Mumbai 26/11 Planners had 320 Worldwide targets on Hit List!

Looks like a whole can of worms has opened up for Pakistan and USA in particular. No one in the world is safe from what is set to come:

26/11 masterminds had 320 targets on their hit list

London: Pakistan based banned Terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, which plotted and executed the Mumbai carnage, killing more than 170 people, had placed India’s financial hub among 320 potential targets around the world to carry out commando-style terror attacks.

Western intelligence agencies have accessed the computer and email account of Lashkar’s communications chief, Zarar Shah, and found a list of possible targets, only 20 of which were in India.

According to a report in the 'Guardian', the LeT wanted to carry out such strikes beyond India to create terror. Shah and Lashkars operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, two of the main plotters of the Mumbai carnage, are now in Pakistan Police custody.

Pakistan’s decision to bring criminal charges against nine men accused of involvement in the Mumbai attack has partly placated Indian officials.

The US has been trying behind the scenes to co-ordinate intelligence exchanges between India and Pakistan.

Intelligence agencies have warned that Mumbai raises the spectre of a new style of terrorist assault when 10 heavily armed gunmen created mayhem for three days and brought the city of 19 million people to a halt.

Nine of the gunmen were killed, but the lone survivor has given Indian investigators a full confession that the assault was planned in Pakistan by LeT.

There has been some speculation that raids in Spain in which netted 12 men including an Indian and 11 Pakistanis arrested were a result of the investigations into Lashkar’s role in the Mumbai attacks.

LeT plans terror strikes across the world

The terror attacks on Mumbai were merely a dress rehearsal for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which is planning to unleash a global wave of terror.

Investigations into the November attack, conducted by he Mumbai police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Intelligence Bureau, have revealed the LeT's global plans.

Sabahuddin, chief of the LeT's Nepal unit and a co-accused in the 26/11 attack, has told interrogators that the Lashkar cadres were instructed to be prepared for terror strikes across the world.

Sabahuddin's statements are backed by the e-mails of LeT leaders Zarar Shah and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, say IB sources.

The Inter Services Intelligence had given the LeT the go-ahead to spread its terror tentacles beyond South Asia, as the Al Qaeda has restricted its operations to fighting the United States-led forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to Intelligence Bureau sources.

The ties between the ISI and Osama bin Laden's terror outfit have also weakened after the build-up of American forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Zarar Shah's e-mails, accessed by the FBI, prove that the LeT had zeroed in on 300 tragets across the world. Twenty of these targets are located in India.

Sabahuddin added that the LeT has already sent its cadres to conduct reconnaissance of these places and would strike when the time is right.

But IB officials have warned that in spite of the LeT's global plans, India will continue to be the terror outfit's prime target.

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FFS Batty you already posted this on the original Mumbai thread

The One wrote:source?

It's all over the net.

Sorry for the repeat taips, but after reading a follow up in detail, I thought a separate thread for global threat was better.

never mind. here it is. quite worrying to say the least

Mumbai attackers had hit list of 320 world targets

Taliban pose danger to US, Pak & India, admits Zardari

Zardari acknowledged that Taliban, with whom Pak govt reached a truce deal, are 'murderous thugs & militants'.

Geo TV reporter shot dead in Taliban controlled SwatWashington: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has acknowledged that Taliban, with whom the Government reached a truce deal in the restive Swat valley days ago, are "murderous thugs and militants" who "pose a danger to Pakistan, the US and India".

US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who is just back from Pakistan, told CNN: "He (Zardari) doesn't disagree that the people who are running Swat now are murderous thugs and militants and they pose a danger not only to Pakistan, but to the United States and India".

The United States has conveyed strong concern to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari over the truce deal with a Taliban-linked group for enforcing Shariah law in the restive Swat Valley.

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are worried that this deal should not turn into a surrender to the Taliban militants, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke told Zardari in a telephonic conversation on Thursday.

In an interview to Wolf Blitzer of the CNN, Holbrooke said that he expressed the US concern over the peace deal as it gives the Taliban the authority in a critically important part of the country.

"It's hard to understand this deal in Swat, the area you're talking about, less than 100 miles from the capital in Islamabad. President Zardari says it's an interim arrangement while they stabilize the situation," he said.

"He (Zardari) doesn't disagree that the people who are running Swat now are murderous thugs and militants and they pose a danger not only to Pakistan, but to the United States and India," Holbrooke said.

When specifically asked by Blitzer if Zardari gave him any commitment, Holbrooke said: "That I don't know. But the issue isn't whether he signs the deal or not, the issue is the negotiations themselves." Over the US' concern that the deal might turn into a surrender, "President Zardari has assured us that's not the case. He is sending a very high level delegation, including the Foreign Minister. Several senior military officials, General Kayani will be in town, the head of ISI will be in town next week, the Afghans are sending their group," he said.

"I can assure you, and President Zardari knows this, that this will be the top initial subject of conversation," he said.

Holbrooke said the increase in US troops in Afghanistan would turn the tide. "But I cannot tell you for sure what will happen after that because there are many other variables. This is a war that includes political components, military components, and the president has asked us to give them a full-scale strategic review, which we're doing now," he said.

The One wrote:never mind. here it is. quite worrying to say the least

Mumbai attackers had hit list of 320 world targets

Throughout the 90s India warned the western world of the duplicity of allowing Pakistani terrorism in India and warned it would bite many a countries in the long term. Looks like India's fears back then were not misplaced.