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TION RE"PORT
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Executi ve s um mary pe rtainin g to t he

interroga ti o n report of Dav id Co leman
Headley @Daood Gi lani :

David Coleman Headley presently in the custody of the US

authorities was given access to the NIA investigating learn with

effect from .3rd June , 2010 to 9t h June, 2010 in the presence of

his counsels ,FBr prosecutors and FBI officials. The NIA team

availed 34 hours Lof time) to interrogate the s ubj ect. No audio

and video recording was allowed.

02. At prescnt David Coleman Headley has been put under the

w itness prote c tion programme of the Federal Government and

he is bei ng treated as the star witness in the trial of Tahawwur

Hussain Rana . RamI's Inal IS expected tos start with effect from

01Novcmbcr, 2010.

03 . During the interrogation, Headley cooperated With the NIA

learn and answered all the questions put to him except

questions pertaining to his immediate family members.

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HCJd lcy dllrma his m !ctrog<llion tHKlmb,guou sl y admitted his
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role as an LeT operative who was a part of the conspiracy to

wage war against India.

05 During the interrogation he mentioned the roles of vanous

leT operatives which inter alia include Hafiz Saeed the Ameer of

LeT(chief}, Zaki-ur-Rchman Lakhvi the chief military commander

and various middlde level commanders of LeT. (Sajid Majid,

Muuammil,Abdur Rchman@Pasha,Abu Alqama,Abu Qahafa,Abu

Anas, Abdul A:tiz.Abu Hamza,Yaqub)

06.He has clearly mentioned the role of 151 officials who have a

profound influence and a great control over the top brass of the

LeT. He further stated that he used to separately brief his lSI

handle r aftor each reconnaissi1ncc visit to Mumbai. He also

carried out certain exclusive reconnaissance tasks for his 151

handlers.

07,Accordi ng to Headley after the Mumbai attack he became

closer to Illyas Ka shmlri of 313 Brigade(AI Qacda) and Abdur

Rehman@Pasha (who gal separated from the LeT scI up).

08. Headley has also admitted that his rec onnaissance videos on

the five targets in Mumbai which were attacked on 26/11 were

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crucia l for tho success of LeT He <.1150 s:illcd lha t Ihe

reconnaissa nce v ideos in respect 0 1 o ther targets .- Mu mbai

,Dclhi, Punc.Goa ,and Pus hkar w ill be cert ainly used by LeT o r

313 Bridges to attack India and cause largo scale damage.

09. Headley had specifically stated more than once that his

ac ti vi tie s relating t o task given 10 h im by LeT were not known to

any person in Ind ia nor had h e exposed himself to such a situa t ion

for someone in India to suspect his d esigns.

10. He has given a clear picture of vario us traming programmes of

LeT, the trainers, the tr ainees which may be of usc to our

intelligence and secu rit y agencies.

10 He has given details of some LeT IISI safe houses , LeT

operational camps, LeT's technological capabil ities

11 . LeT has now f o rmed a naval wing under Yaqoob whic h will be

potentially used a9ainsllndia .

12. Headley has given some details about Pasha's Kara chi set up

which is primarily m eant to be used against India .

13. During the intcrr09ation he identified the photographs of SaJid

Majid , Abdur Rehman Hashim and Abu Alqama . He also Identif ied

 the vOices of AI:u Alqarna, SJJld Ma j id and 4bu Oafaha cOl1 troliill(]

the MUlllbai attackers from Karachi.

14. The additional facts whi ch we re not known to us so far and

which came out from the interrogation are given below :

L Every major action of LeT IS done only after the approval of HafiZ
Saeed. Headley maintains that Hafiz Saeed had full knowledge of
Mumbai attacks and it was launched only after his approval. Headley
believes that Hafiz Saeed never acknowledges it publicly, though he
remains abreast with each and every stage of planning and

execution. DUring this meeting Hafiz Saeed also mentioned Bal
Thackery and the aileged damage he (Thackery) had done to Muslim
Ummah(nation). Headley believed that thiS '..,'as an indication that LeT
wanted to take some action on thiS front.
II. The 26/11 Mumbai attacks were possible only due to the comple:e
support of lSI. According to Headley every big action of L-e-T IS dare
in close coordination with 151. The money which was used by Headley
for his surveillance activities in Mumbai was provided by t1ajor iqC3!...
of lSI.:. Headley believes that the money \Ah which the first bOct
costll1g Rs. 25 lakhs was purchased, was al50 provided by lSI. Tbs
boat was destroyed as the first attempt to reach Mumbal 111 S:;)t
2008 failed. Headley thus believes that lSI was fully involved In
26/11. Moreover,Headley mentioned getting a boat loaded weh
weapons to India had to have been cleared by Pakistan governmE~t

authorities. Salid apprised Headley that th iS part had been taken Cere

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'!. P-:cordmg tr: Headley, f!lJer/lmportant men-ber of lel IS handled by

G'le nr mor'- lSI omcials. HIS ISIJlandJcrs VJere Majer IqbaLan..cLMaIQL

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AII.:- Abdur Rehman Hdshlm was handled by Col Shah.
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. $,mllarly, hE knows that one Brig Riyaz based In r-1uzaffarabad,
handles Zakl -ur-Rehman Lakhvl, the chief mdltary commander of LeT.
After the Mumbal attack, Zakl was arrested and kept in Udlal Ja iL The
151 DG, SUJ].:! Pasha had VISited him to under'>tand the f'. ' umbal attack

conspiracy. SaJld had claimed before Headley tha t he had met Zakl
v,hen the latter was in the Jail.
I According to Headley, until hiS sixth VISit, Hotel Ta] ,'las the only
target for LeT. SaJid had told him on a number of occasions to
complete the Ta] Hotel reconnaissance. SaJld would also discuss the
plan like attacking the Ta) Hotel during the conference of software
engmeers by two/three <lltackers. They had plans to send the
Jttackers throug h either Nepal or Bangladesh. After Ma rch 2008, the
multiple attacks In Mumbal With multiple attackers and use of sea
routes were discussed by the LeT.
DUring the examination of Headley, the culpability of some other LeT
operatives for furtherance of conspiracy to attack (including 26/ 11 )
India has surfaced . They are Adu Qahafa, Abu Alqama, 'oluna mmll ,
Abu Anas and Abu Hamza Further eVidence needs to be collected on
them,
Headley could r ecognize vOICes o f three people who were giving
Instructions to the attackers dur ing Mumbai attacks. These were
SaJld, Abu A1Qama and Abu Qahafa. Headley could not recog nize the
fourth vOice. Headley believes that the person giving instruction to
tre terrorists at Ch abad House was SaJld t-laJeed. SaJld Instructed
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l1e terrOrists to kill eve."/body including vlOmen In the (habad Housc.

tbu Alqama was the person giving lostructlons to terrOflSts at TaJ.
/bu Qahafa was also t"lking to the terrorists and It was he who was
saYing to the attackers that the entire Muslim Ummah (Muslim
tlatlon) IS looking upto them and they should not fail them. Sajid later
told Headley that Abu Hamza was also present In the control room.
Before the Mumbal attacks SaJid had shown the photos of the
rlumbal attackers to Headley.
A:ter the attacks Sajid bnefed Headley about the anacks and he
(SaJld) told Headley that two of the crew of 'Kuber' \'/ere killed by him
(Sajld). Headley believes that Sajld was speaking the truth as he
never blows his trumpet unlike Muzzammll and Abu Hamza. Sajid,
Qahafa , Abu Hamza and one more person were on the other boat
:/hich escorted the maIO boat carrying the anackers. Abu Hamza was
al;o involved in the planning and executlon In the later stages as he
IS conSidered to be an 'India Expert'.
The Karachi setup is baSically Abdurrehman's@ Pasha setup. Pasha
has since long been assoCIated With the operations In India. Headley
beheves that local [ndian boys are Involved in the Karachi setup. The
aim of Karachi Setup IS to launch operations into India by using
militants of Indian origin, Pasha has been in the past also involved in
some attacks in I ndia. In July, 2006, when Headley was In USA he
saw the news about Mumbai train attacks on TV. When he came back
he asked Sajid and Pasha about the attacks and Pasha said that he
knew who the boys were that they were local Indian boys. The
Karachi setup of Pasha has the complete backing of the 151. Col Shah
,vho was handler of Pasha was actively involved In Karachi selup.
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x. last"k;;r also has a Karachi sf:lup. Though the entire setup vIas
contro :ed by Sajid, It is lOOked after by Abu Yi!Qoob at the
operatonal level. The Karachi setup of LeT aims to launch tx>ys from

Mahar'lshtra and GUJarat into India uSing sea routes. As per

Headle{s assessment this is being done by using their fisher men
netvlOf <: and theTr boats. Abu Yaqoob IS the in charge of the Naval
setup c. f Lashkar.

<I. Thoug"l Abdur Rehman is associated with !IIyas Kashmin but he

tOntlnu~s to hold active Interests in operations In India. For these
Indian operations he 15 In contact with the 151. Col Shah is hiS lSI
handle' . Headley believes that National Defence Coll~e and Raksha
ShaY/a n are the probable targets of Pasha's setup. Dunng his
conversation with Pasha rn Aprrl 2009, Headley believes that the
attac< on NOC seemed imminent.
I. Aoour Pehman is directly in touch with the top of brass of N-Qalda
rncludirg Illyas Kashlmlri who IS now number 3 in the AI- Qaida
hiera rchy lfI Pakistan. Abdur Rehman has met Osama a number of
times. Pasha once told Headley that his set up has been given the
name Jund-ul-fida (Army of Fldayeens) by Osama Bin laden himself.
L DaVid Coleman Headley@Daood Gllani remained mostly in lahore
betw een 2002 and 2009. HIS VISIts to the USA were occasional. He
has no passport issued from Pakistan. As Daood Gllani, he had

travelled to several countries. They rnclude UK, Germany, France,

Maldives, Sri Lanka and so on. He had never visited India as Daood

Gilanl. At the time of his change of name from Daood Gllanl to DaVid
Coleman Headley. he did not change his Social Securrty Number

(SSN) If USA.
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IV After the Lorr.pletlon of his training In LeT, he was told to go to India

and work for the LeT. Durmg tlus peIlOU, apart from Mumbal, some

other Indian cities were discussed as poSSible destinations for him to

have settled down. These (Ities were Kolkata, Deihl, Bangalore, pune,
Nagpur, GUJarat and Hyderabad.
:V. Headley is aware that on and around April 2007, leT's SilJid Majid
and Muzzammtl had paid Rs_8.S lakh to one Nlyamat Shah s/o Jeb
Shah In Landikotal, Shermalkhel In the Khyber Agency In Pakistan to

smuggle arms and explosives to India. Niyamat Shah belongs to the

Silir-viln tribe. Niyamat Shah IS also Involved In drug smuggling to
India.
VI. Abdur Rehman Makl, the maternal uncle's son of Hafiz Saeed is the
foreign affairs In charge of LeT. SoJld MaJid@Wasl had worked as his
personal aSSistant before becoming the handler of Headley. Headley
~heves that SaJld Majid had '/lslted several countnes With multiple

passports which inClude Qatar. UAE. Canada and India etc. One of
the younger brothers of Sa}id to1a]ld was reportedly in Chicago. USA
before the year 2008..
HI. From his first VISit up to the seventh viSit to India. Headley carried a
camera which he had taken from hiS mother-in-law in Pakistan. He
could not recollect the camera model and other particulars. During his
viSits to India In April and June 2008 Headley carried a Sony Ericson
model of mobile/camera phone which was given to him by Major
Iqbal and a GPS device given by SoJld t--1aJld. He used the same
mobile/camera phone for reconnaissance activities in the year 2009
dunng his VISits to India and Denmark. This mobile phone With the
Sim card used by Head ley in [rjla ( ' " ~ " ~~814) was seized from his

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POS<;CSSlcn t.l the FOJ at the C' rC.tlgc. ilirport. He had returned the

GP5 devl(E" to SaJid Majid In Aqt:lSt-'2008. IIead\ey recollected that

the GPS he used was a product (,i Garmm Company.
DUring his stay In Pakistan, Head:ey hed used two mobile phones. He
used to get all the calls (rom the LeT operatives on these two mobile

phOnes. Headley understands thet these telephones have been seized

In Pakistan on the request of the USA {luthorities.
In 2006, Headley had receiv ed money from Dr. Rana while In India,
from a bank located near the Trident Hotel, Mumbai. He does not
re<ollect the name of the bank.
Headley had explored the sea-route option duri ng hiS VISit to India In
April 2008. Prior to this visit in March 2008, Headley had met a
frogman In the LeT camp In Muzaffarabad. The frogman was
Introduced to Headley as Abdur Rehman. Headley believes that the
frcgman IS from the Pakistan nav,!.
Apart from tile places known to CJs, Headley had conducted detailed
vldeograpy of some other places for future attacks. They i_nclud~. the
reSidence of the Vice President of Indla.L.lndia Gate, PaharaganJ in
Delhi and the CBI office and the EL AI office In Mumbal.
Headley identified some of the prominent locations on the Google
earth map Involving our case. They Include the house of Hafiz Saeed,
Abdur Rehman Hashim, his own house and a couple of LeT safe

houses In Pakistan.
Headley disclosed his personal knowledge of some of the prominent
attacks In India by LeT. He stated that HaJi Ashraf's nephew
participated In the Akshardham -emple attack In 2002:... One of the

attackers whom Headley IdentlfieJ, had participated In the attack on

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the FoI'I , Sl"ri :'lan mohan Singh's ra lly In SlI na9'lr In 200 i .To"lI'> ultilcker
':las IralnEd by Abur Rehman Ka'!ihi'm. He did not knoV! tho:! name but
identified ttl'.:! ne phew 01 Abu Qah.2lfa as being among [he len
au:ad<ers In the 26/ t I terror stnke. All these attackers lI:ere killed on
the spot Abu H~m za , who participated In the Banga lore attilck ul
2005. IS ifl Sajid's group. Hl'ildley had ~een him a number of tunes in

t V, Headley id~nti fied the !ndl,)n trained with him during 2003 in Pakistan
as AzmGI. Almal, according to Headley, was arrested In India. ~Ie

belielles !hJt Armalls from Mahilrashtra.

\/. Headley's e:wmlnation led to {he discovery Of some more emalHds.
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Rehman Hashim among others.
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[rnrTledla!e action wil l be taken o n the actionable points. The FBI WIll
m fcIlTlally proVi de some documents whICh 'IIdl be cru cIal fOf further ing

th e In ve5t.gation.

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Statement of accused David Co l ~ ma n H e adley @

Daood Gila ni (pres~ntlY i n the custo dy of the us
auth orities) as recorded on 3"1, 4 t h , 5 11'1, 6t h , 7 t h, 8 t h ,
g ift o f J un e , 2010 in conne ct ion with case
No.04/09 -NIA /OLI at Chica go

1. Per sonal de tails

1. Name David
(ali as Ca leman
paren t age ) Headl ey
@ Daood
Gila ni

2. Date o f
30 .06.19 60
bi rth
3. Place of United

birth States
Na tiona lity
Am Erican,
Pa kistan i
origm
5. Outfi t I
lashker- E-
rank Toiba
6. Fa t her
Syed Sa lee m Gil an i
,. Perma n e nt 563, Rosa lie Street
address Philadelph ia , 19120 USA

6,Canal Bank Road , Feroz pur

Road, La hore, Pa kistan
S. Relig ion t-1uslim

9. Desc, ipt iv e Pony hair , Tall well buil t w ith

roll
. fai r comD tl;.' XI C i~

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10. Pla ces
I ndia - Murub ai, Delh i, Pune, 1
.... islted Goa, Pushkar (Aj mer)
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Pakistan - Karach i, !
Muza f fa rabad , Lahore, Ouba i,
Denmar k, Germa ny, Ut<,
Sweden
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11. Prese nt Unemployed ;
occupatiQn
12. Name in
David Cote ma n Headte ,/
passport
13. View about Jihad IJSa\afi/Ta kfiri
religion
14. Education
Graduate
IS. Computer
Yes
lit eracy

16. Languages English, Urdu , Arabic , Hindi ,

kno wn PU!1jgpL-
-98 19829221
17. Phone 98209 108 14 Used 11 India
numbers
39920280935

PART - II

Fam ily / Relationships deta ils~

1. Name, allZls Dav id Co leman Headley

@Daood GrlMi
2. Fat her 's name Syed Saleem Gilani
3. FattH~r's profe ssion Pakistan i Civil se rva nt

4. Mo ther's name Ser r ill Head ley

5. Brothers Hamza, Daniel

6. ~ , Sisters Sherzada


7. Wlfe(s ) Shaz la Gilani

Fa iza Outa lha
I B. Sonfdaughte r
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Haider
Osam a
Sumya (0)
Hafs. 0)

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T HE IMPORTANT PEop lE

(1) Sajid Maj id : Saj id was born In 1976. His fathe r's name is

Abdul I'-laje ed and he used t o work in Saudi Arabia . Sajid's

father had migrated fr om Indlan Punjab du ring 1947

parti tion. Sajld has at least two brothers . Du rin g one of

my ea rly mee ti ngs with Saj id, he told me that one of hi s

brothe rs was work ing In Chi cago, though he never told me

the details and also I never Inqui red about him as much .
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He has two older sis.l:$! rs also who are married . I had seen
him for t he first t ime In front of th~ Lahore High COurt

when we ha d gon e to set tle some cases of Hafiz Saeed. I
Sajid had been introd uced to me by Ra mz an o,lLe_T by hl5

original name .

Saj id was one of t he earliest m embl!rs of LeT. He did his
Daura e khas when he was ~round 18 years old. Sajld was
earlier head' of Laho r e unit of LeT . Arter that he became I
Secretary to Abdurrahman Maki and From t he n started
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looking after ove r seas affairs and c:adres of Lashkar Salid
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lives near Airport In la hore. The road which goes to air port

from the crossing of Ga rrison go lf dub .a nd then turns left

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and wh ile gOing straight from there, on th a t road his I
ho use was 400 mts ahead on the left. At th e ti me of my
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first mee ting, Sal ld was not a part of the I ndian set up of
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LeT.

(A se tup is actualJy a unic which IS composed of lOp LeT

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men whose brothers or familv members have died fighting I
in Kashmir. The members of tile setUQ then h av e tlllr uwn

m en fori under them. A setup is a compact U()lt which is

oJIVe n iJ g .::ograp/lI(;.;JJ jtJrlsdiction. )

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Then in 2004 ~zzammi J again In t roduced me to Sajld at tl

safe house in MuzaffarabiUj.'saj id got married aro und

three years ago. I also attended the marriage. Saj id's

father in law retired as a Cha pl in (Mauv'i) from Pak navy.

Hi,. fath er In law stays in Karachi. SDJ id hilS a son and

when I was arrested in Oct 2009~ his wife was expecting

aga in. The words 'p olar bear cub' us ed in my emalls w ith

Sa)id (rare laymao @hotmail,corn ) are a refNe nce to Sajld' s

son . In Lahore Sa jld lived in an area wher e a boy of Briti,?h

nationality, who had done DatJriJ-e Aam 8 with me, also

lived , Th is British boy, whose n am e I don't f!~mem bE:r used

to tell me about Saj /d.

Wast and Ibrah im were oth e r ~I!!s:.:.e::s..:o~f _Sajid. Once Sajid 's

brothe r-i n law (Beh noi) told me t hat Sa jid had (! number

o-f passports in d if feren t names:. One passport was In the

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I Christian
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Sajid was r~ lse d in Karachi and as pe.r my know ledg e he

graduat ed from a colle.ge in KarachI. He has bee n t o Sau di

A r~bj a a number of times as his father was wOrking there.

Apart from Saud L, Sa11d has be en t o Du bai , Qatar, Syria,

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J Saj id was t rying to se !;. Up., a LeT base in Thailand . For this
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lin 200 6, but this venture co uld not be a success . I

Saj id is a ver y secretive pers o n . H~ is very meticu lous and I

hi;!s a good eye for details, He has ne'Jer been to an y I
ope ration al area . As per Saji d, h~ wa;; once a rrested in I
Dubal and he could get out on ly beCal,J$e o f his LeT

conn ections . He the refore avoided trav elling to Duba i.

He has a good unde rstanding of computers and t he ey ber
world . He is extre mel y careful in ha nd lir"l g the ema il IDs.

He often uses 1'1 sate llit e p hone w h ile in MuzafFarabad .
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Saj id !'l as a strong an.;:j d istInct S~lafi Influe.nce of Saudi
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Arab on him . He had u ndergon e a plastic s ~~ r_ge ry .

However t here is not much chonge in his face aft ~ r the

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surgery . I have identified the photograph sh o ...... n b y you. J
r In a nd a round Jan uary 200S , r sta rted reporting to Sajrd
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t-lajid . The photog raph which I had ident ifie d as Sa j id's I
was his pict ure befo re t he surgery . Sajid is ext remely
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("!e ve r and a co mpete n t h and le r. Sajid wo u ld a lways take
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prec au t ions not to ex pose my act ivi t iS to any other

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handle r.

(2) Abdu r Rehman Hashim @Pasha @ Ab durrehman 15 a

r~t i r e d maj or of 6 Ba laeh of Pakistan ~ rmy. He was born

th

is 1968. His father's nam e is: Major Abd ul Ghan i who was

also In 61.h Sa loeh. Pasha was a hardcore j ihadi. In 20 02,

his army unit was station ed on the Pak istan side of Tara

Bora mo untai ns . Abdu r Rehman was asked by his

commander t o fig h t aga inst Taliban wh ich he refus!W. He

was demoted to t h e r ank o f Captain as <! punish m ent but

again gat the rank of a Major . He Quit army In 20 02, and

started working for ilhadi organ iza t ion s, He alo ng with _

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t:1a jor Haraan and Capt ain Kh urr am used to t rain cadres of

LeT. _

I first met Pasha at the Qad isiya Mosque in Lahore.

Qadisiya is a LeT Mosque and every Friday Hafiz Saeed

read s Kfwtba there. Abdur Rehm.an went to Govt . College

LenOrE! and after coUeg e he g r aduatt"d from Paki sta n

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Milita ry Acad emy . I n my first meeting with Abdur Rehmen,

[ found him to be dedica t-ed towards Jihad , He app roved of

sU Icide bombin g of Ba r l i m am , I have Ident ified his

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photogra ph shown by you . [ learnt that he has been

arrested on 4 ~ or 5th of October, 2009 by Pak authorit ies.

(3) Haroon b roth ers : Major Haroon@Haroon-ul -Isiam 15 also

an ex-a rmy officer f rom 10 Punj ab of Pakistan army. Cl!pt .

Khurram was hls younger br,o ther. I mel Khurram and

Hareon t hroug h Abdur Rehman. Khurram and Hamon were


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in late 2003. . Khurram

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Pasha fough t alongside Taliba n

"Khurram wa s killed on 30 March, 2007 In Afgha nista n

in Afg hanistan .

fig h ting w ith Canad ia n fo rces. Haroon and Khur ram

were very ra dical in their views. Hareon had started
'1 / work ing for IIIyas Kashm ir; in 2006.

(4) Maj or Sameer Ali : An lSI Offi cer. I had met him a couple J
of times tn Lahore. We were In touch through teleph one

.coand _ema il s.._

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( S ) Major Iqbal: An lS I officer. Appeared to me t o be u
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person In his mid~ t hi rt i es ( height : 5'9", fat. with

mousta ch e, big he ad, thick h air , deep voice) .ln the 111

meeting h e '1-, as we aring a fuJI 5!ee.... ed shirt. In my

understandin g he smokes ci garettes. Haj or Iqbal

introduced me to h is boss =-Lt.

Col HamZd was a m an in his early for ties . He is baby faced

and also overweight by the army standard . He must be

five feet six inches in he ight. He 3Ppeareo to be f r om

Punjab. This I cou ld guess from the accent tn wh ich he

talked to me. They listened to my entire plan to attack

rnd la In ou r 1 51 r"!1 eet ing. Th is meeting lasted for mo r~ than

two hOurS. The Lt. Col ass ured me of the financial he lp and

directe d me t o follow the directionS of Malor Iqbal from

t l m~ to t ime. He also directed me (0 In for m about all f11 Y

activi ti es to Major Iqbal. That was (h e first and last

meeting w it h Lt. Col Hamza . Major Iqbal remained my

handler . I informed all events related to my act ivit ies to

I'-lajor Iqba l .

{ 6} Hafiz Sa eed : He is the Chief (Am ee r ) of LeT. He Is very

close to 151. All the activities of Lei a re re.o orted to hi m . 1

think he is d ip lomatIC and never ta lks directly. I have

shown you his house in Goog le eart h map. He is INeli

protected. He was aware of my activities and en couraged

me. WIthout his approva l 26/ 11 could not have ha ppe ned.
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,. . . (J) Zaki ur Rehman Lakhv.: He is the ch ief military

commander of LeT . 1 underst and that he is the main
architect of 26/1 1.-~

{B) Abu Qahafa : He is direct ly involved in the Mumbai atta ck.
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I Found him to be tech savvy. Abu Qahafa ha d done the

83it-ul' Rizwan t ra ining w ith me. He is married t o Abu

S<)eed's sister . He/wor ked with Sajid Majid and tr ained the
att ackers af Mu mb ai. Abu Qahafa was cr it icize d by his

tra iners dur ing the Ba i t-u l -R!zw~n train ing. On e o f the

nep hews of Abu Qaha f<fl had particip ated in the Mumbai

a ttack.

(9) Muzzammil: Muzzammi l was born in 1976 and is ove r 6ft
4inches ta ll. He sports a tong bea rd and is very we ll built.

His fam ily li ves in th e ou tskirts of Gujra nwa la. Muzzamm il I
is ve r y

com pan ion .

close to Za ki

Mu zzam mi l
an d

neve r
is his most

contradicts
trus tworthy

Zaki, He

according to me is t he biggest Chi'lmcha (brownnoser) of
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Zi'lk i. He was In\lolved in t he killi ng of Sikh~ in
Chhi t is ingllpura village of Kashmi r, Th e kil ling o f loca l

Kashmir! mi li tants held r espons ible fo r Chh it isi n ghp ura w as

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ex ploite d by LaShkar an d used as a pr-opagan da ag<l inst

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few wee ks of our first meeting , Abu Oujana ,:.,as given a

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house bv Lashkar in the LeT camp at Mu ridke Abu Dujana I
told me tha t once he was shot by a Villa ge Defence

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committee m em ber in Kashmir. Abu Duj ana Is Sft 81n . I
I
met Abu Duj ana in t he m ode l town office of lashk~ r . Abu

Duj ana was a sen ior co mman der of LeT . Two of Abu
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Dujana's brot hers were killed in Kashmir, His yo unger
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brot her w aS kil led before 2.001 b u t his older br ot her was I
killed in September 2003, I we nt to A bu Dujana 's house a

few times . He is married with two kids. He IS in his ea rly

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forties and has dark bro w n ha ir . He is orig inally from

Bahawalpu r .

(12) Abu Ham

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U;!T oper<'Jtive. Had operated In Ind ia. He
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had part icipated In lISe Bangalo re attack .

('13) Abd\JI Aziz He is also known as Abu Reha n . He had

visite d India a number of tim es. He Is believed to be the

ma n behInd the Bangalore attack in India in 2005. Abdu l

A!:..iz was not part of the Mu mbai at tack group. Ab u Ham za

who par t ici pated in liS e Ba nqalore attack had worked

under him . A ft er t he Bangalore att ack, I believe they go t a

p ~t from Zakl. He frequEn tly visits Saudi Arab ia .

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14) Col. Shah: lSI officer, close to

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is) Col. Hamz a: lSI offi cer dose t o LeT. His act ual rank is
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.1 6) Ab u Alqama: Commander of LeT. DIRECTLY INVOLV ED
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I N MUMBAI CONSPIRACY. f have ident ified his phot o

shown by you.

J--:1:7) M d . Yaq ub : Chief of M va l wing of LeT. He w",s In volved

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in Mumbal attack clearly.
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(1S) A b u Ai m a n: Abu Aiman had done the Oaur.J-e -Khasa

wi th Sajid MaJ id . Abu Alman's fa the r Is a ba nker. Abu

Alman's ste p moth er Is [he w idow o f Abu Fatullaha who

die d figh t in g in Kashm ir. Ua mm -e-H am m ad @ Ume Haze ,

the moth e:r of Abu Alman ,.." rites songs for the LeT. Sh e IS

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also th e in -charge of aU wom en's activities of LeT . Ab u
.

. Alman resides in Muridike. One of t he brothers of Abu

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Aiman, Abu Usman had participated with MUZ2ammii In the

massac.re that took place before Preside nt Clinton ' s visit to

India. Abu Us m an died while fighting in rndla . He imparts

training in LeT .

(19 ) NaS 3r Ja ved: The traIning Chie f of LeT. 50 ye<:l rs old.

Influen t ia l and cl ose to ZakL

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( 20) Abu S.aye ed: Abu Sayeea wOr ks under Nasar Javed who I
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js the ov e rall t raining in charge of LeT . Sayeed is ta l l about I

5'11 ", around 42 yea rs ol d; and is slight ly ov e rweight. He
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has done h is Master's in Eng ineering fro m Fa isalabad. He
I
once rOre his degree befo re Z akj in order ro show his

commitmen t tOW<lrds ji ha d, I th ink it was a glm mick as

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eve rybody knew t hat one cou ld get a duplicate deg ree . I I
once trav elled wit h Sayee d from Muza ffa ra bad to Lahore in I
Dec 200 4 .
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( 1) LeT : Th e chief patra n of the ou tfit IS Hafi z Saeed.
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Abdur Rehma n Ma ki, Zaki-u r- Rehma n L;;Ikhvl a r e th e

im port ant mem bers o f t his outfit . It is bas ed on the Sa lafi

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faith of Islam . The objective of t he outfit is to establish I
~ Nizam -e - Mustafa " (Ru le of God). I fee l that LeT is mo r e
t
inc lined for j ih ad in Kashmir. At present so me ideo log ica l
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battte amongst the t op brass 15 going on re lating to jihad
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in Afghan ist a n. ~o met ime In 2008 I fe lt that Le t is not

s. in.cere and co m mitted to t he p lanne d actions . India wi ll

rem ain a ta r ge t fo r LeT .

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1. I was born In t he year 196 0 in t he Unit ed States of
.,

Am erica. My fath er Syed Gilan i was a Pakist ani
national an d mother Ms. Serr il Headley was a USA

na tional. I have one sister by the name Stlerzad, who


wa s born in Pakistan in 1963. Sh e is a doct or by

pr ofess ion . She is mar ri ed and se ttled in f-1aryland ,

Bal t imore, US A. After my birth, t he famH y r elocated

to Pak ist an wher e I was r aised, ! went to a m ilit ary

school located in Hasa n Ab da l, Attock Di strict, Punjab ,

Pa kist " n know n as Ca det College Hassa n AbdaJ. My

fathe r , after divorCing my moth er remar ried in

Pakista n to on e Sa yeda Begum .
2 , rn 1977 I was re-Iocate d to the Un ited States to live
With my mother, who had d ivorced m y father in 1966.

. My moth er gr ew up in Bryn Mawr . She was the Owner

of a pub by t he name Khybe r Pass pub/ restaura nt at

56 S.Sccond St . In Philadelphia . In USA I studied
accoun ting. at a commun ity college in Philadelphia I
region. V'l ith m y mother, I operated a v ide.o store, I
Fhks video, in Cen t er City, New York. t-Iy m other
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handed over the pub t o) me. In the yea r 1985 t rook ,


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and then left this business.
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over the charge of the pub . I ran it myse lf for a ye;:lr

3. [ have two half-brothe rs named Hamza GHan i and

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Daa nya l Gilam. Daanyal and Ha mza were born in

19 73 and 1976 respective ly. Both of th e m a re in the

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Pakista n c jllil services . Oaanyat was also posted as

the Information Office r in the Pr ime Minist er Offke or

Pakis tan .' My fa th er had worked In the Pakistan

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8 roadcasting Department. He h ad gone t o t he USA

on deputati on t o Voice o f Am er ica .

4. We are or iginally fr om the Dinanagar , Ajanala,

Gastart ide, Punj ab. Hy father ha d rema ined In UP for

some t im e b efore part ition . He had don e 1~ 1 5

schoo ling from the lslamia School in EttaNoh. After

his school education.. he had studied In the Govt .

College l ahore .

5. I got married t o Shaz la GHa n i In Pakista n ir1 the year

1999 . Shazla is the daug ht er of Javed Ahme d. I do

not wa nt t o discu ss the detai ls on my in law s' fam ily

as t hey have nothing to de with my activities . I"l y wife

and fo ur cr.i\ dre n a re prese n tly based In Chici;lg O,

USA. I do not w"nt to discuss anything pertainin g to

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th em . My request would be no t t o ask questions

re lating to my immediate family members. I

however, .a ssur e you that duri ng my questio ning fo r

clarifications and understandin gs of t he con text of t h e

conspiracy, whe never requ ired, I 'IIoul d make

relevant m ention of them.

6. JOi ni ng of lashkar-E-Toi ba (LeT) in Pa kistan :

During my stay in Pakistan! used to go to Qadl slye

mosq ue to. offer prayers. Once I saw a poster/banr,er

of LeT in Lahore req u est ing ror fu nd s t o fight j ihad in

india. I was touched by the poster . Th e poster h ad

the ~elep ho nE! n u mber of the leT's office based 10

r'vlodel Town, Lahore. I called up t he nu mber give n in

the poster. Two persons (on e of them is Abld, a

member of LeT who worked in the Model Town office

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of LeT, now sett led in Spain ) ca me to my house in

Lahore and coll ected Rs . 50, 000 from me in cash .

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They req uested me to partiCipate in a t.?cture In the

same evening t h at wou ld be d~ljver~d by the LeT

chief, Ha fiz saeed .n t he house o f OJ L::i hore based

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businessman Shaikh Nadj ~ ha l kh Nad im '5 a kn ow n

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busine.ssman, of Lal1,pr.e, He stays near the m ode l
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town office of LeT. Shaikh Nadlm 's elder brother who

Is In his ear ly sIxties Is Shaikh Nayeem . Both the

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~h-=~~ are the known financiers of the LeT
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Laho ~e. _T he recent bombing of the Ahmediya mosque

In 2010 happened very close to Shaikh Nadim 's

house. The Shaikh brothers are invo lved in the

d oth ing business in l ahore . Th e lecture o f Hafiz

Saeed on t he re levan ce of jihad an d his m enUon o f

Hadfth really Influenced me. Hafiz Saeed quot ed a

Hadith w hich said that ' a m oment spent In Jihad gives

you much more saYlaab(rewa rd) tha n the mill ions of

namaz offered in Kaaba ~nd that too on t he nigh t of

lal/at ur Qadr'(a pious night of Ra mada n).

7. I met Hafiz Saeed fo r the first time during this

meeting. Abid toox me to Hafiz Saeed and introduced

me to him. I was lr"1fluencEd by the address of Hafiz

Saeed. When I returned home I checked the ve r aci ty

of th ls from hadith. I found out th at Lt was a Bukharj

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Hadith (sa yings of pro phet co mpiled by l mam

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Buk.har i ). I was attracted towards Ji had.

8. After tw o week s fro m this meet in g I aga in met Ha fiz.

Saeed in Muridke In One o f the "I stamas' of LeT.

OlJrin g t his meeting, Abdu r Rehman Makki was also

present. Abdur Reh ma n Makkl also delivered a lect ur e

in th is {stama. Du ring t his br ief meet ing Han.: Saeed

told me to b e prese nt till the comp letion of the I
{stama . Abdur Rehman Nakkl IS the son of HClfiz
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Saeed's maternal uncle. Hafiz Sa eed 's w ife's younger

sister is married to Abd ur Re h m af1 l""1 akk i.

9. Abid, the pe rson who took me to t his meeting no I
longer wo r ks for LeT. One Ramza n had taken Over I
the charge of the t-1 odel Town, lahore LeT camp from
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Abid. During th is phase I used to regularly go and

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offer prayer at t he Qa dislya mOSQu e In Laho r e.

Qadisiya mosque is t h e Mosqu e o f the LeT, guarde d

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by the ar med LeT cad res. Hafiz Saeed and Ab dur I

Rehman Makki u sually come and offer t he ir Frid ay I
namaz: read Khutbd in t he- Qa d is~ mosque .
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10. Ramza n introduced me to Abu Duja na. Abu DUJa na

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(age : 35/40, Height 5'8", sl im with a long be.ard) w as

a ve(eran who had fought in Kash mir. He and

Muzzamm il were together in Kashmir, He rema ined

t here from the year 1998 to 200 1. Abu Dujana told

me that once he was sho t by Vil lage O-efence

Com m ittee ( VOC) members in Doda dist r ict of J&K.

He had fu ll praise for t he courage of t he VDC

members. I went to A-bu Doj ana's house a few times.

Abu Dujana stay s In t h e co m pound of the Muridke

Mosque with hrs mother, wife, widow of his brother,

on e youn gt'!r broth er an d his children .

11 . [ n Nov 2000. I returned to USA. Dur ing t hese years

I never used to stay in Pakistan for mo re t han a

month. My business was In New York which was

being looked after by my cousin Farid in my absence .

By this time my store was no t dOing very well.

12 . On and il rou nd 2001. I fi r m ly decided to join LeT

and Fi ght for the cau se of Jihad. I met Ha fiz: Saeed

dur ing th e Friday prayers at Qa disiya Mosque.

13. I wanted to clos~... Il)Y vi de o store in USA and join

the activities of LeT. I wanted t o sell it. Subsequently

I decided to rent it ou t. [ gave it on rent to an Italia n ,

person. I wanted to contribute the mon ey that 1 used

to get from the store fo( the cause of Jihild . I

discussed this m O!! tter w it h Hafiz Saeed an and around

Ju ly 20 0 1, w hich he very pollte ly decl ined , He

suggest ed ' me to remain away from such earnings

which are against t he basics of Sa/~fi thought.

14, During my stay in Pakistan we used to debate on

the jihad and other aspects of fighti ng the so ca lled

" crusa der iorce" (the non-Is lam Lc forces fighting

against the: jihadis ). J even used to discuss Sol/afi

thought with 3 number of schol ars . R(1mzan and Abu

Duj ana mot ivated me to j oin t he Da u ra~e-Sufa for m y

unders ta nding of j ihad and LeT.

~ T rai ni ng undergone as the member of LeT: On

~a~n~d:. .:a~r~o~u~n=d:. .F:~e=b~r~u~a~rv:. . :2~O~O~2:,:. . I:_w: .:e~n~t_f~o~r--,th~e,- ,D: . :ca~u~ra~-~e~-_ _

Sufa training for thr ee weeks in Murldke. Th is traini ng I

was orga nized bone Abdur Rehman Abid Age :<12 ,

from Punjab, Pakista n). This t raining included

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lectures on " ToMd" and othe r practices of Isla m 's

SaJafi school of thought. Dur mg th is course, the

mother of Ha fiz S.;3eed expir ed, $0 aU of us went from

the tra ining camp to Saeed's place and expressed our

condolence .

1 and around August 2002, I joined the three ~

trai ni ng program Da'Jra- e-Amma in

Muzaffarabad . One Abu Hanzaia was our course

coardln~tor . During t his tra ining I met Abu Aama r

also , Abu Aamar was a respected co mm ander of LeT

who had fought in Kash mir for a lon g time. He was

ha nd icapped In his left ha nd as a resl.Jlt of a gunshot

injUry. 1 do not recol lect of m eeting him a fter my

tra inin g . Du ring th is t raining there was a tra i n~ e from

New Zea lan d and he had a lot of difficu lty In following

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t he trai ni ng as he was a recl!:nt convert. 0 f2inQY.->JJ

Da ura, Hafi z Saeed also visited the t raining camp and _

-delivered a lecture .
17 . In the year 2002 , I met Muzzammi l Butt, a Kash m ir!

In f'.l l lzaffa rabad . Ab u Dujana Introd uced me to

Mu l:amm lL Muzz~mmil ~n d Abu Du)a na ha d st.;lyed

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toge ther In Kas hmi r. Muzza mmil IS a very imp ort ant
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opera tiv e of LeT. He was invo lved jn a series o f

atta cks on I ndia n secu rity rorce s when he was In

Kashm ir. [ recollect t h at o nce Muzzam mil h ad told me

how he had gone and kIlled civilians In a village In

South Kashmir before th e Visit of the then US ,

President, Bill Clin ton to I ndia. Afte r comin g to

Muzaffarabad, he was initially give n the charge of th e

I ndia op erat ions .

lB. On and around the early sum mer of 2002 , I was

Introduced to Abdur Rehma n Hashim @ Pash a by Abu
Dujana at the Qa disiya Mosque in Lahore. In my first
mee:tlng w it h A bd ur Re hman, I found hi m to be

dedfcated towar ds jihad. Dur ing my stay in Pak i,Sta n,

I used to regu larly go to Abdu r Rehman Hashim's

house. 1 ca n identify his house in Lahore.
19. Abdur Re hman Hash, im is v ery close to me. Abd ur I
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Rehman and Ma jor Haroon wer e t he trainers in LeT I
who pr epared the operatives for combat duti es and
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suicidal attacks. I rec ollect wh en 1 was undergoing
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the Daur a e-Khasa course in the ye ar 2.00 3, Abdur
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Rehman use d to train a sU icida l squad to carry out

ilttacks il"l Ind ia jn a ne arby locat ion . On 3nd around

,
2004, the In dian PM's rally waS atta cked in Srinagar

City by It'':T. This attack was carried out by one of the

trainees of Abdur Rehma n .

20. In LeT, before join ing the training course viz ., the

Da ura - e - Kh~sa one needs to get hIs name

recommended by a sen ior functionary of LeT. I got

myse lf recom m ended from one Abu Shoaib of Lah ore.

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Abu Shoalb (age 40, then} h(!d se rious disagreement

on the Ka lu cha k attack in Jammu ca r r i~d by the LeT

on 14 1'-lay, 2 002. After th is inc id ent he started s lowly

distMCi ng himself from the LeT . HowelJer, h e gave

me t he recom me ndat ion. I had g one [0 his no use in

la hore t o obtain t he recomme n dation le tter. Abu

Shoaib In the coming days Formed a small 9rou P

know n as "CaraViln -e-lsldm " to figh t In Afghan istan.

2!.. On and .around Ap ril 2003 , I joined the DauriJ -e-

Khasa in MuzaHarabad . This wa s a (hree months

:::ou rse . Furqan and Sanau llah were my tra iners fo r

this Vavra, thoug h Saye ed was the overall in- charge

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of Oa ura e Kha5a . Furqan

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IS from Kat Addu In ~
Southern Punjab,Pak ist an .
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22. Abu Sayeed wor ks under Nassar Javed who is the
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ove ral l tra ining in charge o f LeT.

23. This training was tough . I had so me problems with

on e Abu Furka n. So I left the trai ning In betwee n a nd
came ba ck to Lahore . 1 shared m y problems with
Zakl -u r - Reh man Lakh vi. Afte r fo ur day s I decid ed to

Joi n t he t rai ning again, r r esumed t he t rain ing and

co mpleted It on and aroun d Ju ly 20 03.

2.4. After the comp let ton of tra ini ng r m et Zak i and
expressed my des ir e to flight in Kashmi r. However
Zak i decl ine d my re quest and men t ioned th at I WOlJ ld

not fit t he age criteria to fight in Kash m ir. He handed

over me to Yaqoob , one of th e close assoc fates of

Zak i. Yaqoob is with Zaki since 19 84. Yaqoob resides

in the " Bait-ul-M u jah lddfn' in MU2affarabad .
25. On and around Aug ust 20 0 3, I j oined the three
week Daura-e-ribat in the Man she ra valley . The basic J
obj ective of : his train ing was to m ake Ucontact" . Ribac
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is deriv ed fro m wor d rabca which means t o be IfI

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con tact ',';lith. Cantact/rabta Is a very important tactic

of LeT, where every operative is contacted by hi s

handler qUite freque nt ly. Daura -e - ribat Is mostly for

the people who have: to recrU ft or be in co nstant

cont act vJ lth othe r operatives , Abu Us man was one of

t he principa l trainers during t his course. Abu Usman

is t he younger brother of Nasa r Javed. wh o is the

ove r all In charge of training . Fo r this train ing , a roo m

wa s ta ken on re nt by t he LeT. Th ere were 17(18

cadres of LeT with m e du r ing th is training. One

Abdulla h and Sonau llah were also t h e trainers in th IS

cou r se . One Abu Azma l (28), who I b elieve is (r om

Ma harashtra ( I ndia) wa s do ing the tra inin g '''' Ilth mi;.

Subseque nt ly once Muzzam m il had t old me tha t

Azma l was arre sted In In dia sometim e in 2006/07 .

This arrest was broa dcast on th e TV also. 1 had met

Azma l dunng the . . rsatma" o f LeT in October 2003

also .

26 . On and around September 2003, I atten ded the

" lsatma " of LeT. r was di r ected t o attend another

train ing of LeT known as B~ it - u'Rizwan. On and

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aroun d De cember 2003, I did th~s training fO r four

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months . Th Is t rain ing was based on t h e un- armed

combat an d cl ose Quarter battles. Bait - u/- Riz wan


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stresses m ore on salafi and DeM andi ideology. Abu ,
Alman was the in-cha rge of the t ra ini ng. Abu Aiman I
ls arou n d 33 year s old " nd is Fro m Southern Punj ab.

He ;s fat bu t his re flexes are q uite sha rp . During this
trai nin g I came across a trai ner wh o was an NCO in

the Pakistan ar my and an expert in un -a rmed

combat. 1 consider hi m as an ex cellent trainer. r do

not reco llect his na m e. Abu Qal'lafa had done t h is

t raining w it h m e.
27 . On and ar ound July 2004, a t\vO week tra ining I
prog ra m me on leadership sem inar was he ld in I
Abbota bbad . Abur Rehman Maki and Zaki-ur-Rehman
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Lakhvi we r e prese nt during th is seminar , Th iS course

IS ca lled " Dhaura-e - Ta dribu( MusaJeen" . Durin g t h is

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Daura . speec hes were given by Hafiz Sa eed , I
Abdurrahma n Mak i and others. 1'-l au lan a f'l asood I
Azhar also gave a speech durin ~ th is Daura. It was a
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week long Daur a. During t his Daura two lun ches we r e
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organized by Za ki in wnich selected peop le were

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Invited. I was al so Invited, Du r ing t he lunc h there was

discussion about how to effectively deal with bann ing

of Le T by the Pakistan gover nment . Zakl disa pproved .

Of the Idea of fight in g a lega l battle on th is iss ue as

he was appre henS iv e of the eVIdence agail1st LeT I

being prod uced by the Ind ian a uthorit ies .

2B . Pos t Training Activ ities i n Pakista n : On and

around A ugust 200 4, I m et Zaki and re quested him

to change m y ha ndle r as I was not com fortab le with

Y ~QOOb. Za ki then handed me over to Muz:zamm il,

Abdur Re ham n was also ..... or king in Mu zz2Immi rs set

up. In h is set up, I came across the following

opera tives li ke Sajid Majid, Abu Anas Abdul Aziz and

the follow in g :

29. Abu Sarla : He was killed in the earthquake in

October 2005 .

30. Mohsin: He w as t he accou ntant of the gro up. He

got kille d in (he earthquake in Oct , 2005.

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3 1. Owais : He has a centra l A$ i ~1l look. He WOlS
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5trong~y con s:ldered to go to Ind ia , He contin ues to be I
in Sajid Majid's gro u p. I
32. Duri ng this period I st arted my dairy farmi ng
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bU5 lneS5. I purc hase d sorne land also. However r
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cou ld nor do '.'Je ll in my business.

33. On a nd aroun d )an u ~ry :W05, I starte d reporting to

I
Sajid Majid.

Aft~r t his I st;;Hted working under Sajid I
!-laj id. Though I" 'luzzammfl was m y handler bu t it was
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Saji d who us~d to interact with me frequenUy .
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34. Prep aration for visit to India: Because after t he

train ing I was nat sent to Kashmir, ( became

skeptical a bo ut my future. Increasingly (-deve loped a

feeHng t h at I am no t being used properly. I

mentioned these Issues to Zaki, Muzzammil, Sajid

etc. But I wa s told to wa it. Subseq ue ntly it was

decided t hat I would go to India [0 carry Dut the

activitles of t h e LeT. However at this poin[, it was not

clea r to which place in India r '.'l'ould go , During

dl.5.CU5Sior.s In LeT, several Indian cit ies werE'

discu ssed 'NI'1e re they pro po sed w se r1 d me, Some of

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t hese pla ces wh ich I reco llect were I\olka ta , De lhi,

Mum bai, Nagpur, . a.Qqa lore, Pune, Hyderabad,

~ Uj a ra t etc. The change o f name, establi shment of

!mmigratlon office in I nd ia on b eha lf of Taha wwu r

Hussai n Ran a, use o f Ame r ican pa ssport to con ceal

my identity and so on were my ideas. Th e l eT

apprec iated the se Ideas.

35 . On and arou nd Apr il 200S , LeT c arri ed ou e the

attack on the Muzaffarabad and Sr in aga r bus

sr/ ices. I m med iate ly after that Sajid al ong w Ith

Abdur Reh m an left for I nd ia und er t h e pr et ext o f

wa tch ing th e IndoPak cricket match . Sajid, of course

did not reveal anyt hing about this v isit [0 me .

Howe ver A bdur Rehman ha d give n a deta iled

narration of t his v is it to fndla in Ap ril 200 5. They

wen t from t he Wagha border. They spen t so me time

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In Delhi. Abd ur Reh man had gone to the NDe in Delh i

t,o conduct a reconnaissa nce of the NOC. They had

poss ibly go ne ~o t he ~J'<I A De h re l,.ldu n . O n t heir way

baCk, Abd u r Rehma n reco llected th at Sa jid was

extre mely nervous at Wagh a gs te.

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36. I started working on my na me cha n ge procedure.

On and aroun d Septem ber 20 05 , I wen t to USA. I

contacted attorney Dona ld Drumpf for cha nge of my

name. When! had left Pakista n, I ha d givE!:n Farid's

nu m ber to Sajid Majid. SaJ id ha d contact ed me

dUring m y t r ip to USA.

37. I returned to Pa kist an after the eart hq u ake. I was

told tha t Abu SarJa and Mo h sin had lost their lives in

the. earthq u ake. The m iraculous escape of Abu Anas'

two yea r ol d son was also discu ssed with Sa jid. I met

Zaki's soo WasJ in Muza ffarabad du rin g t his period .

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Wasi was kllled in an act ion in Kashm ir. Whe n I met

Wasi in MuzaHarabad h e was witn an other boy

named Am anullah. Amanull ah was ki ll ed in an action

ne ar Athm uqam, on the Line of Actua l Control (LOC).

It was afte r Za kl's son that Sajid had taken as his
alias.
38. I also met Abdu l Qadir, an ol d LeT co mmander and J
one of the fou nders of LeT. Abdul Qadir was an ex I
SS G arid he retired as a ha va ldar. Qa dir was a
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co mpet itor of Zak i i)nd he wanted to rep lClce Zak i as

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the comma nd er of LeT. When LeT didn 't giv e much

Importan ce to j ihad in Afghan ista n, he left LeT and

went to Afgha nist an and fo ught alo ng Taliban. He

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\ 'lias late r arrested by 151 for work ing with Tah r1 ke u l-

, Taliba n of Pakistan (TIP) and t hen r~ lea s ed after

\ s.ometlme . Zak l told me not to contact Qadi r.

39. I visited Muzaffarabad . Saj id rece iv ed m e on a

motor bike

and took m e to the safe house near the

LeT hospiti)1 in Muzafta rabe d , I met Abu Qahafa. and

Muzzammll In thiS house. ( had seen Abu Qahafa

earlier . Abu Qahafa had done t he Sait ul -Rlz.wan

training wit h m e. He is married to Ab u 'Saeed's sister.

He, in t he days to come , wou ld work Wit h SaJid Maj id

.1nd tra in the: at tackers of Mumba i for the 26/11

attack. One of tne nep hews of Abu Qahafa had

participated in the Mum bai atta ck.

40. Between Octobe r 20 0 S and Decembe r 200 5, 1 h ad

gone t o Muzaffa rabad on th ree occasions. I met Abu

Qahi:l fa, Muzzam mll, Sajld Majid and Ab u An as during

th iS period. Or'l and around end of Dece mber, J along

With Muuammll, Abdur Reh man, SaJid and

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Amahullah (an en.g ine er killed in action ) Vlen t to a

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cam p in Athm uq am . I was not t old abou t t his t rip by
I
the LeT . Muzzamm il visited several Pakistan arm y I
Instal1s t ions d uring our visit. I suspect th ey were
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prepa ri ng tor a n attack, possibly a .train attack in
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Jnd i.;;" The sa fe ho u se In Muza ffarabad u sed to be

calle d by Saji d as 'lee box", S~ j ld, Muzzamm il and

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Qaha fa showed me a num ber of CDs of atrocities on I
I ndian Musli ms . Ba bu Baj r <l n gi's v id eos of Guj arat I
n ots were also show n. During t his meetlng I was also
I
shown a map of Cyberabad. I believe that LeT has

: alrea dy cond u cted t h e survei llance or Raj ~ot (9~

I
refinery ) and it is it pote ntial t arget. I recollect th(!re I
was a discussion on Prof. Purl's assassin at ion in I

~a n ga lo re by the LeT. Abu Hamza executed this

I
action . Abd ul Aziz had superVised this operatIon .
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41. [ n the year 2005, I d id not meet Abdur Rehman @
I
, Pas ha much as he was fig hting alongside Tali ban in

Afgh anista n _ Ca pt . Khu rram (Haroo n's brot her) wa s I

also figh t in g . I agai n m et "\bdur Re hman @ Pasha in I
lan a uary 2006.
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42. Visit to Khyber agenc:y w i th Abdur Rehman

Ha s h im : On and around January 2006, I proposed to

Abdur Reh m an Hash im to t ake him to the Khyber

flgency to introdu ce him t o some of myoid conta cts

of drvgdealing days for ass istance to smuggle

weapons to I ndia, He rea dily agre ed to go with me.

43. In th e m id -eig htie s , I us ed to be in re gular conta ct

wit h one Jeb Sha h, fat her of Nlyh m at Shah of Khyber

agency. t had kept .t hat contact alive. Grad ually [

beca me d ose [Q his son Niyhmat Shah (60years old ).

During m y stay in Pak istan [ was in t ouch with

Ni yhmat Sha h . They belo ng to th e Sh/Q',yaa rribe .

The y are loc at ed at She k mal khel 10 Km away Fro m

Land i Kota l. I also kn ow Ayv b Ar lfdi aootner p erson

fro m the same region. ! used to often drop his name

to RahuJ Bh att to mak e him aware about th e cont acts

th" t I have in the FATA areas .

44 We we n t to Pes hawar fro m l ahore oy bus which

took us almost seven hours. From Pesha war, Khyber

Pa ss IS a t wo hour journey . We took a t Cl )C i and

Droceeded t o wa rds Khy be r Agency. On the out sk irts



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of Pes hawar ilt t he Bagh- e- khyber we were stopped

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by the tribal g uards kno...m as Zamrut. We we re

take n to the Khar Police Sta t ion. Befo re proceedIn g to

th e Po lice Stati on I showed them my Pakistani Id

card . Ma jor Abdur Reh man also snowed his ex-army

card. However they t ook us to t he pOrice stat ion and

condu cted a zama-talashl. The y took av,ay our

telephones from us. We were kept in the Police II

Station with some other' persons. We co ul d manage

to ca ll up Niy hmat Sha h and t old hi m the p roblem .

45. The next day VIe w er e t ake n to t he L<mdl kota l

prison. Fr om there we wer e taken to a location of ,

Khybe r Rifle. We met one t:1ajor Ali@Sheen of l SI In

this location. He sepa rately ta lked to bot h of us. I

narrated hi m my entire story . r told him about my

ass ocia tion wit h Lash kar -e -Toiba an d my ongoIn g

plans t o go to IndIa. He told me tha t earlier so me

years ago while he was post ed in Lahore , he used to

send people to I ndia to collect informa t ion and

int elligence on (he Indian army and citie s. He

remembered hiS wor k and co ntacts that carried out



some wo rk in the Indian city of Pune. He addressed

Abdu r Rehman as "Sir" as Abdu r Re hma n was se nior

to him in t he course. He told me th at some pe ople

w~u rd~._b~e,,-~c~
o~n~t~a~ct~l~n~g-,m::,:
e...::in~l~a~h~o~r~e=-~"~h~o~c:o:u:l:
d_ be
useful .so me in my m fssion.

46. Th e next day, Niyh mat Shah came with an ot her

person t o m eet us. He knew Major Ali. So we we r e let

off .

47. We went to N iyhmat S h ~h's place an d discussed th e

possib ility o f sendin g weapo ns to I ndia. He agreed t o

do 50. He said t hOit the y smug.9led wl":a pons to Indiel

th rough Jam mu , Raja5t h ~n , Guja r at, etc., along w ith

drugs .

48 . upon my re turn, I men tioned t his v isit to Sa j id .

Howev er he d id not seem haPD'Y abo ut th is tr ip.

49 . On a nd a round 2007, I learnt th at, Sajid hOld go ne

to meet Niyma t Shah along with Mu zza m ml1. He did

n ot tell me t h is. Abdur Re:h man did. Reportedly Si3 jid

had paid app r oximately cc..beh alf of

LeT to Niy hmat Sha h ~o smu..:l0 le weapons in to India .


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50. Intro du ct io n w ith Ma jo r I qba l in La hor e: We

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r eached Lahore safe and sound. Arter a couple of I

days of my arr iva l in lahore, I got a call from Major

Iqba l, He called me up on by m otJilink mo bile number.

I
This numbe r Is with me since 200 1 and it is in t he

name of my brother-i n -law Rizwan, 36H, Gu lberg

!
Col ony, Lahore. I had never ta lke d to Major Iqbal I
,
i
before . He gave the reference of Major Ali t o me. He

to ld me to co me and meet him In C'I nearby location i

between the Lahore Airport and th e defence society . I

took m y Hon da City ca r and left to meet Major I qbal.

He guided me to t he location over mobile phone. I

used my mobilink compa n y cell phone for this

pu rpose. As soon as I reached the loca tion, he sent a

pe rso n to pick me up and take me to the location

~ where he w as stationed. J m et l'"1ajor Iq bal. Maj or

I Iqba l introduced me to his boss know n as Lt. Col

Hamza. Lt . Col Hamza was a man In hi ~ early forti es .

He is baby facea .a nd also overweight by the ar my

standa rd . He must be fi ..... e feet six inches in he ight.

He appeared to b(! Fro m Pu nja b. ThiS { cou ld guess

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(r.om the accent in which he tal:':ed to me. They

Ilstened to my e ntlre pla n, This meeting lasted for

more than two hours. The Lt. Col assured me of the

financial h elp and d irected me to fo IIO\'1 t he d irection

of Major I qbal from time to time . He also direCted me

t.o inform about til l my activit fes to Major Iqbal. That

was the first and last meet ing wit h Lt, Col Hamza.

This was t he only t ime [ met him because a fter that

he was transfe rred out of Lahore . Major Iqb2li

remained my ha ndler . In the times t o come, I wou ld

inform all events related to my activit ies to Major

Iqbal . To m y knowledge, Abdur Rehman was also

contacted by the [Sf handlers , A?dur Rehman ne ver

li ked
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lSI han d l<"'rs. We would often d iSCUSS the l SI

h andlers in our gen era l discussions . t had met lSI

Major Sam eer Ali o n couple of oc.casior1S. I was In

contact w ith him through te lephone and emalls . On

an d arou nd 2008 once 1 met one of the lSI h andle rs

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of Abdur Reh ma n Has him named ~ COl Shah . I

understand from my association in LeT chat Za ki was

atso unde r an lS I handler known as Brig. Ri yaz , wh o



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is nOVI ret ired. He used tG bve in a pal<ltial house in
II
"" uzaffarabad, J also realized tha t every LeT operaUvl! I
is hand led by som e IS! o fficial. The same w as t rue of 'I
Muzzammi l an d Saj id Maj id.

51. Visit t o USA for change of name : During the first

wee k of Febr uary 2006 I "' islted USA . like in t he pa s(,
! landed in the JFK international airport in New Yo rk .
I
I went an d met my co usin Farid w ho was in USA. I I
co nFirmed th e progress in my business . Then [ '.'l ent
I
and pursued my name change Iss u es. It did n ot take
I
m uch tim e . My lawyer had a lr eady line d u p t he

ma tte r, I ( ould compl ete my work In a co uple ot

I
days , 1 did not hav e a Pakistani passport. T he USA I
passport is my ordy passport. t had neve r receiv ed I
. any passport issued by my Pakistani hand lers, i was
I
sta Ying in Pak ista n on the Pakista ni v isa issued from

USA by Pakist an Embassy.

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52 . While chu nging my passpon , I did not change my I
Social Sec urity Nu mber ( SS N) of USA. Tho ugh ! was I
In telephonic contoct w ith Dr, Rana, I did not go to
I
Chi cago to meet him du n ng t his t ime.
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to st reets o f La ho re to Impleme n t t he m. I trul y

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enjoyed th is t r aini n g. The tra ini ng giv en by th is NCO

under the guid ance of Maj or Iqba l was much more

scientific and e ff~ ct j v e than the tra inings I did in the

, LeT camp s. 1'<lajOr Iqbal would give me reading

I mat er ia ls inCluding some contain ing Informa t ion

about I ndia, prepa red in Eng lish wi th stamps on each

page as "secret"'. r wo ul d rea d t h ese materials with

gr eat lnterest and t ry and Follow them. Ofte n, r w ou ld

discuSS the iss ues of Dr. Rana with Majo r Iqba l. Major

Iqbal w ou ld t h en aSSur e me he lp for Dr . Rana to visit

Pakistan. Dr. Ra na had deserte d the Pa kistan army

some ti m e In the ea rly n in eHes. After t hat he had I

ne ver come to Pak istan . He was a doctor in t he I
Pa kistan arm y and fro m my coll ege . 1 ha d given Dr .

Ra na's contact nu mber to Major Iqbal.

55 . Visit to USA in June 200 6 to obtain the v i sa for

India: I went to Dr. Rana's place and stayed in his

h ouse for a few week s. Durin g this pe r iod, we had an

elaborate discussion on the establishment of the

lm m igrant La w Centr e (lLC) In f-lu mbai. I told Dr



Rana t he en ti re plan of the LeT an d lSI. [ reqLJ>;:st ed

his help whic h he...... r~adily agreed to provIde. 1 '<now

Mr. Raymond Sand ers since tlle mid-ninet ies. I met

1 r-'1 r. Sa nders in [ he FWIC in Ch ica go. AU the

documents we re prepa red to obtai n my visa. AI!

papers were prepared by Or. Rana and Mr. Sanders. I

went to the Indian Consulate on 29 June 2006, to

obtain the v isa. I did not know t hat for t h e Visa , so

ma ny columns needed to be filled up in the

appl ica tion f orm . [ pr ovided false Information on

fath er 's name and some other partic ulars. [ was told

to come on the next day and collect my visa. (

collected my visa for India, fo r one year, from t he

Ind ian Consu late In Chicago. When I appl ied for t he !

Ind ian vls;;I m y passport had already t h e visa s[a m p \

,

of Pak istan on it. Also, my Pak istan v iSits In Februa ry

an d June were recorded in the passport .

56. Dr. R:ana was also in fluenced by m y thoughts and

actior.s. He assu r Ed all the h elp in India. 1 could

understand th at he had genuine fee li ngs co fig ht for

t he :;:auSe of Isla m On i: ::'!ing asked I state that l



have not travelled with Dr. Rana in July 2006 to

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Pa kistan , lnst ead Dr. Reina's 50n had trave lled once I
with me to Pa kistan. I told Dr. Rana rh()t my nephew I
would seM nl m money wh1ch h~ would ha ve to se nd
I
to me in rndia. Tli my unde r standi ng, Dr . Ran a, apart

fro m having a soft corner for the cause of Islam, also

!,
saw a ge nuine bus in ess opportunity in Ind ia . It was

decided t hat we '.'IIQul d ta lk in English whenever [

ca lled up Dr . Rana fro m In dia.

57. Preparation for visit to I ndia (Aug ust 2006

on wards) : Upon my retur n fro m the USA, r met

se par ately Major Iqbal In la hore and Sajld In

Mu zaffarabad. I sh owed them my I ndian v isa . Maj or

Iqba l came to my home and pa id $25,000 in t hree

bund les ($10,000, $10,000 Mel $5,000). These

bu nd les had no ba nk ribbon on t hem . When I m et

Saj id, he was alrea dy awar-e that I had receive d

mone y from Ma jor Iqba l. The LeT did not provide me

any money for [hiS tr ip . I do not recall wheth er I met

Zaki before m y Visit to I nd i~ .



58. I di d not ca rry th e entire money w ith me. If I

recollect ] carried ~n'\.y $3000 -$4 000 dUring my f irst

trip and two credit cards. During my first t rip, I

ca r ried my m other-in- Iaw 's camera w ith which I

conducte d videog raph y arld phO tog r ap hy. I cannot

recoll ect the model of the camera. I spoke to Dr.

Rana b ~fare my visit. Dr . Rana ga ve me the name

and details of e3shir and told me that Bash !r wou ld

receive m~ at the Mll oohai airport.

59. Fi rs t visit to India ( 14 September 2006 to 14

December 2006): I was recei ved b y B~sh i r at t he

Mum ba i airport . Th is was my Arst visit t o India. I had

never visit ed India in any other name before t his. Of

cou rse, I had trave lled to coun t ri es li ke UK, Fra nce,

Ge r many, Maldives, Sri Lanka, etc., in the nam e

Daood Gilani.

60. I reach ed Hotel Outra m ;1) Mu mbai. I go t t\1e mone y

exchanged with the he lp of Abd ulla h, an em ploy ee in

Hotel Outra m . I purchase d a mob ile phone and a SI M

ca rd . Whi le in India t had nev er co ntaneo anyone

from my cell phone in Pakist an as Inst ru cted. I 'Nould

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I
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com m unicat e wit h Dr. R<;! (la who In r eturn 'tlo uld t alk
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to Pak.istan . i used the cyber cafe of Hathway and a I
couple of ot h er cyber cafe near Hotel Outra m . [ used I .-
the me mory sticks which I pu rchased from a couple
I
of showrooms . One show room I reco llect was near a

book shop close to the Hotel Outra m . I do not

I
remembe r of obta ining any receipt against the

purchase of memory st icks from these sho ps. I

befriended A swi n RaJpCl I, Villas Va ra k, Kan ia z I

Messm an , Rahul Bhat and so on . I had taken ut m ost
I
care to co n cea l my iden t ity . I subm itted a form in

Reserve Ban k of India, Mumba i under the $i gn ~ture

I
of Mr . Raymo nd Joseph Sanders for estab lish ing a I
li aison office of MJs. I mm igrant Law Ce nter, Chicago
I
. at Ta rdec AC Market, Mumbai. During th e later pa rt
I
of Septe mber 2006, I co nducte d an interview und e r

the pretex t o t appointing a sec retary at Sh yam Niwa s

I
for my Immigran t law Centre office. On the 1
r ecommendation of Ms. Kirpa lanl , MS. Mah r uk h R. I
Barucha. a ParS] reS ident of Mumbal, atten ded the
1
Interview an d I appointed her as a Secre ta ry. ! made
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exte nsive photogr aphy of places like BMC building,

Haji All, Gateway of I ndia , Hote l Taj, Applo Bunder,

State Police HQrs of t-1aharasht ra, ON Road, Azac:l

Maidan, Areas close to Hote l Outram , Marine drive

are as and so on. [ received mo ney from Dr. Rana on

1:\"'0 occasions. On both the occasi ons, I rece ived the

mo ney from a bank located very clos e to th e Hotel

Oberoi. 1 bel ieve t he Ca nad ian Consu late IS also

located In the sam e bui ldir1g where I use d to go and

col lect the money . I do not recoll ect the n ame of th e

bank. During t his VIsit, I had not go ne out of Mumbai

in Ind ia .

6 1. Return to Pakis t an afte r the first visi t of India :

Dur in g m y stay in India, t had neve r t alked to an y of

my ha n dl ers In Paki st~n. As soon as I reac hed

La hore, I contacted l"lajar Iqbal and met him at the

fou rt h loca t ion where we us uaHy met. In ract a fter

th is meetIng o nwa rd~, we a l way~ me t on ly at this

} four th location . r met Naja r Iqba l an d sha red my

f '!~pcri en ce w ith hi m . I gave him t he me m ory st ick o f

,
.J(j (l In whi ch I had made. recordi ngs of va r ious

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loca t ions in Mumba L He kl":pt t he memory sl ick w ith
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him, We did not see any of t he v jdeos together, The

next mor ning h e r eturned the memory stiLk to me . I
t
had not given th is memory st ick to Abdu r Rehman
I
Hashim. After ~ couple of days, I left for

Muzaffarabad. I we nt by a bus t o Ra wa lpind i dnd then

from Ptnd i I took a mini bus to Muzaffara b ad . Saj ld I
had come in a jeep to receive me from the bus stand. I
1 stayed at "Ba i[-ul-f'-luJal1idd in " ( here in after BM) . I
I
met Abu Anas, Abu Qahafa, Muzzam mll and Za ki at
I
SM. Ab u An as was work ing li \(e an assistant t o Sajld.

1 could see the growin g importance of Saj id over

I
Muzzammil d ur ing m y stay ~n Br'-1 . ~~jld took t he I
footi:lges from m e. He only discussed on the Taj
I
hote l. Sajld was very particu lar of the antlual
I
confe re nce of the software profess iona ls in Taj. There

was no sp eci fic discussion on any ta rget. 1 could also

I
understand t h at the re was no pl an fo r imm ed i<l te
,
strik e in Indi a. ,
62. [ met Zaki the next mo rnin g. He offered me mi lk -I

and saffron. I Inform ed Zak l abou t my activities.



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Dur ing my stay in BM we saw it nu m ber of v id eos

! r eco ll ect of watch in g videos of la rge

nu mber of $adnus (naked and sem i naked) ta kin g

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holy dip In th e r~ve r Ga ng a. Abu Qahafa would tell if

we could a t tack any such place In Ind ia . I pre sume

that this p lace to be Banaras or foota ges or

K u m b ~ a me l a In Indi a .. [ had nev er gone to any of

t h ese places. SaJid showed inter est in m y assoc ia t ion

Wit h Rahu! Sh at.

63. Upon my re turn to Lahore, [ cont inue d my tra in ing

v-n t h t he NCO give n by Ma j or [q bal to me on var io us

aspects of int ellig ence collect ion . The need to

in t roduce my w ife Falza Outi3 lha is Important h ere . ".~

Before my visit to I nd ia , in t he la st week of Febr u a ry

2007, I got ma rried to Fa iza . She was a m ed ica l

st udent in t h e Lahore m edical college. She is a

Mor occan nation al. I had not disclosed t his marriage

to my wife Shazia . I h ad ta ke-n Sh azia's uncle Sau lat

In to confid en ce.

fr l. [ could n ot m.:~ Abdur Rehman dUring th iS tr ip. I

wo:> given to Jf: der str) nd th at Abd ur Reh m an,

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Khurram Harao n 'fI.eze. the n fi ghting the ~c::rus ade r
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force" (the NATO fo rces) on the SOils. of Afgha n istan. I
65. Befo re coming t o India for the second tim e, I did not I
go out of Pakistan. I too k briefings from Major Iqbal
I
and SaJid separa t ely. Th is t ime also, I di d not receive

.!lny money f!'O m t he LeT. [ carrie d the sa m e cam era

I
w ith m e for t his t r ip to In dia . The nu m be r giv en on
the air t icket for t his time ..... as of ?<!ulac Ma rn\J . I
65. Second trip to I nd ia (21 / 02/2007 to
I
15/ 0 3/2007): I rea ched Mumbai on 21, February

2007 . 1 had requE':sted Mrs. 8h arucha to get a new

I
SIM ca rd for my trip, Du ring t his period I opened .an I
account in the Reliance cyber caf~. I rema ined I
engu lfed ..with some deve lopments on my personal
I
fron t during this period. [ came back to Lahore on
I
lS tn Marc h, 2007 to attend to some personal iss ues.

After fi .... e days, I again left for MumoaL I had not

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d isclosed th is v iSit with my handlers. Of course , 1 had I
discussed the se Issues 1'l1th Dr. Rana .

67 . Th ird tr ip to India ( 20/ 03/2007 to

17/05/2007 ): I reached Mu m bl'!1 on 20 th March ,

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vIdeos of Fa, ziI d\,.l rlng t h is trip. Of course [ ha d tJke n

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her photog raphs,

68 . I left Mu mba i and spen t th ree days with my wife

Shazia and children in Du baL ( had not in formed

abou t this visit to any of my handlers Other than Dr.

Rana . I was in Du ba i for three days. ~

69. Fourt h trip to Ind ia {20/05 / 2007 to

07 / 06 /2007}: r reached Indl a on 20, May 2007 and

spent some time wit h Villas an d Rahul Bha t . We

celebrated Villas's birth day on 30 I'-1ay, 2007. I do

not recoll ect conduct ing any important surveillance ; [
dId some general v ide ography of t he cit y du ring this

period. I was in regular tou ch wit h Dr. Rana. J
70. Arri va l in Pakistan and visits to USA a nd
J
Moroc:co: I returned from Mumbai and met Major

Iqba l and Saj id Majid se parat ~ly in Lahore and

Muzaffara bad respectivel y. I gave the videos first to J

~ajor I qbal and then to Salfd Majid. Inter estingly.

some of t he photog r aphs were present in the memory

!
stIck t ha t I had g iven to Saj id , Sajid had digitally
i
blackened tile fa ce of Fa iza In the comput er for wh ich

I got appreciation fro m Za k i, Zak f appreciat ed my

gIVing hi m t h e covered photog ra phs of my wife to

him follo w in g t he true sa/afi tradit ion.

71. 1 left La ho re o n 23 July, 20 07 a nd went to US A. I

spent a day with Far id and [he next day I flew to

Morocco to meet my ,'li fe Falza. I remained in

Horocco from 24 July, 2007 to 3 Au gust, 2007. I flew

from Casab lan ca by the Em irate s Airli nes and reached

L3hore on 4 Aug ust, 2007.

72. I h ad visit ed Chicago and applied for t he mu ltiple

VIS.;'! to Jndia. This was given t o me on and arou nd the

end of Ju ly 2007.

73. Ret urn t o Pa ki sta n before Fifth visit to I ndia :

Upon my ret urn to LOIhore, ! me t Maj Or Abdur

Re hma n Hashi m and Majo r Haroon. As [ have

ment ioned earlier, Abdur Rehman developed so me

se ri ous differences with Z ak i a fte r his Nep-al.. -"l isjt.

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Abdu{ Rehman had .... isited Nepal with t he f unds given

by LeT. Howeve r , he did not diSCUSS the Nepa l set up

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wltll L e~T . w~c~ resulted in Abd ur Re hman's qU itti n g

LeT Once in the past Abd ur Rehman. Abu Duj ana,



Haroon and ! In my house had discussed the

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assass in ation plan of Pr eside nt Musharraf. Thi s was

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reported by Abu Dujana to Zakl. Zaki ha d sh own his
t,
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anger t o us for making su ch discuss ion . Major Hamon ,
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had also deve loped differences wit h Zak i. In f~ct.

Major Haroon and Capta in Haroon had distr ib uted

pamph lets against ZakL Ther e was also a stron g

rurnour that Zaki woul d be replaced by [51 as the

milit ary Ch ie f of LeT. Howeve r , It did n ot happe n.

74. Du ring this period. [ rea li ze d th ~t Captain Khurram

had died on 30 Ma rch, 2007 in a dron e a t tack by the

Canadian force In Afghanistan. r remember t he date

as my so n W <.'lS also born on t he sa me day . "1ajor

Abdu r Reh man was prese nt when rhis happened. He

re mained unmoved and foug ht . Then su bsequen t ly,

they bu ried th e body of Capta in Khu rram . He

informed Major Haroon about the deat h of Captain

Khurra m .

75. After the La l Masj id inCid ent, ! met Maj or Haroon

and Abdu r Rehman Hash im in Lahore. The La l M.Jsjid

episode was cr it icized. It showe d t he hel plessness of

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was very clear in his mi nd. He w anted t'nat I sho uld

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conduct fu rthe r extensive reconnaissance of Hotel Taj

in Mu mbai.

.' 78. Fifth/sixth vis it to India in September 2007: I

came fr om Lahore and landed in De lhi . From the

airport. 1 took a taxi for the Cia ridges Hote l located

I
near NOC. I cOr1ducted th reco nnaissance of the t
NDC. [d id not cond uct any videogrZlphy of the NDC. 1 I
did no t st ay in Delhi, In t he same even ing, [ took a
I
flight from De lhi .;;lnd re~ched Mmnbai.
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79 . I reached Mum ba i on 4 Septe mber, 20 07. Du r ing

this per iod, I conducted an extensive survy of t

various ent ries and e xit pOints Df Hote l Taj . I also I
conducted /econ n ai ssa~ce of jewellery shop "Jazdar" !
in the Hotel Taj , The Shiv Sena Bhawan was ,

extens ively vid eographed. I also visited [he house of

Sal a Sa heb Th ackeray and t;)l k ed to some of the

gu ards present in the perimeter secu r kty. 1 took t he

vide os of Vill as and Rahu l also. ! do not reco llect on

'Ii h ich date [ went to Pu ne . Howeve r I am sure that

dur in g t h is period I hZld gone to Pun e an d covered



some army inst allations in the city . This VIas my first

visit to Pune. In tl)e",subseque nt yea r s, I would visit

Ch is City t w ice.

80, I went to Lahore for the ce lebration of eld w ith out

the knowled ge of any of my hand lers. I stay ed In

La hore for four/five days an d t hen returned to

Mumbai.

81. I did not visit any other place outside Mum bai

ourln g th is phase. r had no t gone to Jalpl,lr durlng

this p h as~. I tried to become clo5e to Ra]ram Rege,

t he Shiv Sen a PRO. I took him out for lun ch also. r

did videography of Rajra m Rege . I ',isited the

Willing ton Golf course with Vil las to get a

members hip. It did not ma t erial ize. However, I took

t he video footage of Willington go lf course. I h ~d

brought a Golf kit from Pakistan where I used to go

t he Garrison golf course In Lahor e (where I was be ing

coach ed on the game.) Th is is the sa me Golf Kit tha t

I left with Villas before leav in.9 India.

H2 i unde rst and till the end of this vis it, LeT had a

li m ited pion to atta ck the Hot el Taj In MU:lba i durmg

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[he t im e of the annual confere nce. Oftt! II, SoJid would

discuss w ith me'" the option of sending one ur two

attackerS thro ugh NepCl I or Bangladesh rou te to carry

out t he atti:lck in hotel Taj .

83 . Return to Pakista n : Upon my return to Pakist an,

like t he past practice , I met Major I qbal in the sa fe

house (fourt h lac.ation). [ ga v e him the videos of

Pun e . The v ideos of Pune were of not me re than

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twenty five mlnl.!tes to half an hour's duralfon. Hl!

copied t he v ideos and returned the m emo ry st ick to

me. We saw some of tlle Pu ne v id eos ~ogether . Hajor

1
[ qba ~ ga v e me his assessment on t he mo vement of 1
t he Fo r ce on the basis of the ir insfgnia and dresses I
captu red by m e.
I
84 , D u ring t his time, I cou ld not meet Major Haroon.

Ho wever I coul d meet Abdur Rehman @ Pasha on a

I
cou ple of occasiO l"1s i'lnd discus 5ed th e Taj Hote l and I
other places for attacks, with hi m . I ga ve hi m OJ !
brie fi ng on r he NDC, Deih L
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85 . I reache d Mu zaffara ba d . Sajid and Ab u Anas ,

(ece ivd m~ at th e bus stand. I sta yed iher e for f[\le



to six days. We dlsw $:;:d t he Taj Hotel and NO C.

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S3j id did not sil ow any i:-terest In Pun e. We saw a lot

of videos of AI- Qzeda In Afghan istan and some very

old videos of Os(! ma bin Laden . Abu Qahafa ma de

serious effort s in plolting all th e places ne ar T<!j Hotel

on t he "Goo9 le eart h" . Vie dId a comp rehensive study

on " Goog le earth" to (Vl duc[ the r econnaissance of

Hote l Ta j .

86. During t his period, J rr, ~t Zaki also in Muza ffarabad.

I had d inner w it h hirr . My cou n try, P~kismn was

und erg Oi ng an id entl t ~ c riSIS in the '.vak e of t he

happenings in Afgh ar ist an an d FATA areas of

Pak ist an . A debat~ hao begun am on g th e te r roriSt

outfits as to whether to fi ght-In Ka shmir or In

Afgh an ista n . The " cla sh of ideol ogy .... led to spl it s in

many o f the out fits . The decision

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of Abdu( .Rehm an

~nd Ha roon t o split from LeT and f ight in Afghanistan

was part o f t hls t rend . Za kl had se rious pr oblem in

holding the LeT and : anvincing t hem to flg ht for

Kashm Ir an d agarnst I n: ta.


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87. Zaki would a lways j ust ify jihad in Kashmir on the
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groul1ds that :

(a) The ratio of deploy ment of fo rc~ 111 Kash mir v is-a-

vis. t h e general pop ulat ion is on e o f t he highest. So It

beco mes ley it lm at e to right th e occupati onal forces in

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Kashmir.
(b) Th e Las hkar -e-Toiba IS doser to the Kashmir
Situ ation and pop ulatfon than Afgha nistan. It can

perfor m jihad be t t er In Kashmi r than Afg h a n j~ ta n.

Ove r the years LeT hClS been able to get a na m e for

it, which may not be easy to replicat e in Afg hanista n.
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{c)Since Kas hm ir Is th e ne ar est to the LeT camps it I
beco m es imper at ive to liberat e Kashm ir from the I
Cl ut ch es of the occupational force.

88, J

Kash mir base d
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dfhadJ 9t ga:nizatiQl)s with t he Tali ban based out fits . It I
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of l SI to keep t nese ty/o sets

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p ~l es ~ pa rt. So Zaki wa s only reiterating t
the 1St's o fficial Ime . Ho wever, the .agg ression .and

com m itme nt to Jiha d shown by the severa l splin te r

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, to leave
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-iR PI[gna..nistal) Influenced many mmm itted

Ka shmir cent ric outfits and join the

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_all' ~ category of outfi ts. th is

C;;:~H1J~lled the LeT to co nside r a spectacula r te rrorist.

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The [ 51 , r be li eve had no am biguity in

understa nd ing the necessity to strike In dia. It

I essent iall y woul

controll ing furthe r split in the Kash mir based ou'tfits

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( b) pro'V iding_ them a se nse of achievement

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,and, /.f ,1l"lI:
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, jSh iftlng and minimizing the 'the a t~ _or v lo[ e ~'ce fr~

the domestic sol! of Pak fs~an'

-, _ . t o I ndia .
89 , I unders ta nd this accelerated the Mumbai attack

project. Earlier it was a limit ed p lan to attack only Taj

Hote l in Mumba l with a coup le or attackers like it

used to ha ppen earlier. But now it seemed to be a

grand plan of LeT to strike Mum bai at multiple

locations with mu ltiple atta ckers.

90. Meet in g w ith Saj id in Rawal p indi : This time

Instead of r-luzaffarabad , I was told by Saj id to come

and mee t him In R.~v,ra l pl n di. I reach ed PmdL. Abu

Hamza had come on a motor cycl e to pick me up

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from the bus stand. ! came to Pindi the day Benaz lr

v ...
Bhutt!) VIas assassinated. This safe house or LeT is

locat-e d near the Ay ub Colony in Rawal pindi. We had

some serious discussions on at tacking the Tal hote l.

We also discussed 8enazi r's assassination and its

impact on t he futur e of Pa kistan . I recollect that all of

them wer e praying that Benazir should not surv ive

this attack. I met Abu Anas, Abu Hamza and Saj id in

th is Rawalpind! house. [ had som e personal problems

so [ le ft Ra walpindi after a couple o f day s' st ay in t hat

house . I believe d uring this ti m e Za ki met a couple of

me LeT operative s wh o had escap ed from India. [ do

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r.ot have any in for mation on th e Ram pur attack on

i the CRPF ca mp th at took pla ce on t he 1 January,

2008.

91. On an d arou nd Febr uary 2008 t again vi sited Pindi

on the request of Saj id. I t oo k a taxi an d reached

Baraka hu, Plndi. Sa] id m et m e at t he &. rakah u

( hO'Nk. Thi s time he took me: t o a different sa fe

rouse. I met Abu Ana s and Abu Qa hafa at th is sa fe

~OU5e. [ wa s to ld that Abu AnGl s IS the il,Cha rge o f

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this sa fe house. Duri ng my st~y in this safe house, !

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also m et Abu Alaqarna. I stayed for' two ditys in the

safe house.

92. Be fo re com in g t<J Pindl, Maj or Iqba l had briefe d me..

1 ha d continued the act ivit ie s wit h the trainer

provided by M ajor Iqbal in lah ore. Majo r Iq bal had

give n me a Sony Ericson mobile phone wlt h camera,

He also taught me how to operate t his instrument .

T his phone can continuously do v ideo record ing. Papu

,I of

Ne pal whose son Is In I ndi a, is
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an important
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I compo nent of Abdur Rehman's set up . ! do not ha"~

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I ally in formation about papu.

93. On and aro und March 2008, when t he FIA building

was attacked , I waS In Pind i. I do not recollect

anything Sign ificant being disc uss ed durin g thiS

meeti ng . Abu Anas ""as avai lab le in the safe h ouse .

The sa m e day. Sajid and ! left by bu s for

Muza ffarab ad . Abu Qahafil had com(' to rece ive us.

We wen t to Sajld 's house In i'lu zaffarabad. The re was

a meeting fIxed, which was he ld in Zak i's place.

Init iall y Saj id w.;as n ot in tereste d In takin g me to this



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meeting bu t he changed his plan. In this meeti ng
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Zaki, Muzzammil, Saj ld ana Abu Qahafa '.verl;'

prescnt. I met a clean shaven person with a crew cut ,.,

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hair sty le in h~s mid-thirt ies in this meeting. He was

introduced to m e as ~b d u r Rehman (frog man) an d 1

was introduced to hi m as Abd ul Qildir. I understand

that the fr09m an was from the Pa kista.n navy. They

had discussed various landi ng options along the coast

of Mu mbai. Zaki wanted to ca rry out the

t ransportation of attackers w ith he lp of the frogman

in this meeting. The "sea chart" brought by t h e

frogma n wa s discussed , Di fferent landing options

we re discus sed, There was a plan to drop the

attdckers somew here, 60/70 kms away from the

Iltlumbal city in order to avoid detection. But Zakl had

reservations. The frogman told them that the se a

becomes rou gh after the mon th of June. So he said

that all the planning wou ld ned to be com pleted

before June.

94 . On the second day of the meet ing Abdur Rehma n

(frogma n ) told me t o check the pos ition of the naval

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'Jessels on the I ndi an side so as t o avord a gun figh ~

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before entering th e In dian ~a li m its . Afte r t his

meetin g, ! ha d never seen th e frogm an again. Zaki

wa n ted me to ex plore th e entry t o Mu m ba i througrl

th e Taj Hotel s ide .

95. r st aye d in t his locat ion for som e more ti me . Saj ld

provided me wIth an o ld used GPS of Gar mi"

Compan y . It had a yellow cove r on it . Sol id and Abu

Qaha fa t aught me how to use the GPS in str ument. I

learnt hQ'.'I to use of the GPS. ! can Iden tIfy t he GPS

wh ich 1 u se d.

96. Upon m y retu rn fro m Muzaffa ra bad, I met I-lajar

Iqbal. He was already (! Wa re of t he transportation of

attai: kers to Mum bai t hro ugh ,.Sei31 rou tes. He

discu ssed the possibility of ta king an Indian b oat for

t his purpose. He also suggest ed t aking a large

quantity of ar ms and am m unition and du mp ing th em

in I ndia. Accord ing t o f4aJor Iq bal. the s(! a ~route

op: io n an d use of boat hal?p~n5 on ly once In a 'Nhi !e.

50 he b elIe ved that t h e Full preparatIon for a:-Ld

utIli zat ion o f t his trip sho uld be made .



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97. For this v isit ""I ajo r.r Iqbal asked m e to e:.: piore the
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Bhabha Ato m ic Resea rch Cen tre (here in after BARC)

in Mumbai especially its staff co lony as a ta rget. As I

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sa id ea rlier h e gave m e t he mobile phone camera

dUring t his trip . M\ijor Iqbal had al so g iven me some J

counte rfeit m one y for circ.ula t ion/use in India. Saj id
I
h ad given me Rs . 40 ,000 Pakistani cur rency for this 1
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trip . I

98. Vis it to Ind ia for r e conna issance of t he land ing

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s ites for the attackers i n April 200 8 (S eventh

visit to Ind ia) : I reached Hotel Outram as Mrs.

Kiri pa linl ha d some problems with the paying guests

,
in Mu mba i. 1 m et Abdu llah in Hotel Ou tram . On that

, day irself I took a t axi and we nt t o t he BA Re. There

was a big r esident ial ar ea near the BARe, wilich l

believe is one of the large st re sidential areas in Asia.

I vid eographed this entire area , In the evening I had

food at th e Indigo resta ura nt.

99. I conducted four boat rides at diffe ren t places for

the recon nai ssan ce of the landing sites,

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{a)The same evening, I took a boa t ride from the

Taj/App lobunder are,a .."T ha l Vias t he first b oat ride I

took In Mumbai. Since it was gett ing dark, ! cou ld not

see much. It was ~ tou rist boat . I took t h e ticket in

fron t of t he TOlj Hot el.

(b)On and around 10 April 2008, 1 took the second

boa t ride from the marine drive area. Aroun d 8 :30

PM in the e'lenlng on the same day [ took ;: he boat

r ide. Th is rid e was also not very useful, [ had il

conversation with one o f the b 02l l men and took hi,;

address and te lephone number For an exclus ive boat

ride .

(c) The next da y, i. e., 11 Apri l 2008, (w~ nt to Cuffe

Para de area, th e place where finally t h e att ackers

landed . r found a number of fishermen present in

that a rea. I ta lked to ~ pe rson who stays near a

temple in that locality. He told me to come the next

m orn ing at 3am fOr th e boat rIde. I taok hl S

telepho ne number and left the place . Th e next

morning i.e., 12 April 2008, at 3am [ reache d the

place and took t he boat ride . We went almost six km

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fro m the seashore. I found this t rip prod uc.tive ;;IS I

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was convince d t hat this would be the righ t place for ~.
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the landing of the attacke rs. On 14 April 2008, 1 went

to Cuffe Parade again and talked to the fishe rman . [

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went to his ho use which is located very near a small ~

temp le. I do not recollect the n ame of the person. ,

However I can ident ify him. He introduced me with a I

boy. I took his t e lephone number agai n and to ld him
J
tha t some CO ll ege students would contact him for a

boat ride soon. I did ft, keeplng in m ind the pOSSibl!

vislt of the att ackerS to this p lace . I had subseq uent ly ,
gi ve n t his nshe rma n's tele phone number to Sajid,

Duri ng my t r ip. ~ plotted the coordi n Oltes in the GPS.

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(d ) I took the next boat ride from the Warl i area. I

recollect paying Rs. 2000 for thr~ ride. This r ide was

not very useful. I got Some fi sh caught d uring th is

boat ride w hich I had g i ve~ to Mrs. Kriparini. I

100. Apart from the boat -r ides, r conducted J
r econna issa nce of VT raH way st ation and a bus
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statio n near 1fT. I recolle:ct of takin g videos of the
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Mu m bai Ce n tral Rai lway Station.
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Return to Pakistan after t he seventh visit to
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India in August 2008 : Upon m y return to pak istan ,

1 met I'- lejor Iqbal in La h ore at the fourt h rocat ion. I

hand ed ove r the v ideos/m emory sticks to hi m . The

~ A RC videos WE're handed over only t o Major [q b ~1. I

dId not handove r t h e sa me videos to Saj id. The

egress po ints for th e attackers were discu ssed. Major

Iqbal sugg ested t ha t 1 set up a sa fe hOuse In Mum baj,

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102 . I went to Raw~fpin d l to mee t SaJl d. ,:?aj id ha d

unde rgone p las.tlc surgery during th is per ~qd. In my

ass essm ent , his face has not cha nge d mu ch after t he

plastic su rgery . Durin g th is period, r met Sajid, Abu

An as, Abu Qahafa an d Zaki. Muzs:ammll and Abu

AJaq ama '.-'J ere not presen t du r in g this meeting . I met

Za ki in t he even in g . He ha d come In his Toyo[a

v ehic l@. I did not see the sense of urgency In the m

fo r the attack which I had see n before goin9 to

Mumba i. Howeve r, Zak i told me t hat he could see t his

thing h appeni ng. I d id not ment ion anyth ing on BARe

to t he m. Abu Qah afa plotte d th e way pO ints in t he

CPS in hs lapccp- all e locatrons that I h ad ploned



104, One of my friends, Adim Aziz who sub seque nt ly

died of heart amick, \'l;)'s ' ~ n Ch icago. ! have used his

flats and telephone num bers in USA. His family, after

his death was shifted t o Pi! kistan,

105. 1 di scusse d my re.conna issance activ it ies wit h

Or . Rana . Dr. Rana told me about CJ bilatera l

agreeme nt m en tion ing that nOn use of f orce on each

othe r 's nuclea r installations exists between I ndia and

Pakist(ln . Th is discussion was made in the lig ht of the

surveillance of BARe me ntion ed by me. Dur ing this

period I was in touch wit h Sa)id throug h e m all s. Saj id

wan ted so m e books on Mossad, to read . Major Iqba l

had also requested for a spy pen fit ted with a

camera. I used to get ma ils from Ra ja Ra m Rege

du ri ng this per iod . I retu rn ed t o Pak istan wi t h m y

au nty (Farld's mot her),

105 . Return to Pakistan i n June 2008: Upon m y

r eturn on 7 June, 2008 1 contacted Abdur Rehman

Hashim. 1 was getting frustrated as nothing concre te

in terms of action wa s taki ng place in the LeT. Abdur

Re hman gave me some books to re ad, The boo k of

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Bom bay: Stock E)t~ han g e

and Rad io -
Club
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the fir st time wh en Ch(!bad house was discussed . I

met Za ki a lso . Zaki was convinced by Saj ~d o n the

landi ng sit es. I was v ~ ry impressed to knQw t hat

Chabad House had been pu t ilS a target. Saj id, as 1

u nderstand is a ~Saudl sa la fi " , They co nsider t h e

Jew ish people as t he n um ber one ta rget. When [ to ld

Abdur Reh man Has him that Chobaci House was a

target he ex pressed his satisfact ion over th e ma tte r.

He told mE' to Insist on t he LeT to target the Cl1 abad

Hous e in MurT1bai . I Wo$ g iven the S;;lme GPS by A bu

Qahafa t o u S,e dur iflg th is tri p of mine . Sajid was very

particular o n the egres s of t he atta ck ers . The y

planned t hat t he attackers shou ld be able to ta ke

so me nort h In dian bo u nd t r ain or b us 50 t h at t h ey

could rea ch Kash mi r and remCline;d th ere . Later on ,

w hen I m et Major I qbal he also em p ha sized on tlle

eg r.ess aptlorl fo r t he attackers .

110. 1 me t Major Iqba l in La hore. I told hi m abou t the

Chabad Ho u se. He was very h.appy to know t hat

Ch abad house h ad been chosen ps a target . i"l~jo r



Iq ba l t ola me to close t h e office In Mum ba i and

:x piO r e for
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an offi ce in Deihl. I beheve Major Iqbal

h ad ta lke d to Or . Rana on this subject. Dr . Ra na also

told me to close the office in Mumba l,

il l. I met Abdur Rehman @ Pash a before my

depa r ture. I had discussed t he enti re plan wJth

Pasha. He was very particular on tne Chabad House ,

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as a target. I had to ld my brot h er Hamza and my

uncle Saulat Ra na about my visits to In dia . Hamza

an d Saulat Knew t hat I w as working with lSI. Iqbal

h ad also given me m oney for Immigration business.

112. Eighth vi s i t to In d ia {Ol/ 07 / 200B to

31/07/2008 ): I n July 2008, ! returned to MlJm bai. I

nnallzed the surveillan ce of the TaJ Hotel, the Naval

Air Station, Pollee Headq u arte rs, the State Assembl y

buildi n g, EL Al AIr lin es office, Siddhl V~nayak T emp le,

Cha bad House an d Mumba i Stock Exch ange and so

on. I also cove red the BiLle Synagogue, CSI office at

r ana house, Leopold r esta uram , Colaba Police

station , Deihl Dar bar, Israeli ConSulilt,;o, ON Road and

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r ece ived one J:;gI ll, from th l'S nLlm be r 'Ii h ile ! was ill

Pakistan. During my I nd ia vis it also I also recollect

that I h<:ld rece ived a ca ll from Ma jo r Iqba t from the

s.ame number. I do not know the technolO<JY be h ind

th is call of Major [qba l.

116. Return to Pakistan in Augu st 2008 : (

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reached L<lhore fro m Mu mbai. I met Major Iq bal III

t h e sa m e safe house w he re we usually have bee"

meetIng all t hese d ays . I briefed him o n the Ch aba d

House, Nava l Air Statio n and the Pol ice HQrs of

Mah aras htra etc. I did not h an d ov er t he GPS system

to him. r-1ajor Iqbal on ly took the memory sticks From

m e.

117. 1 met Abdur RehmC1 11 in his ho use . We saw the

v ide os which I had got (ro m MumbO:l i. Abdur

Rehman's house has a comput er with broad -ban d

internet connect ion, My home had a d ial-up

co nn ecti on. I used to browse on t he internet in the

house of Abd ur Rehma n.

118. I went to jI. ~ uzaffa rabad t o mee t Sajid . Saji d had

pers-o nally corne to receive me. He had come in the

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I had met the frog man earlier. Sajld's fa m il y was

pr esent in the nouse. Sajid told me that Abu Qahafa

was tra ini ng the attackers on the same cam pus. We

disCUSSl!!!d t he VT trai n schedu les an d t he bus t i min gs

to exercise th e egress options . Sajid to ld me that he

had dropped two/thr ee boys from the t ra in ing. I

understood t hat u lt lma~ely ten attackers were being

trained.

1\9 . l' he. next d<'." , A.bu Qahaf a ca m e and met me. He
load ed tl1l1'! GPS in his laptop and plott ed t he GPS

entries! r ead in g s In separate folde r s In his com pute r .

INe together saw some of the video footage that I

had ta ken du ri ng the Ju ly 2008 Mumbai trip. Saj fd

asked me about the Blue Synagogue. 1 told hi m t hat

Isra elIs d id not go to the Blue Synagog ue. It was

freque nted by t he Indian Jews only . He f urth er asked

me t hat why I did not go Inside t he Chabad HO Llse . I

told him it was a v ery sm al l establishment and w ou ld

serve t he pu rpose of t he strongho ld . We a lso

discussed abou t the je.', ellery :;hoO in TaJ. The r e was



a plan to loot the shop an d lI S~ the jewellery for fUM

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raising . I do not kno w how se riolJs t hey "/ere w itl1

re~a rd t o rhe pla n of lootin g the Jewellery shop. [

co uld also unde rstand that they 'I'Iere preparlng two

sets of t argets de pending on the landing timings of

the attackers . If the atta ckers reach durin9 the day

time th en Mumba f Police HQrs would be a target.

Saj id w as very h appy to see the Wrist ba nds that I

had take n from the Slddhi Vinayak te mple as he liked

my idea . I did not see t-l l,1zza mm il during t hiS trip.

120. A m eeting of Lers top hie rarchy (Su r a of Zaki)

h eaded by Za k l was hek:l dur ing t his t im e. l '.'las In

the same ca mpus. 1 pres ume Zak i, \'aqub, Sa eed,

Abu Alaqama, Abu Qaha fa, Sajid a(ld Abu Sa mas

w ere present at this meeting. I was not ta ken Insi de

as Saj id did not wan t to expose me in fro nt of Yaqub.

Du r in g the m lZ'e[ Ing , Saj id would often come and seek

cliJrificatlo ns fro m me ,

l21. SaJid had shown me t he ph otographs of all the

attackers , One of th e attac kers who died at t he

Trident Hol el was Abu Qahafa's maternal uncle 's son.

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I recollect bemg show n the photogrtlphs af Abu Isma il

an d Kasal>. -" ...

12-2. I could ga ther Ab u Sae ed had so me reservation

an the Chabad house atta ck. ~\cc ord ing to Abu Saeed,

It would unnecessarily add another enemy wh ich

m ight be a problem for t he LeT in futu re.

123. I m et Major Iqba l in La hore. l'1aJor Iqba l

quescioned th e tra ining of t he attackers as none of

them had combat experience. He also suggested tha t

capturin g of an I ndian boat was t h e most plausible

opt lo r1 available to sai l to Mum bai.

124 . I met Abdur Rehman and discussed the outcom e

af the m eet ing. Abdu r Rehma n was VISib ly upset to

.k now the de ba t es over the attac k on the Chabad

House.

125. 1 went to Muree w ith m y fami ly. 1 got back from

i"l uree t he day President t-l ush arraf handed ove r

cha r ge to Asif Zardar l ( 18 August 2008), During my

stay In Muree. I got a SMS from SaJ id asking t h e

de:ails about t he VT stat io n. We exchanged som e

S;"ISS on thiS topic.

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125. Upon my return (rom Mu ree, I went to

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Muzaffa ra b03 d and met Sajid , During t his period, I

suffered from fever. They took m e to a doctor, Abu

Qaha f~ was present with me along with SaJid. I

insist ed on [ he Chabad House attack. The stronghold

option was also d iscussed , The egre ss option slowly

~pp ea r e d to be di fficult. The stronghold opti on took

p r ecedence ov er the eg r(~ss optio n. Zak i, by t his

time, was more In favo ur of a strongho ld option th an

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egress opt ion for the attac kers. Abu Qa h af a also

supp or ted the strong hold opt ion. The LeT 1 believe

was g iv in g t he lectures to t he a ttackerS o n FaI5i:HIJ

~haheed and Fa isaili jihad.

127. J returned to lahore . After s ome days I cam e to

k now that SaJld ha d been shift ed to Muridke. I

understood that t l'1e at tackers had been shifted to

I
Murldl<e, Du r ing thi s pe riod Hafiz Saeed, Bhutt' ,

Nasar Javed and Abdur Re hm an Mak i wou ld regularly '\

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go t o Muridike and take classes o f t he attack ers. One f
Indian pOSSibly from Maha rash tra who was
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cons ide r ed as an asset was finally dropped as Sajid
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'1ld n t ed to use him elseY/here. I h ave no knowledge

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as to Ylha t happened to this In dian boy. I am sure he

was not part of t he Mum bai attackers ' group.

128. During Saj ld 's sl ay in Laho re, r discussed the

atta ck on VI wit h hi m. I of

Muslims getting killed in this action was very high . He

reject ed t he proposition by telling t hat we

attack the station du r ~ ng " lfta arl" t ime. thus making it t

high ly impro bab le tor Muslims to b: klUed',

129. Du ring my last stay in MLJ zaffarabad we had

come t o Pin dl to buy baCkpa cks {or the attackers.

Th ese were Chin ese back pac ks . Abu Anas was then

in Pl nd i at t h e safe house .

.1 130. During t il e discuss ion for the bo at ride, I had

suggested the us e of vests for sa fety . [n fact the

vests on ly saved all the attacke r s during t h e first

attempt which fai led sometime in September 2008.

131. On and arou nd Aug ust 2008 , on the di rection of

Sajid I went to Wag ha border to check the cell phone

connect ivity Of one of t he- SI r.! cards w hi ch the

attackers 'N ou ld us~ In l'\1 um oai. I re collect It wa s an

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Indi ar1 SIM card of Vodafone Co mpany . I do r~D!

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recol lect the numbe r of t he SIM card . ( found the

connectiv ity o f this SIM card in the Wa gha area .

Wag ha is a th irty mi nu t es drive From Lahore .

132. On 8, Sept em ber 2008 I shifte d my famIly to

USA. Dr , Rana's fam ily rece ived my fam ily in Ch1cago.

My wj fe Shazla and four children started st aYing In

Azim's house. They St ~ 1I5tSY in th e S<lme h ous e .

133, Me an while my wife, Faiza Ol.ltalha went and me t

Hafiz Saeed in early Sep tember. Before this, also, she

would meet senior officials in pOlice set up an d cre ate

prOb lems for me . I w~s taken into the Lahore Police

custod y on h er comp laint . I w'as in the Race Course

police station for eight days. My father-in - Law

(Shazia's Fat he r) got me bailed out. Majo r Iqb<ll had

also he lped me this case .

134. Hafiz Saeed wanted me t o reconci le w it h Faiza. (

told him since I had been busy with LeTs oper aljon al

activities it wou ld be difficult for me to con cent rate on

Faiza 's i$5Ue, wh ich he agreed. Hafiz Saeed du ring

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t his d iSCussion told me ch.;Jt the Sl1 iv Se na Chief, 8al

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 Thackeray needed t o be t aught a lesson. I requested

to be given six rn.onths t l m~ to com ple te my work on

Bal Thackeray . Howeve r, [ had foun d Hafiz Saeed

real ly guarded an d d ip lomatic in his conversations.

He wou ld never align himself to Cl ny direct

conversation on LeT's action plan. This meeting did

n ot yield any resu lt on Falza's rela tion s with me .

13S. Meanwhile J had met Zaki in Muzaffarabad. i

also met Abdur Rehma n and Informed him that the

Chabad hou se would be one of the targets in Mumbal.

136. Saj id and t he attackers left for K2!lrachl by train

after some days . I did not hear anything from sajid

for some da ys.

137 . On and around the middle of October, 2008 J

met Sajid in Lahore. Saj id ment ion ed t hat they had

m ade an attempt during Ramzan which failed .

boat hit a rock and t he attackers had to remain IJJ ,tlie.

water for some time. T his boat they had purchased

after paying RS.25 lakhs. !t was because of their

l,I est5 th~t they survived. Tn ey were brough t to the

seaShOre In another boar. S3j ld did not confirm the

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presence of che frogm a11 during t his epiSDd e. The

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weapons wer-e in anothe r boat. 5aji d t old me that

Zaki had gone t o Mecca to pray for the success of the

attack .

l3B. During th is peflod, once Sajid and Major Iqba l

ca me t o m y home. Th ls Is the first tlme, Major Iqbal

and Sa]id ca me together to my home. We discussed

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abou t t he Denmark prOJect . Th e lega l sy~t em at I
Denm2!rk was discussed at this m eeting. Nt}
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discussion on Mumb al w as discusse d at this meet[ng .

I wanted to name it the "Mickey Mouse Proj e ct....

How ever SajLd did not lik e this n ame . He named it

"North er n Proj ect" .

139 . Thou gh Sajld said there would be second

attempt for Mu mba i in Octobe r an d Yaqoob was

t rying to r ent a bQ.at, it see med t o me tha t ""lu mbai

miSS ion was more or less over. Yakoob had been

made the in-charge o f nav al wing o f LeT, Sajid said

[hat [he boys were depressed and Zaki would be:

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m eeting th"!m to lift the ir 5p rits.

140. I met Abdurrahman and told hi m about fa ll ed

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attack. Abdurrahman told me t hat t his w'a5 a signal

from god that god was not happy wit h LeT. He told

me tha t he knew somebody who had contacts with

AI-Qaeda and he wanted me to work for him . I

agreed .

14 1. After th is meeti ng, Sajld went to KarachI. [ did

not have any t elephonic con tact wi th hi m. On and

aro und 7, November 2008 I went to Karachi on a

personal business t ri p to com plete some wo rk for of

Jahangir ( m y partner). I stayed at Hot el Holiday Inn

In Lahore. Du ring t his visit I met Saj id in Karach i.

SaJld to ld me l hat the second attempt to capture an

Ind ian boa t fa iled . They took a boat on rent by

pay ing five lakh rupees. They we nt at night. As they

approa ched the Indian boat. the cr eW be ca me

conscious and started steering t he boat away. There

was excha nge of f ire also.

14 2 , Sajld gave pe n driv e containing some

information on Denmark . I t was m 05tly th e opef"1

source re sea rCh ~on du cted on Den mark . It had

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in form ation about Oen m-<lr'..:: and photog raphs 01

Flem ming Rose and Kurt Westerg aard , the ca rtoonist

and t he ed it or of t he paper , In Kar achi we m~ t at th~

r<lac Donald re stau r;lnt. Saj id was also upset as Abu

Alaqa ma, Abu Yaqu b and ot hers used t o inte rfere (n

t he Mumbai att ack proj ect. He became sk eptlQ'l I as

he st arted believin g tha t t he secrecy of t h e operation

'IIo uld get co m prom ised. l belie ve Sajid 'Nn s present I.

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in Ka rach i t ill t he end o f t he ""'umba l attack. I had

neve r gone to t h e sa fe hous e in Kar achi. ! returne d t o

Lahore. Sajld had gl ..... en m e 300 0 eUTO for th e

De nm ark recon na issa n ce.
l 43. Since Ab dur Rehman wanted t o give a d irection
to his business, he m et Dr. Ra n a on a r"1d around 24

November, 2008 In Dubai. Abdur

discussed earlier w ith me, proposed to Dr . Ra na to

Reh m an , as

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mar ry t he Widow of Captain Kh u rra m Haroon . Th is

proposa l w as under cons ideration till [he ~ rre s t of Dr. I

Rana . Hi s v isit t o D\.J ba i an d mee t ing w ith Dr. Ra na
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had no rela t io n with th e ~ l u mbai attack .
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144, On an d around Septe mber 2008, I had once got

a SMS rrom Saj/d mentlon lnq t hat , [he dilJ:e ha d been

cast.

S8Jid had once wid me to pay 50me money to

someone in New York for the comm un lCilt ion.

However he never gave t he address oi t hat pe rson to

me.
145. On 26 November, 2008 I got an SMS from

Saji d 's Zong mobile to my Warid mobile ask ing me t o

switch on th e TV . I switched on the TV end saw the

te lecast of th e l'1'Jmba l attack. I forwa rded the same

messag e to Abd ur Re hman, I watched t he attac k on

tne GEa TV and CNN. I h ad exchanged mails with m y

wife Shazl a on the same issues .

147, I met Sajid after t h e attack in Lahore. He was

looking t ir ed. I met him at my houSe . Sajid to ld me

that th e landing sites chosen by me were us ed. Sajid

in fo rme d me tha t explosives wer e also used so t o

cause confUS ion among t he (n dian response forces. (

did not know th at t he ex plosi v es to be use d and t h~ s

was first t ime SaJ id told me th:!t Abu Qahafa had



trained the boys In gre n ades. !-Ie ad ded that one o f

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the g roups of the= attackers d id not use the strong

ilold opt ion at th e VI stat ion and they h ad hijacked I

the car and kll led senior police officers. He was
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confused with the person who was arrested.
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According to Saj id. Abu Ismail was arrested. i
Subsequ-ently, 'Ne found it was not Abu ts mail b1.Jt ,,~
Kasab, who was arres ted. Sajid (ol d me that he had I
mstr ucted the attackers over phone . He added th at

they also tried to get the a rres te d attack er released

in eXChange with same people held hostages in

Chabad House. In the LeT cont rol room Abu Alaqam a,

Abu Qa h afa and Sajid Mir were present. In my

und ersta nding, the person who was nego tlC!ting in the

Narima n House fr om the LeT conrrol room was Saj id ,

148. 1 had met Saj id on and arou nd February, 2009

in Pindi. We were in Saj id's car. Sajid 'made me hea r

the audios of t he Mumbai attack. 1 could identify

three voices from [he audio: t hose of Abu Qa hafa ,

Abu Alaqama an d Saj ld. Saj id pla yed a video of

Genera l Ashok Meh ta <'lnd also of the Mumbai video

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'''Jt1ere a long with othe rs Sajid was instr llctir.g the

attacke rs from t he-" K-arach i control fOom. I hea r d

Sajid's vOice and he was Instr ucting t he attack er in

the ChabCld hou se to kill the women . The person who

was talking t o attackers at Taj was Abu Alqama. His

Taqia K"Jam (Oft re pe ate d word) is Nera Veer (my

brother ) and he \'las uSing it. I heard Alqama say ing

something about t he buckN (Balti) . The third voice

was of Abu Qahaia . Abu Qahafa was addressing the

atts ckers and was telling them that t he en t ire

Um m ah wa s looking up to the them (attackers) .

149. After the Mumbai attack Zaki w as arrested and

kept In Ud ial j ai l. The lS I DG, Sujja Pasha h ad visited

7 him to t he Mu m bai att ack conspiracy .

Zak i gets homemade food in the j arl and his family

members and other members of LeT reg ularly meet

h im . Saj id had claimed befo re me that he hiJd met

Zak i when tlie later was in t he j ail.

t50 . I recall Dr. Rana desc.rib lng SaJid as Khalid Din

Waleed aft er he nearQ Saj ld's voi ce in th e audio tape

r:o main ing the /'IIu mba i attack, Sajicl had talked

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te leph onica lly to Dr. Rana and t hJn ked him for his
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su pport in the Mu mbai attack.

151. Begi nning of t he consp iracy to attack

Cha bad Hous:es in India : My fa ther ex pired on 25

Dece mber, 2008 . r CQuid not com e to Pak istan then . I

Vias fn Pakistan had come to pay his

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condolences o n m y father's dem ise to our house,.

152. The Denma r k project was a matter of concern

fO r bot h Sajid Cl nd Abdu r Rehma n. [n t he month of

Feb, 2009 I m ost ly remained in Pal<i~tan. r h ad gone

to Germ<lny on 1 5 Jan u ary, 2009 and r eturned to

LiJ hore on 25 January 2009. During my stay In

Pak istan , i met Ulyas Kashmir1 in FATA region . Abd ur

Re hman had ta ken me to IIIyas K.a shmiri's place. Two

ot her perSons accom panied u s in t his vis it . They ~~ere

Nawaz and Ij az. Nawaz was an old friend of Abdur

Rah m Or1 and I got the im pression that he had wo rked

w ith LeT in the past. Tjaz was my friend fro m the

AbdiJliarl . Ija z. belonged to Tc,bligi j amat and I toot(

him to Kashmir. to ge: him Indoctrinat ed in t o Jih ad.

We trave lled to Miran::; hah area and we nt Inw it

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house, Kashm iri cam e later , He congratulated me or

the Mu mbai uttac~s , Ijaz had reti red from A ir fo rce.

I11yas Kas/1 imri knew Izaz's brot her who happened lc.

, be a n lSI agent. Th e task of reconna issance of the

Chabad Houses in Ind ia was given to me.

153 _ Upon our retu rn Abdu r Rehman gave me

additional infor mation abou t my trip. He asked me to

survey Chabad Houses and Rakshe Bh awan In Delhi, I

\'las also told to su rvey a house in Goa 'tl here Israeli

soldie rs co me for a holiday an d Osha tem ple in Pune ,

[ co uld make owe t hat the Abdur Rehman was mor e

interest ed in ind ia . Abd ur Re hm an gave me Rs_SSODO

and paid for my air trave l.

154. As I wa s conce rned about my safety I ema lled

my will to Tahawwur Rana. I ...las in contact w ith

Rana dur ing this pe riod . I told Rena to open a shared

email accoun t in orde r to pass the in for ma tion . ( to ld

Rana about Abdur Rehman's CO nnectio(l wit h lIIyas

Kash mirl and AI Oaeda .

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address of one Fat ima who O'Nn5 a guest house in

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Goa.

157. From Pushkar I we nt to Ja ipur by road and then

took a night to Goa. From t he airpo r t I st raight went

Anju na beach and looked around fo r the Chaba d

h ouse . The Ch~bad house did not seem to be very

impresSive to me stil l I made Videos of the sa me.

From there I went to Arm abo le ~nd checked into

Fa tim a's guest hou se . Th e I"rae-l i house In Armabole,

which Abdur Rehman had mentioned was <tn old

bUilding pai nted in purple. I did not find anybody in

the bU ilding and it was locked r ma de a detailed video

of the Israeli ho use an d people around told me that

very few Israelis visited this place.

158. r took a bus from Goa to Pun e. In Pun e I stayed

in hotel Surya villa which Is SQO m etres from t he

Chabad house. I went to Os ha ashram . [ had worn a

gown which I had purchasf;'d in my previous visit. [

made deta il ed videos of Os ha ashram from outs ide

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and the Cha bad hOlIse. I also surveyed an d v1deo
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graphed the entire Koregoan (l rt"!<l in.;h.. din9-Geon an


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Bakery. [ roc'..: som e pamphlets 'Ilhleh were written in

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Hebr ew and ! gave it to Pasha when I retu rned nome.

159 . fro m Pune I wen t to Mumbai and spoke 'o'-lith

Mrs . Bharul.:ha. 1 als o went to the r elii3nce cybe:r cafe

and accessed my mail. [ ga ve 50me money to the

cy ber cMe person so my account th ere would re main

al ive . 1 we nt to see a movie In the same theatre

whi ch I ha d v isit ed in 200B. After th e movie I went

I?ashir's house and too k so me stuff from the luggage.

Bash ir told me that his imm igr ation to Canada 'lIa s

a lmost through. ~
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160 . 1 ca me back to laho re an d met Abdur Re hm an

at his ho use . I gave hi m the r econna iss an ce videos

and we d iscussed each and every target in detail. I

could kill

, ~urtat: 'Officers, In an i'Hta~k on National Defence .

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If EOl.l~Qe ~than had been killed in all the wars b e twe~n

_ .(\.I f).d,-iaq~d Pakistan. I had t old the same th ing to Rana

when I tal ked to /l Im from Ind ia. [ brie fed Abdur

Rehm an on the se curity of NDC and t old him i"l lJmba i

type stro ngho ld would hold good fo r th is place- . Abd ur



Rehman agr eed with me . Abdur Rehman was !lot in

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favo ur o f a suic ide at t(;lck as he tho ught [ hat this was

done by peop le who do n't have fresh ideas. We also

discussed Ra ksho Bhawan I told him that attack on

Ra ksha 8 ha wan wou ld not be effective as eVE!rybody

stayed ins ide. While v ldeographlng the route from

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il!lso yide ographed the outer
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~\J r.ldiuy of Pri me Min lst er's residence. Abd urrahmiln

was not int erested in Raksha Shawan o Abdurrahman

told me t hat a m an fro m Rawalpind i was rea dy to

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~arry out the att",ck but he had trouble to get vis,a

In dia. He added th at isa app llcation was t urned

own ~ ~eca us e he had a long beard . Abd ul' Re hma n

"him to shave his bea rd and h e had rea ppl ied forI

16 1. We also discu ssed about Oelh l Cha bad house but

Abdurrahma n seemed to be more in terested in the

NDC. Abdurra hma n hinted to me that his set up in

Nepal would alSO he lp h l m~ Abdurrahman had been to

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Ne pal at l ~asc twice in 2005-2006 when ne was wi~ h
Lash kar. Abdurmhma n had a !iet upjn easterry_part: of


Ne paLw hich ha d siz<lDJe

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MU !i lim popu lat ion . I got an

impression the re was clOSE coord inat ion between

Karachi setup and Nepa l setu p both run by h ~m. We

also disc u ssed Chabad Houses and t emp les in

Pushkar .

162 . I told Abdurrahman that best time to attack

Pu shka r is '.... il"lter as there Is a large number

to uri sts at t hi s t ime. I also sugg ested to him we cou ld '

hide th e weapon;; in surround in g mo u nta in .

163 I told Abdu r Rehm.a n to at there 'Nas nothin g in

Goa . There was no to nee d to attack this place. We

wat ched Goa videos tog et her. Abdu r ::{ehman kept

ask ing the deve lopment in Mumbai in v esti ga ti on. We.

also loo ked up t he locat ions o f ~ach t a rget on Goog le

earth on the compu rer of Abdur R!"hman. When

Abdu r Rehman was arrested in Ju ly 20 09, [ came to

know t hat his wife had disposed all the su spect

materia l. Afte r few days of meeting I m ~t SaJid in

Lahore. Sajid told me that t he D enm ark pr Oj ect was

po stponed as the re was lot of or essur e dlJ.e to

Hu mbai i(j v e~~ t i o ns. I star ted hi'!lI lng doubts

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rega rding Sajid and LeT and agree d with Abdur

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Reh man t ha t LeT was coward and pliable. J Wi]S
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menta lly getting distanced from LeT. [ told Sajid I

abou t the tr ip of India on t h e beha lf of Abd ur

Rehman. Sajid did not be lieve it at th e first in sta n ce

and when I swor e that I had gone, he beC3m e furiou s

an d asked me did I go I t old him t h at Abd ur Re hma n

was in te r este d in NOC an d he (Saji d ) co uld also help,

Saj id re fused ari d said he was not in t erested at th is

rno v~ me n t. I d id r"Iot tel l Sajid about my v is it la

m yas Kashm lr i and also req uested SaJ id not to te ll

Z<'! kl about m y tr ip to In d ia. I h ad anot he r meeting

w ith 5aj id in Rawalp in di. Saj id sa id Haroon was

arrested an d h e had re ve aled about LeT's ro le in

Mu mbai and l SI cooperation In it. SaJid asked me ~F I

talked to Haroon about Mu mba i a ttack , I to ld him

tha t I had done It on ly after t h e attack . Saj id got

angry. Later In a s e p~r~te m eet ing Saj ld t old me th at

Zak i d id not want me to wo rk wi t h Abd ur Re I1maD.

Sajid tol d me t hf.( Hel roon had re vealed about my

fee-on in r-Iurn bal and .:J dv ised me not to st ay in



l ahor ~. I later asked Abdur Rehma r. about It and he

, said that Har ao n h ad not revea led i! nything abou t

me . Durin g th is period 1 also met r"'aJor Iqbal .;It my

ho use. Iqba l to ld me not to contact him any mo re as

Mumbaf in vestiga tion was getting bigge r and hotter.

Iqbal t old me that the ca ptured t'-1u mbai attacker had

revealed everyt hing.

164. I dis cu ssed about HarQon W it h Ab dur Renm(ln

and he told me t hat Haroan had been arrested in an

attempt to kid nap som ebDdy . H2rroon was also

in volved in kidnapping of a hindu iilm produce r of

Pzkist a n and a lso the murder o f Genera l AI'll and his

driver , 1 knew ~i? rro o n was '.' 1 ork in g \.... ith IIIYB S

Ka shm ir i. Haroon had once asked me to su rvey a

lawye r 's h ouse who could have been potential target

for kid napping . Abd u r Re hman had given my Glock

pistol t o Haroon. Th is pIsto l was g i ven to me by Sajid

and I had requested Abd ur Rehman to took fo r a

buyer fOi It. Abdu r Rehman apolog lze d fo r it but I

was very ang ry .



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165. Meeting wlth .J,Jlyas Kashmiri ; On and iJro und
,
May, 2009, alon g w ith Saulat Mamu arid Abdur Ij
Reh man, I went to m eellllyas Kashmiri in FATA arE!i3 . J
Abduf Rehman had hired a ca r . Be fore reachmg FATA
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at Banu we cha nged the number plate of the car. We

'.vent to Miranshah to meet l!Iyas Kashmiri. We went

to an arms market wh ere I Found a lot of foreigners

w ith arms ready to fligh t in Afghanistan. They include

Uzb ek, ~hec h en, AraD, Bosnii!ln, Pakista ni and Afgans

~. We wa ited for i<aSh im irj to come at [he same

loca t ion as we had met h im t h e last time . H~ came in

a j eep with hiS gun men. I cou ld see a lot of suicid

, e

vests b eing p rep<'!r~d in t his house . I ~.... as told that

they were being pre pared for som e actions . We

stayed in t his location fO'r one night. in the meeting

with IHyas Kashmiri [ was told to concentrate on che

Denm ark attack at the

, ea rliest. They even discussed

a general attack on Copenhagen. Kashmlri and Abd u r

Rehm.:'! n@Pas ha bath ad he r e 10 TaMi.-; Jdology _

Kashimirl gave me ~S O O $ and told me to go back to

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Den rnar k and ta ke m or e '/Ideo'S. After cou ple of days

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we t ravelled back to Lahore.

166. After this, ti ll my arrest I co ncent rated 0(1 the

De nm ar k project. 1 wa s in re gu lar touc h with .Abdur

Rehman fo r the Denma rk attack. Dr. Rana was also

informed on OUr' plan t o attack the newspaper in

De n mark, 1 was in email as well as t elephon ic contact

with Abdur Rehman . The outfit I'Ihi<:h Abdu( 8@bam n

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had For med is kn own as Jund - ul -Fi di;l, ~~ c ...:.:.... , . ~ ?\

167. Visit to USA in June 2009 : I we nt to USA in

June 2009, and met Rana [ told Rana about my

mee t ings w ith Kashmir! and m y surve illance in Ind ia,

Rana seem ed please d w ith my work In India. I was in

t ouch with Abdu r Rehman@pas ha and l'VIajor S~meer

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Ali from US. Abdul" Rehma n@P ash a also used to talk

to m e on telephone and we had e -mail contact also.

In July'20 09 Sajld aga in contaLt:ed me on emall. He

use d new email ID and contacte d me on m y e-ma il .

Saji d wr ote to me t hat h e had some new bu~ ln ess

plans and investments (anQc ks) for India . He also

laid me that this t ime tre att ack s would not be In



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Mu mbaJ but other ci4,e:5r near Mumbai. He used the
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phrase Rahu l's c.ity for Mu mba j,
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168. On and around July2009 Salaut c.a lll":d me and ,
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informed me abou t Abdur Rehman's arres t . SaJid also
I
w rote to m e that 'Hash im (Abdur r ahman) is with
i
Hamon' wh ich m earn Abdur R:hman also has be en

a rreste d . Sajid a sked me about Abdur Reh ma n's

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nu mber but I did not give It to him. Abd ur Reh m an ,

~ad_ complete ly m oved away fr om LeT In 2008 . Rana

and Sajld had tal ked t o each ot her couple of tim es irr

the past. On ce Sa jid had called Rana to express

gra titude for t he help he had provid ed for Mumbai

a tta ck s.

169, Sajid wro t e to me th at Zak l (macha ) H(lfi z

Saeed (bada Ch acha) both were in ja il bu t were dO ing

fine and Sajid had got clearance to la unch ano ~h :.r

a.t tack in Ind ia. [ believe th at Saj id ' s reference to

'n ear Rah ul city ' m eant a city .i.n Guja rat. In Fe b' 2009

Sajid ha d shown me a Google earth ma p of ,In oil

refi n~ry In G u j ar ~c It was probably Re liance oil

refinery and Saj id was kee n to .;mack it . Saj id InsIst ed



Ihat r 9C1 to [ndla as soon as pOSSible: but I told him

th at r would only gO" alter Ramza n. In August 2009 , I
went to England and m et Bas harat (Passha) and

Sufiyaan (Simon) In De r b y . Both of the m Basharat

and Sufiy aan were from Kotal i area Pakistan area.

They knew lIIyas Kashm lrl from before. Ba sharat did

not have nice things to say about III'tas Kashm ir!. He

told me tnat IIIyas Kash m iri's son was m isusing the

Jihad m oney . They a lso gave me :30me m oney and

s<Hd thai: only S_u[jyaa o wa s ava ilable fo r Denma rk

plot. From the r e I we nt to S'-Ieden and m et F.omd at

Stockholm. Pasha and Kashm iri h ad told me abou t

Fa r id wl"lo was actually from 1'-'l orocco. My second wife

Faiz a was also from Morocco. Abdur Reh man had

w rit t en to me that the Swed ish man was native of M2

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country. 1'012 was a reference to my wjfe Fa lza. Farid

told me that he was being contlnuous; ly watched and

he was not ava ila ble for Denmark Project. From

Sweden I went to Denmark and surveyed the

newspaper office I also surveyed surroundings and

alsO werr to AaharCl$_ I vLde Qgraphed Aaharas office

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of t he newspap~ ~ISo . !n c ope nhagen I WEn!; to

newspaper office an d tol d them t hat 1 wanted to put

an ad for my im m ig ration business . I ga ve them my

em a il accoun t Wh lCh was used by Rana. Rana had

agreed t hat I cou ld use t he imm igra tion business <!5

cove r u p . I ....ias In touch with Rana and w ith my fist

w ife Sha-zia an d Faiza t hrough emalls . I used to

contact Shilzla on the email accoun t at

haidergilanil@hotmail,com . Th e emails used by Faiza

were ofaiza -a,hotm a jl.coffi an d fa iza gllao l@ y roai l.com .

rawsal @hotma l1.com was one of the emails used b~'

Abdu r rahman. The email used by Sajid was
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ge r .some.books@yahQQ,com . One of the email

ad d resse s of

ch au dha rykharo@yaho Q,corn and the

f-la jor Iqba l

e~maiJ
was

address

used by Major Samee r Ali chsameera li@ yahQo ,com. "
From De n mark, [ drove to Germa ny and t o ok a flight
to US from Fran kfurt I briefed Rana il bou t my visit to J
US, Sweden and Denma rk . Rana to ld me that h e ha j I
rep lied to email 5ent by Jy ll~ids - poste n on my behilll
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immigration business, I <l lso wrote to S.aJi d abOllt m'i

vis it to Ge: r many t1nd-'toRJ him tha t [ had g on e th ere

to buy som e equipm~nt fo r R.,na's; farm. ! w rote to

Saj ~d tl1at I had got same gift for him whic h he-

understood as the surveillance videos. saJ~d wrote to

me that my tri p to I ndia had bee n cleared by Zaki

and H~fiz Sa ilb and things we re f.avo rable to visit

India. ( told Pasha that Sajid want~::I me to go to

India aga in a t wh ich Pa s ha was very su r pri s ed,

170 . I had writte n t o Pasha that for D!'nrnark plot if

stronghold opt io n is not viabl e tn <! n '.'Ie could use the

suicide bomb ing . I had eve n vo lu n~",ered myself for

the attac\< .

17 1. On 3 Octob er, 2009 I was gOing to Pakista n to

meet Abdu r Reh mar1 8rid Sajid wh en I was arrested

from the airport. A camera mobil e phone and some

other stuff we re r ecov ered from my baggage.

172. rh e mobil ~ pho l1e with the SIN card used by me

in India wa 5 seized from my poss es5ion by the FBl at

the Chicago a ir port.

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:73. On being asked I truth fu lly mentlM that I have ,
not spok en o!l b out my work g iv en by erthe r Le T or by

Naj ar {q bal or lIIyas Kash miri or by Abdu r

Rehman@Pash a to any person in India during my

various t rips to your country . I was not given any

ope ra tionill work t he refore: there was rIO need to take

rhe he lp of any friend or a ssociates_ Sometime I

committeCl sm all mistakes like spca'<if"J Hind i . 90il19

to a mosque, going around With ra ila ':.rhich cou ld

hav e exp osed me . Bu t luck1lV t his dla not ha ppe n.

174, On being asked I can identify th~ persons a nd ~

locatio n s r have mentioned t o you in !odia, Paki stan,
a
US A an d Oe nm <lrk.

175. On being ask ed the record in gs dOfle by me are

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not av a ilable except w ith LeT Or With Pash a or w ith 12
the lSI. They might be keepin g these In some ,I

co m pute rs. 1 can produce th e camera or my mo th er

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in law which I used for my m ission . My Sony Er rkson

Phone is With the FBI. 1 can i dent ify the Phoneynd

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also th e GPS ir1sc:LJm ef"'lt ! use d in Indl .!. / r,

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