Posts Tagged ‘Mumbai Attacks’

I was denied fair trial, says Kasab

NEW DELHI – The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks began a Supreme Court appeal against his death sentence on Tuesday by claiming that he had not received a fair trial.A lawyer read out a statement in court from Mohammed Kasab, one of 10 gunmen who laid siege to Mumbai in the attacks that lasted nearly three days and killed 166 people.The 24-year-old Pakistani has appealed for …

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India police seek breakthrough in Mumbai attacks

MUMBAI: Indian detectives scrambled for a breakthrough Friday into the Mumbai bombings that killed 17 people and left baffled police hunting for clues and suspects in the monsoon rains. There were fears that the torrential downpours that have hit the countries financial and entertainment capital since the rush-hour blasts on Wednesday evening may hamper the [...]

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LeT hand in Mumbai attack will compel India to again break off talks with Pak: Former CIA officer

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India will be compelled to again break off recently resumed talks with Pakistan if investigators determine that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) played a crucial role in the planning and implementation of yesterday’s Mumbai attacks, a former CIA officer and Senior Research Fellow at Washington’s Heritage Foundation has said.
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Obama slams ‘outrageous’ Mumbai attacks

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama Wednesday condemned the “outrageous” attacks in Mumbai after three simultaneous blasts left at least 20 people dead and 113 injured in the Indian port city. “I strongly condemn the outrageous attacks in Mumbai,” Obama said, according to his spokesman Jay Carney, after the deadliest attack on India’s commercial capital since [...]

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Pak, India diplomats meet for peace talks

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India’s foreign secretary is in Pakistan for talks aimed at resolving long-standing disputes, including control of the Kashmir region. The two nuclear-armed neighbors are pushing ahead with a peace process that stalled after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. India blames Lashkar-e-Taiba for those attacks that killed 166 people. Indian foreign secretary…

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Indian foreign secretary due in Pakistan later this month

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India’s Foreign Secretary is due to visit Pakistan this month to discuss Kashmir, a Pakistani official said on Tuesday, the first formal talks between the two rivals on their core dispute since the Mumbai attacks in 2008 froze their peace process. India broke off peace negotiations with Pakistan after the…

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India accuses Pak of cross-border infiltration into Held Kashmir

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Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said that relations between Pakistan and India could not improve till the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks were not brought to justice. Talking to a delegation of Pakistani journalists in New Delhi on Wednesday, he said that all evidences regarding Mumbai attacks had been handed…

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Mumbai terror trial defense done after two witnesses

CHICAGO: Testimony in the trial of a Chicago businessman accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks wrapped up swiftly Monday as defense attorneys called only two witnesses before resting their case. Tahawwur Rana is accused of providing cover for longtime friend David Coleman Headley, who has admitted to laying groundwork for the rampage on India’s largest [...]

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Mumbai terror trial in Chicago winding down

CHICAGO: A Chicago businessman accused of providing cover for a longtime friend who helped lay groundwork for the 2008 Mumbai attacks will likely not testify at his own trial, defense attorneys said Wednesday as proceedings in the high-profile terrorism case wound down. Attorney Patrick Blegen said Tahawwur Rana’s defense team was still making a final [...]

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ISI leadership not involved in Mumbai attacks: Headley

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CHICAGO (AFP) – The leadership of ISI spy agency was not involved in planning the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, self-confessed plotter David Coleman Headley testified Tuesday.
Headley, who has pleaded guilty to 12 terror charges arising out of the attacks on India’s financial capital, said during the Chicago trial of…

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Pakistan ISI leaders had no role in Mumbai plot: court

CHICAGO: The leadership of Pakistan’s ISI spy agency was not involved in planning the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, self-confessed plotter David Coleman Headley testified Tuesday. Headley, who has pleaded guilty to 12 terror charges arising out of the attacks on India’s financial capital, said during the Chicago trial of his childhood friend, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, [...]

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US hands over list of terrorists to Pakistan

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The US has drawn up a list of five terrorists, including Ilyas Kashmiri who has been linked to the Mumbai attacks, it expects Pakistan to provide intelligence about immediately and possibly target in joint operations.
The list was discussed during three meetings between Pakistani and US officials in the past…

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Headley tells court of planning attacks

CHICAGO: A Chicago businessman charged with providing support in the planning and coordination of the 2008 Mumbai attacks said the Indian people got what they deserved, a court heard Tuesday. “They deserved it,” Pakistani-Canadian suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana said upon hearing of the attack, according to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who spent months sizing [...]

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Mumbai attacks terror trial opens in Chicago

CHICAGO: The Chicago trial of a man accused of working with Pakistani terrorist to plot the 2008 Mumbai attacks opened Monday amid fears it could further inflame regional tensions. Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 50, is charged with providing material support to terrorists by acting as a messenger and providing a cover for a key [...]

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Terror trial juror excused to watch “Oprah”

CHICAGO: Tickets to see talk show queen Oprah Winfrey in the flesh were at issue Monday during jury selection in the case against a Chicago businessman accused of assisting a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. A potential juror asked US District Judge Harry Leinenweber that she be excused from jury questioning because she [...]

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US trial to open window on Pakistani terrorists

CHICAGO: A Chicago trial due to start Monday will open a window onto two Pakistani terrorist organizations and the men who plotted the 2008 Mumbai attacks, amid fears it could further inflame regional tensions. It comes amid a diplomatic crisis as Pakistan struggles to deflect suspicion of official complicity with terrorism after US commandos killed [...]

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9/11 has no parallel: US

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WASHINGTON – Underscoring that Osama bin Laden’s case was ‘clearly unique’, the United States has declined to endorse any Indian bid to go after the plotters of Mumbai attacks living in Pakistan.
“I don’t want to speculate too broadly about an operation that was clearly unique in the history of…

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