Links in RSS HQ, Parliament Attack & Bom Blast 93

Agres Grenades also linked with Bom blast 93. At the time of securing Dawood extradition India had told Pak about Arges. Seizures in Aurangabad, Nasik & now in Nagpur are clues to link SIMI & locals.


Agres Grenades seized in Nagpur

"Police have recovered 12 unused hand-grenades and one whose pin was not properly opened but was thrown, from the encounter site, which is of 'Agres'," Commissioner of Police S P S Yadav told reporters here adding, the same make of grenades were used in Parliament attack. However, the Austrian firm has given manufacturing license to some countries, including Pakistan, he added.

SIMI Link

It is here certain that the Agres grenades may have links to Pakistan and/or possibly to the Islami extremists who are being given shelter and other helps by SIMI and locals against the interest of India.

New Insight of Delhi reported:
A Mumbai businessman with a jewellery business in Dubai is a key suspect in the failed Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur.

Terrorists are taken to Pakistan and Bangladesh, trained and infiltrated into India, plan their attacks in one state, procure arms and material from another and carry out attacks in yet another state. In the absence of a coherent national counter-terrorism strategy, the lack of coordination in operational terms just gets worse. Clearly, there is a need to go after these domestic ‘al-Qaeda’ with determination and vigor. Its ability to carry out attacks in several states across the breadth of the country suggests that what needs to be nipped is no longer just a bud. The UPA government cannot seriously hope to defeat or even contain this threat with an admixture of political correctness and rhetoric and worse, by burying its head in the sand. Domestic counter-terrorism needs not only just more teeth, it needs a whole rowdier.

Agres Grenades are being manufactured in Pakistan

There is an ordnance factory in Wah cantonment, near Atok, about 40 kilometers from Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Here is contact details of Austrian firm which had sold manufacturig license to Pakistan during 1969-72:

Ggrenades used in - 1993 Mumbai blasts and the December 13 attack on Parliament - were manufactured in the same factory. Even while providing details of Tiger Memon's family and that of Dawood Ibrahim to secure their extradition, India had told Pakistan about the Arges grenades.

India had linked the attacks with Pakistani extremists and ISI. According to the court records, the recovered hand grenades from the Parliament attack have the marking–HE (Spl HGr-84 Gren ARGES, HE 7 93 002). According to report received from Republic of Austria, an Austrian firm had sold machine and tools used in the production of "ARGES" hand grenades to a firm in Pakistan. That means Pakistan also has capability to produce these grenades. Pakistan Defense Forum shows the origin of ARGES HG 84P2A1 hand grenades procured by the Pakistan Army as : Armaturen-Gesellschaft mbH (ARGES), xxx, Austria; Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) & Wah (licensed).

Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Arges GmbHNeudorf 25A-4690 SCHWANENSTADTAustriaTel: +43 7673 80510 0Fax: +43 7673 80510 10 Email: info-wm-schutzpyro@rheinmetall-wm.comURL: www.rheinmetall-wm.com

Attack in Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001

Laskar-e-Tayeba accused.The hand-grenades used by terrorists in the Parliament attack and some of those seized in Mumbai in 1993, before they could be planted, seem to have a common origin. The evidence pointed to the involvement of Pakistan and its agencies, especially the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), in the attack on Parliament,
Investigations have revealed that the grenades used by militants, who attacked the Parliament House here on December 13, bore the markings of an Austrian explosives manufacturer, Arges.
As per the information available on the website about the company, Arges claims itself to be a ``recognized manufacturer and supplier of NATO-qualified high explosives, training, and pyrotechnic hand grenades''.
Further, it is learnt that the grenades recovered from the militants had a ``smooth surface'', which is termed as an ``offensive version'' in the company's website. This, according to sources, meant that on exploding, the grenade would disintegrate into fragments of odd shapes and sharp edges causing more injury, even death.
Officials have expressed concern over this revelation as there were no instances of Austrian grenades found in the past. It is understood that while it was a general practice among militants to use smooth-surfaced grenades, there had been no information of these grenades originating from a NATO country.

This apart, experts, investigating the arms and ammunition carried by the militants, said the pistols were of 7.62 mm caliber. They had a ``star'' marking indicating that these were of Chinese origin. They also had a ``green sticker'' on them which, sources said, was a common label on weapons used by terrorists belonging to `jehadi' outfits.
On the explosives carried by the militants, sources said that the terrorists were also carrying one kg RDX along with ammonium nitrate, sulphur and aluminum powder. The RDX is said to have been carried to provide an “incendiary'' effect to the explosions they had planned.
http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lsdeb/ls10/ses6/0521049301.


Agres grenade found in New Delhi on Dec 13, 2002

As reported in Hindu daily: Two heavily-armed terrorists, suspected to be Pakistan nationals belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, were gunned down after an exchange of fire with the Special Cell of the Delhi police near Tughlakabad Fort here on Saturday. Five grenades, two AK-56 assault rifles and several rounds of live ammunition were recovered from them after a 40-minute gun battle.

On seeing the police team, the driver tried a sharp right run and hit a culvert. Two persons came out firing at the police. The terrorists lobbed two grenades. One exploded near them, while the other missed the target. The two grenades recovered from the spot later bore the legend "Arges" — the same found on the grenades used in the December 13 Parliament attack here last year. A third did not have any marking.

Three hand grenades, two AK-56 rifles, 85 live rounds of ammunition and a two-page note in Hindi espousing the cause of "jehad" under the aegis of the Tehreek-e-Gajnavi, a pseudonym for Lashkar, were recovered. "It has been a practice of the Lashkar militants to use different names while carrying out terrorist operations," said the Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Neeraj Kumar.


Grenades Game in Bangladesh

“Since the Kashmiri militants are or were armed by Pakistan it is very likely that they would use these grenades. That being the case, could the grenades that caused such havoc in Bangabandhu Avenue have Kashmir as their origin? And if this is so, could not our investigators look for militant factions here in Bangladesh that has links to Kashmiri separatists? Is this not a clue, or at least a basis for the beginnings of an investigation?... ARGES grenades have also been used in terrorist attacks in Pakistan also,” editorial of Dhaka’s The Daily Star: www.thedailystar.net/2004/08/25/d40825020631.htm


By Premendra Agrawal