Was Rana in Kochi to recruit for terror?

The National Investigation Agency, which has formed special teams to track the activities of David Coleman Headley and his associate Tahawwur Hassan Rana in this country in the past few years, on Sunday conducted raids at a number of places in Mumbai and New Delhi to probe their possible links to 26/11 and other terror attacks in India.

In Kerala, where Rana is learnt to have stayed at the Taj Residency hotel in Kochi for a few days a little before 26/11, investigations are on to ascertain if Headley's associate was on a mission there to recruit local youths to carry out terror attacks. Rana had stayed at the hotel with a woman identified as Samraz Rana, like him also a Canadian national and believed to be his wife, and had posed as a recruiter, interviewing a number of people in his hotel room. A NIA team will visit Kerala soon.

Searches were carried out at cybercafes, telephone booths and a large number of budget hotels in and around the Paharganj area of central New Delhi, and a separate team of officers

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