ONE of India's most wanted terror suspects arrested in Kenya last week was found in possession of a fake Ugandan passport among several others of different African countries. Abdul Karim Tunda, an alleged leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, was picked on Thursday in the coastal city of Mombasa by Kenyan police, following a tip off by Indian authorities that he was in East Africa. Kenya police said they had detained Tunda, after trailing him from a small trading post on the Kenyan-Tanzanian border.At the time of his arrest, Tunda was found with eight passports, each with a different name derived from different countries including Kenya and Tanzania. But Ugandan police said they were not aware of the development. CID chief Elizabeth Kuteesa could not be reached for comment but her deputy Okoth Ochola, on Saturday said he was not aware of the matter.
Immediately after his arrest, Tunda was flown to Nairobi. Kenyan police said he was confrontational and had declined to cooperate with the authorities. Recently, the Police launched a probe into the immigration depa-rtment over passport forgeries. According to Indian press reports, Tunda's branch of the group allegedly masterminded 33 bomb blasts in New Delhi and neighbouring areas between December 1996 and January 1998.