Attack in Mumbai -2

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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mumbai-terror-plot-foiled-two-held/H1-Article1-518868.aspx"]Mumbai terror plot foiled, two held[/url]

With the arrest of two local men in their 20s, Mumbai has escaped another big terror attack, planned yet again by a Pakistan-based outfit, the police said on Sunday. On the terror radarAbdul Latif alias Guddu (29) and Riyaz Ali alias Rehan (23) were arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for planning attacks on markets, government offices and nuclear installations in the city.

[Bharatvarsh2]

The Horror of Gun Control in Mumbai

by Benedict D. LaRosa, Posted October 16, 2009



As Ronald Reagan would say, “Here we go again!”



How many Rwanda, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Warsaw Ghetto, post-office, and other shootings do people have to endure before they face reality? How long does it take to learn a simple lesson: unarmed people are more vulnerable to terrorists, criminals, and crazed people than armed ones? Now the terrible toll in Mumbai: some 175 killed and several hundred others wounded.



The headlines in India and across the world should have read, “Terrorists and Gun Control Claim More Victims.” Instead, the complicity of the various Indian governments — national, state, and city — was ignored and their inability to protect the victims of that tragic event was barely questioned. The truth is that, except for a few policemen on the scene, all the victims were unarmed by public policy. India has among the strictest gun-control laws on Earth, which, according to gun-control advocates, should have made Mumbai one of the safest cities on the planet. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone with common sense or a historical perspective that disarmed citizens and visitors had no way of defending themselves and were, once again, the victims not only of terrorists, but of the misguided, immoral policy of their governments.



As Alexander the Great found out when he invaded India in 326 B.C., its people are keen fighters and weapon innovators. The British, India’s colonial ruler from 1757 to 1947, suppressed this martial tradition, disarmed the populace, and destroyed the domestic firearms industry to ensure their rule, particularly after the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. The Indian Arms Act of 1878 forbade Indians to possess weapons, with the exception of those considered loyal. The law did not apply to Europeans who could, of course, possess and carry arms at their discretion.



The Indian subcontinent has been racked with strife since independence and the partition in 1947 between India and Pakistan. That may explain why the newly independent Indian government saw fit to keep the British gun-control laws in place for another 12 years before replacing them with similar measures of their own in 1959 and later years. Though not as severe as the British gun-control laws, suffice it to say India’s laws discourage the private possession of firearms, making it nearly impossible for the average Indian to own or use guns, all under the pretext of crime control.



Yet such measures have not curtailed violence on the subcontinent. For example, following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, as many as 3,000 Sikhs died in four days of riots throughout the country. In 2002, a Muslim mob murdered 59 Hindus in a railway car at the Godhra railway station by first stoning them and then setting the railway car in which they traveled on fire. Gun control made those poor people easy victims. Had they been armed, would it have prevented the violence? No one knows, but at least they would have stood a better chance to survive.



As for the terrorist attack in Mumbai, can you imagine what would have happened to the terrorists, once they started shooting, if the people around them had not been prevented by their government from exercising their God-given right to keep and bear arms, but had instead been armed? Well, imagine being surrounded by hundreds of angry, frightened, armed people shooting back and fighting for their lives — a well-deserved nightmare for terrorists and criminals. A number of innocent people would surely have been killed and wounded anyway. After all, the terrorists had the element of surprise. But I doubt the number of dead and injured would have been so great. I can almost guarantee that far more than the 10 terrorists so far accounted for would have bitten the dust. More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson quoted Cesare Beccaria, father of modern criminology:



The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crime.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve to encourage rather than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.



India has no excuse. The father of Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi, observed in 1927,



Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of its arms as the blackest.



Let’s hope the Indian government has learned its lesson and that there are no more Mumbais.



http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0907g.asp

[dhu]

[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/243589/To-protect-Headley-did-US-let-26/11-happen.html"]To protect Headley, did US let 26/11 happen?[/url]



Swapan Dasgupta



During the 2008 US presidential election there was a belief in New Delhi that a Barack Obama presidency would trigger the re-calibration of Indo-American relations. Translated into English, it implied concern that the new guy wouldn’t accord the same priority to Indian concerns as President George W Bush did. At that time we were assured by star-struck Indian reporters in Washington, DC, that this was poppycock and a function of the deranged Islamophobia of the Dick Cheney Fan Club. Obama, we were informed, saw Hanuman as his lucky mascot. The more sober interlocutors informed us that the Cold War was over, that India was no longer a hyphenated link with Pakistan and that the relationship was on auto-pilot.



It’s now 14 months since Obama assumed office and the special relationship forged by Bush shows distinct signs of wear and tear. I may be guilty of only a minor exaggeration in suggesting that the middle class euphoria that propelled the India-US nuclear accord (and played a role in the UPA’s undeserved re-election last May) has dissipated, if not disappeared. It has been replaced by a growing surge of anti-Americanism, not very dissimilar to the one being witnessed in Israel, another country where a strategic partnership was allegedly etched in stone.



As opposed to the civilisational anti-Americanism that binds the Marxist to the mullah, this wariness of Uncle Sam is entirely political and centred on the belief that the US doesn’t give a toss for Indian sensitivities. Worse, it has got entangled with the feeling that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is more concerned with obliging the US than doing what is right for India.



This new surge of anti-Americanism may not be adequately reflected in the mainstream media where editors and diplomatic correspondents are curiously circumspect in questioning US motives, but it is real and predates the kerfuffle over the alleged cover-up in the David Coleman Headley case.



The doubts over the Obama Administration’s bona fides are strongest in India’s ‘strategic community’, the charmed circle of diplomats, spooks, security experts and interested politicians. The Headley case has suggested a grey zone of complicity between US Intelligence and its asset who may have turned into a double agent. It is, after all, scarcely conceivable that Headley could have undergone five spells of training in a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba camp, from late-2005 to October 2009, without being on the radar of US counter-terrorism. Circumstantial evidence points to Headley undertaking his jihadi activities with the knowledge, and possibly consent, of US authorities. Till much after the Mumbai attacks, Headley wasn’t regarded as a rogue agent.



In 1940, Winston Churchill had advance warning that the Luftwaffe was planning a massive raid on Coventry. He wilfully shied away from ordering the RAF to repel the bombers because he didn't want to let on to the Germans that the British had cracked one of their most secure codes. Likewise, there is a theory that the US didn’t share its prior knowledge of the 26/11 attack because it wanted its asset to gain the full trust of the LeT leadership and be privy to information of future conspiracies.



If true, the implication is quite chilling. It suggests that a section of US Intelligence chose to sit on specific information of the Mumbai attacks because the target was India and its principal objective is to safeguard America and its citizens. In other words, Indian lives are always at a discount compared to American lives — a charming message in the context of the sharply discounted liability ceiling in the proposed Nuclear Liability Bill. Of course, six US citizens also died in the Mumbai attacks and, maybe, this proved to be Headley’s undoing.



There are many questions that Indian investigators have for Headley when the US prison authorities grant access to him — curiously, they have already given the Danish police access to him. However, there are an equal number of questions that India must ask the US authorities. The most important of these is a blunt query: Did you wilfully allow the massacre of 160 innocents in pursuance of a game that lacks a winning strategy?



The US can, of course, retort that it did warn India of maritime attacks. Indeed it did and this is a lapse that will haunt India’s counter-terrorism establishment. Yet, there is a difference between general warnings and ‘actionable intelligence’. Did the US deny India ‘actionable intelligence’ which it had? If so, the implications are grave.



In July 2008, the US had ‘actionable intelligence’ about the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul which killed 58 people. Rather than provide it to the Indian agencies in real time, it chose to route it through the Afghan authorities. The delay was callous.



If the US strategy lies in identifying the masterminds of terror and identifying the complete network, we can perhaps explain the deaths in Mumbai — just as Churchill could explain the destruction of Coventry to himself. Headley’s testimony is categorical on one count: The epicentre of terrorism is located in Pakistan. Headley has also removed all ambiguity over the LeT’s involvement.



What does the US propose to do with this information? So far it plans to outsource Afghanistan to Pakistan.



What Headley has so far left unsaid are two things. First, the identities of LeT terrorists, who are referred to as A, B, C and D. And, second, whether he provided his US handlers a full account of his jihadi activities at each stage.



If India had full access to Headley and the right to both extradite and waterboard him, he may have sung out of fear. In the light of his plea bargain and the knowledge that the extent of his punishment depends on following US orders, the chances of the horrible truth emerging in the natural course is zero. Unless, we too demonstrate that the lives of Indians matters to India.

[Capt M Kumar]

Washington: Karachi-based D-Company of the fugitive Indian underworld don Dawood Ibrahim possibly had an important role in 26/11 carnage by providing logistic support to the LeT-operatives to carry out the deadly operation, adding a new dimension to the Mumbai terror attacks.



The involvement of the D-Company in the Mumbai attacks has come out in a report on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) released by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, the Department of Defence, which says that the D-Company is now closely tied with LeT activities in India. http://news.in.msn.com/internalsecurity/...141&page=2

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Bodies of slain 26/11 terrorists buried

pioneer.com

Mumbai: The bodies of nine Pakistani perpetrators of the brazen Mumbai terror attacks were “secretly” buried in January, the Maharashtra Government revealed on Tuesday. “Bodies of nine terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008 had been disposed of in January this year,” Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil informed the Legislative Council.

They should have buried them with pork or cremate them

[Husky]

news.in.msn.com/internalsecurity/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3891713

Ajmal Kasab to be hanged till death



Ruling is out. But it all means nothing until it is actually carried out.



Better do it quick. The more time they leave it, the more time it gives for the Bloody Hearts to crawl out from under the gross sediment they usually retreat to and begin to rant, rave and rage about the InHuman Rights of this posterboy of the Faithful who carried out an islamic genocide. Like they successfully did for Mohammed Afval. (If the Bloody Upstarts do show and stomp around locally and internationally until they get Kasab "clemency", maybe he can return the favour by exposing their families to his perfected islamania next time instead of directing it on Hindus? Because, unlike the Hindus victims of Afzal/Kasab/other islamaniacs, the Bloody Heartless like islamania: they work for it, live and breathe for it - no doubt they would therefore like themselves and their families to die for/by the same cause as well. Am I wrong? My logic sounds so perfectly reasonable to me. At least as reasonable as the Bloodied Hands themselves.)

Kasab had shamelessly demanded things like chicken biryani inspite of killing so many people.

Probably he figured that since Mohammed Afval - sorry Afzal * - got all this and more, he could ask for the same.

It's the framed, falsely apprehended and incarcerated Hindu innocents who

- get denied their food and even water (e.g. the Hindu hero Dara Singh),

- get [color="#0000FF"](EDIT correction[/color] given only meat when asked for simple food like fruits (e.g. the vegetarian Kanchi Shankaracharya, taunted by christian 'police officers') and

- get tortured (e.g. the Swami and Sadhvi who were framed in the Christian Inquisition under the carefully kooked up christofiction of "Hindu terror")

- and once the christian purpose of their incarceration - that of creating massive anti-Hindu psy-ops - has been served, the innocent Hindus are left to be forgotten and rot to death (Dara) or whatever happened to them (the Hindu Terriers again).



*Afval means garbage in NL. So you can see why I keep getting it wrong.

[Bharatvarsh2]

It will take years, mercy petitions and other bs instead of executing him immediately after the sentence by firing squad.

[ramana]

Sandhya Jain in Pioneer, 11 May 2010

EDITS | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | Email | Print |





Too many holes in 26/11 inquiry



Sandhya Jain



Judge ML Tahaliyani’s decision to acquit the alleged Indian collaborators of Ajmal Amir Kasab for lack of evidence reveals serious lacunae in the investigations into the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008. Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed allegedly gave logistical support for the November 26 attacks on multiple targets by preparing maps for the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. The special court judge was so unimpressed by the evidence adduced that he directed that the men be released immediately if they were not wanted in any other case.



That the surviving Pakistani terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasab, received the death sentence is no credit to India’s investigating agencies. Kasab was caught on CCTV camera along with Abu Ismael, spraying deadly assault rifle fire on innocent passengers at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, and was later apprehended by ASI Tukaram Omble, who sacrificed his life to capture him. As several witnesses testified to his crimes, it was an open and shut case. He was held guilty of waging war against the nation, murder, criminal conspiracy and committing terror activities.



It is poetic justice that the judgement that holds Kasab, and by implication his dead colleagues and Pakistani handlers, guilty of ‘waging war against the nation’ comes on the heels of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s capitulation to American pressure at Thimpu, where he again met his Pakistani counterpart and agreed to continue a futile dialogue. Islamabad, of course, has refused to hand over LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and operations chief Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi to a nation that cannot abide by its own commitment not to hold talks without credible action against the perpetrators of 26/11.



Now, with Kasab alone arraigned for this deadly attack on the nation, it may be pertinent to revisit the loopholes left untended to by then National Security Adviser MK Narayanan (who was invisible throughout the 60-hour trauma) and Home Minister P Chidambaram, who took over from the effete Shivraj Patil.



First, the terrorists’ Western links were not even touched. On December 1, 2008, the Daily Mail of London reported that seven of the assailants were of Pakistani origin with British passports. That number soon fell to two, and a few days later Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said no British Muslims were involved. Despite the whitewash, some traces remained, so on December 14, 2008, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown rushed to New Delhi to quash this line of inquiry and urge Mr Manmohan Singh to allow MI6 to interrogate Kasab. Why this urgency? And why did India agree when at St Petersburg, Russia, in 2006, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair had repulsed Mr Singh’s request to hand over 14 terrorists who had committed attacks in India and were harboured in Britain?



The then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also arrived in New Delhi to demand non-action. As the Congress’s Prime Minister-in-waiting was then busy with the wedding ceremonies of former Amethi MP Satish Sharma’s son, nationalism was easily superseded by the personal convenience of the Page Three people. Soon afterwards, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived, gave unsolicited advice on Jammu & Kashmir, a clean chit to Pakistan, and rejected India’s demand for the conspirators behind the attack.



It is pertinent that Pakistan initially expressed willingness to cooperate, offering to send the ISI chief to India to assist in the investigation. But Islamabad was sharply rebuked by its British and American friends (read masters) and forced to backtrack. Scotland Yard and FBI arrived instead, obviously to ascertain the extent of evidence available with India. The UPA supinely agreed to let the FBI interrogate Kasab without any reciprocal accord; India is now running in circles trying to get a look at David Coleman Headley who did the major part of the reconnaissance for the attack!



The UPA shamelessly outsourced the task of chastising Islamabad to Washington, DC, and London. A dossier of 20 most-wanted terrorists was copied to major world capitals; Ms Condoleezza Rice did not promise to get even a token two for New Delhi, which meekly accepted her warning not to aggravate regional conflict because of American preoccupation in Afghanistan. No one followed up on the satellite phone recovered from the trawler with the body of the Gujarati captain, which had been hijacked to Karachi Port. While there, the phone was used to make calls to Australia, where the CIA has a famous outpost!



Regardless of the guilt or innocence of Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, the Mumbai operation certainly had strong local support. Dawood Ibrahim, who lives under the ISI’s protection in Karachi, reputedly loaned his network. Dawood used to smuggle gold from the de facto British-controlled Dubai, UAE, and later drugs, and fled India after masterminding the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings. On December 18, 2008, The Times of India reported that Moscow, which was sharing intelligence with India, “believes that Dawood’s drug network, which runs through Afghanistan, was used to finance the Mumbai attack”.



On November 26, 2008, the day the Mumbai attack was launched, the Indian Express reported that a Briton, Mohammed Raheel Ataur Rehman Sheikh, accused of funding the July 11, 2006 serial explosions in a Mumbai train that took over 200 lives, had been detained by authorities in England on the basis of an Interpol Red Corner Notice. Sheikh is an LeT operative, and considered responsible for the 2006 Mumbai bombings. On November 10, Interpol contacted the CBI for details behind the Red Corner Notice against Sheikh, but reports suggest he has been released, and remains in England!



Many other facts remain unknown or uninvestigated. In Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the terrorists moved as if they knew every nook and corner, and away from the CCTV camera. They entered the manager’s room and killed him. Mr Chidambaram angrily rebuked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi when he said locals were involved in 26/11. It is pertinent that the Supreme Court has only now banned narco tests of accused without consent, but though narco and brain mapping was freely done on Sadhvi Pragya and Col Srikant Purohit (without finding an iota of evidence), it was not resorted to in the case of Ansari and Ahmed. Why the double standards?



There were persistent press reports that insiders at Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower helped the terrorists to stockpile arms on the sixth floor; perhaps helped Headley’s surveys. Yet no insider has been arrested and charged. Why?

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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/David-Headley-linked-to-Pakistan-s-officials-reaffirms-NSA/H1-Article1-575294.aspx"]David Headley linked to Pakistan's officials, reaffirms NSA[/url]

There are clear links between Pakistan's official establishment and Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, who acted as advance scout for the 26/11 attackers, said National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon on Tuesday. "It's been brought home recently by what we learnt from Headley, which confirms many of the things that we knew before. And it's really the links between the official establishment and with existing intelligence agencies," said Menon, addressing an international conference on terrorism in the Capital.



His comments come soon after remarks by Home Secretary G K Pillai maintaining that Headley's interrogation had made it clear both Pakistan's ISI and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba founder Hafiz Saeed were involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Menon, however, did not name Pakistan.

[dhu]

[url="http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/011210-News-Delhi-Indian-hacker-defaces-websites-100-targeted-Pakistan.htm"]Indian hacker group defaces websites; more than 100 targeted[/url]

The Indian Army could not get a chance to retaliate to the audacious 26/11 attacks on Mumbai but an underground group of hackers have hit back on the anniversary of the attacks in the virtual world.



The Indian Cyber Army (ICA) powered by indishell.in carried out a mass defacement operation on key Pakistani websites to pay "homage to the martyrs of the terror attacks".



The attacks started on the anniversary of the terrorist strikes and each success was celebrated by posting a patriotic message and pictures of Indian martyrs on the website.



According to one of the members of the community, the hacking attacks were carried out to send across a message to the perpetrators of the strikes on Mumbai. "We are not seeking any monetary benefits out of it. This particular attack was done to convey a message to the Pakistani citizens that Indians won't be sitting ducks. And 26/11 was the ideal time for conveying this message when our brave soldiers laid down their lives for their country," he said.



Indian Cyber Army consists of members with identities like Jackh4x0r, LuCkY, SiLeNtp0is0n]-, Str1k3r, InX_ro0t, Darkl00k,Ne0h4ck3r, Mr52, Th3.rdx, G00gl3warr10r, Atuldwivedi, c00lt0ad and eXesouL "After each successful attack, a webpage was created displaying pictures of our brave soldiers along with a highly patriotic Indian song as background music to express our anger. We wish that every Pakistani should listen to the background music and read our message," another member of the group told MiD DAY.



A number of websites of critical importance were targeted during the onslaught. The sites that were defaced include that of the official website of the Pakistan government, ministry of foreign affairs, Pakistan Navy, Ministry of Science and Technology and official portal of auditor general of Pakistan.



Cyber crime experts say days of historic importance are a favourite with hackers. "There has been a sudden increase in the number of attacks this week, and the reason clearly is 26/11. Hackers from both the countries launch attacks on days of historic importance," said Dhruv Soi, director of Torrid networks.



Experts opined that the government should tap into the talent pool from the hackers and use their skills. "Indian government can very well utilize such highly motivated and skilled resources to work for the nation, the way Chinese Cyber Army works for China Liberation Army," added Soi.

[Husky]

Don't know if this was posted. Tangentially (?) related.



news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4642849

news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4642849&page=2



Spain and Thailand (where's the ATS when christoislamic terrorism needs them - to sow confusion through inversion?)

01/12/2010

Six Pakistanis held over links to 26/11 terror attacks



Madrid: Police arrested seven people in Spain and three in Thailand in an international operation against a group suspected of forging passports for an al-Qaida-linked Islamic terrorist group, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Wednesday.



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A handout picture released by the Spanish National Police shows a policeman in Barcelona arresting one of the seven accused suspected of providing forged passports to organisations linked to Al-Qaeda, including the group accused of plotting the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. AFP



The detainees formed part of a group based in Thailand and linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terror group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks that killed 166 people, the ministry said in a statement.



The arrests in Spain took place late Tuesday and early Wednesday in the northeastern city of Barcelona, the ministry said. The detainees included six Pakistanis and one Nigerian. The ministry said the group stole passports, mostly from tourists in the Barcelona area, and sent them to Thailand to be doctored and later distributed to groups linked to al-Qaida.



(Continued)





A handout picture released by the Spanish National Police shows a policeman in Barcelona arresting 6 Pakistanis and a Nigerian suspected of providing forged passports to organisations linked to Al-Qaeda, including the group accused of plotting the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. AFP



[color]The ministry said the passports allowed members of the terror groups to enter European and other countries. The group was run by one of the three people -- two Pakistanis and one Thai citizen -- arrested in Thailand.[/color]

The statement said that in the Spanish raids police seized passports ready to be sent to Thailand, computer and mobile telephone equipment.



The ministry said the group had also supplied forged documents to other groups, including the Tamil Tiger rebels who were crushed last year by Sri Lankan troops after a quarter-century war for an independent state for ethnic minority Tamils.



Source: Associated Press

At least the Spanish police are catching some. I don't suppose the Bloody 'Indian' Hearts campaigners can save these islamaniacs from doing time: the drama queens of and for social engineering only have an audience in sickular India.



Pakis, Spain, Thailand, their christist contacts in SL.

Islamaniacs: global terrorists.



Meanwhile in India, the christian govt continues its Christian Inquisition by peddling the "Hindu Terror" sham:

- to make everything equal-equal (so Hindus can never point to christoislamania genociding Dharmics without now hearing the terrorists retort with the deliberately concocted "Hindu terror" makebelieve to silence the genuinely victimised heathens)

- and of course to bring down various key people of the only political opposition to the christocongress, to bring down nationalists in general and nationalists orgs including what's been called IIRC 'the largest volunteer corps in the world' (RSS).



What will the heathens do? Do they have a plan - even if it's but one to defend themselves against the relentless scheming of others?

(Christianism has a carefully laid-out plan to sentence and even execute heathens, certainly to incapacitate them until such a time as political power is permanently settled in christianism's hands without a chance of swinging back. And Islamism has a brute force plan and many drones of its own, working away at it.)

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[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Headley-dishes-the-dirt-on-26-11/H1-Article1-701346.aspx"]Headley dishes the dirt on 26/11[/url]

[Guest]

Here are Tweets from court



http://twitter.com/#!/colinfreeze



Colinfreeze Colin Freeze

#Ranatrial Day 1: " The Mumbai-massacre masterminds told David Headley to go easy with the praying... http://tgam.ca/C1uF

10 hours ago

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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/341075/Rana-trial-Headley-discloses-name-of-ISI-handler.html"]Rana trial: Headley discloses name of 'ISI handler'[/url]

The mysterious Major Iqbal, who India suspects is a Pakistani army officer in ISI, has now been identified as 'Chaudhery Khan' by Mumbai terror accused David Headley who said he is the mastermind of the 26/11 attacks plot.



50-year-old Headley also told a Chicago court during the trial of 26/11 co-accused Tahawwur Rana that an attempt to take the attackers to Mumbai in September 2008 failed as a boat in which they were to sail was lost.



He said before the jury that according to Major Iqbal, in September they lost the Pakistani boat which was supposed to take the attackers to sea for some distance after which they were to be shifted to an Indian fishing boat.



Iqbal also told Headley that they had lost 12 life jackets meant for the attackers.



Headley, a Pakistan-American, said that Major Iqbal, whose name keeps cropping up in the testimony, used the ID of 'Chaudhery Khan', made key decisions and was indeed the mastermind of the 26/11 plot.



The federal prosecutors presented to the court additional evidences linking strong connection between Headley and the ISI officials.



Through records of several emails exhibited in the court federal prosecutors established beyond doubt that Headley was in constant contact with ISI officials, in particular Major Iqbal, and his handlers in Pakistan.



In an email dated April 23, 2008, Headley sends Chaudhery Khan information on commercially available spy cameras and pen spy cameras.



Headley also conceded that he met Major Iqbal several time before the Mumbai attacks during which he issued specific instructions on every step right from establishing an office in Mumbai, to recruiting retired military personnel, making surveillance, giving list of targets and closing the Mumbai office.



"Major Iqbal told me the Chabad House would be added on whatever list (of targets) there was because it was a front office for the Mossad" - Israel's intelligence agency, Headley said, adding that Major Iqbal "seemed upset the (Mumbai) airport was not included" as a target.



Headley also testified that New Delhi-based National Defence College is on the hit-list of terrorists as another 26/11 plotter Illiyas Kashmiri believes in this way he can kill more Indian brigadiers than what the Pakistan Army could not do in four wars with India.



Within a few months of the Mumbai strikes, Kashmiri, who also has emerged as a mastermind of 26/11, met Headley and asked him to go to India again to do surveillance of the National Defence College in New Delhi and a number of Chhabad Houses in various cities of India.



When Headley, accompanied by Major Abdur Rehman Pasha - one of his handlers, went to see Kashmiri in Waziristan in February 2009, he among the Lashkar-e-Taiba circles had emerged as a "surveillance expert" thus a key element of the planning of the terrorist attack.

[ramana]

I have projects worth Rs.10,000 crores: Rajaram Rege of Shiv Sena to David Headley

....

"If anybody from USA or any country wants a venture or invest in India, I am the ideal person for them. Projects worth

Rs10,000 crores sanctioned by government are with me. Are you getting my point?" Rege wrote in an email to Headley on May 19, 2008, according to a copy of the email produced in the court by federal prosecutors.



Rege went ahead to lure Headley to get him big contacts in India because of his strong political connections.



"As you know that I am politically and socially very well connected here in Bombay (Mumbai), Gujarat and Delhi. Delhi is the place here where the central govt of India (prime minister of India) rules. I have very strong personal relations with people ruling Mumbai (Maharashtra), Gujarat and Delhi," he wrote.



"There are lots of projects in thousands of crores (Indian rupees) regarding constructions, dams, canals, power, medicine, education etc lined up," he wrote.



The email refers to some detailed conversation between Headley and Rege about their future joint projects.



"If we recollect about our plans that I need to come there and give presentations and conferences with people there and generate funds. Please make a detailed project report so that we can start our work on it that gives business to you as well as to me," Rege wrote.



"One more thing. How is the IT field there? If you have really good contacts in very top companies on a very high level then I would like to disclose my information to you. I am, myself, a computer science engineer with 16 years in IT," Rege wrote.



....



As this was not enough, Rege wrote back to Headley giving him the details of how to bag contracts in India and also how the booty can be shared between them.



Talking of government projects, Rege wrote that one has to give money "under the table" and manipulate the project.



"If it is private sector project, it is very easy as all of them are known to me. I tell you the price of the project and we get it, financially both of us get benefit as we get our consultancy charges, that all, but even these consultancy charges ranges from few hundreds crores in rupees," he wrote.



"For these activities, I have my own trust registered under Indian laws. The purpose of this is that we get benefit for these consultancy fees. I show here that I get donations for social work as education or medical. That's gives me savings Income tax," Rege said, adding that he would expect Rs10 lakh in cash from Headley when he comes to Mumbai in June of that year.

So these are the type of innocent e-mails ths RR exchanged with terrorist David Deadly!!!

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http://twitter.com/#!/colinfreeze

Colinfreeze Colin Freeze

Headley says that Major Iqbal did drive in a miltary jeep and they were introduced in a compound affiliated with [color="#FF0000"]Khyber Rifles[/color]. #Ranatrial

4 hours ago

[ramana]

Nareshji,



Look up Operation Jaywick by Aussie special forces in WWII. Its a blueprint for Mumbai 26/11 with updates for new technology and targets.

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Three blast in Mumbai.



Mumbai/India please re- elect Congress again.

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Three blasts in Mumbai, Home Ministry confirms terror attack Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/repor...-119016?cp[/url]

Mumbai: Three explosions have taken place in Mumbai on Wednesday evening - two in South Mumbai at Opera House and in Zaveri Bazar and one at Dadar West, in central Mumbai. The Home Ministry has confirmed a terrorist attack and Mumbai is on high alert.



All blasts took place in crowded places. Eyewitnesses said about 15 to 20 people have taken to hospital in Zaveri Bazar. Reports said six people had died in the Dadar blast, four in the Zaveri Bazaar blast.



One explosion, in a car at a bus stop in Dadar West, has been confirmed. A police officer said there might have been an explosive in a meter box behind a hoarding at Khau gali, a street filled with eateries at Zaveri Bazaar.





Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/repor...-119016?cp

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Now Sonia will ask Mumbai police to pick up some sadhus and blame blast on them.