12-11-2008, 02:58 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Mumbai attackers part of bigger suicide team: NYT</b>
pioneer.com
Reuters | NEW YORK
The 10 men who conducted the attacks in Mumbai belonged to a group of 30 recruits selected for suicide missions and the whereabouts of the other 20 are unknown, the New York Times reported.
<b>India has no reason to believe the other 20 are in India, but that could be a possibility</b>, the newspaper's website (www.nytimes.com) quoted Mumbai Police Deputy Commissioner Deven Bharti as saying on Tuesday.
"Another 20 were ready to die," Bharti said. "This is the very disturbing part of it."
It was the first time Indian police had disclosed the larger number of suicide recruits from the Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. They say only 10 gunmen took part in the Nov. 26-29 attacks in Mumbai that killed 171 people and raised tensions between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan.
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Indian PM is already gone to bed.
pioneer.com
Reuters | NEW YORK
The 10 men who conducted the attacks in Mumbai belonged to a group of 30 recruits selected for suicide missions and the whereabouts of the other 20 are unknown, the New York Times reported.
<b>India has no reason to believe the other 20 are in India, but that could be a possibility</b>, the newspaper's website (www.nytimes.com) quoted Mumbai Police Deputy Commissioner Deven Bharti as saying on Tuesday.
"Another 20 were ready to die," Bharti said. "This is the very disturbing part of it."
It was the first time Indian police had disclosed the larger number of suicide recruits from the Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. They say only 10 gunmen took part in the Nov. 26-29 attacks in Mumbai that killed 171 people and raised tensions between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan.
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Indian PM is already gone to bed.