Suspected Mumbai mastermind identified: report

3 Dec 2008, 6:54 am   -   Source: AFP
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Indian police believe a top member of Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba masterminded the attacks on Mumbai that killed some 188 people, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Indian police believe a top member of Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba masterminded the attacks on Mumbai that killed some 188 people, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Yusuf Muzammil, the group's head of terrorism operations against India, was among leaders thought to have talked by satellite phone with the gunmen in the two days before they arrived by boat in Mumbai, according to the report.

Muzammil was identified as the brains behind the attacks by Ajmal Kasab, the only gunman who was captured alive, an unidentified senior police official told the US business daily.

An Indian police spokesman was not immediately available to confirm the report.
  
Two of Muzammil's deputies were said to have orchestrated the series of shootings, which targeted two top hotels, a railway station, a popular cafe and a Jewish center.

His name and those of four other alleged militants were also found in a satellite phone abandoned on a hijacked fishing boat, the Journal said.
  
The attackers were believed to have taken over the fishing vessel before landing in rubber dinghies in Mumbai to carry out their attacks last
Wednesday.

According to the daily, Muzammil is among 20 terrorist suspects who India has demanded Pakistan hand over.
 

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