Mumbai, August 12
Reinforcing the Pakistan link to the Mumbai terror attack, the FBI in a crucial testimony at the trial of the lone surviving gunman Ajmal Kasab said today the global positioning system (GPS) devices used by terrorists showed they had come from Karachi.
Deposing in person before Special Judge ML Tahaliyani, a forensic expert of the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), whose identity has been kept secret, said he had examined five GPS devices and a satellite phone which the Mumbai police had recovered from the terrorists. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system.
The forensic expert said “Way Point” data retrieved from the GPS devices pointed to the route from Karachi to Mumbai and also positions between these two cities. Kasab sat smiling all the while while the FBI official gave the evidence.
The GPS devices were seized from sites targeted by the terrorists, including Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels and MV Kuber vessel, which they had hijacked to travel to Mumbai.
— PTI
