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...Ansari prepared by Indian authorities. Sabahuddin Ahmed, the other co-accused, was a Bangalore-based operative for LeT, according to his statement to police, but he allegedly spent the fall of 2006 scouting targets in Bangalore - not Mumbai - and meeting other LeT operatives in Dhaka, Kathmandu, Colombo and Muzaffarabad in Pakistani Kashmir to discuss them. (See pictures of Mumbai one year after the attack...
While Qasab never mentions that he was part of such a unit, his preparation suggests that he had been chosen to learn fedayeen tactics, which are increasingly common outside Kashmir. For his final round of advanced training, Qasab moved to another camp near Muzaffarabad, also in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, where he says he met a man named Zaki-ur-Rehman "Chacha" (Uncle), who selected him as one of a team of 16 destined for a confidential operation. Qasab may have been referring to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a top LeT commander who was arrested by Pakistani security forces...
...Still, the planes allegedly entered Pakistan near the two cities of Lahore and Muzaffarabad, where the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba - which has been accused by Indian and British investigators of planning the Mumbai attacks - had been allowed to operate under the aegis of its charitable wing, Jamaat-ud-Daawa, until its leader was put under house arrest on Thursday. Pakistani analysts suggest that the "inadvertent" incursion may have been a warning that if strong action was not taken against the accused terror group by Pakistan, India would take matters into its own hands. Zardari stressed that his government...
...brink of conflict--it would be their fourth in 61 years--and undermine the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, the Bush Administration is pressuring Islamabad to crack down on homegrown militants. In response, Pakistani authorities have launched nighttime raids on several camps in and around Muzaffarabad, arresting at least 12 people. Among them: Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a top Lashkar commander named by Indian police as the mastermind of Mumbai. (A spokesman has denied that the group had any role in the Mumbai attacks...
...aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, the greatest challenge lies in convincing India and Pakistan that they need to abandon some of their long-held positions in order to reach a resolution over Kashmir. The road from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad may be open, but the obstacles along the way seem bigger than ever...