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| Five Mumbai attackers may be at large: NYT |
| 2008-12-09 |
| Five terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror attacks may be still at large, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing evidence found on the trawler on which they travelled from Karachi to India's financial hub. The newspaper report counters the Mumbai police, which claimed that there were only 10 terrorists in the vessel out of which nine were killed and one was arrested. "Based on evidence found on the trawler, it was possible that five other men were involved in the plot and were still at large," the New York Times said. The report also said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the Lashkar-e-Taiba 'commander', was in Karachi for the last three months to help organise the terrorist attack in Mumbai. The Mumbai attackers also kept in contact with their handlers in Pakistan with cell phones as they rounded up guests at the two hotels--Taj and Oberoi, it said, quoting a Pakistani official in contact with the terror outfit. The attackers left a trail of evidence in a satellite phone they left behind on the fishing trawler they hijacked near Karachi at the start of their 500-mile journey to Mumbai, the report said. The phone contained the telephone numbers of Yousuf Muzammil, a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, considered to be mastermind of the Mumbai attack, Rehman and a number of other Lashkar militants, the Times said, citing a report on the Mumbai siege prepared by MJ Gohel and Sajjan M Gohel, two security analysts who direct the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London. The numbers dialled on the phone found on the trawler used to call Muzammil matched the numbers on the cell phones recovered from the Taj and Oberoi hotels, the New York Times. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 With so many phone calls, the operation seems to have been micro-managed in a "Jimmy Carter Iran embassy hostages rescue" fashion. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-12-09 20:51 |