Islamabad: From Italy, Spain and an unnamed Middle East country to US and Russia, the plotters of the Mumbai terror attack tapped local resources including dollar payment transfers and registering internet domain names in a sinister global plan to numb India's financial capital that left 183 persons dead.
As Pakistan gave the first readout on its probe into 26/11 which saw cyber link coming to the fore, its Interior Minister Rehman Malik said leads also pointed to Europe and the United States for which he said FBI's help and international cooperation will be sought to crack the case.
"It is not only Pakistan, but the system of the other countries has also been used," Malik said.
Malik named other countries, where he said the plotters had made payment transfers or where equipment used in the attacks was registered.
For example, he said, $238 was transferred from Spain to acquire a domain name – used for communication over the Internet – that was registered in Houston, Texas in the US.
A Pakistani man Javed Iqbal who was living in Barcelona was repatriated and arrested in connection with the payment, Malik said.
Another domain name used by the attackers was registered in Russia, and a satellite phone registered in a Middle Eastern country, which he declined to name.
Malik said "money was paid in Italy," but it was not immediately clear how much he was referring to or what the money was used for.
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