Security agencies on Sunday did not rule out the possibility of execution of plans by Pakistan- based terror outfit Lashker-e-taiba at the places recced by David Headley, an American terror suspect, arrested in the US last October.
The areas around Bhaba Atomic Research Centre in Trombay, film studios, NTPC cold storage are among some of the places where Headley had conducted reconnaissance till March last year, official sources said. The last visit of the US terror suspect was already believed to finalise synchronised terror strikes on Jewish houses located in five cities at the instance of Lashker-e-Taiba.
Headley, born to a Pakistani father and whose earlier name was Daood Gilani, has been charged by the FBI for conspiring in the audacious 2008 Mumbai attack, which left over 160 dead, including six foreigners.
Headley had carried out recce of Israeli airlines -- El AI-- office located at Cuffe Parade in March this year before moving to the national capital where he chose to stay in a small hotel at Pahargunj area adjacent to a Chabad House, barely 300 metres from the hotel -- De Holiday Inn, they said.
He later travelled to Pushkar in the outskirts of Ajmer in Rajasthan where he insisted on a room opposite a Jewish prayer centre claiming he was a Jew and wanted "holy sight".
Headley later moved to Goa where he stayed at a guest house located in Anjuna village along the coast of Arabian sea before proceeding towards Pune where he recced the area around Koregaon Park -- a place where the blast took place last night. PTI
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