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Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and 'came from same area as 7/7 bombers' By Justin Davenport , Rashid Razaq and Nicola Boden Last updated at 5:39 PM on 28th November 2008 British-born Pakistanis among arrested militants British-born Pakistanis were among the Mumbai terrorists, Indian government sources claimed today, as the death toll rose to at least 150. As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections and some could be from Leeds and Bradford where London's July 7 bombers lived, one source said. Two Britons were among eight gunmen being held, according to Mumbai's...

A fishing trawler that went missing on November 14 may have carried the terrorists to Colaba coast to hold Mumbai hostage on Wednesday, police sources told TOI. This boat - Kubaer - belongs to a fisherman from Porbander, Vinod Masani, who has been detained by Porbander police for interrogation. Indian Coast Guard spotted the boat with the body of captain Amarsing Naran, 30, in it. Four crew from Navsari and Junagadh districts are still missing. The Coast Guard is also looking for another missing boat which could have been used by terrorists. It is suspected that this trawler was captured...

Mumbai: At least 15 people have been injured in gunfights between two groups in at least three places in Mumbai on Thursday night. Details are sketchy but it is believed that two gangs fired at each other at outside CST Railway Terminus, Hotel Oberoi and the popular Café Leopold restaurant in Mumbai. The first shooting took place near the CST police station

MUMBAI, India (Map, News) - A top Indian general says about 10 to 12 gunmen remain holed up inside a pair of luxury Mumbai hotels and a Jewish center.Maj. Gen. R.K. Huda told New Delhi Television that the rest of the gunmen appeared to have been killed or captured.Authorities say 110 people were killed and 300 injured when suspected Islamic militants attacked 10 sites in Mumbai.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

An interesting article by Alan Cowell and Mark McDonald in today's New York Times reveals an inconvenient truth about analysts who study terrorism: they often have wildly divergent views about the same events. Christine Fair, senior political scientist and a South Asia expert at the RAND Corporation, was careful to say that the identity of the terrorists could not yet be known. But she insisted the style of the attacks and the targets in Mumbai suggested the militants were likely to be Indian Muslims and not linked to Al Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba, another violent South Asian terrorist group. There’s absolutely...

MUMBAI: Security forces have launched a final operation to flush out terrorists from Taj hotel. According to sources, seven terrorists have been An employee of Taj Hotel comforts foreign guests in Mumbai following terror strikes. (Reuters Photo)   killed till now. Gunshots and explosions have been heard from inside the old building of Taj, according to sources. A little earlier, Maharashtra police chief A N Roy said all hostages at Taj hotel here have been rescued, but there could be some still trapped at Trident hotel and Nariman House where operations were on to flush out terrorists, said today,...

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: At least 101 people have been killed in attacks by gunmen in Mumbai, police said on Thursday. ( Watch) "At least six foreigners have been killed and the death figure has gone up to 101 now," Ramesh Tayde, a senior police officer told from Mumbai's control room. In one of the most violent terror attacks on Indian soil, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack as terrorists used heavy machine guns, including AK-47s, and grenades to strike at the city's most high-profile targets -- the hyper-busy CST (formerly VT) rail terminus; the landmark Taj Hotel at the Gateway...

International law enforcement officialdom has plenty of work to do as Indian “morning of terror” still unfold to this day.

via translation - The Bombay Stock Exchange will suspend its trade after a dip of 9.7% BOMBAY (India) - The Bombay Stock Exchange in India has suspended trading Tuesday after a dip of 9.75% at the opening in the wake of other places in Asia, she said. The index of thirty major Indian values, the Sensex, lost 1.716,71 points to 15.888,64 points when the transactions were automatically halted for at least one hour. The Bombay Stock Exchange had already unscrewed Monday, down 7.41% at the close, its largest decline ever recorded for a meeting. "Investors clearly reacting to the weakness...

MUMBAI - Indian stocks nose-dived Wednesday morning after India’s securities regulator proposed closing off an avenue through which overseas investors have been buying Indian shares and bonds.The Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark Sensex index plunged 9.2% to 17,307.90 and the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty index fell 9.3% to 5143.90, triggering a market circuit breaker requiring an hour’s halt to trading. In a release posted on its Web site after the market closed Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said it and the Reserve Bank of India were concerned by the year-on-year rise in issuance of so-called offshore derivative...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was jailed for six years on Tuesday for getting guns from gangsters involved in India's worst bombings, ending an epic trial that transfixed the country with tales of terror and revenge. Dutt, an immensely popular star known for his macho anti-hero roles and troubled private life, was found guilty of acquiring illegal weapons from those blamed for the bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993. He has already served 16 months in jail while awaiting trial and his lawyer said he would appeal. He has millions of dollars riding on him...

A court in India has sentenced three more people to death for their involvement in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1993. Their sentencing means that six people have so far been condemned to death for the crime, which killed 257 people. A total of 100 people were convicted in the case. The blasts were allegedly organised by the Muslim-dominated underworld in the city. It is believed they were in revenge for earlier Hindu-Muslim religious clashes. Explosive-laden scooter "The court gave the death penalty to three people who planted bombs and were involved in the main conspiracy,"...

Three Muslim men have become the first people convicted of involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings to be sentenced to death in one of the world’s longest-running criminal trials. An Indian anti-terrorism court handed down the sentences today to Pervez Nasir Sheikh, Abdul Gani Ismail Turq and Mushtaq Tarani, who were found guilty of planting several bombs — one of 13 explosions in the heart of the country’s busy commercial capital that killed 257 people. Pramod Kode, the presiding judge, has spent several months delivering sentences to the 123 convicted of carrying out India’s worst terrorist attack. Eighty-one people have...

        These kids like yellow.Vrushank wears bright cargo pants and sis Bhoomi's T-shirt matches it exactly, as the duo clambers into an infant cousin's cot, precariously rattling it till rebuked.Shweta, their mother, turns off the Zee Sa Re Ga Ma Challenge blaring in the background, throwing the kids a mild scolding. On cue, Bhoomi litters notebooks across the floor right in front of the television sets, and pretends to be studying. Silent as an occasionally giggling dormouse, her furtive irrepressible smirk is a dead giveaway. The 11/7 blast trains, a year laterVrushank stakes no such claims at...

Pak terror groups behind train blasts: Narayanan Hemendra Singh Bartwal New Delhi, November 29, 2006 National Security Advisor MK Narayanan stated on Wednesday that the investigations into the blasts in Mumbai local trains were over and they had clearly established the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorist groups. Narayanan, who had earlier sparked off a controversy by stating that the probe had only indicated the complicity of terrorists from the neighbouring nation but not conclusively established the fact, was quite unequivocal on the issue this time while addressing top railway security officials from India and abroad here. “The investigation into this incident...

NEW DELHI: A high alert has been sounded at all airports in the country, particularly those in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, following threats of a possible terror attack by Al-Qaida. The security alert was issued on Thursday morning after the Director of Trichy Airport in Tamil Nadu received an anonymous letter warning of an attack by Al-Qaida at airports or on aircraft in South India. The letter said about 10 Al-Qaida terrorists will break the security cordon and carry out attacks at airports. The airports that are placed on high alert are Chennai, Kochi, Trichy, Thiruvananthapuram and Coimbatore. The...

BOMBAY, India (AP) -- When Hitler's Cross restaurant opened four days ago in a Bombay suburb, local politicians and movie industry types were on hand to celebrate beneath the posters of the Nazi leader and swastikas. The owner insisted then - and still does - that the name and theme of his new eatery is only meant to attract attention, even if it has outraged Bombay's Jewish community. "It's really made people very upset that a person responsible for the massacre of 6 million Jews can be glorified," Elijah Jacob, one of the community's leaders, told The Associated Press on...

NEW DELHI (XFN-ASIA) - Two cities in India may be targetted for attack by Al-Qaeda militants ahead of next week's Independence Day celebrations, the US embassy in New Delhi warned. There may be attacks by Al-Qaeda in 'New Delhi and Mumbai (Bombay) in the days leading to the Independence Day,' embassy spokesman David Kennedy told CNN-IBN news channel. Kennedy said the information is based on intelligence gathered along with the Indian government. Serial train bombings in Bombay on July 11, blamed by the government on Islamic militant groups, killed 183 people and injured almost 900.

NEW DELHI -- The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi warned Friday that foreign militants, possibly al-Qaida members, may be planning to carry out bombings in India's two major cities in the coming days. In an e-mail sent to American citizens living in India, the embassy said New Delhi, the capital, and Bombay, the country's financial and entertainment hub, were the likely targets, and the attacks were believed to be planned for either before or on India's Independence Day, Aug. 15. The embassy confirmed that it had sent the e-mail, although Indian officials refused to comment on the warning.

WASHINGTON, July 17: The US has so far not seen any evidence to suggest that Pakistan or Pakistan-based groups were involved in last week’s Mumbai blasts, a State Department official said on Monday. “The evidence to who is responsible, we have not seen yet … we will wait for the results of the investigation,” said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher while briefing South and Central Asian journalists on United States policy ambitions in the two regions. Describing the blasts as a ‘horrible tragedy,’ Mr Boucher said they were executed by “somebody with evil intent, with local knowledge … lot...