NEW DELHI: A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, identified as Bilal Ahmed Kawa , suspected for his involvement in the Red Fort terror attack in 2000, was today arrested in a joint operation by Special Cell of Delhi Police and Gujarat ATS from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.

He is being questioned by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police.

Six terrorists had stormed Red Fort on December 22, 2000, and opened indiscriminate firing on the guards of seventh battalion of Rajputana Rifles, killing three people, including a civilian. The Army personnel present in the Fort had retaliated but the terrorists managed to flee through the Fort's rear wall.

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