Pakistani Militant Confesses to Planning Mumbai Attacks

Source: VOA

Senior Pakistani officials have told two U.S. news outlets that a militant leader arrested in Pakistan has confessed to involvement in the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

Two reports quote unidentified Pakistani officials as saying captured militant Zarar Shah has acknowledged helping plan the attacks and has given interrogators details about how they were carried out.

The confession was first reported in The Wall Street Journal and later confirmed by the Associated Press news agency. They did not identify any of the government and intelligence officials involved.

Shah has been identified as a leader of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which India blames for the Mumbai attacks that killed more than 170 people. Pakistani authorities arrested him earlier this month, along with another of the group's suspected leaders, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, amid intense international pressure to crack down on the movement after the Mumbai attacks.

Both news outlets quote an official who said Shah "is singing" .

more: http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-12-31-voa47.cfm

For five days political activist Mohammad Sarwar was tied to a chair in a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi and tortured until he agreed to confess to multiple robberies there.

''Investigators hit my toes with a hammer until I was ready to confess to crimes I never committed,'' Sarwar, a former office bearer of the ethnic political party, Mohajir Quami Movement, said in an interview.

http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/AL10Df02.html

when the WSJ and AP put up such stories without questioning the possibility of tortured-confessions. Like the 9/11 commission conclusions that were so widely reported that were tainted by false confessions.

It is becoming more and more apparent that the major news sources are prone to lies and distortions and censorships and are simply losing all credibility. Who would want to advertise in them or waste the time reading untrustworthy sources?

Go Amy Goodman!