New Delhi, June 29 (IBNS): Abu Jundal, the key suspect and Indian handler from Pakistan in the 26/11 Mumbai attack, used nine Facebook accounts to communicate and recruit freshers in the terror network of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), according to media reports quoting investigators.
Abu Jundal, who was originally Zabiuddin Ansari, had the Facebook social networking accounts in his various names, said reports.
Investigators are now tracking his Facebook accounts to learn more about his operations.
Jundal is technology savvy, said investigators. He showed the control room of the ISI on the 26/11 attack using Google maps.
During interrogation, he spilled the beans on the ISI role and about the control room in Pakistan under the ISI supervision to coordinate the attack in Mumbai that left 166 dead and over 300 injured.
Earlier Jundal's mother Rihana Begum had held a press conference on Thursday to say her son is 'innocent' and cannot be a terrorist.
She told reporters in Beed district of Maharashtra that her son is being framed in the 26/11 case.
"He cannot do this. He is innocent and a simple boy. My son is not a terrorist. The charges are all wrong," she said while addressing the press conference on Thursday.
She said there was no DNA test to confirm his identity and then link him to the crime.
Sayeed Zabiuddin Ansari, also known as Abu Hamza and Abu Jundal, who has confessed to being among the six men tasked with guiding the ten Pakistani terrorists during the three-day-attack on Mumbai, was arrested at Delhi airport on June 21 on his arrival from Saudi Arabia.
During his questioning by authorities the 30-year-old Indian-born militant went as far as saying that Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operatives were present in the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) “control room” in Karachi and were part of the entire conspiracy, reports said.
The disclosure is being seen in India as another damning testimony of the role played by elements of Pakistani administration in the 2008 strike, bolstering similar statements made by David Coleman Headley and Ajmal Kasab.
While Kasab is the lone surviving terrorist from the attack and still under trial in India, Pakistani American Headley, who was arrested by the U.S., had scouted the locations for the attack, known in India as 26/11.
Indian investigators believe Jundal could be crucial in exposing LeT's deep-rooted links with Pakistani "state actors" who foster militancy in India, and mount further pressure on the country to prosecute suspects living freely including alleged mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
According to a police official, for two years Jundal had been living in Saudi Arabia on a Pakistani passport and had been "talent-spotting" for another Mumbai-style "massive attack", even though he has not yet said where the planned target was.
Media reports said Jundal’s arrest came after months of painstaking diplomatic talks between Riyadh, Washington and New Delhi which saw Indian officials travel to Saudi Arabia to lobby for him to be handed over.
There were also reports that claimed Pakistan had exerted pressure on Saudi Arabia not to release him into Indian custody over fears that it could compromise the identity of the “state actors” - most likely from the ISI and the army - who were linked to the Mumbai attacks.