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On 26/11, Headley, Rana were in Pak New Delhi, November 16 Top sources in the Home Ministry today confirmed that the duo was in Pakistan when the three-day long attacks were carried out in which around 183 people were killed. Sources confirmed that telephonic intercepts recorded during the Mumbai attacks were being studied to find out if the attackers also spoke to Headley and Rana while they carried out the attacks. The accuracy with which the team of militants had arrived at the Taj Hotel and Trident and reached places they had desired, shows they were being directed by someone who had a great deal of knowledge about the layout of the buildings and other places. It is a known fact that Headley had stayed at the Taj and also at the Trident. Indian and foreign intelligence agencies possess the recorded transcripts. Within hours of the Mumbai attacks, agencies had picked up call signals originating from Mumbai to places in Pakistan. Militants carried hand-held satellite phones and a US-based Voice over Internet Protocol was used to mask the calls being made to guide the militants. The sources, however, refused to divulge at which place in Pakistan were Headley and Rana at the time when the Mumbai attacks were being carried out. Sources also said as many as 12 persons were being questioned across India for their links with Headley and Rana. Some of them include persons with whom the two had stayed at their homes. The advertisement placed by Rana in newspapers in which he offered to provide visas to US and Canada were also being examined. All those who were interviewed are being traced out. The agencies now have concrete information about the hotels where the duo had stayed. A senior Home Ministry official said India hads approached Canada to get more information about Rana, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin. “We are liasoning with the Canadian government,” he said.
Headley Effect Rajkot/Ahmedabad, November 16 The Mahagujarat Janta Party (MJP) also demanded a state-wide ban on the film. Headley is in FBI custody in the US after he was arrested for plotting attacks in India at the behest of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). MJP leader Godhan Zadafia said all cinemas and multiplex owners in the state have been asked by the party to stop screening the film starring Imran Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan. The movie was released last Friday.
— PTI
N-plants put on high alert New Delhi, November 16 Acting on specific intelligence inputs, the Home Ministry directed the state governments, particularly Maharashtra, to beef up security around the atomic facilities as the terrorists may target them.“Security around the sensitive installations has been upgraded besides putting up adequate forces,” a Home Ministry official said.The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), located in Trombay near Mumbai, has been put on highest alert. The alert comes after intelligence agencies discovered that David Headley, the Pakistan-born American national had visited the area. Sources refused to divulge if the threat could be from the sea.The government had already placed anti-aircraft guns at the atomic facilities and Army units have been deployed there to guard the facilities. The atomic facilities have three-tier security system and some of them are based near the coast. Maps of nuclear installations were also recovered from a Pakistani spy who was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport yesterday.
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