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Mumbai Terror attack planned by Islamic militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba

by Sanjay Jha | November 26, 2008 at 10:38 pm

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Despite the claim by Deccan Mujahideen, an unknown terrorist outfit, suspicion for the Mumbai atrocities has pointed to Lashkar-e-Taiba which specialises in these kind of attacks. Reports are coming in that ten terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba had sneaked into Mumbai through the sea route from Karachi and carried out a pre-planned and well-orchestrated attack.

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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.

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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at 23:22 on November 26th, 2008

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has condemned the Mumbai terrorist attacks in which gunmen struck 10 sites Wednesday night across India's financial hub, killing scores of people and taking hostages in two luxury hotels.

Rhonda J Mangus

at 05:16 on November 27th, 2008

Thank you for the excellent coverage, Sanjay!

Uwe Paschen

at 05:21 on November 27th, 2008

It is a tragedy as is and extremism main goal is to cause anger and hate in order to divide the Country and the People in order to rule with terror. THe leaders and People need to be able to see be on that and not fall into the trap of prejudice and hate. Those that are guilty of this attack need to be fund and tried including those that are behind the attack.

Uwe Paschen

at 06:24 on November 27th, 2008

these special incidents (in Malegaon and also in Mumbai 2006) have now been linked to Hindu Nationalist Organisations.http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60460&Itemid=2

hussain

at 07:07 on November 27th, 2008

It is indeed a very tragic episode condemnable in the strongest possible terms. However, keeping in view recent reports about involvement of Hindu extremists in bombings and provision of RDX by a serving Indian Army officer, drawing conclusions about involvement of any group would be far-fetched.

Militant group Lashkar-i-Tayyiba, which is allegedly fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, on Thursday denied any involvement in attacks in Mumbai that killed over 100 people, reported a foreign news agency.

Renie (not verified)

at 07:12 on November 27th, 2008

Bloggers from Mumbai speak out against the attacks.

Ahsanraza (not verified)

at 08:49 on November 27th, 2008

Bad news

aman chishty (not verified)

at 15:42 on November 27th, 2008

i seriously condemn this kind of terror where there is killing of innocent human being which is the best of creation by the creator , may peace be with them and their families who got shaheed in this incident . and the almighty punishes the culpret , and rescue the innocent people . may this country and the whole world adopt the beautiful saying of Khwaja baba who message was to Love Towards All , Malice Towards None .

from the humble servant of khwaja garib nawaz (r.a)
aman chishty
ajmer sharif