MumbaiI: Nearly 50 Pakistan-trained youths are still holed up in Mumbai and adjoining areas. According to police sources they are ready to strike any time on the orders of LeT leaders across the border.
Two modules have been busted by Mumbai Crime Branch and the Anti Terrorism Squad, while a key LeT leader, Faizal Sheikh, who was instrumental in motivating youth to join LeT training, was currently in custody of ATS.
Officials who interrogated Faizal Sheikh and 2005 Delhi blasts suspects, Firoze Ghaswala and Mohammed Chippa, said that Faizal and fugitive LeT leader Raheel Sheikh were consistently motivating city youths to join LeT training in Pakistan.
Since 1996, Faizal and Raheel have sent over 50 persons from Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane region to Pakistan for terrorists training, sources said.
So far, ATS has hit a wall in its efforts to learn the details of the 'sleeper modules' (as these trained but dormant LeT operatives are called), sources said.
Sources said that like blasts suspects Tanvir Ansari, Jameer Sheikh and Sohail Sheikh who were reportedly sent to Pakistan by Faizal, it was Raheel who arranged the trip of Ghaswala and Chippa a couple of years ago.
While Ghaswala and Chippa were arrested in Delhi soon after they returned from LeT training, Ansari, Jameer and Sohail were arrested by Mumbai police in the intense probe launched after the July 11 blasts.
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