India's home minister said on Wednesday that a key suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks has provided information confirming Pak "state support" for the deadly assault.Abu Hamza, also known as Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Pakistain-based jihad boy group Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
, was tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East.
Indian police believe he was one of the handlers based in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, who issued orders by telephone to 10 gunnies as they stormed two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre, a restaurant and a train station in Mumbai.
The November 2008 attacks, which India has blamed on Lashkar-e-Taiba, left 166 people dead and more than 300 maimed.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram, speaking to news hounds in the southern state of Kerala, said police interrogation of Hamza had confirmed Indian accusations that Pak state actors were also involved.
"The argument that non-state actors were behind the massacre is no longer valid. He has confirmed that he was in the control room (and) this has confirmed our suspicion that there was some organised effort," Chidambaram said.
"When I say, state actors, at the moment, I am not pointing my finger at any particular agency.
"But clearly there was state support or state actors' support for the 26/11 massacre," the home minister said.
Pakistain, which has firmly denied such allegations, has indicted seven people for their alleged role in the attacks. Their trial, which began in 2009, has been beset by delays.
Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
has denied any state support in the attacks.
"India's speculative allegations against Pakistain have been proven incorrect on several occasions," Malik told news hounds on Wednesday.
The United States has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Lashkar founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
who lives openly in Pakistain and is accused of criminal masterminding the Mumbai attacks.