Mumbai, March 17: Security agencies may have achieved some success in apprehending a few terrorists planning attacks in Mumbai, but investigators say the arrests are just a tip of the iceberg.
”The ISI has brought together underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon, and elements of the LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Indian Mujahideen operatives such as Amir Reza Khan to create terror and mayhem throughout the country,” an investigator said.
The officer added the information was gleaned from inputs from central intelligence agencies and also through those involved in planning the terror attacks.
”Abdul Latif, who has been arrested, is a relative of Bashir Khan. The latter was involved in planting explosives in the first serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993. Since the 1993 bomb blasts had a bigger involvement of Tiger than Dawood, we believe Tiger has once again been roped in to create terror,” the officer said.
The official added that ever since Tiger fled to Pakistan after the bomb blasts, this is the first time they are suspecting his involvement in a terrorist activity.
The officers are concerned that the ISI is focusing on hitherto safe areas. For instance, Abdul latif and Riyaz Ali have revealed they scouted a well-known colony in Borivili and a mall in Malad to plant explosives.
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–Agencies