Mateen Hafeez I TNN
Mumbai: Lashkar-e-Taiba appears to have picked its most experienced combatants for the Mumbai operation. Top police officials on Saturday revealed that at least three of the 10 terrorists were veterans of previous attacks, most likely in Kashmir Valley and Afghanistan.However, they refused to disclose which these attacks were. When asked, crime branch chief Rakesh Maria, declined comment although he did not deny it.
Maria said the terrorists were trained at four places—Manshera, Muridke, Muzaffarabad and near Karachi. During the last three months of training, they were not allowed to meet anyone from the outside world; they were briefed by their handlers about their targets on a regular basis. They were also shown clippings and photos of their target,’’ he stated.
Maria said the terrorists had bought the dinghy in Pakistan, which he estimated would have cost around Rs 15 lakh. “While the terrorists were travelling in Kuber they had distributed their duties like standing on the watch tower to keep surveillance, keeping tabs on the activity of the navigator so that he could not alert the navy authorities, etc. A diary, containing details of twohourly duty distribution, has been seized,’’ added the joint commissioner of police.
He said the terrorists had forgotten to collect a satellite phone and it was lying in Kuber while another was kept in Ismail’s bag.
mateen.hafeez@timesgroup.com
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The Times of India, December 7, 2008
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