Central intelligence agencies are looking at Mumbai techie Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer alias Zakir as the mastermind of the Delhi blasts, but is he the only one?
NEW DELHI: Central intelligence agencies are looking at Mumbai techie Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer alias Zakir as the mastermind of the Delhi blasts, but is he the only one?
Even within the security establishment, there is worry that a completely different set of terrorists, not directly linked to the breakaway violent faction of the Students Islamic Movement of India led by Safdar Nagori, could be behind the blasts.
Intelligence sources insist they see the signature of Tauqeer, a Mira Road resident and a key member of the Nagori faction, which had taken to jehad in early 2007, in the Delhi blasts. But the question arises: how is Tauqeer able to strike at will when most of his close associates are behind bars following the Ahmedabad blasts of July 26.
Tauqeer is being projected as both an explosives expert and a computer savvy person. Though he is all that, the emails landing up at media houses before the blasts and the way they mock Indian investigators raise the question: are the police barking up the wrong tree?
And even if Tauqeer is a key operative, there definitely is a much larger network at work about which there seems to be very little knowledge.
It is also noticeable that the entire theory around Tauqeer is based on interrogation reports, which have not much credibility in a court of law and even among many investigators.
Intelligence sources insist that Tauqeer is a critical leader of Simi and in charge of finances for the Nagori faction’s operations. More importantly, Tauqeer was tasked by the Nagori faction with establishing contacts with religious leaders in the subcontinent and through them with Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban.
This after the Nagori faction split from Simi on April 25, 2007, and decided to adopt Mullah Omar as international amir and opened up its membership to foreigners.
There is no indication if Tauqeer ever went out of India or managed to establish contacts with the Taliban.
It is a possibility that the intelligence agencies are beginning to probe, given their belief that even if the bomb blasts are the handiwork of a group of Indians they definitely enjoy external logistical support.
Tauqeer figures prominently in the interrogation reports of several Simi activists associated with the Nagori faction, most of whose senior leaders of the faction are now behind bars. They include Safdar Nagori and his brother Kamruddin, Riyazuddin Nasir, Ethesham Siddique, Shibly Peedicaal Abdul, and Yahihya Kammakutty.
Tauqeer has attended all the meetings and camps of the Nagori faction starting sometime in 2004. But, he has never held any key position in Simi, though as the Nagori faction transformed into the “Islamic Movement” he became its national treasurer. The Nagori faction called itself the Islamic Movement, after dropping S and I from the beginning and end of Simi. Indian Mujahideen also has IM as its acronym.
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