Posted on 07/08/2005 6:41:05 AM PDT by phoenix_004
Police are yet to establish the identity of the five militants killed during the attack on the makeshift Ram temple on Tueday but they suspect that they belonged to the Pakistan-based Lashar-e-Taiba (LeT). "The modus operandi of the attack indicates that it was carried out by militants, owing allegiance to LeT," Senior Suprintendent of Police, Special Task Force, said Akhil Kumar on Friday.
"The way the militants forced their entry into the complex by carrying out an explosion is the method generally adopted by the LeT," he said. SSP Faizabad Avinash Chandra said that police was working on "some leads" and expressed confidence that the security agencies would very soon establish the identity of the slain militants. He said the statements of the arrested driver of the jeep used in the attack, Rehan were being verified.
Rehan had visited Saudi Arabia a few years back and his possible links there were being probed. When asked whether the militants made their way into the country via Nepal, Chandra said so far, there was no such evidence to buttress this theory but added that "we are not ruling out anything." He said police teams had been sent to the neighbouring Ambedkar Nagar district to find out if the five terrorists had any links in the town as it was suspected that they had stayed there for a few days before coming to Faizabad.
To a question, Chandra said Rehan had not been formally arrested and the police was still in the process of interrogating him. Meanwhile, the bodies of all the five militants were buried at the Takiya graveyard in Faizabad on Wednesday, official sources said.
The caretaker of the graveyard Iqbal Husain said today that a police party had come with the bodies of the militants which were enterred under their supervision.
One Mohd. Sharif, who takes claim of all the unclaimed bodies in the district, took charge of the bodies after which they were buried. Husain said they were buried there because they were Muslims. "The administration had informed us in writing that these were the bodies of the five militants killed in Tuesday's attack and we had also indentified the bodies to be those of Muslims while performing the pre-burial rituals," Husain said.
It always seems to come back to Saudi Arabia!
"It always seems to come back to Saudi Arabia!"
That's a very interesting point you made!!!
"It always seems to come back to Saudi Arabia!"
Yes it does!!!
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