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One of the terrorists at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal station Pic/AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza

The ten terrorists from the Punjab province of Pakistan were all trained together, mostly in Karachi, Pakistan.

But they were then split into five groups of two each, and briefed about their task differently. Two terrorists attacked CST station, two Cama Hospital, two went to Leopold's. Two held fort at the Taj and two more at the Oberoi, while another pair were at Nariman House. All ten had student identity cards of different colleges in India and were all in the age group of 19-28.

According to Rakesh Maria, Joint Commissioner of Police, none of these were in touch with each other while the operation was on. The police have been able to create  profiles of the terrorists from the only one captured alive, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab (21), held at Girgaum Chowpatty.

Maria said the group entered Mumbai through sea on November 26 around 8 pm.

They had come to Gujarat through a boat from Pakistan. Later they hijacked the Kuber boat at Porbander. The three fishermen were killed and later thrown into the sea, while one sailor Sarang took them in the Kuber boat till the Mumbai coastline. They killed him and kept his body in the Kuber boat, then sailed to the coast on a dinghy (rubber float boat) to Sassoon Dock. They then caught five taxies and went to the assigned places.

Police have recovered 10 AK 56 guns, 10 hand grenades, two packs of eight kg explosives. All carried one bag with them an AK rifle, grenades and bullets with them.

Cops have found a satellite phone from one Ismail Khan who was killed at Chowpatty, and a Global Positioning System that helped them navigate.