Pakistan finds Mumbai terrorist communication expert

Bill Roggio:

Pakistan security services detained another senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operative suspected of being involved in the Mumbai terror attack.

Zarar Shah was one of an estimated 10 to 20 Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives detained during raids on the terror group's offices in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and other locations in Pakistan.

Shah is a communications expert who set up the network that allowed the Mumbai attackers communicate with Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders in Pakistan, according to Indian intelligence officials. He also serves as a key liaison between the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency.

The Mumbai attackers remained in contact with their Lashkar handlers in Pakistan throughout the assault, using cells phones and Thuraya satellite phones, and the Voice over Internet Protocol in order to make it difficult for intelligence services to track the calls.

Shah is the third Lashkar-e-Taiba operative inside Pakistan directly linked to the Mumbai attack. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's military commander, has been identified by captured Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab as being the primary recruiter for the operation.

Kasab said Lakhvi spent three months in Karachi finalizing the Mumbai operation. Calls from the Mumbai attackers have been traced to Lakhvi. He is currently in Pakistani custody, but Pakistan has no plans to extradite him to India.

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Roggio names several other LET leaders who are on the run after being identified as participating in the attacks. I suspect that the US was able to help identify the communications expert who stayed in contact with the terrorist. I would be surprise if there is any communication in Pakistan that the NSA is not sweeping up and looking at and as this event demonstrates, there is good reason to do so.

Pakistan's continuing test is going to be what happens to these people after they are "detained." The civilian government would be doing itself a favor if it shipped them to India. Those in the ISI and perhaps the military in Pakistan, might not fare so well.

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