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Mumbai Gunman's Confession Sheds Light on Massacre

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- The gunman captured in last month's Mumbai attacks had originally intended to seize hostages and outline demands in a series of dramatic calls to the media, according to his confession obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab said he and his partner, who massacred dozens of people in the city's main train station, had planned a rooftop standoff, but abandoned the plans because they couldn't find a suitable building, the statement to police says.

Kasab's seven-page confession, given to police over repeated interrogations, offers chilling new details of the three-day rampage through India's commercial center that left 164 people plus nine gunmen dead.

He said the assault, which started Nov. 26, was initially set for Sept. 27, though he doesn't explain why it was delayed. The gunmen had been told by their handlers to carry out the attacks during rush hours when the station is teeming with commuters.

After reaching Mumbai, Kasab and his partner, Ismail Khan, the group's ringleader, headed to the train station by taxi.

''Ismail and myself went to the common toilet, took out the weapons from our sacks, loaded them, came out of toilet and started firing indiscriminately toward the passengers,'' Kasab told police.

As a police officer opened fire, the two militants retaliated with grenades before entering another part of the station and randomly shooting more commuters.

The men then searched for a building with a rooftop where they had been told to hold hostages and call a contact named Chacha, whom Kasab identified as Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the suspected mastermind behind the attacks.

Chacha, which means ''uncle'' in Hindi, would supply phone numbers for media outlets and specify what demands the two should make.

''This was the general strategy decided by our trainers,'' Kasab said.

Taking heavy fire from police, the two had trouble finding a ''suitable building'' and stormed a hospital they mistook for an apartment building. There, they searched for hostages and traded more gunfire with security forces. It's unclear if they ever held hostages.

When they left, a police van pulled up and the two tried to take shelter behind a bush during the shootout. Kasab was hit in the hand as Khan returned fire.

''They got injured and the firing from their side stopped,'' he said.

Police have confirmed the van was carrying top police officials, including the head of the anti-terror squad who was killed.

In the confession, Kasab, 21, describes his conversion from an aspiring street criminal to a loyal soldier for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist group banned by Pakistan in 2002 and blamed by India in the attacks.

He came to the organization last year while looking to buy guns to commit robberies after quitting a low-paying job at a catering business. The search led him to several Lashkar ''stalls'' at a bazaar in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, he said.

Kasab went on to receive rigorous training in weapons handling and other skills, attending at least six Lashkar camps and visiting his parents twice during breaks, he said. Lashkar operatives even lectured recruits on India security and intelligence agencies, and taught them how to evade pursuing security forces.

He said they were shown ''clippings highlighting the atrocities on Muslims in India,'' images of Mumbai locations on Google Earth, and film footage of the train station.

''We were instructed to carry out the firing at rush hour in the morning between 7 to 11 hours and between 7 and 11 hours in the evening,'' he said. The attacks ultimately started around 9:30 p.m.

After Kasab and nine others were picked among a group of 32 recruits, they headed to Karachi in September and practiced traveling on speed boats.

On Nov. 23, the group was transported to a ship called the Al-Huseini far out at sea.

Shortly after boarding, ''each of us was given a sack containing 8 grenades, one AK47 rifle, 200 cartridges, two magazines and one cell phone for communication,'' he said.

The Al-Huseini's crew, he said, later hijacked an Indian vessel, killing all but one crew member who was temporality kept alive and held at gunpoint to guide them into Mumbai's coastal waters.

''When we were at some distance from the shore, Ismail and (another militant) killed the Indian seaman'' before the group boarded a dinghy and came ashore ''per the instructions received earlier.''

Police said Saturday that Kasab, who's facing a criminal case in the attacks, has written to Pakistani officials to request legal help.

In a letter written Thursday, he asked for ''legal aid'' from the Pakistani consulate and requested a meeting with a consular representative, said Rakesh Maria, Mumbai's chief investigator.

The letter was forwarded to India's government to relay to Pakistani officials, but it was unclear whether it had been delivered, Maria said.

Pakistani officials were not immediately available for comment.

A number of Indian lawyers -- including a prominent group of Mumbai attorneys -- have refused to defend Kasab against criminal charges amid outrage over the attacks.

Kasab is being held on 12 offenses, including murder and waging war against the country, but has not yet been formally charged.

Islamabad has refused to acknowledge Kasab's nationality, complaining that India has yet to furnish any evidence.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/13/world/AP-AS-India-Shooting.html?_r=1
 
Kasab is not aware that his other terrorists are dead, He has been told that they are all taking part in investigations. He has even expressed meeting his mom in Faridkot.

India should not allow consular access to person who were caught red handed killing innocent persons.

Even the best lawyers in the world cannot argue the case for him. But everyone should have their basic rights. Let there be a representation. We should just believe in judiciary.
 
Laskhar to blame for Mumbai attacks: Brown

NEW DELHI: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday named Laskhar-e-Taiba militants as responsible for the Mumbai attacks, backing India's
accusations against the Pakistan-based group.

"We know that the group responsible is LeT and they have a great deal to answer for," Brown said as he travelled from New Delhi to Islamabad, where he will hold talks with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.

"I hope to convey some of the views of the Indian prime minister to the president of Pakistan when I meet him," Brown told reporters.

"I wanted to come to India to at first hand give my condolences to the prime minister and the whole of the Indian people at the terrible terrorist outrage in Mumbai that has shocked the whole world."

Laskhar to blame for Mumbai attacks: Brown-India-The Times of India

I know there are quite a few fans of the British here.

Food for thought for them.
 
Laskhar to blame for Mumbai attacks: Brown-India-The Times of India

I know there are quite a few fans of the British here.

Food for thought for them.

Can Pakistan stop Lashkar-e-Taiba?
President Zardari must stand by his vow to try suspects in the Mumbai attacks and punish terrorists.

December 11, 2008

Pakistan has made a good start in detaining two suspected commanders of last month's coordinated assault on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, and now it must persevere against the banned Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and its network of support. The arrests of Lashkar operations chief Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi and his deputy, Zarrar Shah, come amid mounting evidence that extensive planning and training went into the attacks from Pakistan. The nine dead gunmen came from Pakistan, and a survivor in custody reportedly told Indian police that another 20 militants trained with them there for such suicide missions. The gunmen are said to have traveled to Mumbai by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi, equipped with grenades, AK-47 rifles and 17.6-pound bombs, and communicated with handlers in Pakistan.

President Asif Ali Zardari has promised that anyone involved in the attacks will be tried and punished, and we understand that he faces many obstacles. Lashkar was founded with the help of the Pakistani military's main intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, to fight Indian rule in Kashmir, and elements within the ISI are still believed to support Lashkar and other militant groups. Zardari, who was elected after his wife, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated by alleged Islamic extremists, has even less control over the security apparatus than his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf. Furthermore, he risks a public backlash at home if he is seen to be acting at the behest of India or the United States, and apparently it is for that reason he has said he will not honor Indian requests for extradition of the suspects. If that's the case, he must put them on trial in Pakistan.

Previous Lashkar attacks have been met with a lackluster response: a roundup of militants, who were held for months and then released. Zardari must ensure that the culprits are punished this time, and he must go after their network, weeding out supporters in the military and provincial police forces, demobilizing fighters and outlawing their allied charity, Jamaat ud-Dawa. The head of Jamaat ud-Dawa is the founder of Lashkar, who quit days before the group was banned in 2001 after its attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.

Zardari must do all this not only to deliver justice to India and prevent retaliation but to show Pakistanis he means business. As he wrote in the New York Times this week, the Mumbai attacks were directed at Pakistan's government and the peace process over Kashmir as well as at India. Lashkar is a violent extremist organization that Pakistan has outlawed. If Zardari doesn't put enough muscle behind that, he will prove that his laws are weak, and that he is too.

Can Pakistan stop Lashkar-e-Taiba? - Los Angeles Times
 
i've been following this thread...just missed out on a little info...so here's the question.can anyone tell me who took ajmal kasab's photograph while he was in the hospital...for as i know...the ward was completed cleared of all personal except the security agency guyz,a couple of docs and nurses and was it really necessary since assuming his cctv pics were already available in the media?thanx
 
UK PM offers pact to stop Pakistan exporting terror


Gordon Brown confronted Pakistan yesterday on its record of exporting terrorism, disclosing that three quarters of serious plots investigated in the UK were connected to the country.


The prime minister arrived in Islamabad to announce that British police want to interview the surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks as part of broader inquiries into the extremist group blamed for the atrocity, Lashkar-e-Taiba.

In private talks, he also questioned Pakistan's president, Ali Asif Zardari, over what action could be taken to eradicate training camps in Pakistan through which potential British suicide bombers have passed. Brown offered British assistance in tracing and shutting them down.

"Three quarters of the most serious plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaida in Pakistan. Our aim must be to work together to do everything in our power to cut off terrorism," the prime minister told a press conference in Islamabad.

In return he offered a new pact between the two countries to combat terrorism "to make sure terrorists are denied any safe haven in Pakistan". It would involve British help to Pakistan with training in bomb disposal, airport security, anti-car bomb measures and a £6m package to counteract radicalisation and bolster democratic institutions in return for co-operation in the investigation.


The 7/7 bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan is among the terrorism suspects known to have travelled to Pakistan. Brown has spoken repeatedly in recent days of wanting to break a "chain of terror" leading from the region back to Europe.

Brown also held talks with the Indian prime minister, Mahoman Singh, and Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, on Friday and Saturday. The Indian government is concerned that while Pakistan has clamped down on Lashkar-e-Taiba in response to international outrage, in the past its action has fizzled out once international attention has faded.

Brown also passed on concerns from Karzai over terrorists infiltrating Afghanistan via the Pakistani border. The deaths of four Royal Marines last week, three in an incident involving a child bomber, has ensured Afghanistan cast a longer shadow than expected over the trip.

Brown said British police could attempt to pursue suspects in Pakistan as a result of their developing inquiries, adding he had asked the president if he would be prepared to allow that. Zardari however gave no guarantees yesterday.

Zardari insisted at a press conference in Islamabad yesterday that his government was co-operating with the investigation into the Mumbai attacks adding: "Terrorism and extremism is a common problem which requires collaborative efforts. Problems are not specific to one country."

PM offers pact to stop Pakistan exporting terror | Politics | The Guardian
 

Lashkar is behind Mumbai attacks: Brown


Sandeep Dikshit

“World must focus on choking the funding of non-state actors”


— PTI/Kamal Singh

Tackling terror: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a re-scheduled visit to India in the wake of rising tensions over the Mumbai terror strikes. He is seen with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown supported India’s contention that the Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the Mumbai terror attacks and observed that Pakistan had a “great deal to answer for.”

Mr. Brown arrived here on Sunday morning for a rescheduled visit. A meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior officials was the only item on the agenda.

Promising to convey New Delhi’s concern over Pakistan continuing to be a sanctuary for those planning and committing terrorist crimes in India, Mr. Brown wanted the world community to ensure that there were “no safe havens for terrorists” and “no safe place for those who finance terrorist activities.”

Mr. Brown was to arrive here on December 18 for a day-long visit. He pushed forward his tour to the subcontinent in order to make his interaction with the top leadership of Pakistan and India relevant in the context of the crises in bilateral ties following the Mumbai attacks.
Investigations

India is understood to have acquainted him with the main features of the investigation into the Mumbai strikes which it is convinced were choreographed from Pakistani territory. “The Indian police is interviewing people. We also know there have been arrests in Pakistan. We also know that the group responsible is LeT and they [Pakistan] have a great deal to answer for,” he said, when asked about his interaction with Dr. Singh.

“I am travelling to Pakistan and will meet President Zardari. I will explain the concerns that the Indian people have about what has happened and about issues related to Pakistan,” he observed.

“I hope the world can see how it can work together to combat terrorists,” he said. He had informed Dr. Singh of Britain’s commitment to help both countries jointly combat terror. “We will work together to build international support to tackle terrorism and roots of terrorism in this world.”

The British Prime Minister acknowledged that no country should go through what India experienced during the Mumbai attacks and felt the world community must focus on choking the funding of non-state actors who have resorted to repeated acts of violence on unarmed civilians.

The world must also “continue to expose the perverse and unacceptable messages that are sent out by extreme terrorist groups who are perversionists and misuse religion,” he added.

The Hindu : Front Page : Lashkar is behind Mumbai attacks: Brown
 
We will share evidence but not now: Pranab



PTI
First Published : 13 Dec 2008 04:06:40 PM IST
Last Updated : 13 Dec 2008 08:06:16 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Voicing scepticism over Pakistan acting decisively against terrorists operating from its soil, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said such elements have been "let off" in the past after some initial action.

"Therefore we shall have to see whether these (actions by Pakistan) are taken to their logical conclusion," he said, asking Islamabad to ensure that the terror infrastructure is dismantled completely.

Reacting to Islamabad's demand for evidence of the involvement of the Pakistan-based elements in the Mumbai attacks, Mukherjee said India was ready to do so but not at this juncture when investigations were yet to be concluded.

"We can make available whatever evidences we have. In this case, we are also investigating, we have not come to any conclusion. Therefore at this juncture, perhaps, it would be premature to share the evidences," Mukherjee told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate programme for CNN-IBN.


He refused to comment on the current crackdown on terror groups in Pakistan, while noting that similar actions took place in the aftermath of the attack on Parliament in 2001.

"Almost similar actions were taken at the initial stage when the international pressure was mounted. After that it was let off," he said, adding that he was "waiting to see" that these steps are pursued seriously.

"I am waiting to see ... The infrastructure facilities available to terrorists are totally dismantled and the outlawed and banned organisations do not reappear in their new name with the new signboards but with the same old faces." His remarks follow Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement in Parliament on Thursday that the international community has to be galvanised into "dealing sternly and effectively with the epicentre of terrorism, which is located in Pakistan."

We will share evidence but not now: Pranab Mukherjee
 
Pak releases four detained workers of JuD


Islamabad, Dec 15 (PTI) Just days after launching a crackdown on the Jamaat-ud-Dawah after the UN banned it, Pakistani authorities have released four detained workers and removed police guards deployed at the home of a senior leader of the organisation.
Authorities in Azad Kashmir released the four detained workers of the Lashkar-e-Taiba's front organisation and also withdrew police guards posted at the home of the group's regional head, Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi.

Chaudhry Imtiaz, the Deputy Commissioner of *** capital Muzaffarabad, told the Dawn newspaper that police guards had been removed from Alvi's residence but he had been asked not to leave the area without informing the administration.

Alvi, who heads the *** chapter of the Jamaat, was put under house arrest in his Karyan village on Thursday night.

"He had been placed under house arrest for security reasons. He is still under surveillance and cannot leave the station without prior intimation to the authorities concerned," Imtiaz said.

He said four persons taken into custody from a workshop run by the Jamaat in Muzaffarabad had been released because they were "merely mechanics". Imtiaz said there were no instructions from the federal government to detain the "regional or second-line leadership" of the Jamaat. PTI \

http://www.ptinews.com/pti\ptisite.nsf/0/BFFA5560D32A771E65257520002CD186?OpenDocument
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?? Make up your minds already - these guys can't seem to be able to keep their commitments.
 
US Senator Kerry warns Pakistan govt over spy agency

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NEW DELHI (AFP) — US Senator John Kerry visited India Monday and put fresh pressure on Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks, saying its powerful spy agency must be brought under control.

Ahead of talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Kerry said Pakistan's Inter Services-Intelligence (ISI) must stop operating independently of the government and end its links with militant groups.

"We would like to see an ISI that is reforming and brought completely under civilian control," Kerry told the Indian Express.

Kerry said the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, which India accuses of planning the Mumbai attacks, was set up by the ISI to fight Indian rule in Kashmir.

"They formed it and they know they formed it. But they didn't know that the LeT would graduate into an enterprise of its own," Kerry said, adding the ISI was not linked to Mumbai attacks "unless at some lower level".

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari tried to put the ISI under the control of the interior ministry in July but hastily reversed his decision after protests from Pakistan's military establishment.

In theory the ISI works under the control of the prime minister but in practice its functions are mainly run by Pakistan's pervasive security set-up.

After talks with Indian leaders, Kerry said there was "strong evidence" that the Mumbai gunmen came from Pakistan and urged Islamabad to take legal action against the LeT.

"We all know it was planned. It was planned over a period of time. We all know they (attackers) came from Pakistan and we understand the training that took place in that regard. So, there is strong evidence.

"I think it is imperative for Lashkar-e-Taiba to be taken on, the top leaders and anybody who is implicated in this attack needs to be properly prosecuted. It seems to me that is the real measure and the test here."

On his return to Washington, Kerry is expected to brief US President-elect Barack Obama on his talks with Indian and Pakistani leaders.

His trip to the region is the latest by world leaders and officials trying to defuse tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in the wake of last month's assault on Mumbai that left 172 people dead.
 
Pakistan won't let Britain investigate suspects
Mon 15 Dec 2008, 15:35 GMT


By Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will not allow foreign investigators to interrogate Islamist militants detained over last month's attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Monday.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in Islamabad on Sunday he had asked India and Pakistan for permission for British police to question suspects arrested in both countries in connection with the Mumbai assault.

Gilani told parliament he had turned down Brown's request.

"I want to assure you that when I met the British prime minister yesterday, he asked if ... we would allow them to investigate those people. I said 'we won't allow it'," he said.

"It is our country and our laws will be implemented. We'll follow our laws."

India, backed by the United States, has called on Pakistan to crack down on Pakistan-based militant groups after the attacks, in which 179 people were killed during a three-day siege in India's financial heart.

A British national and two people with dual British-Indian nationality were killed in Mumbai.

New Delhi blames Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a militant group it says was set up by Pakistan to fight Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region, for the Mumbai attacks.

Islamabad has blamed "non-state actors" and vowed to cooperate with investigations, but has repeatedly said anyone caught in Pakistan would be tried in Pakistan.

Pakistan also says India has yet to share evidence from the attacks.

CRACKDOWN

Pakistan has cracked down on suspected Islamists since the Mumbai attacks, detaining scores of people, many of them members of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamist charity that India says is a front for the LeT.

A committee of the U.N. Security Council last week added the charity to a list of people and groups facing sanctions for ties to al Qaeda or the Taliban.

Gilani said the clampdown on the charity had been carried out because of the U.N. decision and authorities would take control of the group's projects to ensure they were continued for the benefit of the people.

Pakistan has frozen accounts of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and has detained some of its leaders.

Gilani said Pakistan was a responsible nuclear-armed country and would act to stop terrorism.

"I assure the world through this platform that we'll not allow Pakistani territory to be used for terrorism. We condemn terrorism wherever it is," he said.

Brown said he had asked Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh if he would allow British police, "if they chose to do so," to interview the lone surviving gunman held after the attacks, identified as Mohammad Ajmal Kasab.

He said he had asked Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari if British police could interview suspects held in Pakistan.

British government sources said British detectives were seeking more information on how Lashkar worked or information they could cross-reference with other intelligence, rather than any intention to launch a separate prosecution.


(Editing by Robert Birsel and Dean Yates)

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Why won't they let Britain interrogate the suspects? Do they have something to hide?
 
UK PM offers pact to stop Pakistan exporting terror

he shuld thankfull ISI wich save his nation 10 planeshighjek last year.they realy un thankfull bastrds people wich save them give them info they oppose them

what a shame for UK USA they are bring idea of extremst jihad in our country now they are behave stupids. who start afghan jihad who bring alqaida who fund them 20 years .

today when we suffers these white sheeps learn us what we do.
 
US Senator Kerry warns Pakistan govt over spy agency

he is sach a loser who ceare him my foot.

some one ask him why not until now close CIA .they most dangrus agency of world.its CIA wich kill thausents of inocent last 50 years.
 
One thing is very strange,India is claiming the arrest of only that person,who pictures were released during the attack when he was walking along with his colleague.Why that person is arrested?This person was showing by Indian

media again and again during raid,on next day his pictures was in all media...

This thing leads to conspiracy...

Another thing let us assume that person was from Pakistan and was used by LT in attach(all this assumption, its never happened actual).So looking on the attack it was so well planned and horrible,those who were involved were highly trained and were operated by best planners.So here question arrise that LT planners were so idiot that they can not find the persons for attack with in India, where Muslims are living more then Pakistan.The Muslims of India hate India, due to many factors all we knows.By using Indian Muslims there were many advantage then why they used Pakistani man.
So this point also clear that it was drama by Indian agencies....

another point Why terroist killed Hemant Karkare, the chief of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, he was shot three times in the chest as he led his men at the Taj Mahal Palace.Now again assume that it was done by LT and supported by ISI, So they were so idiot that they killed the above said man, who was doing best to expose indian extremist face,even his army face,he was investigating the Indian army officer who was involved in Samjotha Express bombing,before it was also blamed on ISI and now real face was exposed by the Hemant Karkare.
so why LT killed Hemant Karkare who was so valuable for Pakistan.

There are also other points for this drama...
 
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