. However, considering the small scale of their operations, Mumbai's mafia dons do not go in for items like grenade launchers, which require a high degree of skill to use, say police officials. Even the assassins, as hit men are known here, shoot from close range since they do not have adequate practice. The mafia is known to trade in drugs and gold in return for weapons. Often hawala, or money laundering, channel is used to transfer money. Mumbai's underworld is also known to have links with groups like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since smuggling and hawala routes overlap, police sources say. In the past, the mafia was also linked to the Colombian drug cartel though those links have reportedly snapped due to America's war on terror. -- How can we lose when we're so sincere?! -- Charlie Brown ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
