The outlawed LeT, which planned much of the attack from Pakistan, had ambitions well beyond causing mayhem in India, The Guardian reported.
The Lashkar-e-Toiba, who are beleived to be the masterminds behind the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, had placed the Indian city on a list of 320 worldwide locations as potential hits for commando-style terror strikes, according to a media report.
The outlawed LeT, which planned much of the attack from Pakistan, had ambitions well beyond causing mayhem in India,
The Guardian reported on Friday and quoted unnamed officials to say that the plotters of the attack should be tried in the International Court of Justice.
"If the west can prosecute people for crimes against humanity in The Hague or use rendition to interrogate them at undisclosed locations then what is stopping them now? After all, (western) citizens were killed in Mumbai too," the report quoted an official to say.
The report comes in the backdrop of security think-tanks in the US voicing concern that LeT was following the pattern of Al-Qaeda and had global designs.
It said western intelligence agencies have accessed the computer and email account of LeT communications chief Zarar Shah and found a list of possible targets and only 20 of them were in India.
Two of the attack's key planners -- Shah and Lashkar's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi -- are in custody in Pakistan.
Analysts say the computer list is more of a statement of intent because Lashkar would need time to set up terrorist cells in so many places.
Islamabad's decision to bring criminal charges against nine men accused of involvement in the attack has partly placated Indian officials, the report said.
Intelligence agencies have warned that Mumbai raises the spectre of a new style of terrorist assault.
Nine of the gunmen were killed – but the lone survivor has given Indian investigators a full confession that the assault was planned in Pakistan by the Lashkar group.
There has been some speculation that raids in Spain which netted 12 men – an Indian and 11 Pakistanis – were a result of the investigations into Lashkar's role in the Mumbai attacks.
The dozen men were reportedly picked up for forging passports and other travel documents for terror organisations, including the al-Qaida. Pakistan's government has said the Mumbai attacks were partly planned from Spain.
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