Kasab sharpest,knew I was Indian immediately

26/11 suspect Zabiuddin Ansari has told the Crime Branch that he remembers Ajmal Kasab as the sharpest of the recruits he met at the Lashkar-e-Toibas camp in Muridke,sources said.

Ansari allegedly narrated how,at their first meeting a few months before the attacks,Kasab immediately identified him as Indian,even as others thought he was Pakistani.

Ansari obviously knows that Kasab is now in the same city as him. He has not said much about Kasab,but he remembers him clearly,and describes him as the sharpest of the terrorists trained at the Muridke camp for the 26/11 attacks, a top source said.

Ansari says that though he was living under the guise of a Pakistani there,Kasab identified him straightaway as an Indian. This was before Ansari had begun teaching them Hindi words as part of their training, the source said.

Ansari has allegedly admitted that he,along with Lashkar leaders like Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Abu al-Qama,saw the 10 terrorists off as they sailed for Mumbai.

A Crime Branch team is currently camping in Ansaris hometown Beed to cross-check the information he is giving interrogators,sources said.

The Crime Branch is yet to conduct its planned voice identification test on Ansari to establish his voice was among those heard in the 26/11 intercepts issuing orders to the terrorists at Chabad House.

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