Indian suspected of 26/11 role once worked for India's Intelligence Bureau: HT

An Indian newspaper 'The Hindustan Times' indicates a former Maharashtra electrician, now suspected of being the Indian handler to 26/11, was a former informant for domestic police and intelligence agencies.
The presence in Pakistan of Syed Zabiuddin Ansari (29) also represents domestic-intelligence gaps as India prepares to reopen talks with Pakistan after the killing of 180 people in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
The only son of six children of an insurance agent from the dusty, central Maharashtra town of Gevrai, Ansari is one of a handful of missing, radicalised Indians capable of being used by Pakistani terrorists or their state handlers in a future attack, which intelligence and police officials across India now nervously anticipate.
As a double agent, Ansari lead the Intelligence Bureau and the Maharashtra Police to the biggest arms haul outside Jammu and Kashmir in the last 10 years, security sources told HT, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
Ansari led police to at least 43 kg of RDX (Research and Development Explosive), 16 AK-47 rifles and 4,000 rounds of ammunition concealed in computer cabinets on the outskirts of the Maharashtra city of Aurangabad on May 10, 2006.
Ansari, now believed to be holed up in Karachi, fled in a blue, Tata Indica immediately after and was never seen again.
“If he [Zabiuddin Ansari] had helped further, we could have unearthed the entire link,” said Sunil Deshmukh, a police inspector who was part of the raiding party. “We believe he escaped to Pakistan via Bangladesh. He has risen in the LeT (Lashkar-e-Tayyebba) hierarchy since then.”
Last week, Home Minister P. Chidambaram for the first time acknowledged one of the 26/11 handlers was Indian, though he said it wasn't clear who “Abu Jindal” was because Pakistan refused to provide a voice print. India has no recording of Ansari’s voice, Maharashtra police chief A.N. Roy confirmed to Hindustan Times.
The giveaways, says intelligence agencies, were the Hindi words “Abu” used with the Urdu-speaking terrorists who ravaged in Mumbai on 26/11. Two examples: He used “sarkar” instead of “hukumat”; referred to 26/11 being “the trailer”, an English term — subsumed into Bambaiyya Hindi — that baffled the terrorists.