New Delhi: Ten people reportedly sneaked into Mumbai via the sea route from Karachi and carried out a pre-planned and well-orchestrated strike in India under the aegis of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit.
A report on Times Now quoted intelligence agencies as saying that the timing of the terror attack coincided with efforts at peace talks between the newly elected regime in Pakistan and the authorities in India.
The militants reportedly used speed-boats to get from the coast of Karachi to Mumbai and then spread out into the southern part of the city and spread mayhem around the central business district by storming two major hotels and opening indiscriminate fire at several places.
The report quoted the intelligence agencies as saying that this information came from one of the captured terrorists after last night's heist in India's financial capital that saw more than 87 people lose their lives and 200 being injured with a few hostage dramas continuing for nearly 12 hours.
The report also said that there was no group called the Deccan Mujahideen and the e-mail has been traced back to a fictitious IP address in Russia. It said that the hawkish elements in Pakistan stage-managed this terror attacks to coincide with the visit of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was to visit Chandigarh today in the company of his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, a trip that has since been cancelled.
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That's not good news. The trip from Karachi to Mumbai is a very long one for rubberized boats, but I have been surprised of the range of Islamic Sea Based pirates in Somalia. So I guess anything is possible.
Now I’m more curious than ever, I was wondering earlier this evening how difficult it would be for AQ to make it’s way down to Karachi from Peshawar area and then by boat over to Mumbai... I’m guessing not all that difficult given the conditions in Pakistan these days.
Thank you Kristinn for the additional info.
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“The militants reportedly used speed-boats to get from the coast of Karachi to Mumbai and then spread out into the southern part of the city and spread mayhem around the central business district by storming two major hotels and opening indiscriminate fire at several places.”
That sea route looks to be about, what, maybe 600 miles?
Do the Indian authorities have info. indicating the rubber boats were off-loaded from other larger craft (”speedboats”?)... I wonder?
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