US: Terrorists were Pakistani nationals

Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, confirmed to India that Pakistan’s military and intelligence chiefs had effectively admitted that the terrorists involved in last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai were Pakistani nationals and members of terrorist outfit the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).Mullen said he had told Pakistan’s security and army chiefs that the US had “independent proof” on the nature of Pakistan’s involvement in the terror attacks. The US had sent Rice and Mullen to India and Pakistan after tensions between the two countries rose in the wake of last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai that left at least 183 people, including 28 foreign nationals of which 6 were US citizens, dead.
India has said that Yusuf Muzammil, an LeT leader, is one of the main plotters and has asked Pakistan to hand over 20 terrorists New Delhi says are living in that country, including Muzammil. On Tuesday, US director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, blamed LeT for the blasts without actually naming the group.
On Thursday, an Indian government official told reporters that the government had “proof” linking ISI to the Mumbai terror, including “names of the handlers and trainers, the locations where the training was held, (while) some of the communication through voice over Internet protocol have addresses that have been used by known ISI people before.The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has been given access to substantial evidence that has been and is being put together by the Indian intelligence agencies.