Several sites in the major metropolitan city of Mumbai were attacked by terrorists the night of Nov. 26, 2008. The most prominent target was the Taj Mahal Hotel. More than 80 have been reported dead and 200 wounded in the attacks.
Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, chief of an Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, leaves after appearing before the judicial review board of High Court in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Saeed was detained under house arrest last year as part of Pakistan's investigation into the Mumbai attacks. Come Friday prayers in Lahore, it is not hard to find the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks. Hafiz Mohammed Saeed is neither in hiding nor in jail. The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba is instead... Read Full Story
Terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, under investigation for possible links to 26/11, has categorically denied any involvement in the Mumbai attacks, his lawyer said today and asserted that the Pakistani-Canadian "harbours no ill-will" against Indians. The statement was the first response from Rana's side after suspicions arose that he and US citizen David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI for plotting attacks in India at the behest of Lashkar-e-Taiba, could have links to the... Read Full Story
Washington: news update, Warning of “phenomenal consequences” if the advance of terrorists in Pakistan was not controlled, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the world community to pressurise Islamabad to do much more to bring to book those responsible for the “horrible” 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
“We don’t want Pakistan to fail and emergence of democracy in Pakistan is something we welcome,” he said at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading US think tank Monday. “But at the... Read Full Story
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India will hold a series of activities Thursday to commemorate the first anniversary of the Mumbai attacks which killed more than 170 people, reported the Indo-Asian News Service on Wednesday. The events will include a candle-light vigil, a police parade, an all-religion prayer meet at the Gateway of India in... Read Full Story
Mumbai Marks Anniversary Of Terror Attacks — The Guardian
Security forces put on show of strength as city remembers 166 victims of Pakistani militants. In pictures: one year on from Mumbai attacks The first anniversary of last year’s terror assault on Mumbai was marked today by a show of strength from the city’s security services and a series of ceremonies to remember the 166 people killed by 10 Pakistani Islamist gunmen.
Police marched from the Trident hotel in Mumbai, scene of a... Read Full Story
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has accused Al Qaeda of helping Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan based terrorist outfit blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks last year, to plot attacks in India to provoke a conflict between India and Pakistan. Read Full Story
An Indian soldier takes cover as the Taj Mahal hotel burns in Mumbai last year Photo: David Guttenfelder
British Intelligence Tipped Off Americans On Mumbai Suspect — The Telegraph
British intelligence tipped off the American authorities over a suspect in the Mumbai bombings, the Daily Telegraph has learned.
David Coleman Headley, also known as Daood Sayed Gilani, made frequent visits to the Indian city where he mixed with the Bollywood set as a cover for his activities, it is... Read Full Story
Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do — he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack in Mumbai, India. Surrounding the smiling tot were his grandparents and Sandra Samuel, the caretaker who brought him home to Israel after the attack on the Jewish outreach Chabad House in Mumbai. Hundreds joined them at the group's Israel center, a village outside Tel... Read Full Story
Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists, who attacked Mumbai in November last year, were in constant touch with top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commanders in Pakistan during the strikes and received instructions to kill 'political leaders, foreigners and prominent personalities of India'. This was stated in the six-page chargesheet filed against the seven suspects in custody in Pakistan, including 'mastermind' of the attacks Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. Read Full Story
Pakistan based terror outfits might carry out terror strikes in the country on first anniversary of dealiest Mumbai attack on 26/11, Intelligence input has claimed. Country's top intelligence agencies have asked all the state governments to remain on high alert during first anniversary of biggest terror attack in Mumbai last year. According to the sources, terror leaders in Pakistan have planned big terror strikes in India to divert the global attention from arrested LeT suspects... Read Full Story
