A report published by the Washington Post on Wednesday said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been tipped off in 2005 about an American national, who masterminded attacks on the Indian financial hub three years later.
The man identified as David Coleman Headley underwent intensive training with banned militant groups in Pakistan, the report added.
Based on the report, Headley’s wife told FBI agents that her husband was in close contact withLashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group blamed by India for the deadly attacks on Mumbai.
The report also says Headley went to Mumbai five times to scout landmark locations and targets for the attack on the city.
The report comes months after the Pakistani interior ministry suggested that the Mumbai attackwere planned outside Pakistan.
“An initial probe conducted by a three-member team set up by the Interior Ministry has concluded that the 26/11 attacks were planned outside Pakistan,” Pakistan’s Dawn News quoted unnamed sources as saying in 2009.
The British intelligence service, MI5, however, had earlier said that it had uncovered links between the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks and UK nationals.
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