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| Abu Hamza was in 26/11 control room |
| Abu Hamza was in 26/11 control room, says Chidambaram
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| INDIA
, 27-June-2012
4:42:52 AM |
| Home Minister P Chidambaram has confirmed that Laskhkar terrorist Abu Hamza was in a "control room" in Pakistan when the 26/11 attacks began in Mumbai in 2008. Hamza, who belongs to Maharashtra, was deported from Saudi Arabia to Delhi earlier this month. He has since provided India with crucial details of how its worst-ever terror attack was designed and executed.
Mr Chidambaram added that India had been tracking Abu Hamza for over a year and that his confession proves that "state actors" from Pakistan were aware of the attacks being unleashed upon Mumbai. "We were tracking him for over a year. His confession proves that there was support of state actors for 26/11 massacre," he said.
NDTV reported on Tuesday that Hamza, now in a Delhi jail, and being interrogated by the Delhi Police and intelligence officers, had confessed that during the first 24 hours of 26/11, he was stationed in a room near the Karachi international airport along with five other handlers. As they passed instructions to the 10 terrorists attacking Mumbai in pairs, Hamza allegedly said, ISI officers in the control room chipped in, asking Hamza and others to pass on their messages.
Hamza was allegedly asked to "take rest" after the first day of the Mumbai attacks -they lasted for 64 hours and ended after 166 people had been killed.
Hamza, 31, is from the Beed district in Maharashtra, and studied at the Indian Technical Institute. He worked for a while as an insurance agent. Then the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 turned him into a jihadi. He was originally a member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), an Indian terror group, and was close to its founder, Riyaz Bhatkal. He was recruited by the terror group Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI. A few years later, he was in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir when he entered the ranks of the LeT.
He was arrested by police in Saudi Arabia last year in connection with a forgery case.
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