Pakistan’s terror wing ISI helped Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out 2008 Mumbai massacre

Pakistan’s terror wing ISI helped Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out 2008 Mumbai massacre

British newspaper The Guardian reports that militant arrested last year described dozens of meetings between ISI officers and senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives’ prior to the Nov 2008 Mumbai massacre. More than 160 people were killed by Muslim terrorists who arrived by sea and targeted luxury hotels, a Jewish center, a café, a hospital and the main train station in Mumbai,

The story is based on the classified documents obtained from Indian government by The Guardian. This is also supported by the confessions of David Headley, an American convert to Islam arrested last year and detained in the US, makes detailed claims of ISI support for the bombings. Headley did the surveillance of the targets in Mumbai for the operation and that his missions were partly paid for by the ISI and that he regularly reported to the spy agency.

Allegations that Pakistan's intelligence service was involved in the Mumbai terror attacks will be scrutinized in an American court case starting on this week when the man who helped plan the 2008 strikes testifies against his alleged accomplice. The Pakistani major and five of the six other alleged leaders of the Mumbai attacks charged in Chicago remain at large. The FBI has photos of some of them, intercepts of their voices and emails, and information about their whereabouts, but Pakistani authorities have done little to pursue the fugitives, US officials say. Pakistan's prosecution of several Lashkar chiefs arrested in 2009, including one now under US indictment, has stalled.

European and American security services now fear that Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has thousands of militants in the West runs dozens of training camps and has extensive logistic networks.