Posted on 11/29/2008 10:48:24 AM PST by angkor
His swaggering image as he walked around Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus was captured by Mumbai Mirror photo editor Sebastian D’Souza, and was the first glimpse of the terrorists who have held Mumbai hostage over the last 48 hours.
Now we can also tell you who this man is and how he has become the vital link for investigating agencies to crack the terror plot. His name is Azam Amir Kasav, he is 21 years old, speaks fluent English, hails from tehsil Gipalpura in Faridkot in Pakistan, and is the only terrorist from this audacious operation to have been captured alive.An ATS spokesperson confirmed that the man captured was indeed the one photographed by us.
On the night of Wednesday-Thursday, Azam and his colleague opened fire at CST before creating havoc at Metro and then moving on to Girgaum Chowpatty in a stolen Skoda, and where they were intercepted by a team from the Gamdevi police station. Azam shot dead assistant police inspector Tukaram Umbale.
But in that encounter, Azam’s colleague was killed and he himself was injured in the hand. He pretended to be dead giving rise to the news that two terrorists had been killed. However, as the ‘bodies’ were being taken to Nair Hospital, the accompanying cops, figured that one of the men was breathing.
According to sources, the casualty ward of Nair hospital was evacuated and the Anti-Terror Squad moved in to interrogate him. Azam who was tightlipped initially, cracked upon seeing the mutilated body of his colleague and pleaded with the medical staff at Nair to save his life. “I do not want to die,” he reportedly said. “Please put me on saline.”
Ammunition, a satellite phone and a layout plan of CST was recovered from him. According to sources, the young terrorist has given the investigators vital leads including how the chief planner of the Mumbai terror plot had come to the city a month ago, took pictures and filmed strategic locations and trained their group and instructed them to “kill till the last breath”. Every man was given six to seven magazines with fifty bullets each, eight hand grenades per terrorist with one AK-57, an automatic loading revolver and a supply of dry fruits.
Azam reportedly disclosed that the group left Karachi in one boat and upon reaching Gujarat they hoisted a white flag on their boat and were intercepted by two officers of the coast guard near Porbandar and while they were being questioned, one of the terrorists grappled with one of the officers, slit his throat and threw the body in the boat. The other officer was told to help the group reach Mumbai. When they were four nautical miles away from Mumbai, there were three speedboats waiting for them where the other coastguard officer was killed. All the ammo was then shifted into these three speedboats. They reached Colaba jetty on Wednesday night and the ten men broke up into groups of two each. Four of these men went to the Taj Mahal hotel, two of them to the Trident hotel, two towards Nariman Point at Colaba and two of which Azam was one, moved to CST.
Azam, who was Nair hospital for nearly four hours, was taken away by the intelligence agencies in the early hours of Thursday to an unknown location after the hospital authorities had removed the bullet from his hand and declared that his condition was stable.
But it seems the police grilling was so intense that before he left the hospital for an undisclosed location, he pleaded with the police and the medical staff to kill him. “Now, I don’t want to live,” he said.
“feed your remains to a pack of wild dogs”
Make that “wild hogs” instead!
I want him alive so I can be available to torture him.
There once was an Arab civilization of some considerable achievement. My argument is that all that ceased with the ascendancy of islam within those countries. Even within our lifetimes, we’ve seen once beautiful and cultured Lebanon taken over by muslims and become a hell hole which good and decent people flee as soon as they have a chnace.
Pigs named muhHamhead, that way when they sell them, they make a profit!
When we show that on TV can we call it “Deal or No Deal”? We can pirate all the signals going out on Al-Jazeera and create a hit show for the bastards!
Well, they have the most accurate way of determining a baby's sex before birth.
And there's that whole poison/cure fly in yer drink science thing.
And the moon is only 7 miles away.
Don’t kill him.
Hang him up by his feet, like Mussolini.
That’s it. Just leave him there.
..and I support it.
Please don't tell Barack, OK.
I think Drudge mentioned ONLY 10 terrorists all told...(unbelievable I know)
Travis was just saying such as well.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2140142/posts?page=18#18
thanks ....:o)
I have been looking for evidence - cannot find any. Everything the arabs claim, was plundered from the cultures they over-ran.
>>>>I keep reading the last sentence....something more than water boarding has happened<<<<<
Yep, that’s what I read between those lines (it’s not very subtle).
“Give us any reason to think you’re lying and we feed your remains to a pack of wild HOGS - and do do on TV.” There, much better
Well, they think dogs are equally unclean, don’t they?
Oh, THAT son of a bitch!? I was wondering if he was offed or not. I for one hope they rip his fingers off one by one to get more names and details on both the cells in India and the paymasters back in Pakistan.
No, you actually need to blow up all the mosques. According to the teachings of Islam, any Mosque site become’s Islamic Holy ground forever. Every site must trigger a Jihad to regain it if it is lost to the control of Infidel’s.
I think the only solution is to blow up the Mosque’s and put in a pig farm in each and every site to make the land unholy.
Either that or kill the last Muslim on earth.
Rub him with pork fat and feed him only pork now.
They are NUTS over there!
BACON!!!!!!!!!! YUM
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