• He sent at least 23 youths, from Bijnore, Unnao and 24 Parganas in West Bengal, for arms and explosive training to Pakistan via Bangladesh.
Babu Bhai claims he received weapons and explosive training in Kotli in PoK in April-May 2001 along with jihadis from Malaysia, Thailand, South Africa and Pakistan.
His interrogation report reveals that Babu Bhai was inducted into terror by Asif Raza Khan, the main accused in Partho Burman kidnapping case in Kolkata and later killed by Gujarat police in 2001. Before the UP STF picked him, Babu Bhai was being handled by his younger brother Amir Raza Khan, who is now in Pakistan; Qamar, a Bihari settled in Dhaka's Mirpur Colony, and the younger brother of a Bangladesh minister by the name of Miraj.
What this shows, experts say, is a new network of terror where the brains trust may have links across the border, in Pakistan and Bangaldesh, but where locals are increasingly being used to plan, plot and conduct the strikes.
(Tomorrow: Between the lines of the Mecca Masjid plot)
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