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India hands over surveillance data to U.S. published September 17, 2001 E-mail
Written by St Pete Times/ AP   
Thursday, 31 May 2007

NEW DELHI, India -- Maps, phone transcripts, video and photographs, including one of former President Clinton that was used for target practice, show how Islamic militant leaders run training camps across Pakistan and in southern Afghanistan, India says.

India has given FBI investigators documents from its store of intelligence on suspected terrorist camps, culled over four years, officials said Sunday.

President Bush has threatened retaliation against the terrorists behind the attacks on New York and Washington, as well as those who harbor them.

A top Indian intelligence official told the Associated Press the documents were evidence that Islamic militants -- including Osama bin Laden, the main suspect in the U.S. attacks -- finance guerrilla groups and training camps.

Lashkar-e-Tayyaba is among a dozen Islamic guerrilla groups, most in Pakistan, that are fighting to free Kashmir from India. Since gaining independence in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought three wars, two over the mostly Muslim region divided between them.

The camps India pinpointed for U.S. investigators are in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, in the Pakistani hinterland of Punjab and Baluchistan, and in provinces on the Afghanistan frontier, the intelligence official said.

The camps within Afghanistan are in Khost and the historic southern city of Kandahar, according to interrogation reports of arrested militants who said they were trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Intelligence officials said that now there are fewer than 120 training camps and that they shift, especially when there is a focus upon them. For this reason, Indian officials said, satellite tracking is not as useful as "human intelligence," which India also offered.

Pakistan denies supporting terrorism and said it would cooperate with efforts to find the perpetrators of the attacks.

Pakistan's government calls Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and other groups based in Pakistan and fighting in Kashmir "freedom fighters," not terrorists. Pakistan supports their cause but gives them no aid, the government says.

India also has accused the Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, another Pakistan-based militant group, of abducting six foreign tourists in Kashmir in 1995 and carrying out the Christmas Eve hijacking of an Indian Airlines jetliner in 1999.

While investigating the hijacking, Indian officials gained a lot of information about the militant groups and bin Laden's connection to them, a senior Indian security official said.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020112102506/www.sptimes.com/News/091701/Worldandnation/India_hands_over_surv.shtml

 
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