The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last breath’.
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He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages.
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Police insist that Kasab confessed to being a member of the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has denied involvement in the carnage, and claimed he and the others were trained in the Muslim country.
Intelligence analysts are keeping more of an open mind, however. And some political observers point out an unhelpful tendency by the Indian authorities continually to blame ‘Pakistan elements’ without solid evidence.
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In addition India is buttressing it claims of Pakistani involvement in the attack with other evidence:
NEW DELHI: In the fresh leads from the Mumbai terror attack investigation, Intelligence sources say they intercepted conversation between Muzammil, Muzaffarabad chief of LeT operations, and a certain Yahya in Bangladesh.
Yahya arranged SIM cards, fake ID-cards primarily from western countries like Mauritius, UK, US, Australia. A Mauritian identity card was found on one of the terrorists shot down.
The satellite phone found on the MV Kuber also has shown that calls were made to Jalalabad. These calls were traced to Zakir Ur Rehman, a chief of training of the LeT.
Intelligence sources have also revealed that in the second week of July, intelligence officials knew about 25 terrorists training in the Pakistan village of Durbari Mitho, and that an ISI agent was also involved in the training.
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Meanwhile the Pakistani government says they will stand shoulder to shoulder with India against terrorism:
We will stand 'shoulder-to-shoulder' with India: govt ISLAMABAD: A statement was released by the Pakistani government on Saturday following crisis talks within the cabinet in response to the 'evolving situation' following the 'barbaric act of terrorism' which took place in Mumbai. The statement, which was delivered by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi declared that the Pakistani governement, following a 'frank, candid' discussion which analysed the situation 'thread-bare', was unanimous in its condemnation of the attacks in Mumbai. (Posted 04:02 PST)
source - DAWN (a daily Pakistani paper
I'm thinking that a start would be purging the ISI of fundamentalists, that might be tough though given that they apparently have a Hooveresque political operation.
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