Dawood involved in Mumbai terror attacks?

The war against terror in Mumbai ended on Saturday after almost 60 hours of gunbattle between forces and the terrorists. Now that the NSG commandos have gunned down the terrorists and arrested one, the focus has moved to finding out the culprits behind the dastardly attacks.

As per the results of the initial investigations, Mumbai police have said that the involvement of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim cannot be ruled out.

The Mumbai police have also revealed that the terrorists carried college ID cards and were aged between 18 and 28.

Giving stronger indications of across the border links in the attack, the police said that all terrorists came from Karachi.

Apart from these, the police said that IP address of Deccan Mujahideen, the group that had earlier claimed the responsibility of the attacks, have been traced to outside India.

Meanwhile, sources have told NDTV that terrorist had worked in hotel Oberoi in the past.

Dawood aide lent logistic support

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's henchman, suspected to be a Colaba-based businessman, handed over arms and explosives to Lashkar-e-Toiba militants for carrying out attacks in Mumbai, in what is emerging as the first major joint operation by the Karachi-based gangster and the banned outfit, official sources said in Mumbai.

Ajmal Amin, the only militant arrested during the operation, told interrogators that the dozen ultras who sailed from Karachi had come to Sasool dock from where they were taken first to Cuff Parade and later to Gateway of India in boats arranged by a front man of Dawood, who runs several custom clearing houses in Mumbai, the sources claimed.

Mumbai police and central security agencies have launched a massive manhunt for the businessman considered as a henchman of Dawood, who has been listed as Global Terrorist having links to Al-Qaida by the United States.

The suspect looks after some customs clearing mechanism and also indulges in diesel smuggling for the underworld don, the sources claimed.

After getting into waiting boats arranged by Dawood's gang in Mumbai, arms, ammunition and plastic explosives were quickly transferred to the waiting boats that took the terrorists to the Gateway of India which was had been marked as launching pad for the terror strike, the first of its kind in the country terrorism history.

The Intelligence agencies had sent a warning note to Coast Guard to keep a watch for an unidentified Pakistani trawler sailing from Karachi port which may enter into Indian waters. While the coast guard was looking for a Pakistani or unidentified vessel, the terrorists hijacked Indian fishing trawler "MV Kuber" killing its crew and entered the Mumbai seas.