Information About Incident 25564-44137-100105 in Ambala India

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Kenyan police informed that they had arrested a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative, Syed Abdul Karim Tunda' from Mombasa on July 21.

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Kenyan police informed that they had arrested a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative, Syed Abdul Karim Tunda from Mombasa on July 21. According to Hindu, Tunda was one of the three founder-members of the LeT's pan-India operations. A one-time resident of Pikhuwa in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district, Tunda was one of the 20 terrorists whose extradition India unsuccessfully demanded from Pakistan after the 2001 attack on Parliament House. The Central Bureau of Investigation had charged Karim with organising the Lashkar's first major strike outside of Jammu and Kashmir, a series of 43 bombings in Mumbai and Hyderabad and seven separate explosions on inter-city trains on December 6, 1993 that claimed two lives. Between 1996 and 1998, Karim organised 33 other bombings in Delhi, Rohtak and Jalandhar, in which 21 persons were killed and upwards of 400 injured.

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25564-44137-100105 7/22/2006 India Lashkar s top operative Abdul Karim Tunda arrested in Kenya

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