Initial reports suggested that the attacks were planned in Pakistan about six months ago. MSNBC reported that there were 40 terrorists including 29 Pakistan and 11 Bangladeshis. There are reports that some of the terrorists had British IDs.
Now, Indian authorities claim that there were just 10, 2 at each location and four at the Taj. Nine have been killed, and one is in custody. It's not clear whether they still believe the people who came by boat were joined by others who were already at the locations. The confusing thing is that the current math would mean only four locations, so unless the terrorists were finishing at one location and going to the next, there would seem to be more locations than there are terrorist pairs.
This and this are some extremely startling audio of a terrorist speaking with Indian media. He is ranting.
A few observations. I don't know whether we should take him seriously, but he seems not to have any idea who his colleagues are, which implies that this was masterminded by someone who must have worked out the logistics, so we have got the minions, not the mastermind. Most of the planning, the Indian media claim, was done in Pakistan, so no hope of the masterminds being brought to justice without Pakistani cooperation.
This terrorist has an interesting view of history, inaccurate and selective, one where history is replete with examples of a concerted effort to suppress and oppress innocent Muslims.
He asserts that they came to be martyrs, to die lion's deaths and to kill as many people as they can. The only time the terrorist, who calls himself Imran, hesitates is when the news reporter asks whether he considered that many of the people they may be killing may be Muslim, but he recovers by asking (I am paraphrasing here) do the authorities that persecute people think about that question?
He seems to suffer from persecution complexes - that Muslims are under siege the world over. Interesting, he didn't notice the ex-Muslim President of India.
Frankly, he sounds crazy.
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We need to go into Pakistan and bomb the heck out of the training camps. We should also ask them to give us back Dawood Ibrahim or use Israel's help to smoke him out. This has gone on for too long and we need to stamp it out.
Being next to Pakistan and Afganistan gets us to a similar position as Israel with all its hostile neighbors. We need to adopt their mind-set and their techniques.
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