3. Godhra’s ISI links bared?

5 March (Deccan Herald)

Strong indications of the involvement of Pakistan's ISI in the Sabarmati Express massacre that left 58 persons killed was evident during preliminary investigations and some of the 28 persons arrested in connection with the attack traveled abroad recently, police said here today.
Talking to newsmen here, the DIG (Anti-Terrorist cell) Shri Vipul Vijay referred to the possibility of ISI's involvement in the attack but refused to give details.
Mr. Vijay said the cases of those among the 28 persons who have been traveling abroad will be pursued vigorously without relying only on the local police. He, however, declined to give the countries where they traveled to.
"We have certain names who have been traveling abroad. They are very prosperous. They are carrying duplicate papers and we will pursue these cases vigorously," Mr. Vijay said.
Mr. Vijay also said some of the arrested persons have links with Ahmedababd-based don Abdul Lateef.
He said investigations also showed that the Mohammed Hussain Kalota, a local Congress leader and key suspect in the massacre, was present at the Railway Station on Wednesday morning during the attack and was directing the mob to target the train carrying scores of Ram Sewaks from Ayodhya.
According to a UNI report from Gandhinagar, The Gujarat government is probing the possible involvement into the Godhra conspiracy of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI), a new terrorist outfit, some of whose activists had been arrested last month in Surat and whose self-styled 'deputy commander' was arrested by the Kolkata police on March 1 from the Bengal-Bihar border while he was trying to cross over to Bangladesh.
Official sources said here today it was also being probed whether this 'deputy commander', who, the Kolkata police suspected to be one of the masterminds behind the Godhra incident, had any connection with Haji Bilal, a petty pickpocket-turned-municipal corporater of Godhra, who went missing soon after the train carnage.
Bilal had allegedly raised obstacles in the way and prevented the Fire Brigade from reaching the site of the carnage to douse fires of Sabarmati Express on February 27. He was said to have been helped in this task by some activists of the banned Students Islamic Federation of India (SIMI) some of whose members, too, had been arrested a few weeks ago in Surat.
As the mystery begins to unravel behind the ''pre-planned conspiracy'' and the gathering of a crowd of about 2,000 miscreants within five minutes of the train leaving the station at the notorious site of the blaze, Signal Falia, a km from Godhra railway station, the authorities are probing another dimension of the tragedy — whether it was all planned as early as a year ago?