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| Badr man Fahad set up sleeper cells |
| 2006-11-10 |
| Al-Badr terrorist Mohammad Fahad, arrested in Mysore for planning a headline-grabbing terror attack on Vidhana Soudha, has revealed links leading to a terror sleeper cell he helped set up in the Capital. Sources said the arrested terrorist told his interrogators that he had visited Delhi four times since April to distribute huge cash amounts to different members of the Badr module. This cell may now well be at the top of Delhi policeÂ’s anti-terror operations. The Badr manÂ’s disclosures are seen as confirmation that the outfit, smaller in comparison to more notorious ones like Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, are now trying to widen the scope of their so-called jehad outside Jammu and Kashmir. Intelligence agencies are looking into FahadÂ’s Delhi connections and probing leads he provided about locations where he met members of the Badr cell in the Capital. Sources said Fahad had come to Delhi in April and had given Rs 50,000 to a person he had met in the Jama Masjid area. In his next trip a month later, again from Mysore, he stayed in the Walled City area, and was to deliver around Rs 4-5 lakh to an agent who never turned up. FahadÂ’s third trip to Delhi was in July this year when he had stopped on his way back from Srinagar to Mysore. The contactÂ’s name and the meeting place were conveyed to him from Pakistan. This time he had delivered Rs 3 lakh to an agent. In his fourth trip to Delhi in August, Fahad had delivered Rs 3.5 lakh to a contact. Sources said in each of these cases, Fahad has told his investigators that he did not know the identity of the person whom he delivered the cash. The names and meeting points were only conveyed to him. A senior official in the Delhi Police said they are working on neutralising some sleeper cells information for which had come from the Mumbai police. |
| Posted by:Fred |