The Lashkar-e-Toiba, plotters of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, had placed the city on a list of 20 locations as potential hits for commando-style terror strikes in India, according to a media report.
The Lashkar-e-Toiba, plotters of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, had placed the city on a list of 20 locations as potential hits for commando-style terror strikes in India, according to a media report.
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The report adds that western intelligence agencies have accessed the computer and email account of LeT communications chief Zarar Shah and found a list of 320 world-wide possible targets, 20 of them in India.
The outlawed LeT, which planned much of the attack from Pakistan, had ambitions well beyond causing mayhem in India, The Guardian reported on Friday and quoted unnamed officials to say that the plotters of the attack should be tried in the International Court of Justice.
"If the west can prosecute people for crimes against humanity in The Hague or use rendition to interrogate them at undisclosed locations then what is stopping them now? After all, (western) citizens were killed in Mumbai too," the report quoted an official.
The report comes in the backdrop of security think-tanks in the US voicing concern that LeT was following the pattern of Al-Qaeda and had global designs.
Two of the attack's key planners - Shah and Lashkar's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi - are in custody in Pakistan.
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