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I WANT TO LIVE (terrorist from Mumbai train station captured alive)
Mumbai Mirror ^ | 29 Nov 2008 | Rakesh Prakash, Ravikiran Deshmukh and Danish Khan

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: azam; india; mohammedanism; mumbai; terrorism
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If you poke around the Mumbai Mirror web site you'll find photographer Sebastian D’Souza's unbelievably compelling account of what he experience at Victoria Terminus. First he took pictures of the terrorists, then they shot at him, then he helped a trainload of communters to escape unharmed, then he went back with the police and was shot at *again*, then one of the policement who'd judt told him to take cover was shot standing right next to him (condition unknown).

As for Mr. Azam Amir Kasav, nothing is too severe to punish him for his murderous actions.

1 posted on 11/29/2008 10:48:24 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor

Anyone..post a pic of this still alive cretin please.


2 posted on 11/29/2008 10:50:37 AM PST by tflabo (:)
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To: angkor

technical error - most AK mags are 30 rounds each, not 50. Are there drums with this amount? If so, that would be a rare combat load composition.


3 posted on 11/29/2008 10:51:24 AM PST by gaijin
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To: angkor

“I do not want to die,” he reportedly said.

Fine. Round up all his family members and execute them in front of him.

Oh, yes, that’s uncivilized and barbaric. It’s about the only choice we have at this point since the terrorists are so embedded within their targeted populations.


4 posted on 11/29/2008 10:52:07 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Speak up, fight back, even if your voice trembles and your knees shake.)
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To: angkor
I don't want to die,” he reportedly said. “Please put me on saline.”

Oh yeah, I always tell the doctor to put me on saline when I go to the emergency. LOL What, this guy a doctor also?

5 posted on 11/29/2008 10:55:08 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: angkor

What’s the official position of the Indian Government on water-boarding? And what do they REALLY do?


6 posted on 11/29/2008 10:55:30 AM PST by samtheman (uo)
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To: angkor
He wanted to live,eh? Well,if India is still a country that adheres to any degree to standards of civilized people some police/prison guard will stick an icepick in the back of this 9th Century knuckledragger's neck and,if questioned,will say that Ahmed tripped and fell.

Backwards!

7 posted on 11/29/2008 10:55:40 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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To: angkor

Keep him awake until he dies.


8 posted on 11/29/2008 10:56:06 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (We are SO screwed.)
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To: tflabo
Note to self.... post your own pic requests lazy boy,


9 posted on 11/29/2008 10:56:24 AM PST by tflabo (:)
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To: angkor

*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.*

Gosh, I hope they don’t do anything inhumane to him, like the Americans do at Gitmo. I mean, they need to follow the Geneva Convention and all that.


10 posted on 11/29/2008 10:56:27 AM PST by kaehurowing
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11 posted on 11/29/2008 10:56:30 AM PST by traumer
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To: angkor

This piece of organic garbage should be in prison for the rest of its life so that it doesn’t enjoy the 72 virgins that are reserved for “martyrs”


12 posted on 11/29/2008 10:56:59 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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To: tflabo
Anyone..post a pic of this still alive cretin please.


14 posted on 11/29/2008 10:59:33 AM PST by aculeus
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To: gaijin
Most of em are 30 round clips. Mine are. There are some drums, but they are usually 75 rounds, although this one is supposed to hold a thousand rounds.
15 posted on 11/29/2008 11:00:08 AM PST by slnk_rules (http://mises.org)
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Ok ... we start with WATERBOARDING ... then, appendage removal .. then ... you get the point. But what we dont do is hand this extreme human piece of left over to some gang of lawyers.


16 posted on 11/29/2008 11:00:17 AM PST by rayincolorado ("Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it ...")
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To: angkor
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.

I'm sure the India intelligence services put a pair of panties on his head.

Oh, the cruelty inhuman treatment

Just where is the moonbat outrage ???

17 posted on 11/29/2008 11:00:40 AM PST by Popman (Dont worry Barney Frank has your ass-ets covered!!!)
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To: angkor

If indeed the West is too “enlightened” to deal effectively with these animals...we’re doomed.


18 posted on 11/29/2008 11:01:32 AM PST by VR-21
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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.

Muzzie perp should request a transfer to GITMO where the meals are square and the judges are fair. Bring your favorite Koran and pics of your favorite mullahs to adorn your prison cell tropical suite.

19 posted on 11/29/2008 11:01:43 AM PST by tflabo (:)
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I hope it’s a far cry more severe than waterboarding, although I don’t know what all this guy knows.


20 posted on 11/29/2008 11:03:26 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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