India releases names, details on Mumbai gunmen

Source: Yahoo

MUMBAI, India – Police in India released the names of nine suspected Islamic militants killed during the three-day siege of Mumbai and said investigators had uncovered new details about them — including their hometowns in Pakistan.

The allegations appeared to bolster India's claims that all the attackers were from Pakistan.

The chief police investigator into the attacks also showed photos of eight of the men — some from identity cards, while others were gruesome shots of the dead attackers. The body of the ninth, he said, was too badly burned.

Three of the men came from the same central Pakistani city, and all were between the ages of 20 and 28.



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the dead militants they already have?

just sayin'

:rofl:

from his dirt nap.

but 'the mystery' is what keeps his followers happing hoping that he may actually be alive.

I meant the terrorist masterminds of the dead ones ;)

:)

They went to find the parents of the terrorist caught alive and they were told by other villiagers that the family "had been whisked away" a few days earlier. No one knows who did the "whisking away", just that the parents were now gone, their home empty.
An earlier report had said that Indian officials had asked the FBI to help in identifying the dead one's real ID's by DNA testing of the bodies and also of the families of the dead ones to see if the correct correct ID had been made. Wonder if ALL of the families have gone missing or just this family.
No families, no DNA..unless they can recover some accurate samples from the households??

Not that they are doing a very good job at it, but they are trying.

When a news organization went to what was reported as the family's home, they found another man and his family who claimed to have lived there "for 20 years". Yet when the news people first went into the villiage they used a hidden camera when talking to the other villiagers, the neighbors freely talked about how the surviving gunman's family lived in that house and were well known, etc..
A few days later, with real cameras now, the media went back and all the villiagers denied the family's existance and they were trashing the media for badmouthing the villiage.

Now with reports of him writing to Pakistan asking for "legal aid", does the government still say "he is not from here" and not give it, or do they give it and admit he really is from there?

New Delhi: Indian Air Force (IAF) has been put on the highest level of readiness since Operation Parakram in 2001.


The level of readiness has been raised to 'Passive Air Defence' (PAD). The high alert is in response to heightened perceptions of air attack on Indian positions.


All IAF aircraft have been armed with bombs and missiles and are ready to take off within minutes. Even the warships of the Western Naval Fleet are aggressively patrolling the Arabian Sea.


The alert has been sounded in view of intelligence reports of air strikes at Indian installations from across the border or an aerial attack by terrorists groups based in Pakistan.

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http://ibnlive.in.com/news/iaf-on-high-alert-cancels-leave-of-key-personnel/80214-3.html

guess the results that Pakistan was to deliver in the 48 hrs time window were short of that required


Pakistan blinks in India standoff
As the West battles to avert a regional war between India and Pakistan, Islamabad has made crucial concessions

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5337662.ece


UK may help find Pakistani general’s killers

The murder of Major-General Faisal Avavi, the former head of Pakistan’s SAS, has reverberated beyond the nation
The brother-in-law of VS Naipaul, the British novelist and Nobel laureate, was murdered last month after threatening to expose Pakistani army generals who had made deals with Taliban militants.

Major-General Faisal Alavi, a former head of Pakistan’s special forces, whose sister Nadira is Lady Naipaul, named two generals in a letter to the head of the army. He warned that he would “furnish all relevant proof”.

Aware that he was risking his life, he gave a copy to me and asked me to publish it if he was killed. Soon afterwards he told me that he had received no reply.

“It hasn’t worked,” he said. “They’ll shoot me.”
Four days later, he was driving through Islamabad when .....
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5337881.ece