Dreaded Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist Abu Jundal may not be the only Indian to have helped the militants involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Significantly, it is now believed that there is an Indian Mujahideen link to the Mumbai carnage as well. Jundal, during his custodial interrogation, has revealed that at least two Indian operatives of the Indian Mujahideen had helped train the module involved in the Mumbai attack.
Highly-placed intelligence sources said Jundal claimed that he happened to meet two Indian Mujahideen militants at a Lashkar training camp in Pakistan-occupied Kash-mir.
Sources said Jundal claims that he did not get an opportunity to interact much with them as he had been instructed by the Lashkar leadership not to do so. “Normally these terror outfits operate in a very secretive manner and don’t prefer one terror module interacting or mixing with the other. They prefer working in watertight compartments,” a senior intelligence official involved in Jundal’s interrogation remarked.
Significantly, Jundal has admitted that from the information he could gather from the Indian Mujahideen duo it was clear that they were helping the 26/11 terror module with the logistics, key locations and some local contacts in Mumbai.
These revelations, sources said, have forced intelligence agencies to believe that the terror module that attacked Mumbai had support within the city itself. Intelligence agencies along with the Maharahstra ATS and the Mumbai crime branch are now further investigating this aspect of the case.
Since Jundal has expressed his inability to provide more details about the IM terrorists, given his limited exposure to them, the interrogating teams have shown him photographs of top Indian Mujahideen operatives to help ascertain who exactly the duo are. Though top intelligence officials are extremely tightlipped about this matter, sources claim that the Indian Mujahideen men could well be the Bhatkal brothers, Riaz and Iqbal, who at that time were said to be undergoing training themselves in Pakistan.