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Mumbai terror attacks : 2 top terror leaders caught

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Dec 10, 2008
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Two senior members, Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi (left) and Zarar Shah of Lashkar-e-Taiba have been arrested. -- PHOTO: AP
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MULTAN (Pakistan) - PAKISTAN has arrested two senior members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group considered the prime suspect in the Mumbai attacks, the country's prime minister said on Wednesday. 'The two have been arrested and an investigation is under way,' Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told journalists in response to a question about Lashkar members Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah.

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NEW DELHI - AN Indian militant based in Nepal who helped Pakistani gunmen cross India's porous borders to stage attacks is being brought to Mumbai for questioning in the recent Mumbai siege, police officials said on Wednesday.

Sabauddin Ahmed was arrested in February with another militant who police say had scouted Mumbai targets a year before last month's attacks, they said.



</td></tr> </tbody></table> Unnamed officials have said Lakhvi was arrested in a raid on a Lashkar camp in Pakistani Kashmir on Sunday, but there had been no confirmation from the government until now. Meanwhile, the only surviving gunman of the Mumbai attacks was selected for the operation by the head of a Pakistan-based Islamist group accused of masterminding the strike, an Indian newspaper said on Wednesday.

The Daily News and Analysis (DNA) printed what it said was Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman's 'confession' to police after his arrest. He is being quizzed over the November 26-29 attacks that killed 163 and injured nearly 300.
Mumbai city police chief Hassan Gafoor told AFP that no statement had been released officially to the media.
Iman, 21, was quoted in the article as saying that he was one of 32 recruits who attended weapons training courses run by the banned Islamist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, which India suspects of being behind the attacks.

'Sixteen were selected for a confidential operation by one Zaki-ur-Rehman, alias Chacha, but three of them ran away from the camp,' he reportedly said, in an apparent reference to LeT operations director Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Lakhvi has since been arrested by the Pakistani authorities.
'Chacha' sent the 16 for training in how to evade security personnel and had lectures on India and its security agencies, Iman was reported to have said in the statement.

Ten recruits were then selected and split into five teams of two and shown Mumbai landmarks, including the main railway station, on the Internet satellite mapping site Google Earth. Iman said he was told to attack the station either at morning or evening rush hour, take hostages, then contact 'Chacha", who would give them numbers for media organisations to make demands.

The operation had been due to take place on September 27 but was put back for an unspecified reason and the team stayed in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi until November 23, when they set out for Mumbai by boat. On board, each of the 10 men in the team were given eight grenades, an AK-47 assault rifle, 200 cartridges and a mobile phone, he was quoted as saying.

After three days at sea, Iman and another gunman made for the railway station, as the other eight stormed two luxury hotels and a Jewish cultural centre, as well as attacking a popular restaurant. -- AFP
 
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