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Man arrested in Mumbai investigation is undercover cop
AIJAZ HUSSAIN
AP
Sunday, Dec 07, 2008
One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday, demanding his release.
The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the first since the bloody siege ended. But what was touted as a rare success for India’s beleaguered law enforcement agencies, quickly turned sour as police in two Indian regions squared off against one another.
Senior police officers in Indian Kashmir, which has been at the heart of tensions between India and Pakistan, demanded the release of the officer, Mukhtar Ahmed, saying he was one of their own and had been involved in infiltrating Kashmiri militant groups.
Indian authorities believe the banned Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has links to Kashmir, trained the gunmen and plotted the attacks that left 171 people dead after a three-day rampage through Mumbai that began Nov. 26.
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The implications of Ahmed’s involvement — that Indian agents may have been in touch with the militants and perhaps supplied the SIM cards used in the attacks — added to the growing list of questions over India’s ill-trained security forces, which are widely blamed for not thwarting the attacks.
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December 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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December 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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December 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
More detail from an Indian newspaper – strong evidence of insider involvement? Remove the word ‘unwittingly’ from the second para
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A SIM card suspect arrested by Calcutta police could be a counter-insurgency policeman from Kashmir on an undercover mission, according to highly placed sources.
If the claim is established, it will mean the law enforcement network unwittingly helped the Mumbai attackers procure communication cards. It will also blow the cover of an undercover operative, which puts his life and that of his family at risk.
Calcutta police, unaware that the suspect could be associated with counter-insurgency, though he screamed “I too am a police constable” at the time of his arrest in Delhi, had publicly announced his name yesterday. The Telegraph is mentioning his name as it is already in the public domain.
Mukhtar Ahmed was arrested after a SIM card found on a slain terrorist in Mumbai was traced to him, according to Calcutta police, which are still to verify whether he is a policeman.
The sources said senior police officers in Kashmir have demanded Mukhtar’s release, saying he was one of their own and had infiltrated the Lashkar-e-Toiba. However, Calcutta police said they had not heard from Kashmir.
The arrests of Mukhtar, 37, and Tausif Rehman, the Calcutta youth who allegedly bought 22 SIM cards for him, were the first after the Mumbai attacks.
“Several days back, my son told me he is going to Jammu. This morning, I received a call from him and he said he is fine and would be home in a day or two,” Mukhtar’s father said in Srinagar today.
The father, a shopkeeper, said his son was in the police and was working with a senior officer. “After reports that Mukhtar was arrested, I approached (the officer) and he told me my son is perfectly all right,” he added.
The officer, however, told The Telegraph in Srinagar: “I know nothing about him. There were thousands of policemen working under me (in his last posting).”
Kashmir police are not commenting on the arrest officially. “I have not been informed about the issue. How can I order an investigation when I have no information?” state police chief B. Srinivasan said.
But police sources said Mukhtar was on an undercover mission and had “successfully” penetrated the Lashkar. He was recruited some years ago after his brother Aijaz was killed by militants, and had been promoted as constable.
Such undercover operations have helped crush the Hizb-ul Mujahideen and fight the Lashkar and the Jaish-e-Mohammed, a source said.
“Lashkar men had sought his help for procuring some SIMs, for which he had approached Tausif Rehman in Bengal,” a source said. “The central agencies were informed about these SIMs and they were told to monitor them.”
One of those SIMs was found in the belt of slain terrorist Abu Ismail in Mumbai.
The sources said one phone connection was first activated on October 9 briefly, probably for testing. Thereafter, signals from the SIM were picked up on November 26 — the night of the Mumbai attacks, the sources added.
A senior police officer said: “Sometimes we use our men in counter-insurgency operations to provide SIM cards to (militant) outfits so that we track their plans down.”
Another source in Delhi said Calcutta police had gone by an alert from Mumbai and the eastern force would not have had any information on the counter-insurgency operation in Kashmir. “In intelligence operations, the left hand need not always know what the right hand is doing.”
However, the source added, Calcutta police should have verified Ahmed’s claim thoroughly as soon as he cried out that he was a constable. The reported site of the arrest in Delhi, the J&K House, should also have alerted the police to the possibility of a government link.
Calcutta special task force officer Rajeev Kumar said: “We inquired about it and there was no confirmation. We will request our counterparts in Jammu and Kashmir to inform us in writing about Mukhtar’s background.”
He underscored that terror charges had not been pressed against Mukhtar. “We booked him under the particular charges applicable for the crimes that he committed in Calcutta. Whether he had any role in the terror attack in Mumbai is for our counterparts in Mumbai to find out,” Kumar added.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/.....221988.jsp
December 7th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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