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Official: Mumbai attack launched from Pakistan
By STEPHEN GRAHAM,Associated Press Writer AP - Friday, February 13
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan acknowledged for the first time Thursday that the Mumbai terrorist attacks were launched from its shores and at least partly plotted on its soil.
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik also said Pakistan had arrested most of the main suspects _ including those named by India as the masterminds of the attacks_ and had started criminal proceedings against them, but reiterated that authorities needed more evidence from New Delhi to secure convictions.
The revelations suggest Pakistan is serious about punishing those behind the November attacks, which killed 164 people and stirred fear that the nuclear-armed neighbors could slide toward war and distract Pakistan from its struggle against the Taliban and al-Qaida.
India and the U.S. have pressed Pakistan hard to dismantle Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned Pakistan-based group fighting Indian rule in the divided Kashmir region that is widely blamed for the Mumbai carnage. Islamabad and New Delhi have fought two out of their three wars since 1947 over the region.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said it passed details of its investigation to India on Thursday. However, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said in New Delhi he had no immediate reaction.
Malik said investigators had traced a boat engine used by the attackers to sail from Pakistan to India and busted two hideouts of the suspects near the southern city of Karachi.
Other leads pointed to Europe and the United States, and Malik said Pakistan would ask the FBI for help.
"Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan and ... according to the available information, most of them (the suspects) are in our custody," Malik said at a media conference.
New Delhi says all 10 gunmen _ only one of whom was captured alive _ were Pakistanis and that their handlers in Pakistan had kept in touch with them by phone during the three-day assault.
New Delhi provided a dossier of evidence to Islamabad, and in the first update on Pakistan's investigation, Malik said criminal cases had been opened against eight suspects on charges of "abetting, conspiracy and facilitation" of a terrorist act.
He said six of them were already in custody, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarrar Shah, Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders named by India as the masterminds of the attack, and a person who sent an e-mail claiming responsibility for the attacks.
Indian media said at the time that they received an e-mail in the name of the previously unknown Deccan Mujahideen _ a name which suggested an Indian rather than Pakistani group was behind the attacks and which now appears to have been a decoy.
Malik said they were "non-state actors," a phrase used by Pakistani authorities to counter allegations that its intelligence agencies had a hand in the attacks.
Malik said the assailants used three boats to travel from Pakistan to Mumbai.
He said detectives had traced an engine recovered from one of the vessels to a shop in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. He said the shopkeeper had provided the phone number of the buyer which led to a bank account in the name of Hammad Amin Sadiq.
Malik said authorities had arrested Sadiq and obtained from him information that led them to bust two "hideouts of the terrorists," one in Karachi and one about two hours drive away.
He described Sadiq as "the main operator," but didn't elaborate.
Investigators identified locations where the attackers had practiced the sea-borne portion of their attack plan, he said.
Malik urged India to provide more information to help secure convictions in the attacks and said that Pakistan was sending 30 questions to India about the attacks. Among the additional information sought are the fingerprints of the 10 gunmen, the DNA of the lone survivor and details of intercepted phone conversations between the militants and their handlers.
Malik also suggested a wider international dimension to the crime.
He said one suspect, Javed Iqbal, been "lured" back from Barcelona, Spain, where he had been living, and was now in Pakistani custody.
He alleged that while in Spain, Iqbal had arranged Internet telephone accounts used in the attacks.
Suspects also used a digital teleconferencing system whose service provider is based in Houston, Texas, while a Thuraya phone was issued in a "Middle Eastern country," Malik said.
Bills were paid by a company in Islamabad and two people have been arrested as a result, Malik said.
The terrorists also used phones with Indian SIM cards, he noted.
"It is not only Pakistan, but the system of the other countries has also been used," Malik said.
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