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Kick out the Congress Government !In relation to the above statement many News Channels immediately started askng for comments from the people. Many citizens told the ‘Zee-24 hours’ Channel, “This Government should be kicked out.’ They have no right to rule the country. They are not worthy of it. They should resign. |
The Ruler like the CongresHome Minister Having no seriousness about the terrorists’ attacks, pose the real danger to the Nation.
Impotent Government taking 59 hours to finish handful of terrorists !
Updates
- Mumbai terror attack: Two arrested in Kolkata (8 Dec 08)
- Local Muslims helped terrorists for the attacks in Mumbai (5 Dec 08)
- For Maharashtra Dy CM, Terror attack is a small incident! (30 Nov 08)
- Mumbai locals helped us, terrorist tells cops (30 Nov 08)
- India's political leadership to blame: Wall Street Journal (29 Nov 08)
- Toll put at 195, casualties from Taj hotel not known (29 Nov 08)
- Turkish couple let off by terrorists for being Muslims (28 Nov 08)
- US intelligence expert says Patil is incompetent (28 Nov 08)
- Terrorist attack on Mumbai: 100 killed, 300 injured (27 Nov 08)
Mumbai terror attack: Two arrested in Kolkata
December 8, 2008Margashirsha Shuddha Dashami
New Delhi: The Kolkata police on Saturday arrested one Tausif Rehman suspected of facilitating the November 26 Mumbai terrorists by providing SIM cards to the operatives.
Rehman had reportedly supplied 22 SIM cards to one Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh -- reportedly a Kashmiri policeman who worked as an auto-rickshaw driver in Kolkata. Sheikh has also been arrested.
According to sources, one of the SIM card supplied by Rehman was used in the Mumbai terror attacks.
He will be produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Kolkata in a short while.
"We are questioning them about procurement of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards used in Mumbai," Jawed Shamim, the deputy commissioner of detectives in Kolkata, told news agency Reuters.
If the men are proved to be involved, it would be further evidence of Indian complicity in the three-day rampage New Delhi has blamed on Pakistan.
In February police arrested Fahim Ansari, who was carrying maps of Mumbai that highlighted several of the targets later hit in the attack.
At least 217 people were killed in the attacks last week in which 10 gunmen struck two luxury hotels and other landmarks across India's financial capital.
Airports in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai remained on high alert for a fourth day on Saturday, with extra security personnel deployed after the civil aviation authority said it had received intelligence that attacks could be planned.
Source: IBN Live
Local Muslims helped terrorists for the attacks in Mumbai
December 5, 2008Margashirsha Shuddha Saptami
Mumbai: According to the T.N.N. agency, Mumbai police told that the local Muslims helped the terrorist for this awful attack in Mumbai. (The moment police arrested Sadhvi Padnyasingh as a suspect accused in Malegaon bomb blast, every media start using the word 'Hindu Terrorism' every frequently and also showed the possibility of Hindus involved in this case. But now its 100% confirm that Muslims are involved in the terrorist activity and bomb blasts then why all the news channels are keeping mum on such crucial issue. This is the Muslim encouraging pseudo secularism of Indian television media – Editor)
The only terrorist arrested during the attack Azam Amir Kasab said," Local Muslims showed us the places, they informed us about the police stations and blockade and also helped for the accommodation." (It's always seen that Muslims staying in the different parts of the country are disloyal towards their Nation. To end terrorism it's really necessary to find such traitor Muslims and harsh action should be taken against them. Current Muslim inclined congress government won't take any action against such Muslims. So if you want to be alive, then first thing you have to do is to pull down congress from power and should elect the pro – Hindu candidate who would take serious action – Editor)
Mumbai deputy police commissioner (crime) Shri Rakesh Mariya, manifested skepticism about the local people might have been involved in the terrorist activities. But he also cleared that it's yet not proved. Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Gafoor explained that there is not proof of local people helping to terrorists.
According to the sources, the terrorists killed in Nariman house stayed there earlier. (Muslim terrorist first behave like friends and then kills us. If every Indian starts looking towards them as a suspect and refuses any relation with them, then what is wrong in it? – Editor) They were staying there as 'Malaysian Muslim'. Now police are trying to find out how the non Israeli got the room to stay there in Nariman house. Police have seized some note books and documents for that matter. To kill maximum people was the motive of terrorist behind the attack on CST (Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus). Police got fake I-Cards and credit cards from the terrorist who died in the blasts. They got the credit cards on the fake name from different banks.
Now police is trying to investigate about the cards, says Shri Rakesh Maria. Even thought there were report of 10 militants, but after the explosives seized from Wadi Bandar and Vile-parley, possibility of more terrorists in city can not be ruled out, he concludes. (How much we are supposed to suffer because of these inefficient politicians. When these congress government will understand that 'attack is the best defense? – Editor )
Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat
For Maharashtra Dy CM, Terror attack is a small incident!
November 30, 2008
Margashirsha Shuddha Trutiya
There is no constructive element in Home Minister’s above statement; but just words to hide own unability to take any action. Congress Government’s Home Minister is tough skinned to comment like this, in spite of losing the lives of 3 IPS officers, 16 Police and 195 innocent people. Shame on Maharashtra deputy CM Shri. R. R. Patil who calls Terror attack as 'Small Incident'! Indians should teach lesson to such irresponsible Politicians!
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Saturday kicked off a row when he said "such small incidents happen" with reference to terror attacks in Mumbai.
"Such small incidents happen," was what Patil, who also holds the home portfolio, told reporters, little realising his faux pas.
What led to the controversy are his remarks "bade shahron mein aise ek adh hadse hote rahte hain. Woh 5,000 logon ko marne aye the lekin humne kitna kum nuksan hone diya.
(Such small incidents happen in big cities. They (terrorists) came to kill 5,000 people but we ensured minimal damage)". (This proves that how irresponsible are Shri. R. R. Patil. Indians should not expect protection from Terrorism by such politicians!)
Patil was not available for comment, but sources close to him said the senior NCP leader did not mean to downplay the terror attack and that the remarks were being quoted "out of context".
Source: Rediff
Mumbai locals helped us, terrorist tells cops
November 30, 2008Margashirsha Shuddha Trutiya
Mumbai: Did some Mumbai locals provide support to the Pakistani terrorists? Azam Amir Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist nabbed alive, has revealed names and addresses of at least five people from the city who helped the terror operation.
Sources said that help like, providing shelter, taking them around and showing places, passing information on police stations and nakabandhis were given by these locals. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said,"We suspect there could be local assistants but it is subject to verification. It will be very premature to comment on this at this stage as our investigations is going on.''
Kasab has told police that they were sent with a specific mission of targeting Israelis to avenge atrocities on Palestinians. This was why they targetted Nariman House, a complex meant for Israelis. Sources said Kasab's colleagues killed in the operation had stayed in Nariman House earlier.
"They have stayed in Nariman house on rental basis identifying themselves as Malaysian students.'' said a source. Police are trying to find out how Nariman House rooms were given to non-Jews. Police has taken all the records books of for verification. The second target was the CST railway station because casualties would be high.
Crime branch has also recovered several fake identity and credit cards from the belongings of dead terrorists. "All the cards are in different names and of different banks. Now we are at least trying to figure out how they procured credit cards from various banks.'' said Maria. The recovery of so many cards with different names have led Mumbai police to suspect the involvement of ISI.
Though Maria maintained only 10 terrorists had sneaked in, the two blasts in taxis in Wadi Bunder and Vile Parle have led the police to believe there could be possibility of the presence of another two or more terrorists in the city.
Source: TOI
India's political leadership to blame: Wall Street Journal
November 29, 2008Margashirsha Shuddha Dwitiya
New York: India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has done little to launch an effective fight against terrorism and may 'pay a price for its incompetence' in the elections next year, the Wall Street Journal said in its lead editorial Friday.
'A lack of political leadership is to blame,' The Wall Street Journal said as India's financial capital continued to battle terrorists who had struck in 10 places in the city Wednesday.
The Mumbai terror attacks, in which at least 125 people have been killed, have been covered extensively in both the print and online edition of this New York-based daily financial newspaper.
'It (the ruling party) may pay a price for its incompetence at the national polls next year,' the newspaper said.
'Yesterday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised that 'every perpetrator would pay the price'. Yet his Congress Party has done little more than bicker with its coalition allies over the past five years on how best to fight terrorism,' the journal said.
Observing that the attacks are a reminder that India is at the top of the terror target list, the newspaper said this is because India is an easy target.
Not only are its intelligence units understaffed and lack resources, coordination among State police forces is also poor. 'The country's anti-terror legal architecture is also inadequate; there is no preventive detention law, and prosecutions can take years,' it said.
'Wednesday's attacks should arouse Indians to better confront the terror threat, while reminding all democracies how dangerous that threat still is,' it said.
In another opinion piece published by The Journal, author Sadanand Dhume blamed the Congress for scrapping the anti-terror law POTA. 'On taking office in 2004, one of the first acts of the ruling Congress Party was to scrap a federal antiterrorism law that strengthened witness protection and enhanced police powers,' he wrote.
'The Congress Party has stalled similar state-level legislation in Gujarat, which is ruled by the opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. And it was a Congress government that kowtowed to fundamentalist pressure and made India the first country to ban Mumbai-born Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' in 1988,' he said.
Dhume, a Washington-based writer and author of 'My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with an Indonesian Islamist', said the Indian approach to terrorism has been consistently haphazard and weak-kneed. Indo Asian News Service.
Source: AOL.com
Toll put at 195, casualties from Taj hotel not known
November 29, 2008
Margashirsha Shuddha Dwitiya
The toll in the worst-ever terror attacks in India mounted to 195 as several bodies were fished out from the Trident hotel and Nariman House after the completion of the 59-hour-long commando operations.
The figure is expected to be much higher, as casualty figure from the Taj Mahal Hotel is yet to be known.
Sources in the disaster management cell of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 195 people were killed, including 10 foreigners and 15 police personnel. Besides, 295 others were wounded.
The injured had been admitted to several hospitals in the city.
Anti Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, encounter specialist and Senior Inspector Vijay Salaskar were killed in the exchange of fire at Cama Hospital in south Mumbai on Wednesday night.
Apart from them, National Security Guards Major Sandeep Unnithan and two commandos died during the operation and a commando injured in the Nariman House battle.
The police said 10 terrorists were gunned down in the operation and another was injured. A large number of arms and ammunition were recovered from Trident hotel, Taj Mahal hotel and Nariman House.
Turkish couple let off by terrorists for being Muslims!
November 28, 2008Margashirsha Shuddha Pratipada
This proves that Terrorism has religion!
Mumbai: : When faced with a volley of gunshots, while sipping coffee at the Oberoi Hotel on Wednesday night, Ali Arpaciouglu, a Turkish citizen on a business trip to Mumbai, chose to escape through the hotel kitchen and down a flight of stairs that opened onto the road outside.
This was probably one of the best decisions he took. On the other hand, his business partner, Meltem Muezzinoglu, and her husband, Seyfi, both Turks, when faced with the same situation, decided to dash out of the restaurant and head upstairs instead. When terrorists laid siege to the hotel, the Muezzinoglus were held hostage.
"I was in the Indian restaurant at the Oberoi on Wednesday night, when we heard a couple of gunshots. This was followed by another round of shots,'' said Arpaciouglu. Diners ducked under their seats in panic. "One of the hotel staff, a lady whose hand had been wounded in the firing, led a group of us to safety. Though she was bleeding, she took charge of the situation, and led us out of the restaurant, to safety.''
The Muezzinoglus, however, found themselves in a hostage situation, along with a group of foreigners. That night, they shared a room with three foreigners - all women. Two machine-gun-wielding terrorists stood guard over them the whole night.
All the hostages were asked to reveal their religion. When the Muezzinoglus said they were Muslims, their captors told them that they would not be harmed. The other three Caucasian women were removed from the room next day, and the terrorists informed the Muezzinoglus that they had been shot.
Arpaciouglu kept in touch with his friends all through the hostage crisis, up until the time they were released the next day. While the hostages allowed the couple to make one phone call to Arpaciouglu at 3am, for the rest of the day, they relied on text messages. The couples' final messages read: `Soldiers are here now. Soldiers found us'.
Arpaciouglu said, "I hope I'll never have to relive this experience.''
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
US intelligence expert says Patil is incompetent
November 28, 2008Margashirsha Shuddha Pratipada
Mumbai: Walter Andersen, a former senior Administration official, who headed up the State Department's South Asia Division of the Intelligence and Research Bureau has said the Mumbai terrorist attacks showed clearly a failure of India's intelligence and security apparatus and also the utter incompetence of Home Minister Shivraj Patil [Images].
"Clearly there was failure here of India's intelligence and security and also the security units were slow in responding, which means that the whole system really needs to be revamped," he said.
Andersen, currently associate director of the South Asia Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, told rediff.com, "I am surprised that after several terrorist incidents, the government hasn't moved faster to get something much more effectively in place."
"You have a totally incompetent home minister, and why he isn't removed is beyond me," he said, "He really doesn't know how to get the bureaucracy organised to have some sort of coordinated planning."
Anderson noted, "And, of course, it happens on the eve of state elections and this cannot be helpful for the Congress party," and he recalled that "like in this country, the economic problem had 'many fathers' but then of course, people blamed the (Bush) Administration."
He predicted that "it's likely to be the case in the Indian context as well."
On the terrorist attacks, he said, it was to be expected that if would be focused on 'soft targets' as it was. "This is often the norm in terrorist targets anyway -- these soft targets. So, it is not surprising that they would have done that in this case."
"It was an extremely well coordinated and sophisticated attack and it undoubtedly had some kind of larger context. I think they were trying to send out some kind of message. People have been saying that Kashmir is the cause of it, (but) I am not sure that that is necessarily the case," he said.
Andersen said, "I believe they want to make an impression that they can strike anywhere and anytime and the larger objective is not Kashmir -- the larger objective is to set off Hindu-Muslim problems in India. I think this has long been one of their objectives."
He acknowledged that in the wake of reports that the terrorists had set up control rooms in the two hotels ahead of time, showed that "this was a sophisticated, well-planned set up. This is something that takes months of planning."
Andersen also said the claim of Deccan Mujahideen, like the earlier claims by Indian Mujahideen [Images] for terrorist attacks across India, was simply "an effort to show that it is domestically oriented. There maybe an element of that but now that there are reports that they apparently came from a 'mother ship' that was off the coast, and they were speaking Punjabi -- they are from Pakistan."
He acknowledged that "this could have an al Qaeda hallmark as well �well planned and that sort of thing. And, this Deccan Mujahideen is definitely a dummy organisation."
Andersen said the targeting of Americans and Britishers by the terrorists was clearly because "the US is associated closely with India and it's obviously an effort to show Americans that we can strike you too."
When asked if there wasn't any way the US intelligence and Indian intelligence could have had some indication considering their cooperation and the sophisticated counter-terrorism equipment and other intelligence gathering methods being used, he said, "If a person's willing to kill themselves, it's really hard to control it ahead of time."
"And, in this case, they came from ashore, outside the country."
But Andersen argued that more than US-India intelligence cooperation, "there probably may need to be better coordination (intelligence) between India and Pakistanon this, but up to now, the intelligence agencies haven't trusted each other sufficiently to really cooperate."
He agreed that it doesn't help that India believes that the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence is responsible for some of the attacks since it allegedly trains and funds terrorist movements and networks operating in India. There is now apparently evidence even
Source: Rediffnews.com
Terrorist attack on Mumbai: 100 killed, 300 injured
Mumbai: Gunbattles raged between terrorists and commandoes and fresh explosions on Thursday rocked two luxury hotels -- Taj and Trident (Oberoi) -- after a night of terror targeting ten places in the country's financial capital killed over 100 people and injured over 300.
Attackers were looking for British, Americans, says witness Sharp shooters of army, NSG and other security forces moved into Mumbai's landmark hotels to overwhelm an unspecified number of terrorists still holed out there after several residents were rescued in the wee hours.
A union leader of Oberoi Trident hotel, who was inside the hotel when the terrorists struck at around 9.30 pm on Wednesday night, told rediff.com that there were four terrorists carrying bags full of explosives who fired indiscriminately in the kitchen. Four employees are reportedly to have been shot dead in the incident, and a few guests were injured, he said.
According to him, 40 people are currently holed up on the 17th floor of the hotel. When he last left the hotel, he saw commandoes entering the hotel, he said.
Raging fire and plumes of black smoke were seen billowing from the central dome of the century-old heritage Taj hotel opposite the Gateway of India on Thursday morning as firemen struggled to douse them. A guest stranded in one of the rooms said two explosions shook the building.
Another luxury hotel Trident was under siege with some terrorists holding some foreigners hostage. A tourist guide was worried about the fate of five Canadians he had put up in that hotel. Earlier in the night, explosions were heard in the hotel.
Exchange of fire intensified at Nariman House, a residential complex with a Jewish prayer hall, where also a hostage situation was prevailing. There were unconfirmed reports of a similar situation in Cama hospital.
As Wednesday night's terror incidents spread a sense of panic and fear in the metropolis, schools and colleges were ordered closed and the Bombay Stock Exchange will not function on Thursday.
Suburban trains and city buses operated normally but without usual rush. Except for cancellation of three international flights, domestic air services to Mumbai were maintained.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said five police officers including Anti Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare were killed in one of the worst terror strikes in the country's financial capital that in all claimed the lives of at least 11 police personnel.
"The operation (by security forces) is still going on," he said. Besides army commandoes, naval commandos and Rapid Action force personnel joined in the operations to rescue those stranded in the two hotels. Five columns of Army and 200 NSG commandoes have been rushed. Two sten guns have been recovered by the police so far, he added.
Deshmukh said it was not immediately known how many terrorists were involved in the audacious attack in ten places that shook the western metropolis. The chief minister assured that there were no terrorists inside Cama hospital.
The terrorists came by boats and struck at 10 places but their number is not known immediately, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said.
The terror attacks began between 9 pm and 9.15 pm with indiscriminate firing and bomb blasts, Deshmukh said.
The attackers threw grenades and fired indiscriminately while storming the hotels across Mumbai, he added.
Asked whether foreigners were the target of the attacks, the Chief Minister disagreed, saying it could not be said for certain.
The police said two terrorists continued to be holed up in Oberoi hotel. In Taj Hotel, there were reports of firing in its basement, after 100 guests were rescued.
Firefighters were spraying water at the blaze and were bringing out hotel guests with the help of snorkel ladders. It was not immediately clear what triggered the fire.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the attacks in e-mails to several media organisations.
Captain Vijay Raichand, who managed to escape from Taj Hotel, said, "Around 9:40 pm, I heard shots of gun firing which was coming nearer, we could also see some injured from the window. Once fire broke out in the hotel, it was scary since smoke started coming from a vent. We could not break the glass as it was tough and we panicked."
Another hotel employee, who did not want to be identified, said, "I was working at the bar when we heard a popping sound. I told a friend that it must be fire crackers from a wedding ceremony, however, I later learnt that some shooting was taking place in the palace room.
We locked the door and kept them away. Then the glass door burst and injured a friend. We panicked and ran to a locker room, where around 150 of us stayed for 6 hours, before we were rescued."
Source: Rediffnews.com
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