'Info on Mumbai targets reached conspirators through Nepal'

Documents consisting details and maps of targets prepared by alleged LeT operative Fahim Ansari reached conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack via Nepal, said the chargesheet filed by Mumbai police.
"The accused Fahim Ansari after reconnaissance and preparation of detailed maps of the target locations, handed over the same to arrested co-accused Sabauddin Ahmed at Kathmandu in Nepal sometime in January 2008," said the chargesheet, which was filed yesterday.
The voluminous 11,280-page chargesheet mentions in all 47 names including nine dead terrorists and two Indian nationals Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed.
Fahim and Sabauddin had been arrested in January last year by Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the CRPF camp attacks there.
"The LeT co-conspirators then made arrangements for fetching the maps from Sabauddin Ahmed at Kathmandu," the chargesheet said.
The custody of the duo, who are in judicial custody till March 9, was taken by Mumbai police in December last year for their alleged involvement in Mumbai attacks.
"Both the arrested accused, Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, were in constant touch with each other through e-mail during the operation," a crime branch official said.
Meanwhile, the director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will lead a team visiting Pakistan next month to help investigate the Mumbai attacks, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
New Delhi blamed the attacks, which killed 165 people last November, on the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the siege soured a five-year peace process between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
"Headed by Robert Mueller, the team will arrive in Pakistan on March 4," foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit told a press briefing in Islamabad.