Arrested militants' target was Sena Bhavan

By Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

NEW DELHI, AUG. 1. Two Pakistan-trained militants were to have joined the Hizb-ul- Mujahideen subversives holed up in Delhi for carrying out a `Fidayeen' (suicide) attack on Sena Bhavan in the high-security New Delhi area, interrogation of four Hizb militants arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi police has revealed.

The militants had drawn up plans to attack the defence establishment to send out a message that they were in a position to strike anywhere and anytime within the Capital. ``They had planned a major assault on Sena Bhawan and would have tried to cause as much damage as possible in the suicide mission.'' However, the plan was exposed after they were nabbed from the New Delhi railway station on July 30.

The questioning of the four arrested militants - Ghulam Mohiuddin Shah, Gulzar Ahmed Wani, Mumtaz Ahmed and Firoz Rafi - has also revealed an intricate plot whereby activists of the SIMI have been found to be ``softening'' gullible youth to the cause of ``jehad'' in the name of religion and the militant outfit was using these persons for carrying out strikes.

The police sources say a former president of SIMI, Abdul Mobin, was found to be in close contact with the Hizb-ul- Mujahideen. The police point out that after the Uttar Pradesh police arrested Mobin in September last, Wani had gone on a hunger strike. Some days after Mobin's arrest, Wani had fled to Jammu and Kashmir.

Wani had been working under the instructions of the Srinagar- based Hizb commander of Pakistani origin, Fayyaz alias Saifullah.

Mohiuddin was a key person in the chain. Through his transport business he used to ferry weapons into Delhi and then further to other parts of the country. Mostly, the consignments were carried in fruit cases. Investigations have also established that Hizb-ul-Mujahideen had financed the transport business of Mohiuddin.

From Kashmir Wani had come to Delhi and started staying with Mohiuddin. The two had then carried out several strikes.

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