'Pak multimillionaire raising funds for terror'

London, July 17: A Pakistani-born multimillionaire businessman who owns at least two luxury homes here, is suspected of fundraising for the terror group, which is said to have masterminded the Mumbai train bombings, according to The Times.

The report also says that the British security agencies had been warning that groups closely linked to al-Qaeda were planning to stage bomb attacks in India, using local sympathisers to carry out their operation.

It also say that Indian intelligence officials accuse Britain of failing to act against a number of wealthy businessmen, who they claim are using bogus charities to funnel up to 8 million pounds a year to Kashmiri militants groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, which remains the main suspect for orchestrating the synchronised bombings that killed over 182 people.

Three years ago India had handed over a dossier identifying 14 men living in Britain and was assured the suspects would be investigated.

But, the report quotes a senior Indian security official saying, ''Since then nothing has been done, and the money still coming from Britain helps the terrorist camps where we believe the bombers were trained and this atrocity was planned.'' ''Britain talks about the need for all nations to get tough together, but more money comes from the UK to Kashmiri terror groups than any other country,'' the official was quoted as saying.

According to the report, the funding from overseas has helped terror groups to set up a string of new training camps in Bangladesh.

Al-Qaeda-trained militants are reportedly running up to 13 camps, and MI6 and other Western intelligence agencies have been monitoring the traffic of young recruits to these centres, including a number of volunteers based in Britain, it gadded.

Many Indian-based militants are alleged to have attended the al-Qaeda run camps near Bandarban and Chittagong. Security people believe that the mastermind behind the bombing on seven commuter trains used one of these camps in Bangladesh to finalise plans for the attack.

UNI

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