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Trained in Pak, terrorists just wanted to kill
Published on Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 20:52, Updated on Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 21:15 in India section
Tags: Mumbai Terror Attack, Mumbai Encounters , Mumbai
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Mumbai: The terrorists who attacked Mumbai had a single-point agenda: murder the maximum number of people.
Security and intelligence officials say heavily armed terrorists got off boats at the Gateway of India on Wednesday night and targeted 10 landmark locations. They took over two five-star hotels, the Taj Mahal Palace and Trident-Oberoi, and a Jewish residential complex. The Taj was cleared last on Saturday morning in a hail of bullets and blasts.
In the three nights and three days of the terrorist attack, at least 183 people died and 327 were injured. Of the dead, 20 were policemen and 22 foreigners. The casualty figure could rise.
Shock gave way to grief and anger on Saturday as the country grappled with what has been described as its own “9/11” and investigators zeroed in the people behind the worst terrorist attack on the country.
Sources tell CNN-IBN say the terrorists—two of them British-born Pakistanis and one a Yemeni national— had orders to keep murdering people till they themselves were killed. The terrorists were trained at a camp near Mangla Dam in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
Mohammad Ajmal Mohammad Amir Kasar, the only terrorist arrested for connection with terror attack, has allegedly told investigators that a group of 12 terrorists left Karachi for Mumbai on board a vessel owned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Kasar, 21, is a Pakistani.
The terrorists had digital maps of Mumbai and underwent extensive training in sea-b tactics. The Maharashtra Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad says the terrorists travelled in groups of two and were dropped off in two batches at Sassoon docks and Badhwar Park near the Gateway of India.
The terrorists had fake identification documents, like identity cards of Mumbai colleges. They were armed with heavy weapons: proven by the recovery of 10 AK-56 assault rifles, 10 automatic pistols, two kg of RDX.
Security officials suspect the terrorist were drugged which held them sustain the attacks. The militants were ready to kill and be killed.
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The centre should not give any room for political interference in the action against terrorists. Terrorists thoroughly questioned to know
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The reply given by Pak. is clearly prove they have given training to terrorist before they land in Mumbai. So
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Where is Indian President?Havent heard anything from her yet.She is the supreme commander and where is she during the greates
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We should have no mercy with those captured. We did that mistake in the hijacking exchange and the terrorist went
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Only a dozen terrorists could create mayhem & havoc for 3 days. In 2001 also only half dozen shock USA
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