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'No regrets': Captured terrorist's account of Mumbai massacre reveals plan was to kill 5,000 By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 10:02 AM on 01st December 2008
Cold-blooded killer: Mumbai terrorist Azam Amir Kasav begins his rampage
This is the only surviving gunman of the massacre in Mumbai. Seconds after this picture was taken, 21-year-old Azam Amir Kasav began to kill.
He and the terror cell's leader began their attacks at the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji rail station.
They later hijacked two cars, before police caught them. During two days of questioning, Kashmiri-born Kasav, who used the alias Ajmal Kasab, told police: 'I have no regrets'.
He is said to have told officers the cell was to seek out 'white targets, preferably British and American'.
The terrorists thought they would come out alive and had an escape route, added Kasav. He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages. He then added that their intention was to kill 5,000 people.. 'I have done right,' he told investigators. 'I have no regrets.' http://web.archive.org/web/20081201135214/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090546/No-regrets-Captured-terrorists-account-Mumbai-massacre-reveals-plan-kill-5-000.html
Surviving killer has no regrets | adelaidenow RAVI NESSMAN December 01, 2008 11:30PM
THIS is the only surviving gunman of the massacre in Mumbai.Seconds after this picture was taken, 21-year-old Azam Amir Kasav began to kill.
He and the terror cell's leader began their attacks at the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji rail station.
They later hijacked two cars, before police caught them.
Kasav, who had been shot in the hand, played dead, but then it was noticed he was breathing. He was taken to hospital where he allegedly told doctors: "I don't want to die." During two days of questioning, Kashmiri-born Kasav, who used the alias Ajmal Kasab, told police: "I have no regrets."
He is said to have told officers the cell was trained in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and was instructed to target Israelis and to seek out "white targets, preferably British and American".
The terrorists had thought they would survive and had an escape route.
The only gunman captured after the 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said.
The gunman was one of 10 who paralyzed the city in an attack that killed at least 174 people and revealed the weakness of India's security apparatus. India's top law enforcement official resigned Sunday, bowing to growing criticism that the attackers appeared better trained, better coordinated and better armed than police.
The announcement blaming militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba threatened to escalate tensions between India and Pakistan. However, Indian officials have been cautious about accusing Pakistan's government of complicity.
Lashkar, long seen as a creation of the Pakistani intelligence service to help fight India in disputed Kashmir, was banned in Pakistan in 2002 under pressure from the U.S., a year after Washington and Britain listed it a terrorist group. It is since believed to have emerged under another name, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, though that group has denied links to the Mumbai attack.
Authorities were still removing bodies from the bullet-and-grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel, after commandos finally ended the three-day stretch of violence Saturday.
As more details of the response to the attack emerged, a picture formed of woefully unprepared security forces.
"These guys could do it next week again in Mumbai and our responses would be exactly the same," said Ajai Sahni, head of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management who has close ties to India's police and intelligence.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to strengthen maritime and air security and look into creating a new federal investigative agency.
A spokesman for Pakistani President Asif Zardari's spokesman dismissed the claim Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the terrorist acts in the city.
"We have demanded evidence of the complicity of any Pakistani group. No evidence has yet been provided," said spokesman Farhatullah Babar.
In the first wave of the attacks, two young gunmen armed with assault rifles blithely ignored more than 60 police officers patrolling the city's main train station and sprayed bullets into the crowd.
Bapu Thombre, assistant commissioner with the Mumbai railway police, said the police were armed mainly with batons or World War I-era rifles and spread out across the station.
"They are not trained to respond to major attacks," he said.
The gunmen continued their rampage outside the station. They eventually ambushed a police van, killed five officers inside - including the city's counterterrorism chief - and hijacked the vehicle as two wounded officers lay bleeding in the back seat.
"The way Mumbai police handled the situation, they were not combat ready," said Jimmy Katrak, a security consultant. "You don't need the Indian army to neutralize eight to nine people."
Constable Arun Jadhav, one of the wounded policemen, said the men laughed when they noticed the dead officers wore bulletproof vests.
With no SWAT team in this city of 18 million, authorities called in the only unit in the country trained to deal with such crises. But the National Security Guards, which largely devotes its resources to protecting top officials, is based outside of New Delhi and it took the commandos nearly 10 hours to reach the scene.
That gave the gunmen time to consolidate control over two luxury hotels and a Jewish center, said Sahni.
As the siege dragged on, local police improperly strapped on ill-fitting bulletproof vests. Few had two-way radios to communicate.
Even the commandos lacked night vision goggles and thermal sensors that would have allowed them to locate the hostages and gunmen inside the buildings, Sahni said.
Security forces announced they had killed four gunmen and ended the siege at the mammoth Taj Mahal hotel on Thursday night, only to have fighting erupt there again the next day. Only on Saturday morning did they actually kill the last remaining gunmen.
At the Jewish center, commandos rappelled from a helicopter onto the roof and slowly descended the narrow, five-story building in a 10-hour shooting and grenade battle with the two gunmen inside.
From his home in Israel, Assaf Hefetz, a former Israeli police commissioner who created the country's police anti-terror unit three decades ago, watched the slow-motion operation in disbelief.
The commandos should have swarmed the building in a massive, coordinated attack that would have overwhelmed the gunmen and ended the standoff in seconds, he said.
"You have to come from the roof and all the windows and all the doors and create other entrances by demolition charges," he said.
The slow pace of the operations made it appear that the commandos' main goal was to stay safe, Hefetz said.
"You have to take the chance and the danger that your people can be hurt and some of them will be killed, but do it much faster and ensure the operation will be finished (quickly)," Hefetz said.
J. K. Dutt, director-general of the commando unit, defended their tactics.
"We have conducted the operation in the way we are trained and in the way we like to do it," he said.
Singh promised to expand the commando force and set up new bases for it around the country. He called a rare meeting of leaders from the country's main political parties, hours after the resignation of Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
Among the foreigners killed in the coordinated shooting rampage in India's financial capital were six Americans. The dead also included Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia and Singapore. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/surviving-killer-has-no-regrets/story-e6freo8c-1111118196015
Exploring Criminal Justice: The Essentials (9780763756482) - Page 374 - Robert M. Regoli, Robert Regoli, John D. Hewitt - Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2009 - 427 pages Terrorist Attack in India On November 26, 2008, a group of 10 terrorists hijacked a ship off the coast of Mumbai, India, killed three crew members and ordered the captain to guide them into Mumbai. Once near the shore, they killed the captain. After landing, the terrorists attacked targets popular with tourists, including the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, the Oberoi Hotel, the Chhatrapati Shivaji train station, and the Nariman House, an ultra- Orthodox Jewish center. When the attacks were over, at least 171 people had been killed. The terrorists were members of the Pakistani-based Lashkar e Tai- ba, a group affiliated with al Qaeda. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, age 21, was the only terrorist captured. Police interrogators report that he and the group participated along with 14 others in a year-long terrorist training course in Pakistan. The group's intention was to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after executing as many " white targets,” primarily America, British, and Jewish tourists, they were able to find. Iman told his interrogators "I have done right. I have no regrets." Interrogators said his account is consistent with evidence recovered from the boat and intercepted satellite phone conversations. http://books.google.com/books?id=99Vowt8E_58C&pg=PA374 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZVmEkugKxUsC&pg=PA374
ISLAMIST TERRORIST ADMITS MUMBAI ATTACKS RACIST AS WELL AS IDEOLOGICAL by: sher zieve | published: 12 02, 2008 Although the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks and slaughter of tourists and Indian citizens alike was perpetrated by Islamic terrorists, one might not know it from reading mainstream media reports. With regards to the words “Islam” and “terrorist” the leftist media has just about eliminated any combination of the two in their reportage. No surprise there as the world media tends—in large part—to be anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and pro-Islam; despite the reality that ongoing heinous terrorist attacks are perpetrated almost exclusively by Islam. These are the reasons that it is curious that at least a portion of the media actually reported that the attacks on Mumbai hotels were racist as well as ideological. Note: We already know that Islam requires absolute and unquestioning submission to Allah as well as the obliteration of all other religions; especially—and specifically—Judaism and Christianity.
The only surviving Muslim terrorist—Azam Amir Kasav—from the recent Islamist committed carnage in India said that he was told by his leaders to seek and find Israelis and “white targets, preferably British and American” to butcher. The number of deaths from bombings and gunning people down has been estimated as between 174 and 195. In order to avoid his own demise, Kasav pretended to be dead and, after he was discovered alive, is said to have repeatedly whimpered “I don’t want to die!” After recovering from a wound to his hand, the newly emboldened Kasav—he was probably also given pain-killers for his minor ‘flesh wound’—told police “I have no regrets.”
One has to wonder why only white people are now being targeted for extermination by at least this Islamic group. Could it be that as multiple Islamic terrorist leaders—including Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Islamic terrorist group Hamas—supported Barack Hussein Obama for president of the United States of America that they are now making racial distinctions as to whom they will annihilate? It certainly sounds like it. Unfortunately, too many American voters didn’t seem to care about any and/or all of the US president-elect’s terrorist ties. They also don’t seem to care that he is—more than likely—not even a natural-born US citizen. And now we have Islamic terrorists advising that their targets are to be western “whites.” We truly live in interesting times. Amazing. http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/islamist-terrorist-admits-mumbai-attacks-racist-as-well-as-ideological
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