India Names Mumbai Mastermind

Wall Street Journal:

MUMBAI - India has accused a senior leader of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of orchestrating last week's terror attacks that killed at least 172 people here, and demanded the Pakistani government turn him over and take action against the group.

Just two days before hitting the city, the group of 10 terrorists who ravaged India's financial capital communicated with Yusuf Muzammil and four other Lashkar leaders via a satellite phone that they left behind on a fishing trawler they hijacked to get to Mumbai, a senior Mumbai police official told The Wall Street Journal. The entire group also underwent rigorous training in a Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, the official said.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[Mackey]

The only one benefiting from the Mumbai 2008 is Hindu extremists namely BJP.

IAEA should take notice of Indian nuclear assets falling into Hindu extremists hands in government.

[RedneckDem]

If Pakistan had oil we would already be at war with them... The moderate gov't has no control over most of the country, just like in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thats' why no discernable action will be taken by Pakistan and that's why India, or the US for that matter, have to take matters into our/their own hands as intelligence allows.

The Islamic fundamentalist sect is growing. Whether we had a part in creating this or not, it will have to be dealt with before these types of ops are carried out in the US.

[NorthernCross]

Death to radical Islam, down with Lakshar-e-Taiba!

[Horst]

I guess no one ever told the attackers to make sure they don't leave their satellite phones behind. On reason may be that the Koran does say much about cell phones.

[marko77]

I think the Indian Govt. is correct in naming this group - The Lashkar - e - Taiba - "Army of God" isn't really the case. They're the "Army of A**holes."

[jebamoni]

If the Indian Intelligence and Police are smart and active, and can gather information from countries like Pakistan, why were they not able to get information that the Christians in Orissa State and other places were murdered ? A nun was raped and many churches were burnt and people converted to Christianity revert bck to Hinduism for the fear of threat and killing. Churches were burnt methodically, because Christians do not take arms just like Muslims and Sikhs. Where did Indian intelligence failed within their own country? Hindu terrorism is in the highest degree of force in the country and first Indian Government should ban these organisations and political parties who carry propoganda against other minority relegions. Whatever you sow, you will reap.!!!

[bby328]

when you read the headline . . . you just know george is not involved

[Carolab]

Amply documented, Porter Goss had an established personal relationship to the Head of Pakistan Military Intelligence (ISI), General Mahmoud Ahmad, who according to the Washington Post "ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban" (Washington Post, 18 May 2002).

According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the ISI has over the years supported a number of Islamic terrorist organizations, while maintaining close links to the CIA:

"Through its Interservices Intelligence agency (ISI), Pakistan provided funding, arms, training facilities, and aid in crossing borders to both Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mu­hammad..."

(http://www.cfrterrorism.org/groups/harakat2.html , see also http://www.cfrterrorism.org/coalition/pakistan2.html ).

Moreover, according to intelligence sources and the FBI, General Mahmoud Ahmad allegedly played an undercover role in channeling financial support to the 9/11 hijackers. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html , see also http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO206A.html )

The ISI headed by General Ahmad was allegedly also involved in ordering the assassination of the leader of the Northern Alliance, General Ahmed Shah Massood. (http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO309B.html ) The kamikaze assassination took place on the 9th of September (9/9 two days before 9/11) during General Mahmoud Ahmad's official "red carpet" visit to Washington. (4-13 September 2004). The official communiqué of the Northern Alliance pointed to the involvement of the ISI headed by General Mahmoud Ahmad.

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407A.html

[Carolab]

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1605/16050340.htm

Nasir's story is embarrassing to the U.S. security establishment. A literature graduate from Chittagong University, Nasir first made contact with the Islamic Right when he began working for the International Islamic Relief Organisation (IIRO) in 1991. The Saudi Arabia-based IIRO is engaged in charitable work in strife-torn areas such as Bosnia. It has also been closely associated with the billionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden. Transferred to the IIRO office in Bangkok and then to Lahore, Nasir made contact with the Lashkar-e-Taiba establishment.

By 1994, Nasir was involved with the Lashkar-e-Taiba deeply enough to volunteer for an arms training course in Kunnad, Afghanistan. That camp and the Lashkar-e-Taiba's sprawling base camp on 80 hectares in Muridke near Lahore were both in essence U.S. creations. The Kunnad camp had been a forward base to train Afghan terrorist groups that are engaged in the U.S.' war against the socialist regime in Kabul. The Murdike complex was built with official patronage on land donated by former Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq in 1987.

The construction of the complex was one of the first major CIA-backed moves to create a base for operations against the Soviet Union-supported Government in Afghanistan. If figures like bin Laden had no direct CIA links, the Lashkar-e-Taiba was from the outset clearly a U.S. enterprise.

[Gekster]

come on. I reread it. whats wrong?

[Gekster]

GZLives; you are more than right. I would disagree with the timeline.
Your Quote;
"They're all players but the problem now is all together these countries have grown ie financed, trained, supported hundreds of Islamist groups who can now operate independently - and at times even seize large parts or entire countries or destabilize weak ones".

This is true, But this from CNN in 1996:
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- From students to conquerors, the Taliban Islamic militia have come a long way, and fast.
In just two years, the Taliban have captured more than two-thirds of Afghanistan from the Mujahedeen warriors who had fought Soviet occupation. The Taliban's success has much to do with the unpopularity of the Mujahedeen in recent years.

that is from :
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9610/05/taleban/

It is only now that you see this.

[Gekster]

If I am missing something, please tell me. I will listen.

[moana]

Why are those guards posted behind sandbags while the citizens are strolling out in the open? Seems weird and conjures thoughts of the article from last week of a foreign reporter who said the guards at train station were too scared during the massacre and were hiding while people were being killed.

[alicebluegown]

Eeep.

This is going to get so ugly really fast if cooler heads don't prevail.

Just what we need: two countries with nukes and nothing to lose pissed at each other.

[hortonhearsawho]

They have people to lose...

[HatingTheGame]

Well, you're almost right. There is a lot to lose on both sides. India's standing as an emerging global economic and political power, especially important to US vis a vis China, and Israel vis a vis Islamic countries. And Pakistan's stability, and risk of descending into chaos and anarchy -- also vital to US and Israel. (I'm only bringing up the US and Israel since that is the only thing that Americans understand, so I'm trying to relate, you see.)

Not that you meant it this way, but it must be said, just because they're brown and don't necessarily have our values (although hyper modern India's values are remarkably close to America's), doesn't mean they have nothing to lose. There's 10,000 years or so of civilization there, and the stability of the world economic system hangs in the balance.

There is a lot to lose.

[CrazyLiberal]

If this is what India is accusing Pakistani militants of doing, then it was a false flag attack because it wouldn't make any sense why a militant group would do this.

They're trying to pull the wool over our eyes again.

[Carolab]

CIA has provided institutional support to ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO407A.html

Now the CIA are turning on them.

[BannedInBoston]

Mumbai Mastermind Muzammil -- It has a certain ring....

[donveylindsey]

donvey lindsey interesting article