India - Pakistan Crisis: Re: Farhan Malik aka Aftab Ansari

» JenL_2 - Re: Farhan Malik aka Aftab Ansari

In response to message posted by Steven_Russell:

from Steven's list:

Farhan Malik --------------------------- India PRISONER extradited from Dubai, UAE February 9, 2002; arrest warrant issued by Interpol January 25, 2002; called Calcutta police to claim responsibility for the Calcutta shooting and vowed more attacks; was wanted in Calcutta drive-by shooting mass murder January 22, 2001; linked to Saeed Sheikh who funded Mohamed Atta in 9/11 attack; collected $100,000 ransom August 2001 in kidnapping of Calcutta businessman; crime boss with ties to Pakistan Intelligence agencies; fled to Dubai after he jumped bail in India
aka Aftab Ansari, an Indian national, heads a group India suspects of carrying out the shooting of police that killed five and wounded 20 outside the American Center in Calcutta. India's Central Bureau of Investigation said Saeed Sheikh had helped Aftab Ansari, also known as Farhan Malik, flee to Dubai after jumping bail in India.

Now extradited from Dubai and imprisoned in India - Ansari's talking .... two articles from The Times of India:

Aftab Ansari trained in Pak terror camps

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2002 11:24:23 PM ]

Notorious underworld don Aftab Ansari has confessed to the police that he got training in terrorist and subversive activities in Pakistan. He also had close links with heads of some terrorist outfits.

Ansari said he had come in contact with Jaish-e-Mohammed leaders Mauland Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh and others while he was in the Tihar jail from 1995 to 1998, but after his trip to Pakistan he got closer with them.

He got terrorist training with Faud Ulla, a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Bahabulpur area near Rawalpindi. He visited the camp in the deserts on many occasions. In these camps, he had seen many Kashmiri Muslim youths taking training, he told the police.

The police believe he had a major role in the attack on American Center in Kolkata. Ansari, however, has denied any role in the September 11 attack. But he confirmed that his close friend Asif Razak Khan, who was killed in an encounter with the Rajkot police, was involved in jehadi activities.

Meanwhile, the police have decided to tape Ansari, and send it to the Forensic Science Laboratory for voice analysis, along with the taped conversation with Brabhudas Parekh, father of Bhaskar who was kidnapped.

The police were keen to ascertain if the voices matched. Bhaskar's kidnapper claimed to be calling from Dubai, and used the name Amitabh to demand for ransom.

Ansari, ISI darling, now its biggest enemy

PTI [ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2002 10:05:26 AM ]

Aftab Ansari, the prize catch of the CBI in the Kolkata American Centre attack case, has become a target of Pakistan's ISI after he spilled the beans by exposing the hawala racket used to send funds to sponsor anti-national activities.

A wireless intercept suggested that ISI has directed some of its conduits in the country as well as neighbouring Nepal to eliminate Ansari at any cost, intelligence sources said.

Ansari, presently in the custody of Rajkot police in Gujarat in connection with a spate of kidnappings in the region, has been provided additional guards while being taken to the court of First Class Judicial Magistrate in Radhanpura, the sources said.

The wireless message intercepted in Jassar area of Gujarat suggested that some professional killers from the underworld gangs had been hired to kill Ansari.

Ansari had revealed to CBI his connection with hawala operators in the national capital, Bhopal, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and Lucknow.

A wireless intercept suggested that ISI has directed some of its conduits in the country as well as neighbouring Nepal to eliminate Ansari at any cost, intelligence sources said.

IMHO - The Pak ISI will also have the Pearl abduction suspects "eliminated" before they'd give them up to the U.S., Britain or India for interrogation .....Jen

-- posted by JenL_2