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...Chotta Shakeel had not become the effective boss of the most feared criminal syndicate in South Asia, what would he have grown up to be? What is the secret ambition that lurks within the gangster's breast, the man wanted in India on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy? "You know how in school people write on the topic: 'What do you want to be?' I had a vision of becoming a military officer, and I wrote a composition on it. I wanted to die for my country...
...unique in the annals of organized crime: they direct their operations in the city of their origin from outside the country?or "upstairs" as the underworld lingo has it? from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and, especially, from Pakistan. The most powerful criminal syndicate in India is headed by Shakeel and his godfather, Bombay native Dawood Ibrahim, son of a police constable, who now depend on the tender mercies of the Pakistani government for their continued existence...
...Shakeel and Dawood can't return to Bombay because they bombed the city in 1993. The Bombay underworld did not set off the bombs, which killed 257 people, in a vacuum. It relied on the tacit understanding if not outright support of Bombay's Muslim community, which had recently been traumatized by riots in which hundreds had been burned alive, stabbed, and shot by Hindu street mobs. The blasts reminded the Hindu community that the Muslims were not powerless...
...employee said he sounded a siren to warn the surrounding community, but few of the surviving residents recall hearing it. Many of the workers reportedly began running for their lives, leaving just one supervisor in the factory to do battle with the fumes. The man, identified later as Shakeel Ahmed, collapsed from the effects of the gas before he could control it. (At week's end his condition was critical.) Nearly an hour after the gas began escaping into the air, the tank was sealed by engineers from another company, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., sent in by local authorities...
...SHAKEEL MOZAFFAR Austin, Texas...