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a key suspect accused of co-ordinating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed and more than 300 maimed, media reports said Monday.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency quoted unnamed police sources as confirming the arrest of Abu Hamza, also known as Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Pak Death Eater group Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains a blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
Hamza was allegedly one of the handlers based in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Pakistain who issued instructions by telephone to the 10 gunnies as they stormed two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre, a restaurant and a train station in Mumbai.
Hamza, who has used a string of aliases, was incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East and he has since been remanded in jug, PTI reported.
Pak national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only gunman caught alive during the 60-hour assault on Mumbai in November 2008, was handed down a death sentence by the Bombay High Court last year.
PTI described Hamza as the 30-year-old "Hindi tutor" to the gunnies and said that he came from the western state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital.
Delhi police spokesmen told AFP they were unable to immediately comment on reports about the arrest.
India blames the Lashkar-e-Taiba Death Eater outfit, which is banned in Pakistain, for training, equipping and financing the Mumbai gunnies with support from "elements" in the Pakistain military.
Pakistain has indicted seven alleged perpetrators over the attacks but their trial, which began in 2009, has been beset by numerous delays triggering Indian accusations that the process is a sham.
The United States in April offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba who lives openly in Pakistain and is accused of criminal masterminding the Mumbai attacks.