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New Delhi/Mumbai: Claiming a breakthrough in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts investigations, Mumbai police have traced a 9/11 link to the Mumbai blasts that claimed almost 200 lives and rattled India's business capital.

Officials claim the Mumbai train blasts were funded by terrorist outfit al-Qaeda and that some of the accused in the 7/11 case had trained with the prime accused of the World Trade Centre attacks.

The blasts were carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba, they claim. These revelations are based on hard evidence collected by the Anti-Terrorism Squad and investigators over the last two months.

The details, available exclusively with CNN-IBN, show that at least three of the accused in the Mumbai blasts had trained with the prime accused of the World Trade Centre attacks in New York on Septmeber 11, 2001 - the deadliest terror attack in world history that killed about 3,000 people.

Sources in the Maharashtra Government have also confirmed that:

    * The leader of the al-Qaeda group that carried out the 9/11 operation, Mohammad Atta, had interacted and trained with at least three of the men who carried out 7/11 serial bombings in Mumbai. The interaction took place in a terror training camp in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in 2000.

    * Officials claim there is evidence to prove that the funding came from al-Qaeda sources and was routed through Hawala channels from Dubai.

    * They also claim to have fresh evidence about the 9/11 conspiracy.

    * The Maharashtra government now says it is in a position to share this information with the FBI, and is seeking the Centre's permission on the matter.

Sources in the Maharashtra government claim 17 people were directly involved in the 7/11 serial bombings, and all of them are now in police custody. While a majority of them are from Kashmir, a few allegedly hailed from Bangladesh.

All 17 accused had allegedly undergone training in camps across the border in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir. Three of the accused have confessed to training in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir in 2000 alongside the attackers of the World Trade centre.

Some of the crucial leads in the probe have emerged out of the interrogation of suspects picked by the police after Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil's visit to Malegaon follwing the bombings.

The accused have revealed that both the Malegaon Bombings and the 7/11 serial blasts could have been carried out by the same group with the sole aim of creating communal trouble.

The crucial link between the mosque bombings in Malegaon and the Mumbai train blasts not only goes to show the extent of terrorists’ sinister plans, but also the entire conspiracy is part of the larger global design to spread terror coming from virtually one source - the al-Qaeda.

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Mumbai: The sensational details of the 7/11 Mumbai train bombings plot having been funded by the Al-Qaeda and executed by Lashkar-e-Toiba have been collected by investigators and the Maharashtra government.

Here’s a look at the who’s who behind the terror gameplan.

The conspiracy behind the 7/11 blasts was hatched over five years ago in 2000-2001, when some of the accused in the blasts visited Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir to undergo training with the who's who of the world of terror.

The operational work was taken care of by the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba while funds and the crucial training given to the culprits came from the al-Qaeda, clearly underlining the spread of global terror.

Over 50 persons were involved in the set up and execution of the Mumbai blasts and unfortunately while many of the accused are already in the police net, some of the masterminds are out of reach, across borders in neighbouring countries.

They have left behind family as well as property in Maharashtra and now the government may send undercover teams into Bangladesh to nab these fugitives.

All these came about from the confessions of some of the accused, notably of Dr Tanvir Ansari and the Sheikh brothers.

While Kamal Ahmed Ansari and Tanvir Ansari have given information about the involvement of the al-Qaeda in funding, Faisal and Muzammil Sheikh have confessed to the involvement of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the fact that training was given in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

The 7/11 route

The kingpin behind the blasts seems to be the LeT's second-in-command Azam Chima who was the main recruiter and also arranged for the funds.

While Chima actually came into Mumbai from Pakistan and went back just before the blasts, some others followed a more complex route which took them to a location in PoK for training at the end of which they travelled to Muzaffarabad, the PoK capital and then to Iran.

They finally flew into Mumbai from Teheran.

A complex web of terror that was woven across countries and organizations, with the sole purpose of destabilising India.

But now it seems the wheel has come a full circle and in spite of initial delays the police have produced the desired results.