ISI toys with Sept 11-type terror

NEW DELHI, Feb 3 (PTI)

In order to have a “mini replica” of September 11 attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s ISI has directed militants, especially of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT), to use “toy planes” to target army posts and VVIPs.

Quoting an interrogation report of a LeT militant arrested in the State, sources said that the ISI had handed over to LeT a “fleet” of four dozen such planes, capable of carrying 10-15 kilograms of RDX for carrying out attacks on army posts or helicopter gunships of the Indian Air Force.

The sources said two such planes were recovered recently from Rajouri district of Jammu region. The “toy planes” which can be operated by a remote control, take a set trajectory and hit a target within a range of 300 metres.
The arrested militant said that the plane was displayed at a Lashker congregation in Pakistan.

The militant was unable to give any further information about the toy plane but told his interrogators that the plane had flown out of his sight during its trial, the sources said.

The militant had said that the ISI wanted to repeat the performance of the September 11 bombing in the US in Jammu and Kashmir.

The arrested militant revealed that ISI was also planning to destroy some of the forward Indian positions at the Line of Control and international border using these toy planes.

The sources said that this way, the ISI could use the plane from across the border and try to hit a forward Indian post, though such a strike may lack precision, the sources said.

The toy plane could be folded inside a small briefcase and smuggled into the valley, the sources said and added that the two seized planes in Rajouri were meant for transporting to Jammu for carrying out attacks at important installations and VVIPs.

The planes were being assembled in the Lashker-dominated area of Muridkee in Pakistan, the sources said.