Zarar Shah Confesses involvement in Mumbai Attacks
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
WASHINGTON: Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zarar Shah captured in the crackdown on militants earlier this month in Pakistani has confessed the group’s involvement in terror attacks in Mumbai, a US media report said on Wednesday.
Shah has also implicated other LeT members, and had broadly confirmed the confession made by the sole captured militant Ajmal Kasab to Indian investigators — that the 10 assailants trained in Azad Kashmir and then went by boat from Karachi to Mumbai, the Journal reported quoting a senior Pakistani security official.
The journal said Pakistan’s own investigation of terror attacks in Mumbai have begun to show substantive links between the LeT and 10 gunmen who took part in the Mumbai mission.
Pakistani security officials were quoted as saying that a top Lashkar commander, Zarar Shah, has admitted a role in the Mumbai attack during interrogation.
The paper quoted a person familiar with investigation as saying that Shah also admitted that the attackers spent at least a few weeks in Karachi, training in urban combat to hone skills they would use in their assault.
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The admission, the official told the paper, is backed up by US intercepts of a phone call between Shah and one of the attackers at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, the site of a 60-hour confrontation with Indian security forces.
A second person familiar with the investigation was quoted by the Journal as saying that Shah told Pakistani interrogators that he was one of the key planners of the operation, and that he spoke with the attackers during the rampage to give them advice and keep them focused.
Shah, the journal said, was picked up along with fellow Lashkar commander Zaki-ur- Rehman Lakhvi during the military camp raids Azad Kashmir.
Source: Geo News
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Link found with Mumbai attacks, says US paper
WASHINGTON, Dec 31: Pakistani officials have found substantial links between Lashkar-e-Taiba and the gunmen who carried out the Nov 26 attacks in Mumbai, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Citing security officials familiar with the investigation, the newspaper reported that top LeT commander Zarar Shah admitted during interrogation that he had helped to plan the attacks.
Shah was picked up along with fellow Lashkar commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi during raids on a camp in Azad Kashmir.
The report said that Shah conceded providing guidance and encouragement by phone to the gunmen in Mumbai as the attacks and battles with Indian police unfolded.
The report said that US intercepts of a phone call between Shah and one of the gunmen at the Taj Mahal hotel confirmed the findings of the Pakistani officials.
US intercepts implicated other LeT members and broadly confirmed the details that the lone gunman now in Indian custody had given to his interrogators about the attackers’ training and movements.
Shah also confirmed the story told by the gunman to Indian investigators — that the 10 assailants had received training in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir and then went by boat from Karachi to Mumbai. Shah said the attackers also spent at least a few weeks in Karachi training in urban combat to hone skills they would use in their assault.
The Wall Street Journal noted that the disclosure could add new international pressure on Pakistan to prosecute or extradite the suspects.
“That raises difficult and potentially destabilising issues for the country’s new civilian government, its military and the spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence — which is conducting interrogations of militants it once cultivated as partners,” the report added.
Source: Dawn
http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/01/top13.htm
PM’s House rejects ‘confession’ report
ISLAMABAD: An official spokesman denied Indian media reports on Wednesday that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had made a statement on the arrest of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Zarar Shah. The Prime Minister’s House said in a statement that the reports were ‘baseless’, adding that Gilani “did not issue any such statement”. agencies
Source: Daily Times
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Thanks for sharing the information Moe, its kinda relief in a way though
u r relieved because a terrorist is not caught :-O
See this link -
you would be astonished.. u r just like ur goverment (so called) always in denial
http://www.haqeeqat.org/2009/02/13/mumbai-attacks/