Islamist terrorists planned blasts in Goa K. Srinivas Reddy http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/02/stories/2008020259721200.htm
Stolen motorcycles were to be used as bombs in the operation; reconnaissance conducted at beaches Foreign tourists, possible target Details of operation not disclosed _____ HYDERABAD: Islamist fundamentalists planned serial blasts on the Goa beaches, interrogation of Hyderabad resident Raziuddin Nasir has revealed. The arrival in droves of foreign tourists, especially Israelis, seemed to have put the beaches on the cross-wires of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadi-al-Islami operatives. Motorcycles allegedly stolen by Nasir and Asaduddin Abubakar of Karnataka were meant to be used as bombs on a few select beaches. Nasir, who is being grilled by intelligence agencies and the police departments of more than 12 States in Karnataka, has disclosed that the purpose of his visit to Goa immediately after the twin blasts in Hyderabad on August 25, was to identify beaches for organising serial blasts. The 22-year-old engineering college drop-out, who had undergone training in a Pakistan-based HuJI cell, selected Goa, as it was attracting hundreds of tourists from Israel. Though Nasir had not yet disclosed how he planned to organise the blasts, his matter-of-fact confession that they were planned in four beach stretches stunned interrogators. The Islamist terror modules earlier turned bicycles into Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the Varanasi, Lucknow and Gorakhpur blasts. "Now motorcycles seemed to be the in-thing," a police officer remarked. The Davangere police seized 11 stolen motorcycles on the basis of the statements of Nasir and his accomplice Abubakar. Though the two claimed to have stolen them for fun, the fact that they did not abandon or sell them surprised the sleuths. Prize catch Nasir is being considered a prize catch. However, he has not yet spilled the beans on who had fabricated the IEDs or how the explosives were to be supplied to him. All he has disclosed was that he had "sought" 50 kg of explosives from his handlers. Intelligence agencies, piecing bits of information together now realise that they had an input based on telephonic intercepts in which Nasir's mentor Shahid alias 'Bilal' had instructed him to go to Kathmandu saying that "everything is arranged." But, Nasir disregarded the fiat and stayed put in Hyderabad, ostensibly to undergo a root canal treatment in a dental hospital and to also get his eyes checked. Even when he was undergoing training in a terror camp across the border, Indian intelligence agencies intercepted a telephone call in which the subject of communication appeared to be Nasir. The lanky youngster with a serious eye problem lost his spectacles and was finding it difficult to move without them. The caller was requesting the person on the other line to arrange for sending a pair of spectacles. Now, intelligence agencies believe that it was meant for Nasir. His repeated assertion that Bilal was 'neutralised' by his operatives in Karachi in August 2007 has made the sleuths wonder whether it was a red herring thrown by Bilal handlers. Yet, if one were to go by Nasir's version, Bilal was becoming too independent and taking decisions on his own. Bilal's tendency to depend more on Bangladesh HuJI modules for organising subversive activities in India was not liked by his Pakistan handlers. Particularly, the arrest of a HuJI activist by Indian security agencies on the India-Bangladesh border last year was viewed as a 'terribly unprofessional act' by Bilal's handlers. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. 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