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  • CALCUTTA, India – Indian police arrested two men accused of providing mobile phone cards to the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks, the first known arrests in the probe since the siege ended, police said Saturday.

    The two men allegedly provided SIM cards to the group of 10 gunmen that attacked Mumbai last week, leaving 171 people dead, said Javed Shahim, a senior police official in the eastern city of Calcutta in West Bengal.

    Shaim said one of the men was from West Bengal and the other was from the Indian portion of Kashmir.

    Indian authorities believe the banned Pakistani-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has links to the disputed region of Kashmir, trained the gunmen and plotted the attacks.

    The Kashmiri suspect was believed to be a local police officer, according to a police official in Srinagar, the region's biggest city, who declined to be named because the matter was still under investigation.

  • Major alert at Delhi airport, police say situation 'normal'
  • NEW DELHI (AFP) — The Indian capital's international airport was the scene of a major security scare overnight Thursday after the sound of gunfire was reported, but police said there was no evidence of any shooting.
  • Dec. 04, 2008: The lone surviving gunman in the assault, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told police Lakhvi recruited him for the operation, and the assailants called Muzammil on a satellite phone after hijacking an Indian vessel en route to Mumbai. During the attacks, the gunmen used mobile phones taken from hotel guests to place calls to the Pakistani city of Lahore.The Indian officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly discuss the details.Police officers said they were trying to get as much detail as possible from Kasab.
  • "A terrorist of this sort is never cooperative. We have to extract information," said Deven Bharti, the head of the Mumbai crime branch.
  • Indian police are well known for using interrogation methods that would be regarded as torture in the West, including questioning suspects drugged with "truth serum."
  • Bharti provided no details on interrogation techniques, but said "truth serum" would probably be used next week. He did not specify what drug would be used.
  • Kasab has so far told police that he and the other nine attackers trained for months in camps in Pakistan operated by Lashkar.
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  • The death toll reached 160 including 14 police and NSG personnel.
  • 14 terrorists were killed and one captured alive.
  • Scarred Taj Mahal Hotel stands tall after gunbattle
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  • At least 13 foreigners killed in Mumbai: MHA
  • Three Lashkar fidayeen captured; Security stepped up across country
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  • Hostages said dead in Mumbai Jewish center
  • Security forces secure Oberoi, Nariman House, firing on at Taj
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  • New York, Nov. 28, 2008- 2.00pm ET
  • More than 150 people have been killed since gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital starting Wednesday night, including 22 foreigners — four of them Americans, officials said.
  • New York, Nov. 28, 2008- 2.00am ET:
  • The operations against the siege of Mumbai appeared to be nearing last stages with the evacuation of 35 hostages from Oberoi hotel but fierce battle was on to eliminate a small band ultras holed up in a Jewish building complex.
  • About 20 airline crew evacuated from Oberoi hotel
  • Total 131 dead and 325 injured
  • Two Australian men Brett Gilbert Taylor, 49 and Sydney man Doug Markell were also confirmed dead
  • Mumbai's police chief said earlier today that the Taj hotel had now been cleared of militants, but it was rocked by loud blasts and gunfire this afternoon as security forces moved through it.Fresh firing at Taj hotel- may be 2-3 terrorists still hiding on the ground floor
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  • A militant holed up at the centre phoned an Indian television channel to offer talks with the government for the release of hostages, but also to complain about abuses in Kashmir, over which India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars.
  • "Ask the government to talk to us and we will release the hostages," the man, identified by the India TV channel as Imran, said, speaking in Urdu in what sounded like a Kashmiri accent. "Are you aware how many people have been killed in Kashmir?"
  • The attacks were claimed by a previously unknown group, the Deccan Mujahedeen, which demanded the release of all Mujahideen, or Islamic holy warriors, in Indian jails. The co-ordinated attacks bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, but there was no sign of any formal link with the terror network.
  • One militant inside the Oberoi-Trident, identifying himself only as Sahadullah, told an Indian television station by telephone: "Release all the mujahideens, and Muslims living in India should not be troubled."
  • The Indian Prime Minister, said that the terrorists had "external linkages". "It is evident that the group which carried out these attacks, based outside the country, had come with single-minded determination to create havoc in the commercial capital of the country," he said.
  • New York, Nov. 27, 2008- 4.30pm ET:
  • 131 people have been confirmed dead
  • Taj hotel is cleared
  • Oberio Hote: shooting still is going on
  • Eight hostages were freed from the headquarters of a Jewish outreach group
  • Indian commandoes killed the last three gunman at hotel
  • The gunmen's main targets appeared to be Americans, Britons and Jews
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    Bombs exploding and gun battles between terrorists and police across Mumbay
    85 died and over 200 injured
  • New York, Nov. 26, 2008- 9pm ET
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  • Eighty five people have been confirmed dead and over 200 have been injured when terrorists attacked India's financial hub of Mumbai in at least seven places at about 10:30 p.m on Nov. 26.
  • One Japanese national was among the dead
  • At least two Australians have been injured
  • 85 died and over 200 injured
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    Hotel Taj in Mumbai on Fire
  • The targets included the city's best hotels, busy railway stations, police headquarters and cinemas.Seven places include:
  • Two five star hotels, the Taj and Oberoi, have been hit and both set on fire.
  • One restaurant popular with tourists was also attacked.
  • The CST main railway station
  • Shots were fired outside a hospital- a hospital in the south of the city.
  • A petrol station was blown up
  • A reports of a bomb in the vicinity of the airport.

  • A charred vehicle at the site of a bomb blast on the western express highway near airport in Mumbai. Photograph: EPA
  • The terrorists were looking for American and British passport holders, and it is said that hostages have been taken at one hotel. They were armed with automatic weapons AK-47 rifles and grenades. They also opened fire on crowds in the main railway station, and a hospital in the south of the city. A.N. Roy, chief of Maharashtra state police told local television, "At a few places they even used grenades. There have been blasts at a few places."It is confirmed that these attacks were planed the locations where foreigners were staying.
  • Eleven policemen have been killed including top officers:
  • Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad Chief: Hemant Karkare
  • Additional Commissioner of Police: Ashok Kamte
  • Encounter specialist: Vijay Salaskar
  • There is no indication yet of who was behind the attacks. Four terrorists are thought to have been captured or killed. Police seized a boat filled with arms and explosives anchored at Mazgaon dock off Mumbai harbor. 200 NSG commandos and 65 Army commandos have been sent to Mumbai. The army was reported to have stormed both the hotels to try and flush out the hostage takers.
  • European Parliament Committee on International Trade delegates were staying in the Taj Mahal hotel, it includes:
  • British Conservative MEP, Sajjad Karim who was in the lobby when gunmen initially opened fire there.
  • German Socialist MEP, Erika Mann were last heard of hiding in different parts of the building.
  • Spanish MEP Ignasi Guardans Cambó, who was barricaded in a hotel room.
  • British Conservative MEP, Syed Kamall reports that he along with several other MEPs left the hotel and went to a nearby restaurant shortly before the attack.
  • Kamill also reported that Polish MEP, Jan Masiel, was thought to have been sleeping in his hotel room when the attacks occurred and has not been heard from since
  • Kamil and Cambó report that a Hungarian MEP's assistant has been shot
  • The President of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, while checking-in at the Oberoi Trident, and Indian MP, Krishna Das while having dinner at a restaurant in the Taj hotel were also caught up in shooting.

 

 

Indian police to charge surviving Mumbai attacker
Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008
Surviving militant involved in Mumbai attacks charged on 12 counts Printer friendly version

The only surviving militant involved in the Mumbai terror attacks is to be charged on 12 counts, including war against the state, Indian police have confirmed.

 

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