FBI interrogation reveals LeT attacks in India

HATE FILE: FBI prosecutors have told the court in US that Rana and Headley had five potential targets in India.

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New Delhi: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after interrogating two terror suspects, Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Coleman Headley, arrested from Chicago last month, has thrown up frightening details of places in India the Lashkar-e-Toiba planned to strike.

Amongst their targets were the National Defence college and two prestigious boarding schools.

Home Minister P Chidambaram said the FBI has shared its information with India but there is no cause for alarm.

"We are fully aware of the FBI report. There's nothing to get alarmed about it," said Chidambaram during a press conference in Jammu.

FBI prosecutors have told the court in US that Rana and Headley had five potential targets in India.

Indian home ministry sources say that apart from the national Defence College, two prominent boarding schools in two different hill stations in north India were also potential targets.

Indian intelligence officials will formally interrogate both the suspects sometime this week.

Meanwhile, Rana's lawyer claims he is innocent.

According to the FBI:

• For the India attacks, Headley was co-ordinating with Ilyas Kashmiri, operational chief of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI) in Pak-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).

• Rana was in touch with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

• Both of them reported to a top Lashkar-e-Taiba member, also known to Pakistan government.

As boys, both Headley and Rana studied military strategies in Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan's first military prep school, in 1974. As men, they reunited in Chicago to hatch an international terror plot, the 'Mickey Mouse Project' to take revenge on a Danish newspaper for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and attack a high-profile target in India.