Mumbai Attacks Truth Uncovered
The drama of Mumbai attack is now badly failed and proves to be an extreme embarrassment for the Indians. Poor Indians were completely convinced that the attacks were planned and executed through Pakistani intelligence agency the a ISIa and aLashkar e Talibana a Kashmiri Militant group allegedly having ties with Pakistan's Army.
To get complete picture of the situation I would want the readers to read the following reports carefully because every word of these reports stands important and would act as a clear proof that Indians have got themselves trapped in an ugly situation where they cannot claim that Mumbai attack was an outside job!!
I have purposely selected the Indian source for my claims here to validate the claim I would make over here.
Report No. 1 - Important Witness
Everyone seems to know Anamika Gupta at the bustling Leopold Cafe, now an even more famous landmark of Colaba in south Mumbai salaams from waiters, nods from the manager and even greetings from some of the regulars.
Are her repeated trips back to Leopold -- where she took three bullets on November 26 last year -- catharsis? She shrugs dispassionately, not agreeing nor disagreeing.
"Maut ko hum ne kareeb se dekha hain. Main zindagi guzaar rahi hoon. Kal kis ne dekha hai (I have seen death at close quarters. I am living my life. Who has seen tomorrow?)? I could have died. But I am here?! Life is bull s--t. There is finally nothing."
Anamika's take on life, since miraculously surviving 26/11, swings between the cheerfully brave, the dramatic and then the mildly morose. Life for her will never be the same again.
"I am a beautician. I have to be on my feet for eight hours or more. Now I can't sit for even six hours," she says.
She no longer works as a beautician and exists on a monthly income she receives from one of the 26/11 funds -- the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack Survivors Support and Rehabilitation Project sponsored by the Tatas.
Her injury, a massive and angry swathe across her stomach, her doctor says, will take another six months to heal. "I used to be beautiful. I was conscious of my figure. Now, that all is over. I am a beautician (she says again) so naturally I think beauty is important. Of course, beauty is in the heart too. But your figure is also important. When I see my body in the mirror I wonder who will marry me."
What upsets Anamika more, right now, is her recent interaction with the police. On November 5, 6 and 7, Anamika was called to the Mumbai police commissioner's office to re-record, she says, her original statement that she gave, wounded from her bed at the J J Hospital last year.
She was called to re-record her statement after an interview she granted the local Lemon television network, which aired November 2.
Anamika feels the police do not take her evidence seriously because they think she is seeking publicity. "They are saying I am after TRPs (Television Rating Points, which indicates how popular a television program is. I am surviving myself. Does the police commissioner have a bullet? I don't mind if they harass me, but they call up my brother, my mother and my sister-in-law and harass them."
She says she had given the exact same evidence to the police last year and they did not take cognizance of it. She says it was conveyed to her that much of her information was not needed.
Anamika said she told them, "I saw the terrorists who attacked Leopold Cafe two days before 26/11. It was 1.30 am. I used to live in Colaba market near Dr Modi's clinic (close to Nariman House). I saw four people leave Nariman House and get on two motorcycles and go to Delhi Darbar (a restaurant near the Regal cinema in south Mumbai). I am a chain smoker and I went out to buy cigarettes at the cigarette wallahthat stays opens very late in front of Delhi Darbar. I love beautiful bikes so I noticed them. They werebeauuutifulbikes. And one of the boys was very good looking, so I noticed him. And one had long hair. Kasab (Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured after the attacks) has long hair."
"On 26/11 I noticed them again sitting at a table in Leopold. I told my friend Sarika 'See there is that samechikna (good looker)we saw the other day. I clicked his snap on my cell phone pretending I was taking Sarika's picture. But my cell phone got lost. They were sitting at that table (she points to the table next to the door facing the main road) and having beer. Bullshit they did not drink!"
"I mistook them for Israelis. I thought they were some tourists roaming around because Mumbai is a nice place and it is a good season now. One of them was very handsome. The other was bald, with dirty lips and dirty, up-down teeth."
For Anamika spotting these men earlier is not in the least surprising. Though a bit chilling. "How is it possible that just 10 people did this attack? How did they know that there was a lane to the Taj next to Leopold? And that one could enter there?"
She firmly feels it is logical that they did a survey of the area from a few days before and that was how she spotted them in and around Colaba.
Being a witness at Leopold that night did not give the 26/11 investigators sufficient reason to bring her to court. She was not called to depose in the Kasab trial. "Do you know that the police does not even know where I got injured?"
Anamika is grappling with a series of difficulties. She received her compensation of Rs 150,000 from the government promptly and is working out how she can start her own beauty salon so she can have something to do with her time.
But it is the health troubles that niggled. The bullets were all removed but she lives with a succession of splinters inside her. "I have a sinus problem. Sometimes when I cough there is blood. My wound often pains. Mentally I am not prepared."
We are sitting just two tables away from the critical spot where Anamika was sitting at on November 26 (where she often comes back and sits for a meal). She tells you that the terrorist duo, after drinking beer in Leopold, split up after leaving the cafe. One stationed himself at the door looking out into the lane going up to the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel. The other stood at the door facing the neighborhood's main thoroughfare, Colaba Causeway, and mercilessly fired in.
"It took a few minutes for me to realize: He is a terrorist and Bombay is having a terrorist attack."
Shortly after that she was shot and succeeded in agonizingly dragging herself first to the police station, where she was apparently given no help, and later to the popular, Tony Indigo restaurant where she awaited an ambulance, all the while conscious.
"The manager there was trying to help. But he was also worried about protecting his restaurant and was busy turning off the lights, shutting down the restaurant and said an ambulance would come. At 11.30 (a bystander who helped the victims) Felix Ambrose came and like a baby carrying a child he picked me up and carried me to a taxi and took me to the hospital."
"The doctor there -- a Dr Gupta -- was very good. It was a big miracle. Janata (the people) is beautiful in Bombay. Thejanataalways helps!"
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel in Mumbai
Report No. 2 - Suspects outside India
How did terror suspect David Headley get a visa to India? What documents did he provide to establish his identity?
Uncovering this will be tough since it's now official that Headley's papers have gone missing from the Indian Consulate in Chicago which granted Headley his visa. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has written to the Consulate asking for an explanation.
The missing papers are the latest in a mystery that tends to get deeper and darker everyday. At the heart of India's concerns are suspicions that Headley was originally a CIA agent who switched sides and then planned the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai with the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
Headley, a US national who left Pakistan with his mother as a teenager, was arrested in Chicago by the FBI in October.
NDTV has reported extensively on whether Headley started out working for the Americans. These reports have been brought up in Parliament, with CPM MP Brinda Karat asking why America is not allowing India access to Headley. In a Chicago court, US prosecutors have charged Headley with plotting the 26/11 attacks as an undercover agent of the LeT.
Headley made multiple trips to India before 26/11. He allegedly took photographs and videos of the four sites that would later come under siege by Pakistani terrorists.
Indian sources are unhappy that despite these charges, Indian officials have not been allowed to meet Headley. America has also said that it's "too premature" to discuss Headley's possible extradition to India after his US trial is completed.
What's more worrying for India is that America's surveillance of Headley began in September last year, before the 26/11 attacks. Yet, no information on him was shared with India. America clearly had specific intelligence reports about the possibility of Mumbai hotels being targeted by terrorists - the Taj was mentioned in the warning passed onto India. But Headley did not figure in this alert.
Worse, India was not told about Headley even when he visited the country in March this year, supposedly to plan a new round of terror attacks. Instead, America waited till after Headley's arrest to share intelligence on him.
Sources say India suspects that Headley was enrolled as a spy after he was arrested for smuggling heroin in 1988. Did America then use him to infiltrate Pakistan's narcotics underworld? And did Headley use that as a cover to start working for Pakistani terrorists against India? Questions that now have India questioning whether America has shared everything it knows about a man named Daood Gilani who morphed into David Coleman Headley
Report No. 3 - Shocking denial from Ajmal Kasab
MUMBAI: In a dramatic twist to the 26/11 terror attacks case, main accused Mohammad Ajmal Kasab on Friday retracted from his earlier statementand claimed he was forcibly made to confess.
Denying all charges against him, Kasab said the statement was made under duress.
Kasab today claimed before a special court that he was arrested on the night of November 25 and that he was falsely implicated in the 26/11 case.
"On the night of November 25, I was roaming in Juhu. I had gone to see a movie when the local police arrested me," Kasab told the court.
He also told the court that he was arranging for a house in Mumbai.
"I had a passport and I'm not the first one to come from Pakistan to Juhu area. I was arranging for a house here. The local police first arrested me and then handed me over to the crime branch," he said.
The Pakistani gunman also said in court today he had met US-based Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley in jail some time after the attacks.
The lone captured terrorist further said that on November 27, he was produced before a magistrate who then took his custody.
"I have not given any confession before the magistrate and my statement has been falsely implicated," Kasab added.
"I was not present at VT," said Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, referring to Victoria Terminus, the former name of Mumbai's main railway station where he is accused of opening fire on November 26.
"I do not know what has happened. Witnesses have come and recognized me because my face looks similar to the terrorists," he told the judge at the special prison court in Mumbai where he is on trial.
Kasab claimed that "The police have killed the main accused who resembles me and they told me that his name was Abu Ali."
"I am his look alike. His height and face resembles mine," Kasab said.
"That is why I was picked up. I have been framed," he added, speaking in Hindi.
Kasab, who claimed that he was 20 years old, also denied that he was with Abu Ismail during the attack at CST (VT Station).
He rejected the evidence of a witness, Bharat Tamore, that he was seen with 10 terrorists at Badhwar Park when they got down from a dinghy there.
Kasab said that "do baatein bolkar katham karna chaahtha hoon, aaj bhi mujhe bolne ka mauka nahin mila tho..." (I want to finish by saying two lines, if I don't get a chance to speak then...)
The judge cut him short and told him that he had to answer questions the court put to him.
Kasab disagreed with Tamore's version that he had seen the 10 terrorists at Badhwar Park wearing saffron jackets and carrying bags on their back and also a handbag.
Tamore had told the judge in his evidence that he saw two of the 10 terrorists closely and that Kasab was one of them.
Several questions were put to Kasab based on the evidences given by witnesses.
Asked about the dinghy, Kasab said that he did not know anything about the dingy. "I saw the dingy for the first time in the court," he said.
The case of the prosecution is that the terrorists had reached Mumbai via the dingy.
The lone surviving terrorist captured by the police during the Mumbai attacks was scheduled to give a statement today on evidence introduced against him by the prosecution for his alleged role in the 26/11 terror attacks.
Kasab had made three confessions after his arrest. One was admission of guilt before police soon after his arrest, the other confession was made before a magistrate which is admissible as evidence and the third one was in the trial court when the accused accepted his guilt partially.
Clearly Kasab has decided not to stick to any of these confessions when the court recorded his version today.
Summing up
Gathering the revelations of three reports rendered here, following points are extremely important to be noticed.
- As Anamika stated that according to Report No. 1 above, she saw Ajmal before the Mumbai attacks. It means that if Ajmal was really the terrorist India suspects for so long, he was in Mumbai well before the attacks were carried out.
- Ajmal Kasab's fresh statement which gave a serious shock to the whole Indian nation. Ajmal stated that he was in Mumbai on a valid Passport and was looking for a residence in Juhu area and was caught upon resemblance to the real terrorist also validates the claim of Anamika that she saw Ajmal well before the attacks happened. But if the second possibility is analyzed that Anamika may had seen the real terrorists few days before Mumbai attacks then the Indian claim that the assassins came from sea side and started attacking the civilians becomes null and void.
- Since last few months the case of American Citizen of Pakistan origin with the name of David Coleman Headly and his Canadian friend Tahwer Hussain Rana's alleged involvement in Mumbai attacks was greatly hyped by the Indian media. The involvement of both these persons was taken as great achievement but unfortunately for Indians the situation turned out to extremely embarrassing when on raising the question of how these people were allowed visas to visit India frequently, the Indian Consulate in California could not provide the papers filed by Headly with his application for issuance of Visa. Till now there is no clue of the papers which were believed to be strong evidence that how Indian Government provided visa to him and on what reasons. India also raises the question of involvement of CIA in sending David Coleman Headly to India and the reports have also surfaced that Coleman worked as under cover double agent for CIA and Lashkar's operatives.
Conclusion
In the light of above shocking revelations, the whole Drama of Mumbai attacks lands with the clear notion that the real culprits and planners are definitely got connections on the Indian soil and the chain of involvement runs from Indian Consulate in Chicago to the higher authorities in India and in American CIA. The motives were clear behind those attacks which were definitely carried out to defame Pakistan, blame ISI for cross border terrorism and build a strong reason for any Military action against Pakistan. By the Grace of Allah Almighty, the drama of Mumbai attacks came back to Indians as a flop movie with embarrassing climax.
In present situation India would definitely act as an injured wolf and would try any thing worse to hurt Pakistan through Military action. Government of Pakistan and Army in particular should formulate a coordinated action in view of the present developments. It is a real success of Pakistani media, Government and our national pride The Pakistan Army that Indian conspiracy has been completely unfolded and the world has a better opportunity to understand that how far India can go to badly stab Pakistan.
It should also be noticed that India is very reluctant to accept any local involvement in the Mumbai attacks and quickly rejects any question to allow international agencies to investigate the motives behind the attacks which took many innocent lives. There is a strong understanding that without local involvement the attacks of such a magnitude were not possible. India is very puzzled because if any international agency would jump into these investigations, the local hands particularly behind the killing of brave Chief of Anti Terrorism Squad who is believed to be the prime target of the Mumbai attacks. The strings of Mumbai attacks definitely connect to the insiders like Col Purohit who is under arrest under the charges of involvement in Malegaon blasts. It is needed that the recent developments should be capitalized by the Pakistani Government and the media to clear the dirt thrown on the face of our country by the Indians.
I would urge the media and the nation to highlight the present developments with full force because we cannot miss this opportunity to show to the world the real bad face of India.
Article source : pakistan_hope.bravejournal.com
