Abbottabad-like operation helped link Jundal's DNA
NEW DELHI: Abu Jundal's mother Rehana Begum on Thursday denied that police took samples of her DNA as well as that of her husband in order to get the Lashkar terrorist deported to India, putting the spotlight on the covert operation by which the crucial evidence was extracted from the terrorist's father.
"Our (Rehana and her husband Zakiuddin Ansari's) DNA test was never done," agencies quoted Jundal's mother as telling reporters in her hometown of Beed in Maharashtra.
The claim ran contrary to the version of sources in the government that it was only because Jundal's DNA sample matched those of his parents that the Saudi authorities accepted India's claim that the person in their custody who claimed to be Riyasat Ali, a Pakistani national, was actually one of the 26/11 masterminds.
Yet, intelligence officials did not seem to be upset with Jundal's mother. No one accused her of lying, because neither she nor her spouse got to know when the DNA sample was taken from Zakiuddin to be dispatched to Saudi Arabia.
Sources familiar with the operation said the DNA sample was obtained with the help of one of the relatives of the Ansaris whom the Maharashtra ATS, working at the instance of the central agencies, had roped in for the mission.
As part of the tactic, the relative started picking up fights with Zakiuddin and finally, in a scuffle, managed to scratch skin and blood from Jundal's father.
The tissue made for the DNA sample which helped Saudi authorities reject Pakistan's claim that Jundal was Riyasat Ali, a resident of Karachi, and not Jundal alias Zabiuddin Ansari, one of the most wanted terrorists who, besides 26/11, was wanted for Aurangabad arms haul and Ahmedabad train blast cases.
The Americans also had to use a ruse to try to secure DNA samples of Osama bin Laden and his family in order to establish his presence in a safe house near Abbottabad. They roped in Dr Shaqeel Afridi who, under the garb of a polio vaccination campaign, tried to collect DNA samples of Osama's children.
Although the nurses working for Afridi were not allowed to vaccinate anyone in Osama's family they did succeed in getting a mobile phone number for someone inside the bin Laden compound. That phone call allowed the CIA to make a voice match to bin Laden's private courier, a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti and finally ascertain that the Al-Qaida chief was living there.
Abbottabad-like operation helped link Jundal's DNA - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Abu Jundal's mother Rehana Begum on Thursday denied that police took samples of her DNA as well as that of her husband in order to get the Lashkar terrorist deported to India, putting the spotlight on the covert operation by which the crucial evidence was extracted from the terrorist's father.
"Our (Rehana and her husband Zakiuddin Ansari's) DNA test was never done," agencies quoted Jundal's mother as telling reporters in her hometown of Beed in Maharashtra.
The claim ran contrary to the version of sources in the government that it was only because Jundal's DNA sample matched those of his parents that the Saudi authorities accepted India's claim that the person in their custody who claimed to be Riyasat Ali, a Pakistani national, was actually one of the 26/11 masterminds.
Yet, intelligence officials did not seem to be upset with Jundal's mother. No one accused her of lying, because neither she nor her spouse got to know when the DNA sample was taken from Zakiuddin to be dispatched to Saudi Arabia.
Sources familiar with the operation said the DNA sample was obtained with the help of one of the relatives of the Ansaris whom the Maharashtra ATS, working at the instance of the central agencies, had roped in for the mission.
As part of the tactic, the relative started picking up fights with Zakiuddin and finally, in a scuffle, managed to scratch skin and blood from Jundal's father.
The tissue made for the DNA sample which helped Saudi authorities reject Pakistan's claim that Jundal was Riyasat Ali, a resident of Karachi, and not Jundal alias Zabiuddin Ansari, one of the most wanted terrorists who, besides 26/11, was wanted for Aurangabad arms haul and Ahmedabad train blast cases.
The Americans also had to use a ruse to try to secure DNA samples of Osama bin Laden and his family in order to establish his presence in a safe house near Abbottabad. They roped in Dr Shaqeel Afridi who, under the garb of a polio vaccination campaign, tried to collect DNA samples of Osama's children.
Although the nurses working for Afridi were not allowed to vaccinate anyone in Osama's family they did succeed in getting a mobile phone number for someone inside the bin Laden compound. That phone call allowed the CIA to make a voice match to bin Laden's private courier, a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti and finally ascertain that the Al-Qaida chief was living there.
Abbottabad-like operation helped link Jundal's DNA - The Times of India
