Mumbai:
At a high-security cell in the Crime Branch's office in South Mumbai, four policemen showed up last week. They left with voice samples of 31-year-old prisoner, Zaibuddin Ansari aka Abu Jundal. The terrorist spoke into a recorder, his words were then transferred to a CD. The voice samples of the Lashkar terrorist will be sent to a forensic lab, where they will be matched against earlier recordings in which Jundal issues his deadly instruction to a terrorist attacking Nariman House. "Tell them this is the just the trailer... the movie is yet to begin," he reportedly had said during the worst-ever terror attacks in India. Sources say he was made to repeat the same chilling line for his voice spectrometer test.
The original warning was uttered by him in 2008, when Jundal says he was based in a camp in Karachi with five other "handlers." Through the Internet, they spoke long-distance to ten young men who were ripping Mumbai apart. The handlers told the terrorists what to do; Jundal has told Indian intelligence officials that some senior members of Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, ran the control room located near Karachi's international airport. Across the border, in India's financial capital, 166 people died in the relentless 72-hour attack. One of the ten terrorists responsible - Ajmal Kasab - was captured alive.
And then India was alerted to Jundal, based now in Saudi Arabia. He operated Facebook accounts and made long-distance calls to recruit young men and raise funds for their training. US intelligence officials tracked him, and shared information with India. After a year of diplomatic lobbying, Saudi Arabia agreed to deport Jundal to India after it was established that he was an Indian citizen, whose family was still living in Maharashtra.
Jundal spent two weeks in Delhi before being flown to Mumbai where he is now interrogated every day. The Mumbai police wants to confront him with Ajmal Kasab in the near future.
Jundal was today sent to the the custody of the Mumbai Crime Branch till August 13. On July 21, the Esplanade court in Mumbai had granted his custody for 10 days to the Crime Branch. "We need to confront him with Kasab but for that again we have to take Kasab in police custody as currently he is lodged at the Arthur Road Jail," said a police officer on the condition of anonymity.
Kasab had told interrogators that in the months before Mumbai was attacked, Jundal taught Hindi to the ten men who were deployed to execute the plan that had been blueprinted in Pakistan. Jundal has also told interrogators that he helped familiarise the "ground force" with the landscape of Mumbai and its landmarks. The idea was to allow them to access their targets without sticking out like sore thumbs in a city they had only heard of.
The original warning was uttered by him in 2008, when Jundal says he was based in a camp in Karachi with five other "handlers." Through the Internet, they spoke long-distance to ten young men who were ripping Mumbai apart. The handlers told the terrorists what to do; Jundal has told Indian intelligence officials that some senior members of Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, ran the control room located near Karachi's international airport. Across the border, in India's financial capital, 166 people died in the relentless 72-hour attack. One of the ten terrorists responsible - Ajmal Kasab - was captured alive.
And then India was alerted to Jundal, based now in Saudi Arabia. He operated Facebook accounts and made long-distance calls to recruit young men and raise funds for their training. US intelligence officials tracked him, and shared information with India. After a year of diplomatic lobbying, Saudi Arabia agreed to deport Jundal to India after it was established that he was an Indian citizen, whose family was still living in Maharashtra.
Jundal spent two weeks in Delhi before being flown to Mumbai where he is now interrogated every day. The Mumbai police wants to confront him with Ajmal Kasab in the near future.
Jundal was today sent to the the custody of the Mumbai Crime Branch till August 13. On July 21, the Esplanade court in Mumbai had granted his custody for 10 days to the Crime Branch. "We need to confront him with Kasab but for that again we have to take Kasab in police custody as currently he is lodged at the Arthur Road Jail," said a police officer on the condition of anonymity.
Kasab had told interrogators that in the months before Mumbai was attacked, Jundal taught Hindi to the ten men who were deployed to execute the plan that had been blueprinted in Pakistan. Jundal has also told interrogators that he helped familiarise the "ground force" with the landscape of Mumbai and its landmarks. The idea was to allow them to access their targets without sticking out like sore thumbs in a city they had only heard of.
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