Pakistan Lashkar E Taiba Abdul Rehman Makki: Abdul Rehman Makki, deputy chief of the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and former head of its foreign affairs wing, has been designated as a Global Terrorist by the United Nations (UN). It has been declared that his connection is also with the Mumbai attacks. According to sources, he was the mentor of Pakistani Lashkar operative, Sajid Majeed alias Sajid Mir alias Wasi, who was the fugitive co-mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks sponsored by Lashkar in 2008. The attack in which 166 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
Connection found in Mumbai attack
According to sources probing the 26/11 attack, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist allegedly helped plan and execute the terror attack with the help of some Pakistani intelligence agency ISI officials. had played an important role.
It was Sajid who personally directed the activities of David Coleman Headley, an American of Pakistani origin, in September 2006 to survey the targets of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai on one of his many reconnaissance visits to the city in the months prior to the attack. Visited India eight times from 2008 to July 2008. He was finally arrested in the US on October 3, 2009.
Makki is the head of the Foreign Affairs Branch.
An official said that till 12 years ago, Makki was the head of LeT's foreign affairs wing, which was involved in radicalising and recruiting foreigners and setting up sleeper modules abroad. He had guided Sajid at that time. The source also said that these details were confirmed by Headley when he was questioned by a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the US in June 2010.
Makki is a relative of Hafiz Saeed.
The source also said, "David Headley had revealed that Abdul Rehman Makki was the cousin of Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed, who was his maternal uncle's son and was in charge of Lashkar's foreign affairs." During the NIA's interrogation, Headley said that 26/11 attacks co-mastermind Sajid Majeed alias Vasi had worked with Makki in the Foreign Affairs Cell and was his personal assistant. Sajid later became Headley's handler.
Interpol had an eye
Sajid allegedly provided financial and logistical support to Headley to monitor targets for the Mumbai attacks, according to the Interpol Red Corner Notice, which was issued against him at the request of the Indian authorities.
Sajid was sent by the terrorist organization to several countries and used several passports. The source said, "According to Headley, Sajid had visited several countries including India, Qatar, UAE and Canada."
This confirmation was done in PoK
Sajid was one of the people who carried out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks from a control room in Karachi's Malir area. These people fled to the organization's Baitul Mujahideen camp in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on November 30, 2008. While there, he was confirmed that Ajmal Kasab, one of the 10 suicide bombers who carried out the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, has been arrested.