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7/11 accused admits to Pak training
Published on Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 14:57, Updated on Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 19:14 in Nation section
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Mumbai: A key accused in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts case has confessed that he underwent two months training in Karachi and Muzaffarabad camps for the ‘train terror'.
Mohammad Afzal Sheikh has also told the police that the Mumbai terror attacks were a ‘revenge for the Gujarat riots of 2002’ and that they had also hatched the plan to trigger a blast in Ayodhya in 2005.
In fact, the foiled terrorist attack on Ayodhya in 2005 was hatched in Mumbai, Faizal told Mumbai police.
Faizal has told the interrogators that he had gone to Lahore and met Pakistani commandant for training in weapons and explosives.
Sheikh travelled to Lahore by the Samjhauta Express and also met an Indian LeT operative from Hyderabad, Abdul Razzaq, who influenced him to undergo training in arms at a camp near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.
He then went on to receive training in various training camps at Karachi and Muzaffarabad. He stayed with five other Pakistanis during this period, police sources say.
He said there are three kinds of training schedules in the Lashkar camps: the training schedule called Daur-e-Aam takes 40 days, another schedule called Daur-e-Khas lasts two months while Aal-Arsa is conducted for just two days.
Faizal told police that he undertook Daur-e-Khas training, while he was in Pakistan. Most men training there were from Pakistani military camps, he said and that all of them had links with Lashkar and the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
He has also told the police that he met Azeem Cheema, the training commander of LET, at one of these camps. He described 60-year-old Cheema as a very influential man. It was Cheema who told Faizal to prepare men from India for jehad.
Faizal also admitted in his confession that he and, his accomplice called Rizwan, helped men from India to reach Pakistan to receive weapons training there. He said he had received Rs 14.2 lakh from Azeem Cheema for this purpose.
Faizal’s confession has been submitted to Mumbai's MCOCA court.
(With Agency inputs)
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