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Karnataka police busted a Lashkar-e-Toiba module in the state that meant to blow up economic targets such as reservoirs and power stations and cause maximum civilian damage. Police arrested Habeeb (alias Mehboob Ibrahim) and Abdul Rahman, Lashkar's so-called "commander" of South India. Both Abdul and Habeeb had been in Saudi Arabia where they were indoctrinated into radical Islam and recruited by Lashkar. Police say that they recovered gelatin sticks from where Habeeb was arrested. Analysis of Abdul retrieved names of operatives in Andhra Pradesh who were conspiring to attack economic targets, national monuments, and spread communal harmony. Police are also investigating Habeeb's role in the IISc terrorist incident. Police in Karnataka are seeking help from counterparts in AP and Gujarat as they have more experience dealing with terror and have more intelligence data. The LeT typically take South Indian recruits from Bijapur, Gulbarga, Udupi, Mangalore, Kolar, and Ramnagar through their cells in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bangladesh, and Uttar Pradesh to training sites in Bangladesh via Kolkata. After training them in weapons, explosives, attacks, and handling police interrogation they are taken to Baloachistan for intensive practical training and then returned to India and await orders for attacks. Meanwhile, 'Imam' Maulana Ghulam Yaya Baksh arrested in Mumbai recently has revealed the involvement of most-wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim's with the LeT. He said the Dawood wanted a repeat of 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai using three to four small groups who are accumulating bombs and bomb making material. According to him, the RDX has already been smuggled in from Pakistan and the arrested group was the one who was responsible of putting the bomb together. Saudi Arabia is turning out to be a major training and recruiting ground for terrorism. Coincidentally, the Saudi King will be the Chief Guest of the Indian Republic Day parade.
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