Umar Sheikh HuJI’s Atta link

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Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui
25 Jun, 2007

LUCKNOW: When the STF exchanged notes with the central intelligence agencies about Jalaluddin alias Babu, the self-styled area commander of Harkatul-Jihad Al-Islam (HuJI) in New Delhi, it was revealed that one Umar Sheikh’s name has also figured in the interrogation of some key 9/11 accused arrested by American security agencies in the recent past. US agencies are learnt to have informed their Indian counterparts that Mohd Atta — who planned and the executed the 9/11 bombings — was funded by one Umar Sheikh who gave him $ 1 lakh sometime before the WTC attacks.

Intelligence agencies believe that Umar Sheikh, who got a part of the Khadim case ransom money, is the same person who funded Atta.

A native of Bhilpara village in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal, Babu was around 10 and in class 3 at a local primary school when he gave up studies and was sent to Bangladesh by his parents along with some other teenagers of the village for better prospects.

In Dhaka, he was enrolled in Madarsa Jamia Rehmania where he stayed for the next 10 years before returning to Kolkata in 1998. There, he opened a roadside fruit stall on Park Street.

A few years later Babu came in contact with Mohammad Asif Raza who offered him a job of taking care of his routine chores for Rs 2,000 per month. Babu moved in with Asif, who turned out to be a HuJI commander. Asif reportedly introduced Babu to his contacts in Bangladesh, now identified as Mutaqqi and Qamar alias Nata.