US Confidential Report on Mumbai terrorism released
In a password-protected document, officials connected to the State Department report that some of the Mumbai terrorists reportedly were trained by the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba terrorist group, with “camps located in Mansera and Muzzarafabad in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.” The 10 terrorists behind the Mumbai massacre “spoke Punjabi” and were of “likely Pakistani origin,” the report said.
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The 17-page report was written by the Overseas Security Advisory Council, a public-private group that serves as the liaison between the State Department and multi-national corporations. The report is not an official State Department document, and says it uses both “embassy reporting” and **press accounts **to substantiate its analysis of the deadly attacks.