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Mumbai attack was run from Pakistan: India

2012-06-30

NEW DELHI: Blaming Pakistan for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram called on Pakistan on Friday to acknowledge that an arrested suspect had helped coordinate the assault from a command post in Karachi. Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, was detained at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East. Wonder what he was planning to do in Delhi that day... Indian police say Zabiuddin, who also goes under the names Abu Hamza and Abu Jundal, has confessed to being a key handler for the 10 terrorists who attacked India’s financial capital in 2008, killing 166 people. According to police, he admitted being present in the “control room” in Karachi from where the attack was monitored and coordinated. Muhammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the attack, is currently on death row in a Mumbai prison. Zabiuddin “had found a very safe haven in Pakistan,” Chidambaram told reporters. “Pakistan should admit that (he) did go to Pakistan, that he was part of the group which prepared Kasab and nine others, that (he) was in the control room among one of the handlers and masterminds of the attack. “Just as we admit facts, Pakistan should also admit facts,” the minister said. Pakistan has asked India to share information on Zabiuddin and urged New Delhi to refrain from blaming Islamabad. “India should supply details... enabling us to take action,” adviser on interior affairs Rehman Malik said on Wednesday. “Let us end the blame game... We have to fight terrorism together,” Malik added. And ensure that the Paks cover their tracks with the information India gives them... Pakistan has indicted seven people for their alleged role in the Mumbai attacks but their trial, which began in 2009, has been beset by delays. It's almost as slow as it would be if Carla del Ponte were in charge... The United States has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed, who lives openly in Pakistan and is accused of masterminding the attacks. Can't we just drone-zap him? The leader of the Pakistan-based group may have been present in a Pakistani “control room” where the attacks were coordinated, Indian officials said. Although Islamabad did not react to the charges on Friday, it previously has rejected Indian allegations of any involvement and said it has acted against the members of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba accused of mounting the raid. "Lies! All lies!" The Indian home minister told reporters that questioning of an Indian man suspected of helping plot the operation had revealed the existence of the control room and suggested it had state support. “Yes, others were also present and we think one of them was Hafiz Saeed,” he said.

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