26/11 planning started a year ago, and we had the evidence

The planning for the November 26 terror attack started a year ago, and security agencies had evidence of it - nine maps plotting the attack sites recovered from a Lashkare-Tayyeba terrorist arrested in Uttar Pradesh on February 10. But the evidence was buried in a bulky chargesheet.

The story began in 2003 in Dubai, where Fahim Ansari, originally a resident of Goregaon (W), was looking for a job.

Fahim, already an activist of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India, was spotted by a Lashkar recruiter Police sources said Fahim was indoctrinated and sent to Pakistan by sea. He was trained in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in handling computers and arms.

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