Dawood provided logistics for terror attacks

[spindrifter]

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November 29, 2008 19:49 IST

A Colaba-based businessman, suspected to be henchman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim , handed over arms and explosives to the Lashkar e Tayiba terrorists for carrying out the attacks on Mumbai, in what is emerging as the first major joint operation by the Karachi-based gangster and the banned outfit, official sources said in Mumbai.

Ajmal Amin, the only terrorist arrested during the operation, told interrogators that the dozen ultras who sailed from Karachi had come to Sassoon Dock from where they were taken first to Cuff Parade and later to the Gateway of India in boats arranged by a frontman of Dawood, who runs several custom clearing houses in Mumbai, the sources claimed.

The Mumbai police and central security agencies have launched a massive manhunt for the businessman considered to be a henchman of Dawood, who has been listed as a global terrorist having links to the Al Qaeda by the United States.

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The terrorist said Taj Mahal and Trident-Oberoi were selected because the two hotels have a large clientele of Britishers and US citizens; besides that, a large number of Israeli businessmen had come to the Trident for attending a diamond exhibition, the sources said

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. gangster outfit

not religious nuts? Interesting--that means there has to be money in it for the gangsters. Who do you think bankrolled the operation?

[amdezurik]

2. hum, good question...

now who has a kingdom based on extreme fundi Muslim tenets that has had relatives involved with mass murder and hates jews...and has way too much money and tome on his manicured hands

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. You are thinking along the same lines as me

the House of Saud is afraid of al Qaeda because they can't control them, and they fear they will be toppled by the fundamentalists who see their rich lifestyle as anti-Islamic. Could they be hoping that hiring gangsters to do the dirty work will result in blaming al Qaeda and perhaps stamping it out?

[spindrifter]

4. An early report was

that this was bankrolled by an Indian citizen living in S.A. Dawood is not in India.