12-22-2008, 11:01 PM
<b>Why the CIA does not want Dawood in Indian hands</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kasab told his interrogators that his team had set out from Karachi, Pakistan, on a ship belonging to Dawood Ibrahim, the MV Alpha. They then hijacked an Indian fishing trawler, the Kuber, to pass through Indian territorial waters to elude the Navy and Coast Guard that were boarding and searching suspect ships.
<b>Although the MV Alpha was subsequently found and seized by the Indian Navy, there have been few, if any, developments about this aspect of the investigation in press accounts, such as whether it has been confirmed or not that the ship was owned by Ibrahim.</b>
Upon arriving off the coast near the city, they were received by inflatable rubber dinghies that had been <b>arranged by an associate of Ibrahim's in Mumbai</b>.
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At least two other Indians were also connected to the attacks, <b>Mukhtar Ahmed and Tausef Rahman</b>. They were arrested for their role in obtaining SIM cards used in the cell phones of the terrorists. Ahmed, according to Indian officials, had in fact been recruited by a special counter-insurgency police task force as an undercover operative. His exact role is still being investigated.
<b>One of the SIM cards used was possibly purchased from New Jersey</b>. Investigators are looking into this potential link to the US, as well.
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<b>Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen similarly reported that according to intelligence sources, Ibrahim is a CIA asset</b>, both as a veteran of the mujahedeen war and in a continuing connection with his casino and drug trade operations in Kathmandu, Nepal. A deal had been made earlier this year to have Pakistan hand Ibrahim over to India, but the CIA was fearful that this would lead to too many of its dirty secrets coming to light, including the criminal activities of high level personnel within the agency.
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Although designated as a major international terrorist by the US, media reports in India have characterised the US's past interest in seeing Ibrahim handed over as less than enthusiastic. Former Indian deputy prime minister L K Advani [Images] wrote in his memoir, My Country, My Life, that he made a great effort to get Pakistan to hand over Ibrahim, and met with then US secretary of state Colin Powell and then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice [Images] (now secretary of state) to pressure Pakistan to do so. <b>But he was informed by Powell that Pakistan would hand over Ibrahim only "with some strings attached" </b>and that then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [Images] would need more time before doing so.
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<b>Although the MV Alpha was subsequently found and seized by the Indian Navy, there have been few, if any, developments about this aspect of the investigation in press accounts, such as whether it has been confirmed or not that the ship was owned by Ibrahim.</b>
Upon arriving off the coast near the city, they were received by inflatable rubber dinghies that had been <b>arranged by an associate of Ibrahim's in Mumbai</b>.
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At least two other Indians were also connected to the attacks, <b>Mukhtar Ahmed and Tausef Rahman</b>. They were arrested for their role in obtaining SIM cards used in the cell phones of the terrorists. Ahmed, according to Indian officials, had in fact been recruited by a special counter-insurgency police task force as an undercover operative. His exact role is still being investigated.
<b>One of the SIM cards used was possibly purchased from New Jersey</b>. Investigators are looking into this potential link to the US, as well.
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<b>Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen similarly reported that according to intelligence sources, Ibrahim is a CIA asset</b>, both as a veteran of the mujahedeen war and in a continuing connection with his casino and drug trade operations in Kathmandu, Nepal. A deal had been made earlier this year to have Pakistan hand Ibrahim over to India, but the CIA was fearful that this would lead to too many of its dirty secrets coming to light, including the criminal activities of high level personnel within the agency.
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Although designated as a major international terrorist by the US, media reports in India have characterised the US's past interest in seeing Ibrahim handed over as less than enthusiastic. Former Indian deputy prime minister L K Advani [Images] wrote in his memoir, My Country, My Life, that he made a great effort to get Pakistan to hand over Ibrahim, and met with then US secretary of state Colin Powell and then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice [Images] (now secretary of state) to pressure Pakistan to do so. <b>But he was informed by Powell that Pakistan would hand over Ibrahim only "with some strings attached" </b>and that then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [Images] would need more time before doing so.
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