MUMBAI TERROR ATTACK INVESTIGATION
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No specific intelligence on attack: Mumbai top cop
Published on Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 20:18, Updated on Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:25 in 
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Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor has denied that they had any specific intelligence regarding Mumbai attacks but said that immediately after the September 20 Marriott Hotel attack in Pakistan, there was an alert saying that places like the Taj Hotel could attacked.
"Intelligence report regarding attack through sea was received last year but it was focused on Gujarat and south India," said Hassan Gafoor.
Addressing a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, Gafoor said that investigations into the Mumbai terror attacks shows that only 10 terrorists, divided into five groups of two each, were involved in the attacks.
“The terrorists used five taxis in carrying out their attacks at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Station (VT Station), Oberoi Hotel, Nariman House, Cafe Leopold and the Taj Hotel. There were five terrorists divided into five groups of two terrorists each," Gafoor said.
"Explosives were also loaded into taxis and one went off in Vile Parle and one went off between Cafe Leopold and the Taj Hotel. The terrorists apparently put the bombs under the front seat of the taxis and timed bomb," he said.
Gafoor said that all the terrorists came to Mumbai from Karachi after hijacking an Indian fishing trawler in the high seas. After coming near the Indian coastline, the terrorists killed the captain of the trawler and used dinghies to land near Gateway of India.
Gafoor revealed that that till now the investigations show that all the 10 terrorists, who were trained for over a year by ex-Pakistan Army personnel, involved in the attacks had come to Mumbai for the first time.
"All 10 terrorists have been accounted for. One is under arrest and nine are dead. There is no report of any woman involved in the attack. Each terrorist had an AK assault rifle, 10 magazine, loaded pistols and explosives with them," said Gafoor.
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we request ISI to pls print a card mentioning date and venue of attacks proposed for next one year and
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May be now he knows that there is another terror attack going to happen in the next couple of days
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03.12.2008
Mumbai top cop is correct. We should hereafter instruct all terrorists, of course through Pakistan, that
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If there was no specific intelligence on attack, how the Police Commissioner confidently says that there were only 10 terrorists
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Police does a search of a premise if the exact location is specified, by some anonymous caller. They don't increase
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