Code language is crucial for a terrorist operation's success. Investigations have revealed that the 26/11 killers communicated with each other using coded language.
There appears to be a pattern in the manner that the accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case are making statements before the court.
The Mumbai police's crime branch says that Imran Shehzad also helped Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed conduct a survey of likely targets in Mumbai.
The induction of David Coleman Headley, the arrested American national and a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, in the 26/11 case has given a whole new dimension to its ongoing trial. Legal experts say that there will be no delay in the ongoing trial against lone surviving gunmen Ajmal Kasab, and other terror accused Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba runs a dedicated technology laboratory in Muzzafarabad, Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The lab has been operational for the past six years. It has a dedicated team, which imparts training to men chosen for terrorist operations.
The release of Jamaat -ud-Dawaa chief Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed is probably one of the worst thing that could have happened to India. Although the Lashkar-e-Tayiba continued to operate despite its chief being detained, Saeed's release will only motivate more youth to take up jihad, sources in the Intelligence Bureau told rediff.com.
More proof of the Pakistan establishment being involved in the terror framework is coming to light. The Mumbai 26/11 attacks brought out for the very first time how much the Pakistan establishment participated in terror based operations in other countries.
The mammoth chargesheet has been filed and the Mumbai police can proceed and try three people with immediate effect -- Ajmal Kasab, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed. However, what would happen to the likes of Yusuf Muzzamil and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhwi who find a mention in the chargesheet as the key conspirators? The satellite phone transcripts and various confessional statements prove their role in the case.
The terror attack on Mumbai, which sent shock waves across the country, was merely a dress rehearsal for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which is planning to unleash a global wave of terror. Zarar Shah's emails, accessed by the FBI, prove that the LeT had zeroed in on 300 tragets across the world. Twenty of these targets are located in India.But IB officials have warned that in spite of the LeT's global plans, India will continue to be the terror outfit's prime target.
Intelligence Bureau officials said barring Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed, they have not found a direct local link to the Mumbai terror attacks. IB sources added that although not directly involved, there are several people who had information about the attacks.
Lashkar operatives have disclosed to interrogators that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence arranged their fake passports. IB officials have listed the guidelines that terrorists follow while dealing with passports, record books and identification cards.
An investigating officer told rediff.com that Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari -- whose names are likely to figure in the 26/11 attack chargesheet -- confessed before interrogators in Mumbai that the Rampur attack was aimed at distracting security agencies to enable the smuggling of arms into Mumbai for the big attack.
Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari, who are in the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad's custody, have revealed that the attacks were delayed because of fears that the operation had been compromised by Ansari's arrest and confessions, and also, because the terrorists could not procure enough weapons in time.
Mohammad Omar Madani's links to the 26/11 Mumbai attack and also other terror strikes in the country are getting more and more evident. The Delhi police and the Intelligence Bureau have been grilling Madani after he revealed that he had links with Hafiz Saeed, Abu Hamza, Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari all of whom have were involved in the Mumbai terror attack.
Funds are instrumental in the success of a terrorist operation and India's war against terror will not be complete unless it acts upon this crucial aspect.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation team, which has sought access to all the 26/11 accused arrested by Pakistan, will try to cull more information about a key Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative called Yusuf Muzzamil.Muzzamil's role in the terror attack in Mumbai last November was revealed by Fahim Ansari, Sabahuddin, and Ajmal Kasab.They described Muzzamil as a being extremely tech-savvy, adding that he had pointed out possible terror targets using Google Earth.
Intelligence agencies believe Jundal -- it is not known if that is his original name -- hails from Hyderabad and has played a key role in training Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has decided to question Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari -- the prime accused in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur in January last year-- who are currently being probed for their links with the terror attack on Mumbai in November last year.The FBI will try to glean out crucial information about the working of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in South Asia by interrogating the duo.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which was responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks, goes to extreme lengths to conceal the identity of terrorists while carrying out an attack in India, according to Intelligence Bureau sources.
The chargesheet will have murder, waging war against the State and conspiracy as the main charges.
Before the weapons could be retrieved, investigators say Shehzad was arrested. As a result, the attack on the Bombay Stock Exchange was averted, but the Mumbai attacks were moved from September to November.
Though the Mumbai police have sought for the custody of Sabahuddin first, Ansari's interrogation will be the key to the Mumbai terror attack case. While Sabahuddin played the role of a financer more than a plotter, Ansari is the man who did the recce in Mumbai and also prepared sketches of the locations that were attacked on 2/11/2008.
Sabahudin, a LeT operative arrested for the CRPF camp attack in UP, reveals how the ISI helps the Lashkar train terrorists.
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India is not entirely satisfied with Islamabad's version of the case, says Vicky Nanjappa
Saroj Kumar Rath, author of the newly-published book Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks, speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
The Al Qaeda and other terror groups are obsessively meticulous about accounting. Leave alone guns and explosives, they keep an account of every penny spent -- even on a bar of soap, a light bulb or spaghetti.
Leaders of terror groups thrive on communal disturbances to foster anger and resentment against the majority community among brainwashed youth of the affected community, insiders in security agencies tell Vicky Nanjappa
How old was Ajmal Kasab when he was recruited into the Lashkar-e-Tayiba to carry out the 26/11 attacks? Going by an interrogation report prepared by the Bangalore Police, Kasab was 16 when he was roped into the LeT.
Criminal jurisprudence is based on an interesting saying, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer." However, that does not seem to apply to the Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad. There are several instances to show that the agency has botched up its investigation, the latest being Pune Bakery blast main accused Himayat Baig.
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