Pakistan's ISI engineered 7/11 Mumbai blasts: Police

Mumbai, Sep 30 (UNI) Mumbai police today held Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) responsible for the serial bomb blasts in suburban trains that killed nearly 200 people and wounded over 700 in one of the worst terror attacks in the country's economic capital on July 11 this year.

Announcing this at a media conference here, Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy said the multiple blasts were the handiwork of the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba ( LeT) and banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), adding 11 Pakistan nationals and 12 Indians took active part in the terror act.

Noting that the trail of money used in organising the crime, too, had been traced to Pakistan, he said funds were transferred to a city-based operative via Saudi Arabia.

The Police Commissioner said most of the Pakistan and Indian nationals were trained in a camp run at Bahawalpur by LeT's India commander Azam Cheema. Bahawalpur-based Cheema has been organising anti-India operations at the behest of the ISI.

Mr Roy and anti-terrorist squad (ATS) chief K P Raghuvanshi said investigators have not yet come across any linkages between the 7/11 and the 9/11 in New York nor any evidence linking the Mumbai train blasts with the al-Qaeda found so far.

Declining to comment on the conspiracy angle, which the police officers said was still under scrutiny, the invesigators also ruled out any link between 7/11 and the 1993 serial bomb blasts. They also said the ATS has also not found any links between 7/11 and September 8 blasts at Malegaon and a haul of RDX in Aurangabad.

But the police officers confirmed that seven improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted in triggering as many blasts in the trains contained a mix of RDX and ammonium nitrate, adding IEDs were packed in pressure cookers.

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