The importance of Abu Jundal The arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari, aka Abu Jundal, is a significant victory in the long war against terrorism. Even so, we should be clear that nothing he reveals in his interrogation will nudge the Pakistani authorities to accelerate their investigation into the Mumbai attack case. His great value will be in helping the Indian and American investigators to connect many of the dots that remain in their understanding of the case and of its planners and perpetrators. But Ansari's greatest value to us is that his arrest has, in all likelihood, disrupted the next major Lashkar-e- Tayyeba attack against India. As the newspapers have reported, Ansari was not your run-of-the-mill terrorist. He was a trainer, motivator and planner and, in that sense, is a far more useful catch than even Ajmal Qasab. The latter's value is that he was caught alive after killing scores of people giving us direct evidence of Pakistani complicity in the Mumbai attack, and that his execution will provide some legal retribution for the 166 persons who died. But Ansari's worth is multi-layered. One of the revelations of the Mumbai attacks had been the enormous effort and planning that went into a successful mass killing strike. The Lashkar planners used the services of Daood Gilani aka David Coleman Headley to make repeated trips to India to conduct a reconnaissance of the targets. They then selected a team of terrorists and trained them for the job and reportedly even used a mockup