New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack handler Abu Jundal was planning to attack the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Headquarters in Nagpur as well as the USA and Israeli embassies in New Delhi. Sources say Jundal has told the interrogators that Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, destroyed the Karachi control room after Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi's arrest following the Mumbai carnage.
Jundal has already confessed that he was directing terrorists in Mumbai from the control room in Karachi. He also told the interrogators that he received arms and explosives training in Nepal and Pakistan. He stayed for seven days in Kolkata in 2006 before moving to Dhaka in Bangladesh. From Dhaka he moved to Karachi and then to Saudi Arabia.
Jundal reportedly joined the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in 2005 before becoming a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative.
Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered an FIR against Jundal and another terrorist Fayaz Kagzi for planning to organise terrorist attacks in India. The FIR filed on Thursday is under several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Kagzi along with Jundal is a senior operative of the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba, which carried out the Mumbai carnage in November 2008. Te FIR has been registered on the basis of an Intelligence Bureau information that came almost 20 days back.
Sources say that Jundal told interrogators that Kagzi was his senior in college and had motivated him, and later and introduced him to Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Aslam Kashmiri. According to the sources Jundal was sent to Kathmandu in 2005 for training for two months in arms and explosives.
He came back from Kathmandu and got involved with the February 2006 Ahmedabad blast. He also worked with Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal to recruit people for Lashkar-e-Toiba and Indian Mujahideen.
The NIA will move the court for Jundal's custody once Delhi Police have completed their investigation and interrogation.
Jundal and Kagzi have been named as co-conspirators in the chargesheet filed by the Maharashtra ATS in the February, 2010 Pune's German Bakery bomb blast case, close to Osho Ashram and Jewish Chabad House, that left 17 dead and 65 wounded. The others charged in the case are Mohsin Choudhary, Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal.
Meanwhile, Jundal's mother Rihana Begum held a press conference in Maharashtra's Beed claiming that her son was involved in the 26/11 strikes. Begun said that her son was not a terrorist and blamed the police for falsely implicating him. She claimed that the family was not made to undergo a DNA test to ascertain Jundal's identity as was being claimed by security agencies.
"My son is a very religious person, he can't do anything like this. He is nota terrorist," said Begum.
The 30-year-old Jundal, whose real name is Zabiuddin Ansari, was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on June 21 after being deported by Saudi Arabia on India's request. He is currently in the custody of Deli Police Special Cell.
Jundal allegedly directed the 10 Pakistani Laskhar-e-Toiba terrorists during the 26/11 attacks from a 'control room' in Karachi. Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorists captured alive during the Mumbai attacks, had told the special court during the trial that a man named Abu Jundal had taught Hindi to the 10 attackers.
Jundal was the only Indian among the handlers and his use of Hindi words like 'prashasan' (administration) alerted the investigators that an Indian was involved in the 26/11.
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