Despite intelligence, Mumbai attack wasn't foiled: NYT

New Delhi, Dec 22: In one of the "most devastating near-misses in spycraft", intelligence agencies of India, the US and Britain failed to foil the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack despite information from high-tech surveillance and other tools, The New York Times said Monday. The daily said it had pieced together the story from classified documents, court files and dozens of interviews with current and former Indian, British and American officials. According to the Times, 30-year-old computer expert Zarrar Shah "roamed from outposts in the northern mountains of Pakistan to safe houses near the Arabian Sea in the fall of 2008, plotting mayhem in Mumbai". Shah, the technology chief of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and fellow conspirators used Google Earth to show terrorists the routes to their targets in the city, it said. "He set up an Internet phone system to disguise his location by routing his calls through New Jersey.