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i think his talking about indian muslims only
Indias hindu fanatics ready for backlash against Muslim Minority
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i think his talking about indian muslims only
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Yes I know muslims everywhere r brothers... infact even the christians and sikhs in India are our brothers...
Anyway thank you so much for your heart warmeth thingy...
Why do you want to avoid religion? Does being a Muslim actually hurt you? If it does its okay not to want to talk about it bcauz i understand u're not even in Organization for Islamic Conference and many of u are seen like sub hindus in muslim nations... we pakistani studs wont bother u again if u tell us u have an issue with being a Muslim and discussing the plight of the poor oppressed Muslims in India...
And one last thing. I have family back there and i will raise my voice for the indian muslims and hey i lived f4 few years in India as well so aren't we like brothers here? Ofcourse u'r living in constant fear of being killed and i am living freely but thats a major difference right there between an Indian muslim and Pakistani one...
Anyway we have lost members of our family who stayed in India to Hindu fanatics so u wont be getting rid of me anytime soon... uh-un
Yes so I was saying?... Uffff... Haiyyyy what a sad state of affairs the Muslims of India are in? Anyone want to discuss their state with me please feel welcome to do so... Nihat u want to discuss it? Obviously u'd be scared cauz fanatics can kill u anytime but someone else here?
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Unholy nexus of Hindu "holy" men and army personnel behind terror campaign in India
by Yusuf Abdullah
(Monday, December 8, 2008)
In the 16-year period since the destruction on December 6, 1992 of the historic Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh (UP), by a Hindu mob, Hindu terrorism has grown alarmingly in India. Police and anti-terrorism experts have discovered an unholy alliance of so-called Hindu holy men and army personnel behind the terror campaign in India that has killed more than 150 people this year alone. Although the hapless Muslims are the immediate suspects after every incident, they have only marginal involvement. The terror campaign has now engulfed Christians as well, 600 of whom have been killed since the year 2000.
The arrests in mid-November of 10 people including a serving army officer, lieutenant colonel Shrikant Purohit, and Mahant Amritanand Dev alias Dayanand Pandey, a self-styled Hindu priest from Kanpur, by Indias Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for their involvement in the Malegaon blast of September 29 has shocked Indias security establishment. Investigators discovered that it was under Pandeys instructions that colonel Purohit procured RDX explosives from an army depot that were used in the Malegaon blast, a small town in Maharashtra state that killed five people.
Pandey was present in all the pre-blast meetings in Bhopal, Jabalpur and Faridabad, monitored operations meticulously and was also responsible for arranging the finances that came in through illegal channels, an ATS source revealed to the media. Pandey, a dropout from the National Defence Academy, has links with other military personnel as well. Investigators are now questioning suspects for the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad that left 14 dead and 50 injured; the attack in February 2007 on the Samjhauta Express train between India and Pakistan that killed 68 people; and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhis Jama Masjid.
The Hindu terror campaign is not random; it is part of an organized campaign to force Muslims and Christians to convert to Hinduism. Hindu fascist outfits like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bhajrang Dal, whose ideologies are patterned on the Nazis concept of the pure race, operate freely terrorizing Muslims and Christians forcing them to become Hindus or face death. Not being a proselytizing religion, there is no established method of conversion so Hindu fascists have concocted a strange process: people must shave their heads as a sign of sacrifice, and drink from a foul mixture of water and cow dung. This is meant to purify them! Those who refuse are doused with kerosene and set on fire.
Historically, Muslims have suffered the brunt of the Hindu fanatics violent attacks. It does not matter what party is in power, Muslims are viewed as the enemy because India was partitioned into two states India and Pakistan in 1947. Hindu fascists view Muslims as Pakistan-sympathizers; more critically, they insist that they were born Hindus but converted to Islam, hence their campaign to bring them back into the fold, or to force them to leave India altogether. If Muslims do not accept either, then they must face death. It is not merely the ignorant Hindus that hold such views; Hindu leaders have propagated these ideas for decades. For them, India can only be a Hindu State: they use the name Hindustan (land of the Hindus) for India. Others, like Bal Thakeray, head of Shiv Sena, have openly called for acts of terror against Muslims.
The horrors that followed the destruction of the Babri Mosque in 1992 or the pogroms that were perpetrated in Gujrat in 2002 in which thousands of Muslims were burnt alive while the state government headed by Narendar Modi expressly forbade the police from helping, are still fresh in the minds of Muslims. Now several new twists have been added to this campaign. One is the fake encounters the police have with alleged terrorists. On September 19, for instance, two Muslim youth were executed in one such encounter near Jamia Milia University. Three other Muslims were arrested and deliberately covered in Arab headgear to conjure up the image of the Arab/Muslim terrorists. An enterprising photographer filmed this to expose the dirty tricks the police, under instructions from the home ministry (responsible for law and order), were indulging in. The incident became a national scandal, more so because the two Muslim youths were executed at close range. This has been the case for hundreds of others doctors, engineers, professors, technical experts killed or swallowed up by the thousands of jails in India. And of course, the students group, the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) that was banned in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 in 2001, has been similarly targeted.
But these pale in insignificance to other, more troubling developments. Over the last year, a number of bomb blasts have been traced to Hindu terrorists even though they are the most vocal in demanding the arrest of the perpetrators that they insist are Muslims. For instance, the February 24 bomb blasts in the RSS office and the bus stand in Tenkasi (Tamil Nadu state) were blamed on Muslims. These were given wide coverage in the Indian media and the clear impression created by the demands of the Sangh Parivar was that Muslim terrorists were responsible. The Tamil Nadu police, however, did not fall for the bait. A special team led by Kannappan, DIG Tirunelveli range, arrested three persons, all of them Hindus: S Ravi Pandian, a cable TV operator, S Kumar, an auto driver, both from Tenkasi, and V Narayana Sharma of Sencottai, all Sangh Parivar activists. Sharma had assembled 14 pipe bombs in the office of Ravi Pandian, according to media reports.
Last April, the Malegaon police raided a pathology laboratory located in the basement of a private hospital. They recovered a revolver, RDX explosives and fake one thousand rupee notes. Three Hindu terrorists, Nitish Ashire, Sahab Rao Sukhdev Dhevre and Jitendar Kherna were arrested according to a report in the Bombay-based Urdu Times of April 18, 2008. Kherna is the owner of the Smith Pathology Laboratory that is situated in the basement of More Accident Hospital of Camp Area from where the explosives, a gun and fake currency were recovered.
Similarly, a series of bomb blasts in Jaipur on May 13 were traced to a Hindu woman named Meena who had promised Rs.100,000 to a rickshaw driver, Vijay, to carry out terror attacks. A police officer confirmed they were looking for the woman. On June 16, the Maharashtra Police arrested two people from Navi Mumbai in connection with a series of bomb blasts in the area in which seven people were injured. The ATS swooped down on the Sanatan Ashram (a Hindu temple) and nabbed two men, identified as Hanumant Gadkari and Mahesh D. Nikam. Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare said the two belonged to the Hindu Jan Jagriti Manch (HJJM) and between February and June were responsible for three bomb blasts in the Navi Mumbai area.
Then there was the email message claiming responsibility for the Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat bomb blasts that killed 49 people and injured more than 200 others last July, by a hitherto unknown group, the Indian Mujahideen. It was traced to an upper class apartment complex in Mumbai, where a 48-year-old American missionary, Kenneth Haywood, lived. The IP address for the Indian Mujahideen email was also traced by the police to Haywoods laptop. He was merely questioned, not detained and he left the country. Who exactly was Haywood and what was his mission? Why was he allowed to leave the country without the police completing their investigation and charging those responsible for the multiple bomb blasts of July?
Even in light of these revelations, Hindu fascists have continued with their killing spree of innocent Muslims. On October 12, for instance, a Muslim family of six that included three children, one a two-year-old, were burnt alive in their mud hut in a village near Hyderabad. The attack occurred after clashes between Hindus and Muslims had left four people dead and 15 injured. It is a beastly and barbaric act, said Andhra Pradesh state Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy. Were the culprits arrested? Appeals by Muslim leaders for help have gone unheeded.
Such attacks have now extended to the Christians as well but not because the American Christian missionary Haywood was responsible for an email following the July bomb blasts. They blame missionaries for converting low caste Hindus into Christians. The rigidly structured Hindu religion condemns people to a fixed status in life that they cannot change no matter how much progress or education they may acquire. At the top sit the tiny minority of Brahmins; at the lowest end of the social scale are Shudras and Dalits, people that are forced to clean toilets and who because they are considered unclean, cannot use the utensils of the Brahmins or draw water from the same well.
When these oppressed people seek escape in other religions, whether Islam or Christianity, they are targeted by upper caste Hindus. In 1999, an Australian missionary Graham Steins, who had been working in Orissa for three decades treating lepers in remote tribal areas, was burnt alive with his two sons as they slept in their jeep. The boys were visiting their father at the time.
Last September and October, there were anti-Christian riots in six Indian states. It was set off, people [in Orissa] say, by the killing on August 23 of a charismatic Hindu preacher known as Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, who for 40 years had rallied the areas people to choose Hinduism over Christianity, according to Somini Sengupta of the New York Times (October 13). The police have blamed Maoist guerrillas for the swamis killing. But Hindu radicals continue to hold Christians responsible, Sengupta wrote. In Kandhamal, the district [in Orissa state] that has seen the greatest violence, more than 30 people have been killed, 3,000 homes burned and over 130 churches destroyed, including the tin-roofed Baptist prayer hall. Catholic priests and nuns have been dragged out of their homes, stripped naked and the nuns gang-raped.
Despite such attacks, the Western world has remained largely silent over Hindu-perpetrated crimes. One can imagine the uproar that would have erupted if Muslims had indulged in such ghastly killings of Christians. Why is India being treated with such kid gloves? As it is an emerging economic power, with a 300-million people middle class flush with cash, the West wants to sell to this huge market. While India has joined the space race by landing a craft on the moon, down on earth, there are also 390 million Indians living in absolute poverty, according to the Indian governments own figures in 2005. Indian rulers are not shy to go with the begging bowl to international donors despite boasting a hi-tech industry that is earning billions of dollars annually.
India also has the fourth largest army in the world; its navy is larger than that of Australias. India is also a member of the G-20, a group of 20 countries that represent the industrialized as well as developing countries. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in Washington to attend the G-20 summit on November 15. The West wants to cultivate India, hence not only the deference toward it but also the supply of military and nuclear material. The US, that leads the crusade against Irans peaceful nuclear program, has signed an agreement to supply nuclear fuel to Indian nuclear reactors without any of its military purpose reactors coming under international inspection.
It is because of Indias economic and military clout that countries like Britain refuse to bar Hindu fascists from visiting the country despite their well-established links with anti-Christian violence in India. Quoting Faiz Rahman, chairman of Good News India, the Times of London wrote on November 20, The going price to kill a pastor [in India] is $250 (£170).
A spokesman for the All-India Christian Council said, People are being offered rewards to kill, and to destroy churches and Christian properties. They are being offered foreign liquor, chicken, mutton and weapons. They are given petrol and kerosene.
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by Yusuf Abdullah
(Monday, December 8, 2008)
In the 16-year period since the destruction on December 6, 1992 of the historic Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh (UP), by a Hindu mob, Hindu terrorism has grown alarmingly in India. Police and anti-terrorism experts have discovered an unholy alliance of so-called Hindu holy men and army personnel behind the terror campaign in India that has killed more than 150 people this year alone. Although the hapless Muslims are the immediate suspects after every incident, they have only marginal involvement. The terror campaign has now engulfed Christians as well, 600 of whom have been killed since the year 2000.
The arrests in mid-November of 10 people including a serving army officer, lieutenant colonel Shrikant Purohit, and Mahant Amritanand Dev alias Dayanand Pandey, a self-styled Hindu priest from Kanpur, by Indias Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for their involvement in the Malegaon blast of September 29 has shocked Indias security establishment. Investigators discovered that it was under Pandeys instructions that colonel Purohit procured RDX explosives from an army depot that were used in the Malegaon blast, a small town in Maharashtra state that killed five people.
Pandey was present in all the pre-blast meetings in Bhopal, Jabalpur and Faridabad, monitored operations meticulously and was also responsible for arranging the finances that came in through illegal channels, an ATS source revealed to the media. Pandey, a dropout from the National Defence Academy, has links with other military personnel as well. Investigators are now questioning suspects for the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad that left 14 dead and 50 injured; the attack in February 2007 on the Samjhauta Express train between India and Pakistan that killed 68 people; and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhis Jama Masjid.
The Hindu terror campaign is not random; it is part of an organized campaign to force Muslims and Christians to convert to Hinduism. Hindu fascist outfits like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bhajrang Dal, whose ideologies are patterned on the Nazis concept of the pure race, operate freely terrorizing Muslims and Christians forcing them to become Hindus or face death. Not being a proselytizing religion, there is no established method of conversion so Hindu fascists have concocted a strange process: people must shave their heads as a sign of sacrifice, and drink from a foul mixture of water and cow dung. This is meant to purify them! Those who refuse are doused with kerosene and set on fire.
Historically, Muslims have suffered the brunt of the Hindu fanatics violent attacks. It does not matter what party is in power, Muslims are viewed as the enemy because India was partitioned into two states India and Pakistan in 1947. Hindu fascists view Muslims as Pakistan-sympathizers; more critically, they insist that they were born Hindus but converted to Islam, hence their campaign to bring them back into the fold, or to force them to leave India altogether. If Muslims do not accept either, then they must face death. It is not merely the ignorant Hindus that hold such views; Hindu leaders have propagated these ideas for decades. For them, India can only be a Hindu State: they use the name Hindustan (land of the Hindus) for India. Others, like Bal Thakeray, head of Shiv Sena, have openly called for acts of terror against Muslims.
The horrors that followed the destruction of the Babri Mosque in 1992 or the pogroms that were perpetrated in Gujrat in 2002 in which thousands of Muslims were burnt alive while the state government headed by Narendar Modi expressly forbade the police from helping, are still fresh in the minds of Muslims. Now several new twists have been added to this campaign. One is the fake encounters the police have with alleged terrorists. On September 19, for instance, two Muslim youth were executed in one such encounter near Jamia Milia University. Three other Muslims were arrested and deliberately covered in Arab headgear to conjure up the image of the Arab/Muslim terrorists. An enterprising photographer filmed this to expose the dirty tricks the police, under instructions from the home ministry (responsible for law and order), were indulging in. The incident became a national scandal, more so because the two Muslim youths were executed at close range. This has been the case for hundreds of others doctors, engineers, professors, technical experts killed or swallowed up by the thousands of jails in India. And of course, the students group, the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) that was banned in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 in 2001, has been similarly targeted.
But these pale in insignificance to other, more troubling developments. Over the last year, a number of bomb blasts have been traced to Hindu terrorists even though they are the most vocal in demanding the arrest of the perpetrators that they insist are Muslims. For instance, the February 24 bomb blasts in the RSS office and the bus stand in Tenkasi (Tamil Nadu state) were blamed on Muslims. These were given wide coverage in the Indian media and the clear impression created by the demands of the Sangh Parivar was that Muslim terrorists were responsible. The Tamil Nadu police, however, did not fall for the bait. A special team led by Kannappan, DIG Tirunelveli range, arrested three persons, all of them Hindus: S Ravi Pandian, a cable TV operator, S Kumar, an auto driver, both from Tenkasi, and V Narayana Sharma of Sencottai, all Sangh Parivar activists. Sharma had assembled 14 pipe bombs in the office of Ravi Pandian, according to media reports.
Last April, the Malegaon police raided a pathology laboratory located in the basement of a private hospital. They recovered a revolver, RDX explosives and fake one thousand rupee notes. Three Hindu terrorists, Nitish Ashire, Sahab Rao Sukhdev Dhevre and Jitendar Kherna were arrested according to a report in the Bombay-based Urdu Times of April 18, 2008. Kherna is the owner of the Smith Pathology Laboratory that is situated in the basement of More Accident Hospital of Camp Area from where the explosives, a gun and fake currency were recovered.
Similarly, a series of bomb blasts in Jaipur on May 13 were traced to a Hindu woman named Meena who had promised Rs.100,000 to a rickshaw driver, Vijay, to carry out terror attacks. A police officer confirmed they were looking for the woman. On June 16, the Maharashtra Police arrested two people from Navi Mumbai in connection with a series of bomb blasts in the area in which seven people were injured. The ATS swooped down on the Sanatan Ashram (a Hindu temple) and nabbed two men, identified as Hanumant Gadkari and Mahesh D. Nikam. Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare said the two belonged to the Hindu Jan Jagriti Manch (HJJM) and between February and June were responsible for three bomb blasts in the Navi Mumbai area.
Then there was the email message claiming responsibility for the Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat bomb blasts that killed 49 people and injured more than 200 others last July, by a hitherto unknown group, the Indian Mujahideen. It was traced to an upper class apartment complex in Mumbai, where a 48-year-old American missionary, Kenneth Haywood, lived. The IP address for the Indian Mujahideen email was also traced by the police to Haywoods laptop. He was merely questioned, not detained and he left the country. Who exactly was Haywood and what was his mission? Why was he allowed to leave the country without the police completing their investigation and charging those responsible for the multiple bomb blasts of July?
Even in light of these revelations, Hindu fascists have continued with their killing spree of innocent Muslims. On October 12, for instance, a Muslim family of six that included three children, one a two-year-old, were burnt alive in their mud hut in a village near Hyderabad. The attack occurred after clashes between Hindus and Muslims had left four people dead and 15 injured. It is a beastly and barbaric act, said Andhra Pradesh state Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy. Were the culprits arrested? Appeals by Muslim leaders for help have gone unheeded.
Such attacks have now extended to the Christians as well but not because the American Christian missionary Haywood was responsible for an email following the July bomb blasts. They blame missionaries for converting low caste Hindus into Christians. The rigidly structured Hindu religion condemns people to a fixed status in life that they cannot change no matter how much progress or education they may acquire. At the top sit the tiny minority of Brahmins; at the lowest end of the social scale are Shudras and Dalits, people that are forced to clean toilets and who because they are considered unclean, cannot use the utensils of the Brahmins or draw water from the same well.
When these oppressed people seek escape in other religions, whether Islam or Christianity, they are targeted by upper caste Hindus. In 1999, an Australian missionary Graham Steins, who had been working in Orissa for three decades treating lepers in remote tribal areas, was burnt alive with his two sons as they slept in their jeep. The boys were visiting their father at the time.
Last September and October, there were anti-Christian riots in six Indian states. It was set off, people [in Orissa] say, by the killing on August 23 of a charismatic Hindu preacher known as Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, who for 40 years had rallied the areas people to choose Hinduism over Christianity, according to Somini Sengupta of the New York Times (October 13). The police have blamed Maoist guerrillas for the swamis killing. But Hindu radicals continue to hold Christians responsible, Sengupta wrote. In Kandhamal, the district [in Orissa state] that has seen the greatest violence, more than 30 people have been killed, 3,000 homes burned and over 130 churches destroyed, including the tin-roofed Baptist prayer hall. Catholic priests and nuns have been dragged out of their homes, stripped naked and the nuns gang-raped.
Despite such attacks, the Western world has remained largely silent over Hindu-perpetrated crimes. One can imagine the uproar that would have erupted if Muslims had indulged in such ghastly killings of Christians. Why is India being treated with such kid gloves? As it is an emerging economic power, with a 300-million people middle class flush with cash, the West wants to sell to this huge market. While India has joined the space race by landing a craft on the moon, down on earth, there are also 390 million Indians living in absolute poverty, according to the Indian governments own figures in 2005. Indian rulers are not shy to go with the begging bowl to international donors despite boasting a hi-tech industry that is earning billions of dollars annually.
India also has the fourth largest army in the world; its navy is larger than that of Australias. India is also a member of the G-20, a group of 20 countries that represent the industrialized as well as developing countries. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in Washington to attend the G-20 summit on November 15. The West wants to cultivate India, hence not only the deference toward it but also the supply of military and nuclear material. The US, that leads the crusade against Irans peaceful nuclear program, has signed an agreement to supply nuclear fuel to Indian nuclear reactors without any of its military purpose reactors coming under international inspection.
It is because of Indias economic and military clout that countries like Britain refuse to bar Hindu fascists from visiting the country despite their well-established links with anti-Christian violence in India. Quoting Faiz Rahman, chairman of Good News India, the Times of London wrote on November 20, The going price to kill a pastor [in India] is $250 (£170).
A spokesman for the All-India Christian Council said, People are being offered rewards to kill, and to destroy churches and Christian properties. They are being offered foreign liquor, chicken, mutton and weapons. They are given petrol and kerosene.
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The Mumbai Terror Attacks: Need For A Thorough Investigation
By R.H.
08 December, 2008
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In all the confusion and horror generated by the ghastly terrorist attacks in Bombay, a dimension which has not received the attention it deserves is the circumstances surrounding the death of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and two of his colleagues, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte. The major pattern of operations involved well-organised attacks on a few high-profile sites in Colaba the Taj, Oberoi and Trident Hotels, and the less-known Nariman House while a parallel set of operations was centred on Victoria Terminus or VT (now known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or CST) station, Cama Hospital and the Metro cinema, in the middle of which is the police headquarters where Karkare worked. The latter is an area where foreigners are much less likely to be found.
Why is a Proper Investigation Crucial?
Hemant Karkare was engaged in unearthing a terror network with characteristics which had not been seen so far. The investigation started by tracing the motorcycle used to plant bombs in Malegaon in September 2008 to a Hindu Sadhvi, Pragyasingh Thakur; it later uncovered a cellphone conversation between her and Ramji, the man who planted the bombs, in which she asked why more people had not been killed. For the first time, the Indian state was conducting a thorough professional probe into a terror network centred on Hindu extremist organisations, this one with huge ramifications, some leading into military and bomb-making training camps and policised elements in the army, others into organisations and political leaders affiliated to the BJP. One of the most potentially explosive discoveries was that a serving army officer, Lt.Col. Srikant Purohit, had procured 60 kg of RDX from government supplies for use in the terrorist attack on the Samjhauta Express (the India-Pakistan Understanding train) in February 2007, in which 68 people were killed, the majority of them Pakistanis. Initially, militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba and other Islamist terror groups had been accused of carrying out the attack, but no evidence against them had been found.
The hostility generated by this investigation was enormous, with allegations (refuted by medical examinations) that the suspects had been tortured and that Karkare was being used as a political tool, and demands that the ATS team should be changed. Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K.Advani accused him of being a desh drohi or traitor, a charge that in India carries a death penalty, and the Shiv Sena offered legal aid to those accused of the terrorist attack, complaining that The government does not save Hindus from terrorists, and if Hindus defend themselves, they are maligned. In an interview shortly before he died, Karkare admitted he was hurt by the campaign against him. On November 26, just before the terrorist attack, the police in Pune received a call from an anonymous caller saying in Marathi that Karkare would be killed in a bomb blast within two or three days.
Just as attitudes to Karkare in society at large were polarised, with some admiring him as a hero one Maulana went so far as to call him a massiha (messiah) of Muslims, an amazing tribute from a Muslim to a Hindu while others hated him as a traitor worthy of death, attitudes within the police force too were polarised. For example, dismissed encounter specialist Sachin Vaze (who with three colleagues was charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and concealment of the dead body in the case of Khwaja Yunus shortly before the terrorist attack) was a member of the Shiv Sena who was actively engaged in the campaign against Karkare and in support of the Malegaon blast accused. Vaze and several other encounter specialists who had been dismissed for corruption, extortion and links with the underworld also had a grudge against Salaskar, whom they suspected of informing on them.
Hard Evidence or Pulp Fiction?
Given this background, and reports that are riddled with inconsistencies, it is not surprising that many residents of Bombay are asking questions about the exact manner of the death of Hemant Karkare and his colleagues. The earliest reports, presumably relayed from the police via the media, said that Karkare had been killed at the Taj, and Salaskar and Kamte at Metro. If this was not true, why were we told this? And why was the story later changed? Was it because it conflicted with eye-witness accounts? Indeed, under the heading ATS Chief Hemant Karkare Killed: His Last Pics, IBNlive showed footage first of Karkare putting on a helmet and bullet-proof vest, and then a shootout at Metro, where an unconscious man who looks like Karkare and wearing the same light blue shirt and dark trousers (but without any blood on his shirt or the terrible wounds we saw on his face at his funeral) is being pulled into a car by two youths in saffron shirts. The commentary says that Karkare could well have fallen prey to just indiscriminate, random firing by the cops, and also reports that there were two vehicles, a Toyota Qualis and Honda City, from which the occupants were firing indiscriminately.
Later we were given two accounts of the killings where the venue is shifted to a deserted lane without cameras or eye-witnesses. The first account is by the lone terrorist captured alive, claiming to be A.A.Kasab from Faridkot in Pakistan and a member of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. According to him, just two gumen, he and Ismail (also from Pakistan), first attacked VT station, where they sprayed bullets indiscriminately. (Around 58 people were killed there, over one-third of them Muslims, and many more might have been killed if the announcer, Mr Zende, had not risked his life to direct passengers to safety.) They then went to Cama, a government hospital for women and children used mainly by the poor. According to the police, Kasab claimed he and Ismail had killed Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte.
The other account is by police constable Arun Jadhav. According to him, Karkare, Salaskar, Kamte, a driver and four police constables including himself were driving down the alley from VT to the back entrance of Cama (barely a ten-minute drive) in their Toyota Qualis to check on injured police officer Sadanand Date when two gunmen emerged from behind trees by the left side of the road and sprayed the vehicle with bullets, killing all its inmates except Jadhav. They then dragged out the three officers, hijacked the vehicle, drove to Metro junction and then Mantralaya in South Bombay, abandoned it when a tyre burst, and grabbed another car. According to police accounts, they then drove to Girgaum, where Kasab was injured and arrested and his companion killed.
These accounts raise more questions than they answer. Kasab claimed that a band of ten terrorists landed and split up into twos, going to various destinations, he and his companion going to VT. He said they wanted to blow up the Taj, as in the attack on the Marriott in Islamabad; yet we are told that only 8kg of RDX were found at the Taj, and even that was not used; contrast this with 600kg of RDX and TNT used to blow up the Marriott: could they really have expected to blow up the Taj? He said that the terrorists planned to use their hostages as a means of escape, yet there was no attempt at any such negotiations; at other times, he also said they had been instructed to fight to the death. He says he is a labourer from Faridkot near Multan and only studied up to Class IV, but it is reported that he speaks fluent English and that people in Faridkot village say they have never seen him. (Moreover, how did the invaders from the sea get one bomb to go off in Dockyard Road and another in Vile Parle, 25 kilometres away, at around 11.30 p.m?)
During his interrogation, Kasab said that he and eight of the operatives had done a reconaissance trip to Bombay a few months back, pretending to be students and renting a room at Colaba market, which is close to Nariman House. It is extremely hard for Pakistani nationals to get Indian visas, and they are kept under close surveillance by the police; it is also most unlikely that the Indian immigration authorities would be fooled by forged passports of another country. In that case, the Indian immigration authorities would have visa applications of nine of the terrorists including Kasab, and could match the photographs in them to those of the terrorists: has this been done? Later, Kasab changed his mind and said that the team who carried out reconnaisance was different from the team who had carried out the attacks, but they still would be traceable.
The events in VT and Cama and the back lane also put a question mark over his story. According to witnesses, two gunmen started firing at the mainline terminus in VT at 21.55 on Wednesday night, but at precisely the same time, according to CCTV footage, two gunmen began an assault on the suburban terminus. If the first account is true, there were four gunmen at the station: where did the other two come from, and where did they go? We are shown video footage, claiming to be CCTV but without the timeline of normal CCTV footage, of Kasab and Ismail wandering around the parking lot near the mainline terminus. This surely cannot be before the shootout, since the station is completely deserted; and after the shootout, Kasab and Ismail are supposed to have escaped via the footbridge from Platform 1 of the suburban station on the other side of VT: this, again, suggests there were four gunmen. Several people have pointed out that one of the terrorists in VT was wearing a saffron wrist-band, a Hindu custom. And even if Kasab and Ismail had been shown photographs of Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte before they embarked on their trip, how could they possibly have identified the police officers in a dark alley in the dead of night?
Witnesses in Cama hospital say the terrorists spoke fluent Marathi (presumably without a Punjabi accent). The gunmen killed two guards in uniform, spared a third who was in civilian dress and begged for his life saying he was the husband of a patient, demanded water from an employee in the staff quarters and then killed him. They then appear to have made a beeline for the 6th floor (which was empty) and the terrace, taking with them the liftman, Tikhe. 15-30 minutes later, six to eight policemen arrived, and another employee took them up to the 6th floor. The policemen threw a piece of steel up to the terrace, whereupon Tikhe came running down and told them there were two terrorists on the terrace. A fierce gun-battle ensued for 30 to 45 minutes, in which ACP Sadanand Date was injured. Panic-stricken patients and staff in the maternity ward on the 5th floor barricaded the door; nurses instructed the women to breast-feed their babies to keep them quiet, and one woman, who was in the middle of labour, was told to hold back the birth; but they were not invaded. Eventually the gunmen appear to have escaped, it is not clear how. If they were Kasab and Ismail, then these two must have been fluent Marathi speakers. And why would they have taken up positions on the terrace? Was it because they would have a direct view of the lane in which Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte were later supposedly killed?
The other account is equally dubious. In his first account, Jadhav said Karkare was in the second row of the Qualis, while in the second he was supposed to be in the front row with Kamte. In the second account, Salaskar was initially sitting behind the driver, but then asked the driver to slow down and got behind the wheel himself: is it plausible that an experienced encounter specialist would deliberately make himself into a sitting duck like this when they were in hot pursuit of terrorists? In the first account they were supposed to be going to check up on their injured colleague Sadanand Date, but in the second were supposed to be looking for a red car in which they had been told the gunmen were travelling. If the report about the red car was a decoy to lure them into an ambush, it is important to know who told them that the terrorists were in a red car. If the gunmen were firing from the left side, as Jadhav claimed, how was Karkare hit three times in the chest while Jadhav himself got two bullets in his right arm? Also, the only vegetation in that part of the lane has wire netting around it, and it would be hard for anyone to hide behind it. How did two terrorists manage to kill six police personnel, including Karkare and Kamte who he said were armed with AK47s and Salaskar, an encounter specialist who had confronted and killed dozens of dangerous criminals, without getting seriously injured themselves?
There was also an intriguing report in DNA on 28 November saying that Anand Raorane, a resident of a building opposite Nariman House, heard sounds of celebration from the terrorists there when the news of Karkare getting killed was flashed on TV: isnt that strange? The same report quoted a resident of Nariman House and a local shopkeeper who said that the terrorists had purchased large quantities of food and liquor before the attack, suggesting, at the very least, that they were not pious Muslims, and that more than two of them were planning to occupy the place for a long time. Another DNA report, on 2 December, said that sub-inspector Durgude, who had been posted in front of St Xaviers College, between Cama Hospital and the exit point of the back lane onto Mahapalika Road, saw two young men whom he took to be students and called out to warn them that there was firing at Cama. When they ignored him, he approached them, upon which one of them turned an AK47 on him and killed him. If Kasab and Ismail were there, who was firing inside Cama? Eye-witnesses in St Xaviers saw a man shot and lying on the pavement in front of the college around 12.30 a.m., while about three gunmen stood over him: who was that? Various reports said that two to eight terrorists were captured alive. Now there is only one in police custody: what happened to the other(s)?
A careful scrutiny of all the reports available so far suggests, to this writer anyway, that the killing of Karkare and his colleagues was a premeditated act, executed by a group that had stationed snipers at various points along the general route between VT and the Metro cinema with a view to maximising their chances of a successful murderous assault.
The Objective: Shutting Down Terrorist Networks
These are just a few of the numerous questions being asked by vigilant Bombayites who find themselves thoroughly dissatisfied with the information that has been doled out. These are citizens who understand the importance of identifying terrorist networks and shutting them down, but doubt that this will be done by the authorities. Why are they so cynical about the possibility of a genuine professional investigation? The answer is that we have too much bitter experience of investigations in which innocent people (usually Muslim youth) are rounded up, tortured and even killed, while the real culprits are allowed to go free. Karkare broke with this dismal record, but now he is dead. When a person who has been vilified, slandered and threatened with death is killed in suspicious circumstances, it is imperative that a proper investigation should be carried out soon, before too much evidence can be manufactured and/or destroyed. If Kasab aka Iman disappears or is assassinated like Lee Harvey Oswald, or is executed, that would be further evidence of a conspiracy.
The government and people of Pakistan have as much interest as the government and people of India in eliminating the terror networks that have killed President Asif Ali Zardaris wife Benazir Bhutto and thousands of others in both Pakistan and India. The terrorists, on the other hand, be they Islamist or Hindutva, have a common interest in destroying secularism, democracy and peace within and between the two countries. That is their precise agenda. Pakistani politicians have offered a joint investigation into the terrorist attacks, a far more sensible suggestion than the belligerent statements by some Indians accusing Pakistan of harbouring terrorists who are killing Indians. It should be obvious that a military conflict between India and Pakistan would be disastrous for both countries economically, while a nuclear war, which might ensue if extremist forces captured power in both countries, would have unthinkable consequences. If the Indo-Pakistan peace process is halted, as L.K.Advani advocates, the terrorists would have won.
Indeed, without a joint investigation, the terrorist networks behind this outrage can never be uncovered: how else could the names and addresses in Pakistan revealed by Kasab be followed up to the satisfaction of all parties? A team of Pakistani investigators should be invited to come to Bombay and interview Kasab. If he is indeed a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, he will be able to provide invaluable information, and a team of investigators from India should be invited to Pakistan to pursue the investigation there. If, as some reports have indicated, he is not what he claims to be, that too would become clear. The Indian government owes it to the memory of Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte, who died fighting terrorism of all hues, to establish exactly where, when and how they were killed, identify their killers, and make sure that their work is continued. They also owe it to us, the public, who are the prime targets of all terrorist attacks, to carry out a credible investigation which identifies and puts behind bars all the mass murderers involved in this and other attacks.
The Mumbai Terror Attacks: Need For A Thorough Investigation
By R.H.
08 December, 2008
Countercurrents.org
In all the confusion and horror generated by the ghastly terrorist attacks in Bombay, a dimension which has not received the attention it deserves is the circumstances surrounding the death of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and two of his colleagues, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte. The major pattern of operations involved well-organised attacks on a few high-profile sites in Colaba the Taj, Oberoi and Trident Hotels, and the less-known Nariman House while a parallel set of operations was centred on Victoria Terminus or VT (now known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or CST) station, Cama Hospital and the Metro cinema, in the middle of which is the police headquarters where Karkare worked. The latter is an area where foreigners are much less likely to be found.
Why is a Proper Investigation Crucial?
Hemant Karkare was engaged in unearthing a terror network with characteristics which had not been seen so far. The investigation started by tracing the motorcycle used to plant bombs in Malegaon in September 2008 to a Hindu Sadhvi, Pragyasingh Thakur; it later uncovered a cellphone conversation between her and Ramji, the man who planted the bombs, in which she asked why more people had not been killed. For the first time, the Indian state was conducting a thorough professional probe into a terror network centred on Hindu extremist organisations, this one with huge ramifications, some leading into military and bomb-making training camps and policised elements in the army, others into organisations and political leaders affiliated to the BJP. One of the most potentially explosive discoveries was that a serving army officer, Lt.Col. Srikant Purohit, had procured 60 kg of RDX from government supplies for use in the terrorist attack on the Samjhauta Express (the India-Pakistan Understanding train) in February 2007, in which 68 people were killed, the majority of them Pakistanis. Initially, militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba and other Islamist terror groups had been accused of carrying out the attack, but no evidence against them had been found.
The hostility generated by this investigation was enormous, with allegations (refuted by medical examinations) that the suspects had been tortured and that Karkare was being used as a political tool, and demands that the ATS team should be changed. Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K.Advani accused him of being a desh drohi or traitor, a charge that in India carries a death penalty, and the Shiv Sena offered legal aid to those accused of the terrorist attack, complaining that The government does not save Hindus from terrorists, and if Hindus defend themselves, they are maligned. In an interview shortly before he died, Karkare admitted he was hurt by the campaign against him. On November 26, just before the terrorist attack, the police in Pune received a call from an anonymous caller saying in Marathi that Karkare would be killed in a bomb blast within two or three days.
Just as attitudes to Karkare in society at large were polarised, with some admiring him as a hero one Maulana went so far as to call him a massiha (messiah) of Muslims, an amazing tribute from a Muslim to a Hindu while others hated him as a traitor worthy of death, attitudes within the police force too were polarised. For example, dismissed encounter specialist Sachin Vaze (who with three colleagues was charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and concealment of the dead body in the case of Khwaja Yunus shortly before the terrorist attack) was a member of the Shiv Sena who was actively engaged in the campaign against Karkare and in support of the Malegaon blast accused. Vaze and several other encounter specialists who had been dismissed for corruption, extortion and links with the underworld also had a grudge against Salaskar, whom they suspected of informing on them.
Hard Evidence or Pulp Fiction?
Given this background, and reports that are riddled with inconsistencies, it is not surprising that many residents of Bombay are asking questions about the exact manner of the death of Hemant Karkare and his colleagues. The earliest reports, presumably relayed from the police via the media, said that Karkare had been killed at the Taj, and Salaskar and Kamte at Metro. If this was not true, why were we told this? And why was the story later changed? Was it because it conflicted with eye-witness accounts? Indeed, under the heading ATS Chief Hemant Karkare Killed: His Last Pics, IBNlive showed footage first of Karkare putting on a helmet and bullet-proof vest, and then a shootout at Metro, where an unconscious man who looks like Karkare and wearing the same light blue shirt and dark trousers (but without any blood on his shirt or the terrible wounds we saw on his face at his funeral) is being pulled into a car by two youths in saffron shirts. The commentary says that Karkare could well have fallen prey to just indiscriminate, random firing by the cops, and also reports that there were two vehicles, a Toyota Qualis and Honda City, from which the occupants were firing indiscriminately.
Later we were given two accounts of the killings where the venue is shifted to a deserted lane without cameras or eye-witnesses. The first account is by the lone terrorist captured alive, claiming to be A.A.Kasab from Faridkot in Pakistan and a member of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. According to him, just two gumen, he and Ismail (also from Pakistan), first attacked VT station, where they sprayed bullets indiscriminately. (Around 58 people were killed there, over one-third of them Muslims, and many more might have been killed if the announcer, Mr Zende, had not risked his life to direct passengers to safety.) They then went to Cama, a government hospital for women and children used mainly by the poor. According to the police, Kasab claimed he and Ismail had killed Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte.
The other account is by police constable Arun Jadhav. According to him, Karkare, Salaskar, Kamte, a driver and four police constables including himself were driving down the alley from VT to the back entrance of Cama (barely a ten-minute drive) in their Toyota Qualis to check on injured police officer Sadanand Date when two gunmen emerged from behind trees by the left side of the road and sprayed the vehicle with bullets, killing all its inmates except Jadhav. They then dragged out the three officers, hijacked the vehicle, drove to Metro junction and then Mantralaya in South Bombay, abandoned it when a tyre burst, and grabbed another car. According to police accounts, they then drove to Girgaum, where Kasab was injured and arrested and his companion killed.
These accounts raise more questions than they answer. Kasab claimed that a band of ten terrorists landed and split up into twos, going to various destinations, he and his companion going to VT. He said they wanted to blow up the Taj, as in the attack on the Marriott in Islamabad; yet we are told that only 8kg of RDX were found at the Taj, and even that was not used; contrast this with 600kg of RDX and TNT used to blow up the Marriott: could they really have expected to blow up the Taj? He said that the terrorists planned to use their hostages as a means of escape, yet there was no attempt at any such negotiations; at other times, he also said they had been instructed to fight to the death. He says he is a labourer from Faridkot near Multan and only studied up to Class IV, but it is reported that he speaks fluent English and that people in Faridkot village say they have never seen him. (Moreover, how did the invaders from the sea get one bomb to go off in Dockyard Road and another in Vile Parle, 25 kilometres away, at around 11.30 p.m?)
During his interrogation, Kasab said that he and eight of the operatives had done a reconaissance trip to Bombay a few months back, pretending to be students and renting a room at Colaba market, which is close to Nariman House. It is extremely hard for Pakistani nationals to get Indian visas, and they are kept under close surveillance by the police; it is also most unlikely that the Indian immigration authorities would be fooled by forged passports of another country. In that case, the Indian immigration authorities would have visa applications of nine of the terrorists including Kasab, and could match the photographs in them to those of the terrorists: has this been done? Later, Kasab changed his mind and said that the team who carried out reconnaisance was different from the team who had carried out the attacks, but they still would be traceable.
The events in VT and Cama and the back lane also put a question mark over his story. According to witnesses, two gunmen started firing at the mainline terminus in VT at 21.55 on Wednesday night, but at precisely the same time, according to CCTV footage, two gunmen began an assault on the suburban terminus. If the first account is true, there were four gunmen at the station: where did the other two come from, and where did they go? We are shown video footage, claiming to be CCTV but without the timeline of normal CCTV footage, of Kasab and Ismail wandering around the parking lot near the mainline terminus. This surely cannot be before the shootout, since the station is completely deserted; and after the shootout, Kasab and Ismail are supposed to have escaped via the footbridge from Platform 1 of the suburban station on the other side of VT: this, again, suggests there were four gunmen. Several people have pointed out that one of the terrorists in VT was wearing a saffron wrist-band, a Hindu custom. And even if Kasab and Ismail had been shown photographs of Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte before they embarked on their trip, how could they possibly have identified the police officers in a dark alley in the dead of night?
Witnesses in Cama hospital say the terrorists spoke fluent Marathi (presumably without a Punjabi accent). The gunmen killed two guards in uniform, spared a third who was in civilian dress and begged for his life saying he was the husband of a patient, demanded water from an employee in the staff quarters and then killed him. They then appear to have made a beeline for the 6th floor (which was empty) and the terrace, taking with them the liftman, Tikhe. 15-30 minutes later, six to eight policemen arrived, and another employee took them up to the 6th floor. The policemen threw a piece of steel up to the terrace, whereupon Tikhe came running down and told them there were two terrorists on the terrace. A fierce gun-battle ensued for 30 to 45 minutes, in which ACP Sadanand Date was injured. Panic-stricken patients and staff in the maternity ward on the 5th floor barricaded the door; nurses instructed the women to breast-feed their babies to keep them quiet, and one woman, who was in the middle of labour, was told to hold back the birth; but they were not invaded. Eventually the gunmen appear to have escaped, it is not clear how. If they were Kasab and Ismail, then these two must have been fluent Marathi speakers. And why would they have taken up positions on the terrace? Was it because they would have a direct view of the lane in which Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte were later supposedly killed?
The other account is equally dubious. In his first account, Jadhav said Karkare was in the second row of the Qualis, while in the second he was supposed to be in the front row with Kamte. In the second account, Salaskar was initially sitting behind the driver, but then asked the driver to slow down and got behind the wheel himself: is it plausible that an experienced encounter specialist would deliberately make himself into a sitting duck like this when they were in hot pursuit of terrorists? In the first account they were supposed to be going to check up on their injured colleague Sadanand Date, but in the second were supposed to be looking for a red car in which they had been told the gunmen were travelling. If the report about the red car was a decoy to lure them into an ambush, it is important to know who told them that the terrorists were in a red car. If the gunmen were firing from the left side, as Jadhav claimed, how was Karkare hit three times in the chest while Jadhav himself got two bullets in his right arm? Also, the only vegetation in that part of the lane has wire netting around it, and it would be hard for anyone to hide behind it. How did two terrorists manage to kill six police personnel, including Karkare and Kamte who he said were armed with AK47s and Salaskar, an encounter specialist who had confronted and killed dozens of dangerous criminals, without getting seriously injured themselves?
There was also an intriguing report in DNA on 28 November saying that Anand Raorane, a resident of a building opposite Nariman House, heard sounds of celebration from the terrorists there when the news of Karkare getting killed was flashed on TV: isnt that strange? The same report quoted a resident of Nariman House and a local shopkeeper who said that the terrorists had purchased large quantities of food and liquor before the attack, suggesting, at the very least, that they were not pious Muslims, and that more than two of them were planning to occupy the place for a long time. Another DNA report, on 2 December, said that sub-inspector Durgude, who had been posted in front of St Xaviers College, between Cama Hospital and the exit point of the back lane onto Mahapalika Road, saw two young men whom he took to be students and called out to warn them that there was firing at Cama. When they ignored him, he approached them, upon which one of them turned an AK47 on him and killed him. If Kasab and Ismail were there, who was firing inside Cama? Eye-witnesses in St Xaviers saw a man shot and lying on the pavement in front of the college around 12.30 a.m., while about three gunmen stood over him: who was that? Various reports said that two to eight terrorists were captured alive. Now there is only one in police custody: what happened to the other(s)?
A careful scrutiny of all the reports available so far suggests, to this writer anyway, that the killing of Karkare and his colleagues was a premeditated act, executed by a group that had stationed snipers at various points along the general route between VT and the Metro cinema with a view to maximising their chances of a successful murderous assault.
The Objective: Shutting Down Terrorist Networks
These are just a few of the numerous questions being asked by vigilant Bombayites who find themselves thoroughly dissatisfied with the information that has been doled out. These are citizens who understand the importance of identifying terrorist networks and shutting them down, but doubt that this will be done by the authorities. Why are they so cynical about the possibility of a genuine professional investigation? The answer is that we have too much bitter experience of investigations in which innocent people (usually Muslim youth) are rounded up, tortured and even killed, while the real culprits are allowed to go free. Karkare broke with this dismal record, but now he is dead. When a person who has been vilified, slandered and threatened with death is killed in suspicious circumstances, it is imperative that a proper investigation should be carried out soon, before too much evidence can be manufactured and/or destroyed. If Kasab aka Iman disappears or is assassinated like Lee Harvey Oswald, or is executed, that would be further evidence of a conspiracy.
The government and people of Pakistan have as much interest as the government and people of India in eliminating the terror networks that have killed President Asif Ali Zardaris wife Benazir Bhutto and thousands of others in both Pakistan and India. The terrorists, on the other hand, be they Islamist or Hindutva, have a common interest in destroying secularism, democracy and peace within and between the two countries. That is their precise agenda. Pakistani politicians have offered a joint investigation into the terrorist attacks, a far more sensible suggestion than the belligerent statements by some Indians accusing Pakistan of harbouring terrorists who are killing Indians. It should be obvious that a military conflict between India and Pakistan would be disastrous for both countries economically, while a nuclear war, which might ensue if extremist forces captured power in both countries, would have unthinkable consequences. If the Indo-Pakistan peace process is halted, as L.K.Advani advocates, the terrorists would have won.
Indeed, without a joint investigation, the terrorist networks behind this outrage can never be uncovered: how else could the names and addresses in Pakistan revealed by Kasab be followed up to the satisfaction of all parties? A team of Pakistani investigators should be invited to come to Bombay and interview Kasab. If he is indeed a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, he will be able to provide invaluable information, and a team of investigators from India should be invited to Pakistan to pursue the investigation there. If, as some reports have indicated, he is not what he claims to be, that too would become clear. The Indian government owes it to the memory of Karkare, Salaskar and Kamte, who died fighting terrorism of all hues, to establish exactly where, when and how they were killed, identify their killers, and make sure that their work is continued. They also owe it to us, the public, who are the prime targets of all terrorist attacks, to carry out a credible investigation which identifies and puts behind bars all the mass murderers involved in this and other attacks.
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