held a year ago, the world held its breath. From 26 to 29 November 2008 in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) carried out terror attacks were broadcast live via television in your living room. There could be shocked to watch as a gang of young men armed with grenades and Kalschnikows days people indiscriminately shot and took as hostages. A total of 173 people were killed, injured over 300. Cafe visitors were massacred and taxi passengers with bombs shredded. While the 'Times' still on Nov 27, 2008 wrote that 19 objectives were attacked by dozens of bombers , according to today's current official version, only 10 men were involved in the action. They were in the true sense of the word in a rush, because according to blood tests they had cocaine, LSD and possibly steroids during the deeds intus. Nine of the ten men were killed during the confrontation with anti-terrorism and police forces.
The only survivor on the part of terrorists is the 21-year-old Pakistani Ajmal Kasab. According to his own statements is it to the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
The Islamist Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was founded in 1990 in Pakistan and has been particularly active in the Kashmir region, where it is fighting against Indian control. Repeats the LeT has committed major bomb attacks on Indian territory.
worked since the beginning of existence, the LeT closely with the Pakistani security forces, who uses the LeT as a proxy ("Proxy") in the fight against India. The acting prime minister from 2001-2008 Pervez Musharaf was associated closely since the early 1990s years with the LeT.
thickness with LeT: Pervev led General Musharraf
The support of the LeT by Pakistan's ISI and over again to serious tensions between Pakistan and India. After a stop at 13 December 2001 on the Indian Parliament that killed 14 people including the five attackers, were growing military tensions. Indian soldiers marched on the border with Pakistan, even a nuclear conflict was feared.
During the three days of continuous attacks in Mumbai has been speculation about the background of the perpetrators. The first of the public submitted in evidence to a track should show towards Pakistan, but the speculation did not diminish. After the official version of the bombers came by boat from the Pakistani Karatchi and proceeded Mumbai on land. On a fishing boat were found maps and charts, as well as technical equipment, including a GPS transmitter.
investigators who wanted to add the details of the attack together showed surprise that trawler seized in the GPS transmitter two cards had been stored in its aid to navigation. One showed a route from Karatchi, located near the Indian coast, the other showed a return route from the coast of Mumbai back to Karachi. "We think this was done, to give the terrorists the impression of hope to be able to return after a successful attack back home ", a senior security official told 'Outlook'. The fact that these two routes were stored in the GPS to confirm that using people with the army or navy backdrop, which have extensive knowledge about the navigation on the sea. "( source )
The discovery of the unique tracks looked too perfect, and therefore a bit of media attention to PR. The identity of Kasab Ajmal, who was the only one arrested, seemed controversial. In its stated Birthplace in Pakistan there was never a man given his name as Pakistani authorities claimed and journalists researched .
But at least after the Pakistani authorities had confirmed months after the attacks, the identity of Kasab and also specified, six men, including the mastermind, was arrested to have, it seems to be no doubt that the LeT is responsible and it is acting is not a false flag operation. Still remain open to doubts and questions.
According to the official version were only ten men to the attacks on over a dozen goals involved. It seems almost impossible that all the attacks were carried out by only ten men. At least it is in conflict with the first reports and statements from various experts.
Ten terrorists perpetrated the attacks in Bombay - nine were killed and one captured. That was the conclusion of the Indian government. It appears that the Indian authorities have concealed a lot - either to agitate the population does not continue or to keep one's balance impeccable. (...)
In the rafts, which had used the terrorists to move from the captured fishing boat "MV Kuber" to go ashore in Bombay, were now known to police, 15 lifejackets, including 15 toothbrushes. This would mean that at least five highly trained and heavily armed Islamists may be at large. One of the perpetrators could be a woman: The imprisoned terrorist Amir Azam Kasab in before the attacks was accompanied by a deeply veiled woman seen.
But American intelligence sources expect a much higher number of offenders to. The former CIA agent Farhana Ali, who had visited shortly before the attacks, India and Pakistan, said: "My sources are based on at least 23 armed men." The anti-terrorism adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, David Kilcullen, said that one must assume that at some dive bombers could. (Source )
According Ajmal Kasab even 16 people were involved in the action. They had split into two boats in his boat, the ten men had been in force now officially recognized as the sole culprit. Also, there was to the effect in the first days traces that several of the perpetrators, it was up to seven are the talk , from Great Britain. All references in this direction but were by Indian authorities in the days following denied, but without the detailed evidence to address these. They are also from today's official version according to which every ten men from Pakistan, has disappeared. In one of Indian television out attacks during the telephone interview with one of the suspects named Sahadullah "admitted to this, the Indian Islamic group to belong to 'Deccan Mujahedeen'. Even e-mails in different news agencies had been received, in which 'Deccan Muhajedeen' known about the attacks had . On the question asked in the interview after their demands was staggered Sahadullah first language and he had to get his fellow militants Council: it is about, Islamic militants from Indian jails to free. If one follows the other reports, it remained comfortable with this request. Strange that this is not in the name of the day was set up as a guilty LeT been made. Sahadullah knew not which organization he belongs to, or was the matter of the Deccan Mujahedeen one of whoever deliberately set wrong track?
There were also messages about the fact that more offenders were arrested. They also disappeared in the news airwaves. The journalist Knut Mellenthin speculated in this regard:
is striking that at times was claimed in some media, nine attackers were detained, three of which had already stood to be members of Lashkar-e-Taiba. This may have been the chaos in those days and the news policy of the Indian police. Completely ruled out but is not that really more assailants were captured - and then all that "eliminated" are not wanted to play a key witness. If this were so, the number of attackers could of course also have been larger than ten. ( source )
for more than just a possible deal are the statements Kasab with caution. He was also handled by the Indian authorities with psycho-drugs , which apparently only the truth served. The case Kasab but got an additional, mysterious note. The Pakistani lawyer CM Farooque said that he knows the name of Ajmal Kasab from a different context: in 2006 a Pakistani of the same name in Nepal, was kidnapped by the Indian intelligence agencies in cooperation with local police forces. Farooque represents the missing Kasab, the only one out of 200 will be kidnapped Pakistanis in Nepal from India. According to the Indian intelligence Farooque would kidnap these people to use them later for "other purposes " can.
remains remarkable that the bombers met little resistance:
The two gunmen were moving on two separate paths towards the main entrance to the train station and shot here. They met virtually no resistance, although dozens of police officers are normally used at the station. "They killed the public audience, and the police simply ran it," said Ram Vir, a coffee supplier who is close to the platform 8th (Source )
also reported the same photographer Sebastian D'Souza, to whom we owe many of the shots of the terrorists. wished instead of the camera this is rather a weapon in his hands.
But what D'Souza almost as upset has been the masses of armed policemen, who were hiding in the area and simply refused to shoot back. "It was around the station all armed policemen who barricaded themselves, but none of them did anything," he said. "At some point I ran up to them and told them they should use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they are easy targets!" [Sitting ducks], but they just do not shot back. " ( source )
Ajmal Kasab in the photo shoot
There is evidence also indicates that the perpetrators accomplices had on site.
An officer of the Indian anti-terrorist Squad (ATS) told 'New York Times', investigators believe that the the ATS, there were accomplices who may have left weapons in the hotels for the perpetrators. The names and phone numbers of five residents of Mumbai in the mobile phones and wallets of the bombers were found. ( source )
Increased security measures at the Taj Hotel, which had been introduced because of intelligence warnings (see below) were, just before the attacks " drastically reduced " what the bombers would have knowingly benefited. However, the increased security measures would not stop such an attack can the chairman of the company who owns the hotel. The measures were directed against the placement of bombs and armed not with a raid.
The non-intervention of the police was partly explained by the fact that they wanted no further endanger civilians. Of course, cowardice is not excluded. Nevertheless, a bad aftertaste. Also, the fact that the bomber in a police car to the Jewish-orthodox "Chabad House" came and out opened fire, leaving a flavor.
Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin said of the attack at the Chabad House
"It looks that the terrorists commandeered a police vehicle that gave them easy access to the site of the Chabad house they threw a grenade at a. in the nearby gas station, which exploded, "he said, citing a variety of sources. (Source )
about the identity of the shooters that:few miles from the city center, witnesses said the attackers kidnapped a police bus and opened fire to a crowd that had gathered at two hospitals near the police headquarters. "We heard a car speeding behind us, it was a police bus, the occupants opened fire on us," Manish Tripathi said at a police barrier near the hospitals. ... "Shouted people that they have lost their fingers There was blood everywhere I feel as if they were still screaming ( source )
sources, have been after midnight shot two terrorists in south Mumbai's Girgaum and injured. The two were driving a silver Skoda requisitioned by them. Prior to this, the men bullets from a police-Bolero fired. ( source )
acted for the two men it is Asif Ibrahim Ajmal Kasab, before their ride in a police car in "virtually no resistance" came when she at the station led by their massacre. The 'TAZ' provided further details:
On 26 November to 21 clock entered Amir [Ajmal Kasab] and his accomplice Asif Ibrahim, police said Mumbai's main railway station, the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, opened fire and caused a bloodbath. On the flight they were pursued by a police jeep. They shot all four occupants and took the vehicle. Another Police cars gave chase. Ibrahim was killed, and a bullet hit Amir's right hand. A police video shows how Amir was pulled out of the car and thrown to the ground and two police officers went off on him with sticks. show ( source )
video recordings to the above-described shooting a crowd near the two hospitals, give rise to doubt this view. The police bus seems to be intact and not riddled with bullets, as one would suspect, if the previous four are located in the vehicle police officers were killed.
also a possible connection between the bombers to the Indian intelligence fueled doubts about the official story. early December 2008 were detained in India, two men who allegedly supplied the terrorists with SIM cards. According to various sources, the bombers have attacks during the continuous communication with people abroad and from there fetched instructions.
Ironically it is at one of the arrested men is a "anti-terrorist police officer who may on an undercover mission was "
A senior police officer from the Indian Kashmir said that one of the two, Mukhtar Ahmed, is part of a semi-official counter-insurgency network whose members are generally former Kashmiri militants. ( source )
The described peculiarities and inconsistencies rich but not enough to speak of a production in which only the LeT has been operated as a scapegoat. Exclude it is not, however.
Nor like the fact that there may have nachgeholfen intelligence in one way or another, even if it was only when the attackers were members of the LeT. On the one had the close links of the Pakistani intelligence service ISI to the LeT. Although it has officially banned in Pakistan after the U.S. pressure 9/11-Anschlägen the LeT, they could still operate in Pakistan, albeit not quite as open. Until then held their annual general meetings from the LeT network. After the official ban of the LeT, the Jamaat-u-Dawa has been (JuD), which will remain in close contact with the LeT, or should be his successor. JuD itself has of the Mumbai attacks distances. On a guide on a "open house" by the Jud-Haupstützpunkt Markaz-e-Taiba in Pakistan the Western journalists were assured that the JuD is not a front organization of the LeT and was purely charitable nature. The BBC compared the property with a university and came to the conclusion that, should it really be, at Markaz-e-Taiba is a center for the training of militants, "the atmosphere in school and throughout the site astonishingly open and is loose. "
that Pakistan fought a LeT hand officially, but unofficially still supported, as claimed by Pakistan's archrival India not only. After the Mumbai attacks, U.S. intelligence officials accused the ISI, the LeT continue to help and protect them . Also direct links to the Mumbai bombings were claimed:
According to reports from Washington, quoted a former official of the Department of Defense, were the terrorists who ran amok in Mumbai, coached by former Pakistani military personnel. "A former official of the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that American intelligence agencies have determined that former officers of the Pakistani army and its powerful ISI the Mumbai bombers in training helped," said the 'New York Times. ( source )
Not only Indian and American authorities say cooperation:
Amir Azam [= Ajmal Kasab], who by the police in Mumbai detained terrorist, some amazing [striking] revelations about the Mumbai attacks revealed. Azam has revealed that the Navy pakuistanische the terrorists in boating and swimming, has trained so that they can perform their attacks in Mumbai. (Source )
It is true that the ISI is playing the wrong game, that you support the LeT secretly while they officially controlled. But that is only half the truth. For even the intelligence agencies of the United States Speilen foul play. Officially, it exerts pressure on the ISI against LeT and other Islamist terrorist groups, which unofficially it not only works closely with the ISI, but it fully funded, it equips and trains its agents. First recent reports confirm again this relationship. The ISI is running on a long leash of the CIA. .
And if an attack like the LeT Mumbai organized November 2008, then can not do that without the CIA gets wind of how it became known that the CIA had concrete advance warnings:
convened in mid-September of this year the head of the CIA station in Delhi an urgent meeting with his Indian Pendant RAW one, to pass some critical information. (...) From its assets [assets] in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the intelligence had anmerikanische erafhren that Lashkar-e-Toiba was planning a major attack in Mumbai, which should be carried out by sea. (...)
mid-November, after Indian intelligence agencies for more information reviewed, fits together the pieces of a complicated puzzle. Sources say they were told that the attack would come from the sea and that the Taj Hotel will be a key objective. However, it was not known whether the attack should be carried out by means of the placement of bombs in the hotel, or by armed terrorists. Indian Intelligence agencies tended to have the variant of the placed bombs. The security on site was increased accordingly in order to prevent terrorists to smuggle bombs into the building. (Source )
New developments in the case of Mumbai confirm the suspicion of secret service involvement .
early October 2009 were arrested in the United States two suspects who allegedly planned to perpetrate an attack on the Danish newspaper 'Jyllands Posten ', published 2005, the Mohammed cartoons. The two men, David Coleman and Headley Tahawwur Hussain Rana should, in conjunction stand on the attacks in Mumbai. They should have, according to Indian authorities spied attack targets for attacks.
in Pakistan on a point former army major was arrested . Days later detained five active officers of the army because of possible links to two terror suspects.
In Italy there were two recent arrests in connection with the Mumbai attacks. The two men in the northern Italian city of Brescia, an office operated for fund transfer, should have financed the attacks by depositing 400,000 euros to an account from which the bombers operated.
David Headley is also a high-ranking Al-Qaeda operator contacts have. It should be, to Ilyas Kashmiri. This was his "spiritual guide" and with him he had hatched the attack on the Danish newspaper. In the Danish Copenhagen and Aarhus Headley should have spied on video camera as in Mumbai attack targets. Kashmiris on deeds and its connections to secret I've already reported here . The lawyer Rana said Tahawwur that his client had been outwitted by Headley. Possibly this is only another were blamed, but a glance at Headley's career shows that this may have acted in the order.
David Headley was originally Daood Gilani. To more easily without Schwierigkieten and departures can he let his name in 2006 to rewrite Headly. Because he had previously received massive trouble with the law, but escaped unscathed. The 'New York Times wrote:
1998, Gilani, then 38 show, for conspiracy to smuggle heroin verurteilt.Gerichtsaufzeichnungen Pakistan to the United States that it is so after his arrest much information about his ten years before reaching involvement in the drug trade and its Pakistani suppliers provided that he has been sentenced to less than two years in prison and later for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Pakistan carried out undercover surveillance operations. ( Source )
It is established that the opium and heroin trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan also using the network of secret ISI and CIA was organized - or is, rather, when the case of Ahmed Wali Karzai , brother of the mayor of Kabul falsify election noted. This is not only one of the biggest drug traffickers in Afghanistan, but also stands on the CIA payroll. According to estimates of the 'United Nation Drug Control Programme' was referring to the ISI in 1999 alone 2.5 billion U.S. dollars from the illegal business .
It is presumed therefore that the U.S. citizen also known as Headley Gilani was already had contacts with the CIA and / or ISI.
The 'Times of India' presented yesterday (27.11.) In an article in the issue of whether Headley is an American agent, the mutated into the villain. Headley, who was not just drugs, but it was "too did once, 'high' be" turned on its activities in India, often as a CIA agent is present, the 'Times of India'. In 2006 he had joined the LeT. From him probably descended the warning to U.S. intelligence agencies than originally planned for September Mumbai attacks that have taken place so before November. 'Times of India "suggested that he had warned no more before Agriffen in November, because in the meantime, that is, since September, went over was because he was" torn up as an undercover agent between the competing demands of the Jihad group, which was to infiltrate it, and his American statement. "
It is believed that shortly after Headley gone over [he warned before the September attacks], and that's one reason perhaps why the Americans, unlike in September, could not detect the 26/11-Attacken. The suspicion is reinforced by the fact that the FBI at the time it began to take Headley under surveillance, which led on 3 October this year to his arrest. (Source )
The facts, however, also can be interpreted differently. Headly could have also warned, as previously, in September before the attacks in November. Only this time was not intervene at appropriate points. Although, given the currently publicly available facts do not can be reconstructed exactly who planned what and who has admitted exactly what, so it should be asked, who came in because the situation at that time most convenient for the attacks. Although this is not proof of an offender, it at least shows that one should hold back the future, to adopt immediately to the "usual suspects", ie, Islamic terrorists, when such attacks take place.
Pakistan and India were at the time of the attacks in an expansion phase. Detente with Pakistan meant for the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but poor prospects in the Indian elections in February 2009. A flare the conflict between Muslims and Hindus experience, strengthens the BJP. As the 'New York Times reported days ago, leaders of the BJP had in 1992 conflict with the destruction of a mosque from the 16th century brought really takes off. At the end of the worst in decades tensions between Muslims and Hindus were complaining about 2,000 dead, mostly Muslims. One of the architects of the ethnic-religious tensions included the future Prime Minister Vajpayee:
The destruction of the mosque and the Ram temple on December 6, 1992 attracted the public and stirred up emotions that catapulted the BJP to power in 1998 and Prime Minister Vajpayee made. "To strengthen The attacks radical Hindus" ( source
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Under the headline said the Asia-historians Hermann Kulke compared to "The World":
A colleague in India, a historian, told me , Bombay is also an attack on the elected government of Pakistan. The external pressure on them to be raised. By means of such attacks to the BJP, the Hindu nationalist party, be brought back to India to power. It is no coincidence that the Last weekend, three days after the attack took place in Bombay, elections in Delhi, more in important states are imminent. And next spring, will probably choose the lower house. ( source )
on 'Background' Knut Mellenthin came to a similar conclusion:
The Hindu-nationalist, conservative Bharatiya Janata Party, which led from 1998 to 2004 a coalition government, wants to use the terrorism issue to replace the ruling Congress party and to return to power. The "national security", it was announced before the attacks in Mumbai, are central to her campaign. The Congress Party, they are accused for terrorism and its neighbor, Pakistan - Indian populists of all stripes, according behind all attacks and attacks is - to act far too indecisive and submissive. (Source )
Behind some of these "all attacks" were, however, no Muslim, but Hindu extremists and operating under false colors. This is the Indian public was told just days before the Mumbai attacks.
India is in shock after it had learned from officials that his first Hindu-terror cell is a series of deadly bomb attacks carried out, the first Muslim militants responsible were made. The revelation forced the country to face some difficult questions. At least ten men were arrested in September in connection with a bomb explosion in the city are mainly inhabited by Muslims in the western state of Maharashtra, Malegaon, in which six people were killed. But reports suggest that the police assumed that the terrorist cell has carried out a number of previous attacks, including the infamous bombing last year on a train to Pakistan, which killed 68 people. Among the alleged members of the cell there is an active army officer and a Hindu monk. ( source )
But with the Mumbai attacks came the debate over the Hindu-terrorism false flag again in the background. The shock of the "homegrown" terrorists was replaced by the shock of Mumbai. And thus came the BJP and the terrorist cliques within the Indian service out of the focus of criticism. Instead, the enemy could just been tarnished image of the Muslim terrorists sponsored by Pakistan, again established. The political establishment in India it would have been just right when focusing on the LeT terrorists, the debate about the wrong game state agencies was over before it ever really began, and would have asked for possible consequences.
-depth education about the false flag attacks, however, are to be expected for any other reason no. For with the Mumbai Attak are three senior police officers were shot, identified in these cases.
In an interview with Pakistan television said the self-styled security analyst Zaid Hamid that
within the first 5 minutes of the attack the three ATS [Anti-terrorist Squad] police, who the terrorist network inside the Indian security authorities and the radical right under investigation, were killed.
the three dead policemen to Hemant Karkare, chief investigator was the bombing of a mosque located next to a cemetery in Malegaon on 8 September 2006. , Killing 37 people. Although most of the victims were Muslims, India, Pakistan was immediately responsible for the deed.
presented Equally routinely, the police even arrested several suspects and accused - as again now after the attack on Mumbai - the main organization active in Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Taiba. Karkare finally discovered that behind the attack a Hindu-nationalist network of contacts in the security forces, which apparently has a "strategy of tension" pursued. The methods of this network is also pushing to their deeds Muslim organizations in the shoes. (Source )
Whoever has always ultimately organized the Mumbai attacks, the pattern of strategy of tension can be read out clearly. The attacks were organized by forces that have an interest to detabilisieren the region and to stoke ethnic and religious tensions. In a such sitaution is then the call for military intervention from outside or after the development of a strong, loud with dictatorial powers of attorney state. to destabilize
The fundamental pursuit of the strategic objectives of the United States, the region in the near and middle east and chaotisieren to them reorder the basis of their own imperialist interests, this strategy, the attacks were in Mumbai at least not in the way - quite the opposite. For a rapprochement between Pakistan and India is regarded by strategists in Washington power generally suspicious.