LeT terror tree: The men behind Mumbai attacks

TERROR PLOT: LeT COO Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was given the task to scout for the Mumbai attackers and train them.

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New Delhi: Indian intelligence agencies claim that the plot to attack Mumbai did not originate at the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) headquarters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

One of the men who started it belonged to Pakistan's spy agency ISI — an army Major who heads ISI's forward planning desk.

The ISI Major discussed the plot with LeT head Hafiz Saeed and his two deputies — Abd-ur-Rehman Makki and Gutvi at Jamaat-ud-Dawa headquarters Markaz Taiba, situated in Mureedke, about 50 km from the Lahore-Islamabad highway.

ISI Major brought two more people into the loop — LeT head of communications Zarar Shah and LeT Chief of Operations Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi alias Chacha.

American and Indian investigating officials believe that Zarar Shah is one of the group's primary liaisons to the ISI.

Lakhvi was given the task to scout for the Mumbai attackers and train them. A Pakistani Special forces officer was selected to train them.

Lakhvi also used Abu Hamza and Abu Qafa to look after the training of terrorists

Muzammil — the Number 4 LeT commander — and Faisal Nayeem, who was deported to Pakistan in 2006 under American pressure.

Both of them started using their Bangladesh contacts to get SIM cards for the attackers.

LeT's present Bangladesh head, Imran Mian arranged SIM cards for the terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attacks.

A former Jammu and Kashmir police officer Mukhtar Ahmed was asked by Imran Mian to procure three SIM cards from Kolkata and they were sent to Pakistan to be used in Mumbai terror attacks.

The ISI's Major maintained links with Dawood Ibrahim in Karachi to ask his men to provide logistical support and arms to the terrorists.

New agency chief Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha have flushed out top and mid-level hard-liners associated with the agency's past murky past dealings with terrorist organizations.

Two deputies under General Pasha's predecessor were removed and dozens of other lower-level officials sacked. The agency's political cell, which monitored the country's own politicians and parties and helped make it a political kingmaker, has been closed, its operatives dispersed through the agency.