Kandahar hijack plotter was idol for IM men

Bhopal: The mastermind of December 1999 Kandahar hijack Mohammad Masood Azhar, was role model of the alleged Indian Muhajideen (IM) operatives who are facing the charges of treason and have been lodged in different jails at Bhopal and Jabalpur.
The 1300-page charge sheet submitted by the state's Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) comprises contents of audio tapes and videos of Azhar, the maker of most-feared terrorist organisations in Jammu and Kashmir — Jaish-e-Mohammad — confiscated during the crackdown on alleged SIMI/IM operatives Abu Faisal and seven of his accomplices.
The tapes have Azhar's voice narrating how Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines jetliner IC-814 to Kandahar, Afghanistan, on the Christmas eve of 1999 to secure his release.
"Jub muje chhorne Jaswant Singh aaya or mere baju se gujra, uski nigaheen zameen par thi" (when Jaswant Singh (the then Indian foreign minister) came to release me, and walked past me, he looked at ground) — this was one of the Azhar's line quoted in the charge sheet as contents of the audiotapes.
Another audiotape, which is part of the charge sheet, contains Azhar's story of jail term in India after getting arrested in February 1994, while travelling to Srinagar from New Delhi. The JeM commander narrates the treatment given to him in custody by the Indian army.
28/11/11 Daily Bhaskar.com

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