Indian commandos end 62-hour siege of Mumbai

[Loyal American]

Indian commandos end 62-hour siege of Mumbai

By Bill Roggio
November 29, 2008 2:14 PM

Sixty-two hours after Islamist terrorists launched a multi-pronged assault of India's financial capital of Mumbai, Indian commandos killed the last fighter holed up in a five-star hotel and ended the siege that paralyzed the city. Indian security forces have captured a member of the assault team who has provided some details on the attack.

Indian officials have said that 195 people are currently known to have been killed (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Battle_ends_in_Mumbai_death_toll_rises_to_195/articleshow/3771119.cms) and more than 300 have been wounded. Twenty-two foreigners, including five Americans (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/5_US_citizens_killed_in_Mumbai_attacks/articleshow/3772026.cms), have been killed during the terror assault. The toll may rise as search teams comb through the hotels where heavy fighting occurred.

The terrorists, who are strongly suspect of being members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (the Army of the Good), began their attack on the night of Nov. 26, when one or more inflatable boats were launched from a hijacked Indian fishing vessel of the coast of Mumbai. [SeeAnalysis: Mumbai attack differs from past terror strikes (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/11/analysis_mumbai_atta.php)]



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An estimated 15 to 25 terrorists fanned out throughout Mumbai and opened fire and tossed grenades at eight locations, including two hotels, a police station, a train station, a residential center, a hospital, a cinema, and a cafe. Two taxis were also blown up and a police van was hijacked and used in a shooting spree.

The US government designated Lashkar-e-Taiba as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in December 2001. The Pakistani government banned the group in January 2002, but this did little to shut down its operations. The group renamed itself the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and conducted business as usual.

The Pakistani government has arrested Saeed several times of the past six years after major terror attacks in the region. Saeed is "placed under house arrest inside Muridke," a US intelligence official told The Long War Journal. He is "released" after the controversy over the attack dies down,” the official said sarcastically.

"Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pakistani government has shown no desire to shut down Lashkar-e-Taiba, despite the fact the group is operating in the open," the official noted. "They are a state within a state, backed by the state’s intelligence service,” the official said, referring to Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency. “Right now, they are untouchable."

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An Indian commando rappels to assault the Jewish center in Mumbai. Reuters photograph.

Unbelievable!!! :evil:

[rhet 2]

P-stan, like Iran, Syria, Egypt and Arabia, is a major terror-supporting home base for enemy assault teams.

And always has been.

And the P-stan government teeters always on a tightrope, forced to ignore and tolerate the nightmare or themselves be destroyed.

The price of appeasement instead of total determined assault -- Musharreff paid that price, too. And now so does the current P-stan nothing but mush government.

Unfortunately, India just paid a hell of a price for appeasement instead of war, too -- and so did 5 Americans.

5 MORE Americans -- lives wasted because people are TERRIFIED to Stand up and kill the bastards doing the killing.

There are worse things than dying: living in constant terror of murderous bastard thugs like islamic psychopaths is one of them.

[Loyal American]

No country is allowed to be afraid, appeasement is unacceptable!

How many innocent souls have to parish before the world wakes up and fights these bastards till they are all burning in hell?

THINK, just think about where they are and how many have died because everyone is too weak to stand up and fight!

No country should rest until this enemy is distroyed!

[rhet 2]

No country is allowed to be afraid, appeasement is unacceptable!

How many innocent souls have to parish before the world wakes up and fights these bastards till they are all burning in hell?

THINK, just think about where they are and how many have died because everyone is too weak to stand up and fight!

No country should rest until this enemy is distroyed!

When the Hippie Left persists in shoving their Never Never Land humanity hating bastardized mythologies down our throats, corrupting government at all levels, so that government serves their own disgustingly tyrannical religious beliefs instead of defending the helpless?

Get real.

It takes MORAL GUTS to stop imperialist swine -- and the Swine Lords in Washington live in terror of even the Enviro-Freaks who yank their chains -- they haven't GOT the moral guts to Stand and Defend even our own Newark NJ walking murder victims, much less Stand and Defend anybody else.

The DNC are HUMANITY HATERS who don't give a **** about how many lives they help destroy as long as they get to be godlets on the Beltway.

And as long as they're licking George Soros' **** off his butt for him, quivering in terror of filthy little anti-American Swine Lords like Bill Mahr and Chris Matthews, and slobbering all over Michael Moore's ****-covered boots, worshiping the Human Filth partying in Holly Weird, there's not just a hell of a lot we can do about the complete MORAL CORRUPTION and IDOLATROUS SELF_WORSHIP happening at the top of the Power Pig Pile on the Beltway.

They looked in the mirror and saw gods, and now, dazzled by the vision of their own totally NOT REAL magnificent superiority over all other beings, they CANNOT see or hear the reality of the horror they aid and abet.

They are blind to the blood and deaf to the screams of agony they themselves cause -- because they cannot get past their belief in their own infallible and perfect intelligence and moral superiority over the rest of the earth.

"Thinking themselves wise, they become fools."

And cannot see their own destruction moving closer and closer to their own ignorant and arrogant necks.

[Cav Scout]

You will have to pardon me if I do not congratulate them for taking three days to do what should have been done in about five hours.

[Loyal American]

You will have to pardon me if I do not congratulate them for taking three days to do what should have been done in about five hours.Well when ya just roll on the beach in a rubber tube boat and stroll the streets on foot blowing people up along the way be it subway, hotel or Jewish center..........it takes time!

[rhet 2]

Well when ya just roll on the beach in a rubber tube boat and stroll the streets on foot blowing people up along the way be it subway, hotel or Jewish center..........it takes time!

Just weep for the children.

The islamic slave trade is up and running, too, kidnapping young children, especially boys, for the sex slave markets in islamic nations.

Just one of tens of hundreds of crimes being committed in the name of Allah by these imperialist monsters who seek the total destruction of India and all of Africa.

[TimeToRelax]

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People held candles near The Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, India, in a demonstration yesterday against the attacks.



India's top security minister resigns


New York Times / December 1, 2008

MUMBAI, India - The top domestic security official resigned in disgrace yesterday for the failure to thwart or quickly contain the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, as the government announced a raft of measures to bolster antiterrorism efforts and struggled to calibrate a response to what it views as Pakistani complicity.

Top officials have suggested that groups based in Pakistan had some involvement in the attacks. The suspension of diplomatic relations and a cross-border raid against suspected militant training camps in Pakistan were not ruled out.

The security official, Shivraj Patil, the home security minister, became the first senior official in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's administration to leave office over the Mumbai attacks, which have traumatized the nation for their ferocity and audacity and laid bare glaring deficiencies in India's intelligence and enforcement abilities. The pressures on the government are especially acute, with elections only six months away.

While Indian officials insisted publicly that the mayhem was carried out by 10 heavily armed men, there were new indications that others had been involved and that the attackers had at least some accomplices pre-positioned on the ground.

The three-day siege of Mumbai, the country's financial capital, ended Saturday with a death toll of at least 188, hundreds wounded, and two of Mumbai's most famous five-star hotels, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower and the Oberoi, where most of the mayhem took place, partly in ruins. At least 28 of the dead were foreigners, including at least six Americans and eight Israelis killed at a Jewish religious center that had been seized by the attackers and was stormed by elite Indian commandos dropped from a helicopter.

Despite repeated assertions by Pakistan's government that it bore no responsibility, the attacks have raised the pitch of India-Pakistan tensions to their most dangerous level in years. Not since the December 2001 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, which India blamed on Pakistani groups, have there been such blunt Indian accusations about outlaws based across the border; that episode prompted the two countries to send their armies to the border, sparking fears of war between the nuclear neighbors.

The Bush administration, hoping to help defuse the possibility of new hostilities, announced it was sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to India this week "to stand in solidarity with the people of India as we all work together to hold these extremists accountable."

Yesterday, a senior government official said Singh's administration would have to consider a range of measures to show toughness toward Pakistan. "The government is under pressure; we are taking steps," the official said. "We're not trying to say we're going to attack them. Short of that everything will have to be pursued." "Certainly we are not going to sit back with Pakistan unleashing this terror on India," the official added.

With national elections less than six months away, Indian officials are aware of the need to shore up public confidence in the country's domestic security apparatus. Yesterday evening, Singh said his government would expand the National Security Guard, the elite antiterrorist unit that sent its Black Cat commandos to flush out the attackers from the two hotels and the Jewish center.

Singh also said discussions were underway to establish a federal agency of investigation to streamline the work of state and national agencies, and to fortify maritime and air security. The police have said the attackers came by boat. The Indian government had been warned as far back as March 2007 of infiltration by sea.

"Clearly, much more needs to be done," Singh said in a written statement, "and we are determined to take all necessary measures to overhaul the system."

In a telephone interview from the capital, the junior home minister, Shriprakash Jaiswal, said the government would double the size of the 7,400-strong National Security Guard.

The force was created after the 1984 siege of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by Sikh separatist militants. Nearly 500 civilians and more than 80 army personnel were killed in that standoff.

[Loyal American]

Indian demands Pakistan turn over most wanted

By Bill Roggio
December 2, 2008 11:58 AM

Indian has demanded the Pakistani government turn over about 20 most wanted terrorists to demonstrate its seriousness about fighting terrorism in the wake of last week's terror siege of Mumbai. At the top the list are Laskhar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Maulana Masood Azhar, and mafia and terror kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. The Long War Journal has obtained the names of several other senior terrorist leaders wanted by the Indian Government.

The demands were made during a meeting between Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik yesterday. The Indian foreign minister summoned Malik to the ministry and registered an official diplomatic protest with Pakistan.

"We have in our demarche asked for the arrest and handover of those persons who are settled in Pakistan and who are fugitive of Indian law," Mukherjee told The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/No_military_action_against_Pakistan_India/articleshow/3783853.cms), noting India "will await" a response from Pakistan.

Yesterday, a foreign ministry statement said the attacks were launched from "elements" within Pakistan, and that Pakistan's High Commissioner to India was warned it must turn over the top terror leaders within his country.

"He [the High Commissioner] was informed that the recent terrorist attack on Mumbai was carried out by elements from Pakistan,” a foreign ministry statement read. “Government expects that strong action would be taken against those elements, whosoever they may be, responsible for this outrage."

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[PSBandit]

Nearly 3-days was way too long... I am suprised more people were not killed given the reluctance of armed police to fire on the terrorist when they had the chance (see: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article14086308.ece )

The gunmen were terrifyingly professional, making sure at least one of them was able to fire their rifle while the other reloaded. By the time he managed to capture the killer on camera, Mr D'Souza had already seen two gunmen calmly stroll across the station concourse shooting both civilians and policemen, many of whom, he said, were armed but did not fire back. "I first saw the gunmen outside the station," Mr D'Souza said. "With their rucksacks and Western clothes they looked like backpackers, not terrorists, but they were very heavily armed and clearly knew how to use their rifles.

[SudsySutherland]

Nearly 3-days was way too long... I am suprised more people were not killed given the reluctance of armed police to fire on the terrorist when they had the chance (see: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article14086308.ece )

Just goes to prove that the first line of defense against terrorism is an armed citizen. Its amazing how tight gun control was, and how the only armed men other than the terrorist wore badges and were just a bunch of cowards.

The complexity is questionable in some respects. While its probable it might have been very well organized, at the same time it might just be India trying to save face in the face of disaster by blaming groups in Pakistan. I tend to agree with "Uncle Jimbo" from Black Five (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/11/mumbai-mastermi.html) (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/11/mumbai-mastermi.html). Similar events have happened in Iraq done by not so well trained individuals with similar results in the case of dealing with the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army until recently, or have failed utterly because of US Forces; scale might have been different but the idea was the same.

Using Blackberries and one guy shooting while the other reloads is simple tactics. Any two idiots can train like that, its basic military tactics for small units. Any one idiot who had training in the military or police could pass on the training to other idiots. I think its still too early and too much over analyzing has taken place prior to an investigation.

[rhet 2]

Indian demands Pakistan turn over most wanted

By Bill Roggio
December 2, 2008 11:58 AM

Indian has demanded the Pakistani government turn over about 20 most wanted terrorists to demonstrate its seriousness about fighting terrorism in the wake of last week's terror siege of Mumbai. At the top the list are Laskhar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Maulana Masood Azhar, and mafia and terror kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. The Long War Journal has obtained the names of several other senior terrorist leaders wanted by the Indian Government.

The demands were made during a meeting between Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik yesterday. The Indian foreign minister summoned Malik to the ministry and registered an official diplomatic protest with Pakistan.

"We have in our demarche asked for the arrest and handover of those persons who are settled in Pakistan and who are fugitive of Indian law," Mukherjee told The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/No_military_action_against_Pakistan_India/articleshow/3783853.cms), noting India "will await" a response from Pakistan.

Yesterday, a foreign ministry statement said the attacks were launched from "elements" within Pakistan, and that Pakistan's High Commissioner to India was warned it must turn over the top terror leaders within his country.

"He [the High Commissioner] was informed that the recent terrorist attack on Mumbai was carried out by elements from Pakistan,” a foreign ministry statement read. “Government expects that strong action would be taken against those elements, whosoever they may be, responsible for this outrage."

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That's one more, even harder, slap in the face to P-stan.

The question is, is there a fist in the glove, or is this just another empty gesture full of hot air and worthless pretense?

What will India do is P-stan refuses -- or, more likely, lies and claims it cannot meet the demand?

[Loyal American]

That's one more, even harder, slap in the face to P-stan.

The question is, is there a fist in the glove, or is this just another empty gesture full of hot air and worthless pretense?

What will India do is P-stan refuses -- or, more likely, lies and claims it cannot meet the demand?

They'll play hell gettin' those dirtbags out of P-stan. I think India is just trying to do or say whatever at this point to appease their own people. They really did a horrible job getting the attack under control in a reasonable time frame. However, they are asking for the slime of the earth to be handed over to them and it just ain't notta gonna happen!

[rhet 2]

They'll play hell gettin' those dirtbags out of P-stan. I think India is just trying to do or say whatever at this point to appease their own people. They really did a horrible job getting the attack under control in a reasonable time frame. However, they are asking for the slime of the earth to be handed over to them and it just ain't notta gonna happen!

Exactly so.

Unfortunately, P-stan isn't going to help them throw appeasement bones to the Indian people.

That's a very dangerous demand to make: if P-stan delivers -- which I seriously doubt they will or even can -- okay -- but P-stan may decide to throw the bone back into their face -- because the P-stan gubmit of fools has their own incredibly radicalized population to appease -- so India either swallows P-stan's non-compliance or, worse, defiance, and looks even sicker than they already look -- or they decide to try hurling a real fist back -- and get stomped into mush if they're not really really really ready to go the distance in a real war.

And we're caught in the middle -- with a totally incompetent and equally stupid government of our own coming into power.

I shudder to even think of Clinton's Little Witch trying to handle this one. Rice is weak-willie mush brained enough without adding Clinton arrogance and stupidty to the mix.

[Loyal American]

Pakistan detains Lashkar-e-Taiba plotter of Mumbai attacks

By Bill Roggio
December 8, 2008 12:50 PM

Pakistani security forces detained one of the masterminds in the Nov. 26 Mumbai terror assault, according to reports from Pakistan. Zia-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi was detained along with eight other members of Lashkar-e-Taiba were arrested during raids on a camp and offices operated by the terror group in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Zia-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who is also know as Chachaji, serves as the military commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based terror group founded by Hafiz Saeed. The identity of the eight others detained in the operation has not been disclosed. A spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Taiba confirmed Lakhvi and several others were detained.

Security forces raided a Lashkar camp in Shwai Nullah in Muzaffarabad. A maddrassa and a school were also raided by Pakistani forces.


Calls made from satellite phone on one of the boats used to transport the Mumbai assault teams has phone calls that have been directly traced to attack had calls to Lakhvi in Muzaffarabad. Indian police have also monitored calls between Yusuf Muzammil, a senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander, and an operative named Yahya based out of Bangladesh. Yahya provided the Mumbai terrorists with fake identification and telephone SIM cards.


Full entry in link:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/12/pakistan_detains_las.php

[Streelsh]

Admittedly, I am not an expert in counter-terrorism. HOWEVER, you don't have to be a genius to see how poor the Indian efforts to eliminate the terrorists were.


The MOST EGREGIOUS WERE

1) They did NOT cordon off the area so any terrorists who wanted to flee could have easily done so by blending in with the crowds

2) I have gotten reports that the police in the railroad terminal actually turned tail and fled when the terrorists started to open up leaving the people inside to fend for themselves

3) The went onto the roof of the Chabad Center IN BROAD DAYLIGHT iIN FRONT OF TELEVISION CAMERAS GUARANTEEING that any survivors being held hostage would be killed

There are more yet

[ErrantVenture11]

All I could think while watching the inept Indian police / military handling the situation was that a contingent of U.S. Marines (not even special forces) could have taken care of the situation in half the time. Send in S.F., especially Delta Force or Seal Team Six, and that crap would be handled by sunrise.

Maybe a few more civies caught in the firefight, but also a lot less time for indiscriminate killing.

[Loyal American]

Interesting update at LWJ today:


Lashkar-e-Taiba operative details links to Pakistan

By Bill Roggio
December 21, 2008 11:45 AM


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Indian police said that a captured Lashkar-e-Taiba operative has provided additional details (http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=24206) on the terror group's operations inside India and Pakistan.

Sabauddin Ahmed, an Indian national who was captured earlier this year along with Fahim Ansari, have been involved with several attacks inside of India. Police believe Sabauddin and Ansari also were involved in scouting the locations for the November terror assault in Mumbai, which lasted for more than 60 hours and resulted in more than 170 people killed.

Both Sabauddin and Ansari trained at the same Lashkar-e-Taiba terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist captured during the Mumbai attack. Sabauddin admitted to meeting with Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's military commander, and Yusuf Muzammil (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/12/pakistan_detains_las_1.php), Lashkar's senior operations commander.

Lakhvi and Muzammil are two of Indian's most wanted terrorists (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/12/indian_demands_pakis.php). The Indian government demanded Pakistan turn over Lakhvi, Muzammil, and 18 other senior terrorists sheltering in Pakistan.

The Pakistani government has refused to do so.

Police detained Sabauddin and Ansari ten months ago for their involvement in an attack on a police camp in Uttar Pradesh. Ansari was captured with maps that highlighted several of the locations in Mumbai that were targeted in the assault. Sabauddin, along with another terrorist known as Abu Hamza, were behind the 2005 attack and murder (http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=23915) of a professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2005. "He told police that Bangalore had been chosen to carry out the terror strike as several IT majors were located in the city and since it was witnessing an economic boom," NDTV reported (http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/mumbaiterrorstrike/Story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20080046009&type=News).

Earlier this year, Sabauddin admitted to being "radicalized by SIMI [Students' Islamic Movement of India] and trained in Pakistan by the ISI ." Sabauddin Later became the leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Nepal, and aided in smuggling Lashkar terrorists across the border between India and Pakistan. He also established a Lashkar-e-Taiba base in Katmandu.
SIMI is a front group for the Harkat ul Jihad al Islami and Lashkar-e-Taiba's inside India. It receives support from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence and is an al Qaeda affiliate. SIMI provides logistical support for attacks in India.

These terror groups have been implicated in numerous mass-casualty attacks in New Delhi, Mumbai, Samjhauta, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Jaipur, Assam, and Uttar Pradesh over the past several years. Thousands of Indians were killed or wounded in the attacks.

US warns Pakistan to act, not bury problems

The details on Sabauddin's involvement with Lashkar-e-Taiba emerged as the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has been interrogating Kasab (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/FBI_interrogates_Kasab_for_nine_hours/articleshow/3870131.cms) in India. Kasab admitted to being recruited by Jamaat-ud-Dawa while he and a friend were "purchasing arms from a market in Rawalpindi."

The US has believes there is convincing evidence linking Jamaat-ul-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba to the Mumbai attacks, and has issued a stern warning to Pakistan to act against the terror groups operating on Pakistani soil.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Pakistan thatit must take decisive action (http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/21/top4.htm) against these terror groups during a speaking engagement at the Council on Foreign Relations. "You need to deal with the terrorism problem," Rice said when asked what Pakistan must do. "And it's not enough to say these are non-state actors. If they're operating from Pakistani territory, then they have to be dealt with." Rice was referring to a statement made by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari earlier this month when he said great nations cannot be held hostage by non-state actors.
According to [I]Dawn a blunt message was delivered to Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's National Security Adviser, during a private meeting.

"The curt message that Mr., Durrani and the Pakistani team received from the Americans was: this is not 2002 and you cannot do what President Musharraf did after 9/11," said a senior diplomatic source told Dawn. "In the past, you swept everything under the carpet while the problems were allowed to fester. No more." Musharraf banned Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2002, but the group changed its name to Jamaat-ud-Dawa and continued to operate unfettered.

"They told the Pakistanis to understand the gravity of the situation and the seriousness of the evidence that exists to Pakistan's links to this event," another source told Dawn.

Pakistan has placed Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed under house arrest, detained Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, and claimed to have captured 55 Lashkar leaders and shut down numerous offices of the terror group. But Saeed's house arrest is anything but, while Jamaat-ud-Dawa's main complex in Muridke is still open for business.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/12/lashkaretaiba_operat.php

[Loyal American]

Pakistan sacks senior adviser for disclosing Mumbai attacker's identity

By Bill Roggio
January 7, 2009 4:09 PM

Pakistan's prime minister fired his national security adviser after he disclosed that the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist is a Pakistani citizen. The move came just hours after the government confirmed the Mumbai attacker was a Pakistani after more than a month of denials.

REST IN LINK:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/01/pakistan_sacks_senio.php


Mumbai handlers in Pakistan cheer after ordering murders over phone

By Bill Roggio
January 7, 2009 11:20 PM

The Pakistan-based handlers of the Mumbai terrorists ordered the murders of civilians over the phone and cheered after hearing the gunfire, according to the dossier of evidence (http://www.hindu.com/nic/dossier.htm) India provided to the Pakistani government.

The documents, obtained by the Indian newspaper The Hindu, provides a cold, calculating, and chilling look at the masterminds behind the late November military-style assault on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/11/analysis_mumbai_atta.php). More than 170 people were killed and hundreds wounded during the 60 hour terror spree that shut down the city. The Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terror group allied with al Qaeda and supported by powerful elements within Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency and the military, carried out the attack.

REST IN LINK:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/01/mumbai_handlers_in_p.php

[crux]

It appears they caught them red-handed.

They just sent Crazy Uncle Joe Biden over there.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pakistan/US_VP-elect_Joe_Biden_to_visit_Pakistan/articleshow/3937083.cms


I can't wait for the speech about Dunkin Donuts. :)



You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking Biden said

[Loyal American]

UPDATE
This is just unbelievable!

Banned Pakistani terror group reemerges under new name

By Bill Roggio & Kaushik Kapisthalam
January 15, 2009 4:38 PM

A Pakistan terror group behind last year's terror assault in the Indian city of Mumbai has rebranded itself and held a protest in Lahore.

The Jamaat-ud Dawa, the front group for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, has renamed itself Tehreek-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awal, or the Movement for the Safeguarding of the First Center of Prayer, according to Times Now (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3966140.cms), an Indian television channel.

The Tehreek-e-Tahafuz Qibla Awal held an anti-Israel protest in the Pakistani city of Lahore, close to Jamaat-ud Dawa's headquarters in Muridke. "Addressing that rally were some of the top Jamaat and Lashkar leaders," The Times of India reported (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pakistans_Jamaat_ban_lie_nailed/articleshow/3966239.cms). "The Jamaat-ud Dawa is clearly going about with business as usual, just under a different name."

Two senior members of the Jamaat-ud Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba addressed the crowd as it protested Israel's incursion into Gaza. During the rally, the crowd waved Jamaat-ud Dawa's signature black and white flag.

The name change by the Lashkar-e-Taiba is a common tactic used to keep the terror groups in operation, and to help excuse Pakistan's inaction against these groups.


MORE in link:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/01/banned_pakistani_ter.php

[TimeToRelax]

Admittedly, I am not an expert in counter-terrorism. HOWEVER, you don't have to be a genius to see how poor the Indian efforts to eliminate the terrorists were.


The MOST EGREGIOUS WERE

1) They did NOT cordon off the area so any terrorists who wanted to flee could have easily done so by blending in with the crowds

2) I have gotten reports that the police in the railroad terminal actually turned tail and fled when the terrorists started to open up leaving the people inside to fend for themselves

3) The went onto the roof of the Chabad Center IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN FRONT OF TELEVISION CAMERAS GUARANTEEING that any survivors being held hostage would be killed





Does anyone recall the Drive-By Media making the point that the men, women, and children, inside the Jewish Center were not simply murdered like the other people that were killed, but were tortured.... Not politically correct to bring that out, eh ?

[Cav Scout]

Thank you for the updates on this LA.

[GA_LP]

Does anyone recall the Drive-By Media making the point that the men, women, and children, inside the Jewish Center were not simply murdered like the other people that were killed, but were tortured.... Not politically correct to bring that out, eh ?
Oh, no, the terrorists don't torture, only WE torture. Why, we have an entire network of prisons, crowned by Camp Delta at GTMO. At least according to the looney left and the MSM.

[Loyal American]

Thank you for the updates on this LA.You're welcome Cav, here's some more, it just gets deeper and deeper into insanity, I do believe!


Pakistan's intel agency behind Mumbai attack: Indian FM
By Bill Roggio
February 6, 2009 2:16 AM

India has directly accused Pakistan's intelligence services as having a direct hand in the November 2008 terror assault on the city of Mumbai. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said the Mumbai attack and last year's deadly suicide attack (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\06\story_6-2-2009_pg1_2) on the Indian embassy in Kabul were planned and organized inside Pakistan by groups that receive the support from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency

"The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organizers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," Menon said in Paris on Feb. 4, AFP reported (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/06/2484589.htm?section=world). Menon's accusation is the first on the record statement from an Indian official accusing a Pakistani agency of involvement in Mumbai.

Rest in link:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/pakistans_intel_agen.php

[Loyal American]

UPDATE and it's about time:

Pakistan concedes Mumbai attack executed from its soil

By Bill Roggio
February 12, 2009 8:34 PM

After weeks of signaling the investigation of the Mumbai terror assault would not be traced back to Pakistan, the Pakistani government admitted for the first time that the operation was plotted in and executed from inside Pakistan. The government released its findings today and three Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders have been implicated.

"Some part of the conspiracy took place in Pakistan," Rehman Malik, the adviser to Prime Minister Gilani said (http://www.dawn.com/2009/02/13/top1.htm). "We have lodged an FIR [first information request or criminal case] against eight perpetrators, including mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi." Pakistan has charged eight men (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\13\story_13-2-2009_pg1_1) with “abetting, directing, conspiring and facilitating a terrorist act.”

Rest in link:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/pakistan_concedes_mu.php

[Loyal American]

Another update, involvement went deep into P-stan military forces:

India charges two Pakistani Army officers in Mumbai case

By Bill Roggio
February 25, 2009 4:12 PM

Two men believed to be senior Pakistani Army officers are among the 38 people charged by Indian prosecutors for involvement in the November 2008 terror assault on the financial capital of Mumbai. Of the 38 men charged, 36 are Pakistani nationals.

Pakistani Army officers Major General Saab and Colonel R Saadat Ullah and six senior Lashkar-e-Taiba are among 35 men wanted by India for the assault by sea that resulted in 164 Indians and foreigners killed, according to the Press Trust of India (http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=2e217edd-1650-41df-a82d-1f7d8706e3c4&ParentID=be50102a-3d08-4337-9bff-46345c69b70f&&Headline=Pak+names+dominate+26%2f11+chargesheet). Indian officials have previously stated that a man described as "Major General" was one of the handlers for the Mumbai terrorists.

Rest in link:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/indian_charges_two_p.php

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Times of India

calls them out with ip addresses and e-mails in article below

"26/11 calls traced to Pak serving colonel"

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

Rest here

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2611-calls-traced-to-Pak-serving-colonel/articleshow/4190923.cms

[Loyal American]

Interesting update:

Lashkar-e-Taiba leader said to be in Pakistani custody directs operations in Kashmir


A senior Lashkar-e-Taiba military commander behind the Mumbai terror assault and thought to be in Pakistani custody is directing complex military operations into India-held Kashmir, according to intelligence intercepts by Indian intelligence agencies.

Yusuf Muzammil, the senior operations director for the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been overheard by Indian intelligence requesting Hizbul Mujahideen Chief Syed Sallahuddin "to push a large number of militant cadres into the state," of Kashmir and Jammu The Times of India reported (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai-attack-mastermind-surfaces-on-JK-terror-radar/articleshow/4350166.cms).

More in link:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/04/lashkaretaiba_leader.php