Even David Coleman Headley, an accused in 26/11 case, while stating about Aurangabad arms haul case revealed that LeT was planning to carry out attacks in Mumbai and Gujarat and its operatives had smuggled the arms from Nepal.
Sources in the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and security establishment said that Lashkar-e-Taiba had planned to do 26/11 style attack in 2005 itself, but since the Lashkar module got busted and ammo was seized, the outfit had to abort the plan.
In May 2006, the ATS had seized 16 AK-47 rifles, 3,200 live cartridges, 43kg of RDX and 50 hand grenades in an operation from Aurangabad, Yeola and Malegaon area. Top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal (also an accused in the dreaded 26/11) attacked remained wanted in the case. Jundal had fled to Kolkata and from there had crossed over to Bangladesh then.
Even David Coleman Headley, an accused in 26/11 case, while stating about Aurangabad arms haul case revealed that LeT was planning to carry out attacks in Mumbai and Gujarat and its operatives had smuggled the arms from Nepal.
The said consignments were then brought to Aurangabad area by road itself, a source in the security establishment said. "They were on their way to do something as big as 26/11, but timely intelligence input helped us to bust the module and thwart LeT's plan," said an ATS official.
Headley had further revealed that LeT operatives from Pakistan and few of its sleeper cell module members from India were supposed to jointly carry out attacks in the city. Later, the same information was corroborated by Abu Jundal, after was deported from UAE and sent to India 2012.
"In 2006, after the amount of arms and explosives that were seized, one could have only imagined what damage the group could have done. It was such a deadly seizure. Over 40 kilograms of RDX were seized. Even if they could have used half a kilogram of RDX at one place, they could have targeted at least 80 places," said the then ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi.
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