Washington: Stocked with computers, televisions and voice-over-internet phones, top commanders of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) had set up a control room from where they controlled and directed the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, a US report has said."Lashkar had set up a remote command post in a safe house or a hotel that US and Indian officials believe was in Lahore or Karachi," The Washington Post and ProPublica reported.
The new disclosures come as US counter-terrorism officials said that masterminds of the terror attack were still at large.
While attention has been focused on Pakistani-American terror convict David Headley, the real mastermind of the 26/11 attacks was Sajid Mir, according to the new investigative report.
Pakistan is unwilling to arrest the elusive mastermind Mir, who is wanted in four continents, because the LeT terrorist is "well connected" and "too powerful", US officials said.
Giving details of the control or war room set up by the Lashkar to coordinate the Mumbai terror attacks, the papers said, "The room was stocked with computers, televisions, voice-over-Internet phones from a New Jersey company and satellite phones that were manned by (Sajid) Mir and five other handlers.
"It was Sajid Mir, who allegedly led Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba's bloody siege on Mumbai in November 2008," the Post said.
Before the attack, Mir had spent two years using Headley to conduct meticulous reconnaissance on Mumbai, according to investigators and court documents.
The report said Indian intelligence officers frantically checked known phone numbers associated with Lashkar and were able to intercept and record nearly 300 calls.
"Mir's voice dominated the conversations, according to officials and documents. Thanks to Headley, he knew the targets inside-out," the report said.
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