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 India says Mumbai terror handler was Indian05-02-2010THE ISLAMIST gunmen who attacked Mumbai in 2008 may have been guided by an Indian, or a man who had lived in India for some time, Home Minister P Chidambaram (pictured) said. "When we say he could be an Indian, he could be somebody who acquired Indian characteristics. He could have been infiltrated into India and lived here long enough to acquire an Indian accent, and familiarity with Indian Hindi words," the minister said.
India has always maintained that all the gunmen and those who masterminded the attack were Pakistani, and abetted by "official agencies" in Pakistan.
But Chidambaram said investigators had known for time that there was a "handler" who could be an Indian.
"We know him by Abu Jindal... but that is not his real name," he said.
"We cannot put a finger on who he is, unless we get a voice sample. And they (Pakistan) won't give us a voice sample," he added.
Chidambaram will become the highest level Indian official to visit Pakistan since the attacks when he attends a regional meeting of South Asian interior ministers in the city of Rawalpindi later this month.
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