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While the Lashkar-e-Toiba leadership made plans for foolproof attacks in Mumbai,the men involved in the carnage made a number of mistakes,leaving crucial clues behind for Indian intelligence agencies,according to court documents.
These mistakes were conceded by LeT mastermind Sajid Mir in multiple conversations with David Coleman Headley,the Mumbai attacks co-accused,unsealed court documents said on Wednesday.
According to the court documents,in a later meeting with Sajid,he related to Headley that certain attackers had not followed his instructions,and had failed to sink the boat that was hijacked for their ingress to Mumbai. Sajid related that one of the attackers mistakenly left on this boat a satellite phone that had been provided to him.
Indian authorities located this boat,recovered this phone,and provided it to the FBI for forensic analysis. Stored in the phones contacts were two numbers identified as Wasi. The phone had been used to contact Wasi on November 24,2008,and had recovered a call from Wasi on November 25,2008, the documents said.
The documents were released after the District court conducting the Mumbai attack trial ordered that some of the over dozen sealed documents presented in the court as key evidences be made public.
Sajid also told Headley that one of the attackers had been arrested and that he had tried to free the attacker by instructing an attacker at the Chabad House to contact the Israeli embassy and attempt to trade hostages for the attacker, the documents said.
