28 January,2009 12:24 PM IST | | A Correspondent
Key Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abu Hamza who trained Mumbai attacks fidayeen Mohammed Ajmal Qasab was killed in an encounter with the security force at Saphore in Kashmir this morning.
Hamza is named one of the conspirators in the Mumbai attacks on November 26. He was also behind the attacks at Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Police sources informed that Hamza was a member of the team which trained Qasab and nine others at Muzazfarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Records incicates he also planned the attack on Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore. The twin blasts in Hyderabad in 2006 is attributed to him.
LeT has also assigned him the task to coordinate with the various militant organisations in the sub-continent. Indian Mujahideen and Bangladeshi HUJI are some of them.
Qasab and the other two incarcerated terrorists Faihim Ansari and Sabauddin have identified Abu Hamza one of the conspirators. Hamza is also wanted for his alleged role in the Indian Mujahideen attacks across the country.
