Zeenews Bureau
Mumbai, Nov 29: According to Maharashtra ATS sources, the terrorists who attacked Mumbai had instructions to kill till their death. A instruction that commandoes involved in the operation say they had followed to the end, littering the hotels with dead bodies. These disclosures are a part of some shocking revelations that came out after initial investigations.
Security sources quoting the arrested terrorist revealed that these terrorists were given extensive marine commando training for three months at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
These terrorists were shown digital maps of Mumbai including Google Earth map to make them understand the exact geographical locations of the targets and help in planning the attacks.
The arrested terrorist has also supposedly revealed that there was a separate group that did the reccee in Mumbai 2 months back. He has also said that they came to Mumbai by boats in two separate batches. The first batch of 6 terrorists got off the boat at Badhwar Park while the second batch of four terrorists got off at Sassoon Dock. They always travelled in batches of two.
ATS sources have also said that the terrorists were drugged that’s why they were able to fight on for so long without getting tired.
It is also being speculated that two of the militants were Britain born and also some one Yemeni terrorists might have been involved. Officially there has been no confirmation about the nationality of the terrorists yet.
There is also speculation that one of the chefs at the Taj might have been a terrorists, but the Taj management has strongly denied this. Bikki Oberoi, Chairman of the Oberoi group also denied that any of the Oberoi’s employees were involved in the terror strike.
Pakistan based notorious underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s hand is also suspected in the blast and the ATS is probing this angle also.
Ajmal Amin, the only militant arrested during the
operation, told interrogators that the dozen ultras who sailed
from Karachi had come to Sasoon dock from where they were
taken first to Cuff Parade and later to Gateway of India in
boats arranged by a front man of Dawood, who runs several
custom clearing houses in Mumbai, the sources claimed.
Mumbai police and central security agencies have
launched a massive manhunt for the businessman considered as a
henchman of Dawood, who has been listed as Global Terrorist
having links to Al-Qaeda by the United States.
The suspect looks after some customs clearing
mechanism and also indulges in diesel smuggling for the
underworld don, the sources claimed.
After getting into waiting boats arranged by Dawood's
gang in Mumbai, arms, ammunition and plastic explosives were
quickly transferred to the waiting boats that took the
terrorists to the Gateway of India which was had been
marked as launching pad for the terror strike, the first of
its kind in the country terrorism history.
The Intelligence agencies had sent a warning note to
Coast Guard to keep a watch for an unidentified Pakistani
trawler sailing from Karachi port which may enter into Indian
waters. While the coast guard was looking for a Pakistani or
unidentified vessel, the terrorists hijacked Indian fishing
trawler "MV Kuber" killing its crew and entered the Mumbai
seas.
The Coast Guard captured the abandoned vessel which
had a Global Positioning System as it was was drifting nearly
four nautical miles off the coast of Mumbai on Thursday
morning, several hours after the terrorists struck.
The terrorist claimed during interrogation that they
had even planned to leave Mumbai back for Karachi, if luck
favoured them, the sources said.
This solves the mystery of Global Positioning System
instrument located from MV Kuber which was fed with a return
map to Karachi, the sources said.
The underworld don's men had also provided a complete
pictures of the two hotels and the Chhabad House, which
houses the Israelis.
Meanwhile, investigators were going through the call
data details downloaded from the satellite phone also
recovered from the abandoned trawler.
It revealed numbers that have been traced back to the
LeT's "chief of operations", Muzamil.
The terrorists had been in constant touch with their
masters across the border and some of the communications have
been intercepted by both the army as well as the elite
National Security Guards.
The militant said Taj and Trident-Oberoi were selected
because the two hotels have a large clientele of Britishers
and US citizens besides that a large number of Israeli
businessmen had come to Trident for attending a diamond
exhibition, the sources said
The militants were also asked by their "masters" to
engage security personnel in negotiation besides throwing
grenades.
The two militants holed up in Nariman House had made
attempts to hold talks on two occasions, the sources said.