New Delhi: Indian Mujahideen India chief Ahmad Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal too was thinking along similar lines. Bhatkal recently told interrogators that he was planning to set off a nuclear bomb in Surat, according to sources.
Bhatkal said the interrogators that he had asked his Pakistan-based boss, Riyaz Bhatkal, over phone whether the latter could arrange a small nuclear bomb. According to him, Riyaz responded, anything can be arranged in Pakistan.
Riyaz said me Muslims would also die in that (nuclear bomb blast), to which I said that we would paste posters in mosques asking every Muslim to quietly evacuate their families from the city, Yasin said, according to the report.
Surat has always been on Yasin’s radar and he had also played an important role in preparing 27 bombs along with Atif Ameen in 2008 when serial blasts took place in Delhi, Jaipur and Ahmedabad.
Yasin himself was the bomb expert of Indian Mujahideen and the outfit’s bomb-making capabilities have been affected after his arrest, say intelligence officials.
A senior intelligence official said, we have been coming across different kinds of IEDs over the years. The reason is that terrorists are undergoing all kind of advanced army level training in Pakistan with the help of ISI. And if terror outfits have access to nuclear bombs, then it is very dangerous for us (India).
Bureau Report
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