[Reader-list] LeT financier confesses to role in Mumbai attacks

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LeT financier confesses to role in Mumbai terror attacks
21 Dec 2008, 1154 hrs IST, Times Now

NEW DELHI: Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) financier in India -
Sabauddin - who along with the November 26 Mumbai terror attacks
planner Fahim Ansari has revealed how terror was sponsored from across
the border.

Sabauddin's confessions, available with Times Now, give further
evidence of Pakistan's role in the Mumbai terror attack.

Arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) more than ten
months ago in connection with the CRPF attack in Rampur, Sabauddin is
believed to have helped the LeT carry out the Mumbai terror attacks,
helping Fahim Ansari to reece the terror targets.

Along with Ansari, Sabauddin was trained at the same camp as Ajmal
Amir Kasab - the only terrorist caught alive post the 26/11 attacks.
He also confessed to have met the Mumbai attacks mastermind - Zaki ur
Rehman Lakhvi during an LeT training camp.

A 12th standard dropout from the Aligarh University, Sabauddin
revealed that it was the Gujarat riots that triggered the terror
attacks. After training under two LeT commanders in Kashmir, Sabauddin
said he went to Pakistan in March 2003, where he was introduced to the
chief of LeT India operations - Yusuf Muzammil.

In 2004, Sabauddin came to India via Nepal using a fake passport and
then settled in Bangalore, where he enrolled himself in a BBA course
in the city's Presidency college and eventually carried out a reecee
of the IISc campus in Bangalore along with another LeT man Abu Hamza
for his first assignment - the attack on the Indian Institute of
Science.

Sabauddin is believed to have told that it was Abu Hamza, who went to
IISc on December 28, 2005 and opened fire at the conference hall and
threw hand grenades. After the attack the two fled the country, only
to meet again three days later in Pakistan.