NEW DELHI ? Police in New Delhi said on Monday that they have arrested an Indian man suspected of playing a key role in directing the 10 Pakistani militants who launched a series of deadly terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008, in which 166 people, including six Americans, died.
Police said that the arrest is likely to help investigators examine Indians? role in facilitating an attack that New Delhi says was planned and conducted by a Pakistan-based group.
Police officials said that they arrested Sayed Zabiuddin on Thursday at the New Delhi airport as he arrived from a country in the Middle East region. With his arrest, the police have, for the first time, someone in custody who is likely to have intimate knowledge about how the attack was organized.
Police suspect that it was Zabiuddin?s voice that was heard guiding the gunmen in the voice intercepts that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations gave New Delhi.
Until now, the only other important captive in Indian custody has been Pakistani gunman, Ajmal Kasab, who was arrested on the night of the attack and is now undergoing trial in a Mumbai court. Kasab had also told investigators about an Indian man who tutored them in Hindi language and gave them basic knowledge about the streets of Mumbai.
New Delhi has blamed Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Toiba for attacking a train station, two five-star hotels, a street-side cafe and a Jewish prayer center in Mumbai.
?First, let the Delhi police go through the investigation and send a report to the government,? S. M. Krishna, India?s foreign minister told reporters. ?And then we will certainly see what appropriate, follow-up action that can be taken.?
Police officers in New Delhi, however, were tight-lipped about how Zabiuddin was arrested at the airport.
But an officer in New Delhi, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media about this matter, said that they are now trying to match Zabiuddin?s voice with the voice samples of a man who was heard giving directions to the gunmen during the attack. Some of these voice samples were part of the signal intelligence intercepts that the FBI gave to the Indian investigators.
Zabiuddin is suspected to be the man present in the control room in Pakistan at the time of the attack, who spoke using many Hindi-language words. He also warned India of more dramatic attacks in the future, saying ?This is just a trailer, the entire movie is yet to come,? according to investigators at the time.
An Interpol notice was issued in 2009 against Zabiuddin, who also uses the names Abu Hamza and Abu Jindal. He hails from the western state of Maharashtra, and is also suspected of facilitating terrorists who placed bombs in a Mumbai train in 2006.
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