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  • Govt Warns Citizens Against Terror Attacks In Five Major Cities [INDIA]

    11/11/2009 8:31:00 PM PST · by Cindy · 8 replies · 251+ views
    INDIA-SERVER.com ^ | Last Updated: 2009-11-12T08:55:48+05:30 | n/a
    SNIPPET: "The Centre has warned the citizens against possible terror attacks in five cities of India, which are expected to take place around the first anniversary of Mumbai terror attacks. "The Intelligence Bureau has received some inputs from state governments that terrorists were trying to infiltrate through the Indian west coast and target vital installations in the country’, revealed a Home Ministry official to a news channel. The state governments have been given the orders for boosting the security in and around railway stations, airports as well as other significant places." SNIPPET: "This Home Ministry alert is based on the...
  • U.S. cites al-Qaida DVDs in pressing for suspect's detainment

    11/10/2009 1:26:27 AM PST · by Cindy · 2 replies · 321+ views
    CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com ^ | November 10, 2009 | By Jeff Coen
    "U.S. cites al-Qaida DVDs in pressing for suspect's detainment Chicago man allegedly plotted to attack Danish newspaper, target in India" SNIPPET: "A federal judge could decide on Nov. 19 whether to release Rana, owner of a Chicago Immigration business and a Grundy County meat processing plant, on bond pending trial." SNIPPET: "Last week prosecutors alleged that Rana and Headley, also of Chicago, had discussed targeting the National Defense College in India, a military school. Rana also allegedly told an associate of the Pakistani terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba how to use loopholes in U.S. Immigration procedures to get others into the country...
  • Headley ran visa agency in Tardeo before 26/11

    11/08/2009 9:08:47 AM PST · by Cindy · 9 replies · 326+ views
    DNA INDIA.com ^ | November 8, 2009 2:38 IST | Josy Joseph/DNASunday
    Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this article: “He” Josy Joseph / DNASunday, November 8, 2009 2:38 IST SNIPPET: “New Delhi: The two terror suspects arrested in the US for plotting to strike targets in Denmark and India spent significant time in Mumbai before the 26/11 attacks, authoritative sources have told DNA. While one of them operated a visa agency in Mumbai for almost two years until the latter part of 2008, the other suspect spent 10 days in the city just days before the terror strike last November.” SNIPPET: “According to available information, David Coleman Headley, the...
  • Mumbai terror attacks: And then they came for the Jews

    11/04/2009 3:12:48 AM PST · by Cindy · 4 replies · 529+ views
    TIMES ONLINE.co.uk ^ | November 1, 2009 | Aastair Gee
    SNIPPET: "Last November, more than 150 people were killed by terrorists in Mumbai. One target was a centre run by this young Jewish couple, who were murdered and perhaps tortured; miraculously, their toddler son escaped. We went back to Mumbai to find out what really happened that night." SNIPPET: “One more question remains: how did the terrorists and their handlers apparently know the layout of Nariman House, and the schedule of its inhabitants, so well? Suspicion has fallen on Jackie, the Muslim cook. Since the siege, he says he has had about 100 interviews with police and officials, including Israelis....
  • Bush shows appetite for humour & food (stays at Taj hotel)

    11/02/2009 3:05:31 AM PST · by sukhoi-30mki · 11 replies · 909+ views
    The Telegraph,India ^ | Nov. 1,2009 | SAMYABRATA RAY GOSWAMI
    Bush shows appetite for humour & food SAMYABRATA RAY GOSWAMI Mumbai, Nov. 1: Manmohan Singh once told him the “people of India love you deeply”. But an out-of-office George W. Bush, finally getting a first-hand feel of how he fares on the popularity meter back home, was a bit wary in Mumbai. Tongue firmly in cheek, he told a top business leader here yesterday: “I am no more the President, you guys can go ahead and tell me on my face now what you really think of me.” The former US President was at a dinner meeting of the Indo-US...
  • Mumbai's Dirty Open Secret

    09/25/2009 10:36:42 PM PDT · by Saije · 19 replies · 636+ views
    Times of India ^ | 9/25/2009 | Ravi Rao
    A recent survey by Mumbai’s civic authorities has found that urinating and spitting in public are the most common offences in the metropolis. Apparently, the BMC’s clean-up marshals raked in Rs 6 crore from such ‘dirty offenders’ in a single year! Now, that should not raise a stink among Mumbaikars who see and endure it everyday. But yet we need to ask: What is it in our genes that makes us unzip our pants and let loose at the sight of the nearest wall/gutter/lamp-post/dustbin---in fact everywhere but the darned loo? We are used to seeing tiny tots being urged by...
  • Man who idolized American-born Taliban fighter charged in alleged Ill. courthouse bomb plot

    09/24/2009 2:25:49 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 15 replies · 921+ views
    chicagotribune.com ^ | Sept. 24, 2009 | MIKE ROBINSON
    CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old Illinois man who idolized American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh has been arrested after attempting to detonate what he thought was a bomb inside a van outside a federal courthouse, officials said Thursday. Michael C. Finton, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to murder federal officers or employees and trying to detonate a weapon of mass destruction. Federal officials said the case has no connections with the major terrorism investigation under way in Colorado and New York. "This alleged plot drives home...
  • NewsX Video: ATS warns of terror strike

    09/03/2009 1:22:31 AM PDT · by Cindy · 1 replies · 274+ views
    Video via YouTube.com ^ | August 2, 2009 | n/a
    Note: Posting older video at this time for archival purposes. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgvUB9woVgM "NewsX Video: ATS warns of terror strike" Video Description - Quote: The Anti-Terror squad has warned that the Indian Mujahideen could be planning another terror attack. The ATS has sent a letter to the Mumbai Police, alerting them to the threat. Category: News & Politics Tags: terrorism ATS Mumbai Police Indian Mujahideen NewsX
  • Death penalty for 2003 Mumbai bombers: court

    08/06/2009 12:34:46 AM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 3 replies · 443+ views
    AFP via Breitbart ^ | Aug 06, 2009 | N/A
    An Indian court on Thursday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting bombs that killed 52 victims in the city of Mumbai in 2003.
  • Despite confession, Kasab remains 'gunman' for NYT

    07/26/2009 12:29:51 PM PDT · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 5 replies · 572+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 26 July, 2009 | The Times of India
    NEW DELHI: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was captured in a chilling photograph and now he has confessed his role in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, but he remains a 'gunman', rather than a 'terrorist', for the New York Times and other leading American newspapers. And with a reason. After his surprising and dramatic confession before a special court in Mumbai on Monday, Kasab is hogging headlines in the American media that is revisiting the semantic-ethical issue of which attacker qualifies as terrorist. For the New York Times and the Washington Post, Kasab is strictly a gunman. "Mumbai Gunman Enters Plea Of...
  • Surprise confession by surviving Mumbai gunman

    07/21/2009 7:09:50 AM PDT · by rdb3 · 4 replies · 345+ views
    The Associated Press ^ | 20 JULY 2009 | ERIKA KINETZ
    MUMBAI, India — The lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks made a surprise confession at his trial Monday, saying he was recruited by a militant group inside Pakistan after he left a low-paying job and went looking for training to become a professional robber.The confession by Ajmal Kasab bolstered India's charges that terrorist groups in neighboring Pakistan were behind the well-planned attack, and that it is not doing enough to clamp down on them. The attack in which 166 people died severely strained relations and put the brakes on a peace process between the nuclear-armed enemies.As part of the...
  • 'Since Pakistan has accepted my nationality, I confessed': Kasab [Mumbai Terrorist confesses]

    07/20/2009 9:38:02 AM PDT · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 5 replies · 875+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 20 July 2009 | The Times of India
    MUMBAI: Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist, told the special court that he decided to confess to his crime as he came to know that Pakistan has admitted that he was its national. Following is the excerpt between judge M L Tahiliani and Kasab: JUDGE: "Aaj achanak aapne kyun confess kiya? Jab pehle charges frame hue toh tab kyun nahi kiya? (Why are you suddenly confessing? Why did you not confess when the charges were framed earlier?)" KASAB: "Pehle Pakistan ne yeh nahi mana tha ki main unka hoon. Aaj maan liya hai. Isiliye main bayan de raha...
  • Mumbai massacre revisited

    07/05/2009 9:08:03 PM PDT · by cold start · 12 replies · 544+ views
    http://www.dawn.com ^ | 04 Jul, 2009 | Irfan Husain
    ALL too often, natural disasters and human atrocities make only a fleeting impression. We watch fascinated and horrified as TV anchors give us their impressions while images of death and disaster roll across our screens. But soon, one particular crisis is overtaken by another, and relentlessly, the news cycle moves on. It is not until one sees and hears the survivors that the magnitude of a disaster really sinks in. This is what I experienced while watching Channel 4’s programme on its Dispatches series. Called Terror in Mumbai, the documentary retraces the steps of the terrorists as they first landed...
  • Terrorist Phone Transcripts Evoke Horror of Mumbai Attacks

    07/01/2009 6:27:01 PM PDT · by alj770 · 12 replies · 988+ views
    Israel National News ^ | July 1, 2009 | Hana Levi Julian
    A small Jewish toddler was orphaned in Mumbai last November amid a reign of terror carried out for the "prestige of Islam," according to a transcript of phone calls between the terrorists and their handlers published this week in an Indian newspaper. The terrorists murdered six Jews during the multi-pronged attack which began November 26, 2008 and ended in a river of blood at the Nariman Chabad House and additional locales. The three-day slaughter, which took the lives of dozens of others elsewhere in Mumbai, India as well, also carried the additional goal of damaging relations between Israel and India,...
  • Italy: Pakistani money agent denies link to Mumbai attacks

    06/07/2009 4:16:32 AM PDT · by csvset · 1 replies · 263+ views
    AKI ^ | 24 Feb 2009
    Rome, 24 Feb. (AKI) - A Pakistani money transfer agent in the northern Italian city of Brescia has denied any involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks which killed 173 people last November. Mohammed Yaqub Janjua is the owner of the Madina Trading telephone centre and Western Union branch which was allegedly used by a collaborator linked to the attacks. "We, the Pakistani community are peace lovers, we have nothing to do with what happened. However, if someone is involved in something like the attacks in Mumbai, he should be punished," said Mohammed Yaqub Janjua in an interview with Adnkronos International...
  • Pakistani court orders release of Lashkar-e-Taiba leader ( Despite Al-Qaeda ties evidence)

    06/02/2009 2:34:34 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 10 replies · 371+ views
    Long War Journal ^ | June 2, 2009 8:48 AM | Bill Roggio
    A three-judge panel of the Lahore High Court has ordered the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. Saeed was placed under a loose house arrest in mid-December 2008 after the United Nations Security Council declared the Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist entity and front group for the Lashkar-e-Taiba just weeks after the deadly terror assault on Mumbai in late November that killed more than 170 people and locked down the city for more than 60 hours. Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Mohammad Ashraf, and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed were identified as Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders. Today Saeed was ordered released by the Lahore...
  • Dubai resident funded 26/11 attack? [Mumbai]

    06/02/2009 11:55:41 AM PDT · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 2 replies · 235+ views
    Rediff ^ | 2 June 2009 | Rediff
    Even as details regarding the financial transactions -- which financed the November 26 terror attacks -- emerge, another man who the police suspect could be associated with the financing has been put on the radar of investigating agencies. Khameez Obaid, a resident of Dubai who was arrested by the Hyderabad Police for possessing fake currency worth Rs 2.36 crore (approx. US$ 525,000), is said to be involved in financing the 26/11 attack in Mumbai. Obaid was held by the Hyderabad Police on August 25, 2007 -- the same day the twin blasts rocked the city. Obaid will be crucial to...
  • Pakistan releases 'top militant' (..again, Lashkar-e-Taiba 'charity' founder freed by court)

    06/02/2009 7:27:28 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 2 replies · 234+ views
    BBC News ^ | 6/2/09 | BBC
    A Pakistani court has ordered the release of the leader of an Islamic charity suspected of being a front for a group accused of the Mumbai attacks. The court ruled the continued house arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed was unconstitutional. The charity is accused of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group India says was behind the attacks. Mr Saeed is also a founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba. India has expressed its disappointment, calling the release "regrettable". More than 170 people died in the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks last November, including nine gunmen. Mr Saeed, who denies the charges against him,...
  • Another Mumbai Type Attack on the Cards, Says US Official

    05/10/2009 11:16:15 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies · 398+ views
    The News ^ | Monday, May 11, 2009
    A top Obama aide has warned of another “Mumbai-style” terror attack on India by the jihadist “Frankenstein monster”. Bruce Riedel, an administration aide and retired CIA expert, who helped formulate Obama’s Af-Pak policy, believes there is “serious risk” of another Mumbai-type terrorist attack so as to ratchet up tension between India and Pakistan and give Pakistan Army an excuse to maintain its forces on the western border. In an interview to the Council on Foreign Relations, Riedel said the jihadist in Pakistan, whom he termed as the “Frankenstein monster” wants the situation on the India-Pak front constantly boiling to divert...
  • No Peace Talks Until Mumbai Plotters Booked: Indian PM

    05/09/2009 7:19:18 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 258+ views
    Dawn ^ | Saturday, 09 May, 2009
    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday the peace process with neighbouring Pakistan would remain on hold unless it prosecuted those behind last year’s attacks on Mumbai, AFP reports. Pakistan and India began a slow-moving peace process in February 2004 but it came to a halt after New Delhi blamed the November attacks, in which 166 people were killed, on the Pakistan-based militant organisation Lashkar-i-Taiba. New Delhi has said it has ‘overwhelming evidence’ that ‘official agencies’ in Pakistan were involved in plotting and carrying out the attacks, an apparent reference to such Pakistani institutions as its spy agency and army....
  • Another 26/11-Style Attack in the Offing: US Think-Tank (Mumbai Atack)

    04/18/2009 6:39:18 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 457+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 19 Apr 2009
    Pakistan-based terrorists are likely to launch another deadly Mumbai-style attack on India in the near future, says a US intelligence think-tank, Stratfor. Coming on the heels of the Tokyo donors' meeting which gave Pakistan some $5 billion, Stratfor concludes that these aid packages would have little effect in changing Pakistan's behaviour vis-a-vis India. "Yet the gradual unravelling of command and control within the Pakistani military establishment has enabled many more of Islamabad's Islamist militant proxies operating in Pakistan and India to team up with transnational jihadists to carry out deadlier and more strategically targeted attacks," it said. "Though the timing...
  • US Student Raped by Batchmates in Mumbai

    04/15/2009 9:20:34 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 22 replies · 1,901+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 16 Apr 2009
    A 23-year-old American scholar at the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) at Deonar was gang-raped by six of her batchmates after a drinking binge in a Mumbai apartment, police said on Wednesday. Three of the accused have been arrested. The victim, who came to Mumbai four months ago for a diploma course at the institute, said in her statement to the police that she and the six suspects left the campus on Saturday for Andheri, where they partied at a hotel. Later, she accompanied them to a flat, also in Andheri, owned by one of the accused. There...
  • Congressional Testimony by Robert S. Mueller, III

    03/25/2009 3:37:15 PM PDT · by Cindy · 5 replies · 357+ views
    FBI.gov ^ | March 25, 2009 | n/a
    Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress09/mueller032509.htm Congressional Testimony Robert S. Mueller, III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee March 25, 2009 Good morning Chairman Leahy, Senator Specter, and Members of the Committee. I am pleased to be here today. As you know, we in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have undergone unprecedented transformation in recent years, from developing the intelligence capabilities necessary to address emerging terrorist and criminal threats, to creating the administrative and technological structure necessary to meet our new mission as a national security service. Today, the FBI is a...
  • U.N. warns India against anti-Muslim prejudice

    03/23/2009 3:58:57 PM PDT · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 21 replies · 1,077+ views
    Reuters ^ | Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:46pm | Matthias Williams
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief urged India on Monday to counter suspicion against its Muslim minority following the Mumbai attacks and warned the country's strict anti-terror measures threatened human rights. India is still on edge after gunmen killed 166 people in a three-day rampage on the financial hub last November. Hundreds of Muslims were detained and questioned over the attacks, angering rights activists who said innocent people were caught up in the backlash. ... After the Mumbai attacks, the government rushed through new laws in December to allow police to hold suspects for up to 180...
  • Shoot Her, Said Mumbai Master

    02/28/2009 7:47:31 PM PST · by Nachum · 11 replies · 835+ views
    collive.com ^ | Feb 23, 2009 | Dean Nelson
    Newly released tapes of conversations between the masterminds of the Mumbai terror attacks and their gunmen on the ground reveal callous, remote-control killers who controlled every move the terrorists made. The tapes, which were broadcast on an Indian television news channel, relay a conversation between one of the controllers in Pakistan and a female Jewish hostage in which he reassured her despite having already decided to have her killed. A caller from Pakistan called Wasi spoke to Nurma Shvarzblat Rabinovich, 50, and asked her to call the Israeli consulate in Mumbai to set up negotiations with a senior diplomat.
  • Mumbai Calls Traced To Pak Serving Colonel

    02/25/2009 1:09:42 PM PST · by gandalftb · 460+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 26 Feb 2009, 0034 hrs IST | C Unnikrishnan, S Ahmed Ali & Kartikeya
    MUMBAI: The VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calls made by the 26/11 terrorists to their handlers have been traced to a serving colonel of the Pakistani army. The 11,509-page charge sheet in the 26/11 case does name the officer as Colonel R Sadatullah from the SCO. The SCO stands for Special Communications Organization, a telecommunications agency of the Pakistani government which is run by officers from the army's signals corps and operates only in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the conflict-wracked Northern Areas. During the 58-hour siege of Mumbai, a total of 284 calls, running into 995 minutes, were made by the...
  • [Mumbai Attack] 26/11 calls traced to Pak serving colonel

    02/25/2009 11:49:01 AM PST · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 14 replies · 894+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 26 Feb 2009, 0034 hrs IST | The Times of India
    MUMBAI: The VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calls made by the 26/11 terrorists to their handlers have been traced to a serving colonel of the Pakistani army, investigations have revealed. Although the 11,509-page chargesheet in the 26/11 case filed by the Mumbai police on Wednesday does not spell this out explicitly, it does name the officer as Colonel R Sadatullah from the SCO. The SCO, army sources say, stands for Special Communications Organization, a telecommunications agency of the Pakistani government which is run by officers from the army's signals corps and operates only in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the conflict-wracked Northern...
  • FBI Chief: Mumbai Attack Could be Replicated

    02/24/2009 11:27:35 AM PST · by lewisglad · 27 replies · 788+ views
    http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/mumbaiterrorstrike/Story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20090084654&type=News ^ | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:31 PM (Washington) | Press Trust of India
    Terming Mumbai terror attacks as "successful" from the perspective of terrorists, America's top intelligence official has warned that such strikes could be replicated in the US and other parts of the world. Warning such attacks could be viewed by terrorists as a possible way of proceeding in the future, FBI Director Robert Muller said intelligence and other security agencies would have to reinvigorate efforts to make certain that we've done everything we can to prevent such type of attacks. Delivering a speech on 'Global Terrorism: The FBI's Role', Muller said the Mumbai attack, which killed more than 170 people and...
  • Coming Soon, a Slumdog Musical (To Raise Funds for Mumbai’s Slum Kids)

    02/24/2009 11:59:12 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 321+ views
    Hindustan Times ^ | 2/25/09 | Vijay Dutt
    A day after sweeping the Academy awards, Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson is ensuring that the children featured in the film are not left to fight life’s battles on their own. The producers are planning a stage musical of the eight-Oscar-winning film to raise funds for Mumbai’s slum kids. A fund set up by the filmmakers has already generated close to Rs 3.6 crore for the children. And if plans for cover versions of Rahman’s songs came to fruition, the money raised could multiply many times over, he told The Times, London. The funds would be ploughed back into the...
  • FROM MUMBAI TO SOMALIA

    02/24/2009 2:33:49 AM PST · by Cindy · 5 replies · 486+ views
    FBI.gov ^ | February 23, 2009 | n/a
    The Changing Landscape of Terror
  • FBI Director Warns of Mumbai-Style Attacks in U.S.

    02/23/2009 8:44:12 PM PST · by trying17 (AKA DrGop0821) · 23 replies · 853+ views
    theconservativexpress.com ^ | 2/23/2009 | conservativexpress
    Almost 200 people were killed and over 300 injured in last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Newsmax reports: FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III issued a new warning Monday that terrorists are prepared to conduct Mumbai-style attacks on U.S. soil.
  • In Dharavi Slum, Few Dare to Dream of Riches

    02/22/2009 9:01:59 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 417+ views
    The Globe and Mail ^ | February 22, 2009 | DIANA COULTER
    In Dharavi slum, few dare to dream of riches Slumdog Millionaire's success forces spotlight on India's losing battle against povertyEight-year-old Vedant Kamble thinks nothing of dodging stray dogs and garbage piles in the teeming alleys around his home in Asia's largest slum. He lives in a shack in Mumbai's dense and dilapidated Dharavi slum and is, in many ways, just like the three children featured in the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, set in Dharavi. It's estimated more than half a million people live in the slum, a sprawling mess of tin shacks sandwiched between Mumbai's airport and the main railway...
  • 26/11 Probe: Money from Pakistan used to buy VoIP card

    02/20/2009 3:06:08 PM PST · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 1 replies · 219+ views
    The Times of India ^ | 21 Feb., 2009 | The Times of India
    MUMBAI: The FBI investigations into the November terror attack have established a Pakistan link to the payments made for the VoIP card from Callphonex of the US. VoIP allows one to make cheap phone calls over Internet and payment for it can be made by wire transfer from anywhere in the world. ‘‘We have traced the financial transactions to Pakistan,’’ a senior official said. At the same time, the official said that they have not been able to gather evidence admissible in court to pinpoint that the calls originated from Pakistan. ‘‘We are in the process of gathering further evidence...
  • Pakistan Acknowledges Mumbai Attacks Planned Partially In Pakistan; Trail Leads To ...

    02/19/2009 6:39:20 PM PST · by Cindy · 5 replies · 371+ views
    THE MEMRI BLOG.org ^ | February 12, 2009 | n/a
    "Pakistan Acknowledges Mumbai Attacks Planned Partially In Pakistan; Trail Leads To Spain, Italy, Austria, Houston" SNIPPET: "The Urdu-language website of the Pakistani television channel ARY OneWorld reports that Pakistan has acknowledged that part of the planning for the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks took place in Pakistan." SNIPPET: "According to a report carried by the website of Pakistani daily Dawn, ‘‘Investigators had also discovered that some funds transferred from Italy and Spain were used to finance the attacks, Austrian telephone SIM cards were used, and he [Rahman Malik] also spoke of a link, possibly an Internet domain, to Houston in...
  • The Coming Swarm

    02/15/2009 6:29:32 PM PST · by gridlock · 22 replies · 980+ views
    New York Times Op/Ed ^ | 2/14/09 | OP/ED Contributor JOHN ARQUILLA
    WITH three Afghan government ministries in Kabul hit by simultaneous suicide attacks this week, by a total of just eight terrorists, it seems that a new “Mumbai model” of swarming, smaller-scale terrorist violence is emerging. The basic concept is that hitting several targets at once, even with just a few fighters at each site, can cause fits for elite counterterrorist forces that are often manpower-heavy, far away and organized to deal with only one crisis at a time. This approach certainly worked in Mumbai, India, last November, where five two-man teams of Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives held the city hostage for two...
  • Female FBI officer 'tortured Mumbai terror attacks suspect with sex' (allegedly)

    02/12/2009 10:30:21 PM PST · by gondramB · 39 replies · 2,867+ views
    Telegraph ^ | Friday 13 February 2009
    A female FBI officer tortured a suspect in the Mumbai terrorist attacks by performing a sex act on him during interrogation, it has been claimed. Fahim Ansari is accused of helping to plan the attacks in which 173 people were killed in November. His lawyer, Ejaz Naqvi, has filed legal papers with Mumbai magistrate's court, claiming the "white woman" removed all his clothes and showed him pornographic films. In the papers, he claims that three foreigners, including the woman, sexually abused him, causing him "severe itching and wounds" on his body, including his genitals. Mr Ansari, a devout Muslim, claims...
  • Terror Suspect Accuses Female FBI Agent of Torture by Porn

    02/12/2009 2:05:33 PM PST · by Scott Martin · 23 replies · 2,107+ views
    Patriot Room ^ | 1-12-09 | Scott Martin
    The lawyer for a suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks claims that a female FBI officer tortured a suspect in the Mumbai terrorist attacks by performing a sex act on him and making him watch porn during interrogation. Fahim Ansari is accused of helping to plan the attacks in which 173 people were killed in November. His lawyer, Ejaz Naqvi, has filed legal papers with Mumbai magistrate's court, claiming the "white woman" removed all his clothes and showed him pornographic films. In the papers, he claims that three foreigners, including the woman, sexually abused him, causing him "severe itching and...
  • Female FBI officer 'tortured Mumbai terror attacks suspect with sex'

    02/11/2009 8:10:14 AM PST · by BGHater · 60 replies · 2,660+ views
    Telegraph ^ | 11 Feb 2009 | Ben Leach
    A female FBI officer tortured a suspect in the Mumbai terrorist attacks by performing a sex act on him during interrogation, it has been claimed. Fahim Ansari is accused of helping to plan the attacks in which 173 people were killed in November. His lawyer, Ejaz Naqvi, has filed legal papers with Mumbai magistrate's court, claiming the "white woman" removed all his clothes and showed him pornographic films. In the papers, he claims that three foreigners, including the woman, sexually abused him, causing him "severe itching and wounds" on his body, including his genitals. Mr Ansari, a devout Muslim, claims...
  • (Mumbai Attack) 26/11 Report Today; Govt May File Case Against 5 Pakistanis

    02/08/2009 2:43:12 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 416+ views
    Hindustan Times ^ | 2/9/09 | Rezaul H Laskar
    Pakistan on Sunday said it will examine the findings of its probe into 26/11 on Monday as the media in Pakistan reported that the government will file cases against five Pakistanis, including lone captured terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, for planning the Mumbai attacks. The interior ministry's report also states that the attacks were planned not in Pakistan or India but in a European country, Geo News channel quoted sources as saying. The conspirators kept in touch by using the internet, the sources said. The sources also said that cases would be filed against five Pakistanis, including Kasab, the lone attacker...
  • Pakistan's spy agency behind Mumbai attacks: India

    02/05/2009 9:35:28 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 500+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 2/5/09 | AFP
    NEW DELHI (AFP) – India has for the first time directly accused Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency -- the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) -- of involvement in last year's Mumbai attacks. "The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organisers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in a speech in Paris on Thursday that was picked up by the Indian media. In January, India handed Pakistan what it said was evidence linking "elements" in Pakistan to the November attacks on India's financial capital, in which 10 gunmen killed 165...
  • India: Pakistani Spies Linked to Mumbai Attackers

    02/05/2009 11:23:55 AM PST · by Nachum · 2 replies · 317+ views
    Arutz 7 ^ | 2-05-09 | Maayana Miskin
    (IsraelNN.com) Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon has linked Pakistan's ISI spy agency to the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year. Menon made the connection in a speech in Paris on Wednesday that was released to the media Thursday. "The perpetrators [of the Mumbai attacks] planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organizers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI,” Menon accused. Menon had previously accused Pakistan of failing to bring the attackers to justice, and Indian officials have said the Mumbai attackers must have had support from within Pakistani agencies. However, Menon's latest speech...
  • Lessons from Mumbai

    02/03/2009 8:40:53 AM PST · by bs9021 · 2 replies · 257+ views
    Campus Report ^ | February 3, 2009 | Heather Latham
    Lessons from Mumbai by: Heather Latham, February 03, 2009 In the second episode of a Senate hearing about what can be learned from the Mumbai terrorist attacks, five senators and four witnesses discuss what has been done and what still needs to be done. The first witness was Brian Michael Jenkins. He is the Senior Advisor at RAND Corporation. He argues that terrorists are smart: “Terrorists are dangerous when they kill; they’re even more dangerous when they think….The masterminds of the Mumbai attack displayed sophisticated strategic thinking in their meticulous planning, in their choice of targets, their tactics, their efforts...
  • Mumbai Attack: FBI Wants to Question Ansari

    02/01/2009 1:05:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 596+ views
    NEW DELHI: Officials of Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have made a request to interrogate two militants arrested earlier by the Uttar Pradesh police and questioned by Mumbai police in connection with the 26/11 terror strikes. ( Watch ) The FBI made the request through proper channels for questioning Fahim Arshad Ansari and Sabbauddin, militants of banned Lashker-e-Taiba, who were brought to Mumbai in December last year as a follow up to the probe into the 26/11 attack, official sources said. 35-year-old Ansari had told his interrogators that he was asked by Pakistan's ISI to identify all the terror-hit places...
  • Some see Mumbai terrorism as an attack on India-Israel ties

    02/01/2009 6:22:57 AM PST · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 10 replies · 420+ views
    LA Times ^ | 1 Feb., 2009 | Peter Spiegel
    They cite the sophisticated attack on the Nariman House Jewish center. Relations between India and Israel have grown increasingly strong in recent years. Reporting from New Delhi -- Some counter-terrorism experts in India are convinced that the country's growing ties to Israel were a prime factor behind the targeting of a small Jewish center in the deadly Mumbai attacks. These experts, despite an ongoing investigation of the assailants' motives, have concluded that the assault on the obscure Nariman House was more sophisticated than those on the city's two luxury hotels, an indication that it was a prime target in the...
  • Warden Message: India Airline Threat Uncorroborated

    02/01/2009 12:34:54 AM PST · by Cindy · 2 replies · 353+ views
    OSAC.gov ^ | January 30, 2009 | n/a
    Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=96676 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: India Airline Threat Uncorroborated CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS South / Central Asia - India 30 Jan 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 26 Jan 2009 INDIA: POSSIBLE SURVEILLANCE DETECTED 9 Jan 2009 TRAVEL ALERT: INDIA 7 Jan 2009 INDIA SURVEY REPORT 24 Dec 2008 TRAVEL ALERT: INDIA 19 Dec 2008 MUMBAI ATTACKS BENCHMARKING SURVEY RESULTS U.S. Consulate General Mumbai released the following Warden Message on January 30: Indian media sources have recently reported on an increased threat of...
  • India-Pakistan Tensions Down, says Gen Kapoor

    01/31/2009 4:10:57 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 2 replies · 219+ views
    The tensions arising between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks have “come down now”, a report in the Hindustan Times quoted Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor as saying on Saturday. According to the paper, Kapoor said there had been extra movement of troops on the Pakistan side after the Mumbai attacks, as tensions between the two countries escalated. At the same time, the terror infrastructure “is very much in existence in Pakistan”, he was quoted as saying. Kapoor said the Indian military was fully prepared to “act or react in the manner the country’s...
  • 26/11 (Mumbai Attack) Probe Done, Will Share Info: Pakistan

    01/30/2009 8:25:11 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 2 replies · 317+ views
    Pakistan on Friday said it had completed its preliminary investigation into India’s dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks and would share the findings with New Delhi and rest of the world. “The federal investigation agency of the interior ministry of Pakistan has completed the preliminary investigation and sent (its report) to the law department,” Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said after addressing a conference at the International Islamic University. Pak may prosecute... After a review by the law department, the report will go to the foreign ministry. It would then be shared with India and the international community, he...
  • Bombay: Mafia gangs deliberately crippling children for profit

    01/27/2009 2:30:44 PM PST · by swordfishtrombone · 17 replies · 732+ views
    Daily Mall ^ | 1.27.09
    For at the hospital, a doctor was paid to amputate one of his healthy legs. Now speaking in the third person, as if to pretend it didn’t happen to him, Aamir tells me ‘the child’ was in ‘great pain’ after the operation. ‘The leg is removed here,’ he says, pointing to his own stump and grimacing. His limb had been severed mid-calf, leaving him without a foot. Now in hiding after being rescued from the hospital by a charity, Aamir is one of hundreds of Indian children deliberately crippled by gangs so they can earn extra money begging. He still...
  • (Indian Supreme Court) SC Judge slams human rights for terrorists

    01/27/2009 12:58:04 PM PST · by markomalley · 11 replies · 636+ views
    IBN ^ | 1/28/2009
    New Delhi: Taking a strong stand against terrorism, the third most senior judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Arijit Pasayat on Tuesday said that terrorists don't deserve to be given human rights. Speaking at a seminar on terrorism Judge Pasayat lashed out at human rights activists. He rubbished the case of human rights violations of terrorists and said "terrorists who kill innocent people are animals." Pasayat also said that those who kill innocent people with automatic weapons are not humans. He also virtually mocked human rights activists and said that animal rights should be invoked in the case of terrorists....
  • Terrorists are 'animals': SC judge

    01/27/2009 9:25:33 AM PST · by MyTwoCopperCoins · 14 replies · 684+ views
    PTI ^ | 27January, 2009 | PTI
    A senior judge of the Supreme Court on Tuesday likened terrorists killing innocent people to "animals" and said they cannot be allowed to take benefit of human rights. "Those who violate the rights of society and have no respect for human rights cannot be a human," Justice Arijit Pasayat said at a seminar on terrorism here. "We should not talk about human rights violation of terrorists because terrorists are the people who kill innocent people with AK-47 and AK-56," he said, adding that "those who killed innocent people by no stretch of imagination are human beings. They are worth not...