Salem says ISI plotted 1993 Mumbai blas

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   The tough don is singing. And merrily. He has reportedly confessed to his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts and, here�s the best part according to his interrogators, detailed the extent of Pakistani involvement.
CBI sources told the Hindustan Times that Salem had given them details � specific dates and locations � of the meetings between Dawood Ibrahim and Pakistan�s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) men.
His own role? Not a major part, he has claimed.
Investigators of the 1993 blasts that killed 257 people and injured 713 know Salem wasn�t big enough in the gang then to have a played a major role (his meteoric rise came later). It�s more a question of how much he knows, than of what he did.
He has told the interrogators that Dawood was asked by the ISI � and not the other way around � to plan the bombings to avenge the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992.
The first of the meetings happened in January (he has the date). This was followed by a string of meetings � most of them in Dubai. The CBI now has the names of the ISI agents who were in touch with Dawood.
The other significant detail of the bombings given by Salem is that Dawood received active help from officials of some Gulf countries. He has named them too.
CBI�s special taskforce DIG O.P. Chatwal said Salem was �fairly cooperative�. He added, �We�ve till now focused on the 1993 blasts.�
Salem�s O.A. Siddique denied hsi client has confessed anything. �I would like to know who in the CBI is giving out such stories,� he said

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	The tough don is singing. And merrily. He has reportedly confessed to his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts and, here�s the best part according to his interrogators, detailed the extent of Pakistani involvement. CBI sources told the Hindustan Times that Salem had given them details � specific dates and locations � of the meetings between Dawood Ibrahim and Pakistan�s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) men. His own role? Not a major part, he has claimed. Investigators of the 1993 blasts that killed 257 people and injured 713 know Salem wasn�t big enough in the gang then to have a played a major role (his meteoric rise came later). It�s more a question of how much he knows, than of what he did. He has told the interrogators that Dawood was asked by the ISI � and not the other way around � to plan the bombings to avenge the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. The first of the meetings happened in January (he has the date). This was followed by a string of meetings � most of them in Dubai. The CBI now has the names of the ISI agents who were in touch with Dawood. The other significant detail of the bombings given by Salem is that Dawood received active help from officials of some Gulf countries. He has named them too. CBI�s special taskforce DIG O.P. Chatwal said Salem was �fairly cooperative�. He added, �We�ve till now focused on the 1993 blasts.� Salem�s O.A. Siddique denied hsi client has confessed anything. �I would like to know who in the CBI is giving out such stories,� he said