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Mumbai attacks: Indian operative 'helped Pakistani militants'
Damien McElroy
London
Telegraph
Friday, Dec 05, 2008
A Pakistani militant group used an Indian operative
as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against
India's financial capital, authorities have said.
The discovery is a blow to Indian officials who
have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani extremists.
As investigators sought to unravel the attack on Mumbai, stepping
up questioning of the lone captured gunman, airports across India
were put on high alert amid fresh warnings that terrorists planned
to hijack an aircraft.
Also Thursday, police said there were signs that some of the
six victims of the attack on a Jewish center may have been tortured.
"The victims were strangled," said Rakesh Maria, a senior
Mumbai police official. "There were injuries noticed on the
bodies that were not from firing."
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Members of an Israeli rescue group which had a team in Mumbai
said it was impossible to tell if the bodies had been abused,
however, because no autopsies were conducted in accordance with
Jewish tradition.
The surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told interrogators
he had been sent by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba
and identified two of the plot's masterminds, according to two
Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry. Laskar,
outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, has been deemed by the US to be
a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida.
Kasab told police that one of them, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's
operations chief, recruited him for the attack, and the assailants
called another senior leader, Yusuf Muzammil, on a satellite phone
after hijacking an Indian vessel en route to Mumbai.
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