26/11 accused Kasab pleads guilty in court

[Reddy]

MUMBAI: In a startling move, Mumbai attacks' accused on Monday pleaded guilty to all charges in the court during the trial.

Kasab for the first time narrated to the court the entire plot behind the Mumbai terror attacks. Kasab confessed in court that he came in a boat from Karachi along with nine other terrorists.

“Sir, mujhe mera gunah kabul hai (I plead guilty to my crime),” Kasab told the court.

Speaking to Times Now, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said that Kasab’s admission was unexpected. “Kasab has admitted to all the charges against him. It is a great victory for all of us,” Nikam said.

On Sunday, Islamabad had acknowledged that besides Ajmal Kasab, two more of the ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26/11 — Imran Babar and Abdur were Pakistani nationals.

The acknowledgment is part of the 26/11 dossier Pakistan handed over to India last week, which says that determination about the nationality of Babar and Abdur Rahman has been made on the basis of DNA samples.

This marks the first time when Pakistan has accepted that the attackers of Mumbai, Kasab included, were its citizens.

In fact, authorities in Pakistan had started by contesting Kasab's disclosure about his being a citizen of village Farid Kot of Okara district. Though investigation by a TV channel and, later, statement of Kasab's kin forced them to accept the fact, it is the first time that the acknowledgement has been made in a document handed over to India.

 

[Renegade]

KASAB CONFESSES TO 26/11 ATTACKS


Mumbai: The lone terrorist captured alive after the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, on Monday confessed to having been involved in the attacks on India's financial capital. Kasab made the confession before the trial court in Mumbai.

He named his Pakistani handlers - including Abu Hamza, Hafeez Saeed, Abu Jindal, Abu Kafa and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi - saying they instructed him to carry out the fidayeen attack and saw him and the other terrorists off when they boarded a ship at Karachi.

He told the court how Hamza advised the terrorists how to go about the terror attacks, how he himself placed a bomb in a taxi (which later exploded at Mazagaon, south Mumbai) and how the 10-member team - of which he was sole survivor - went about their mission.

Naming Lakhvi as "the mastermind" behind the Mumbai terror mayhem, Kasab described in detail how he and his associate Abu Ismail (who was shot by the police) went to a CST public toilet and assembled one of the bombs by installing a timer in it for use later.

He said that the entire journey from Karachi to Mumbai was completed in four different boats at various locations in the Arabian Sea.

Finally, they landed in Mumbai on the evening of November 26 last year and carried out one of the biggest and boldest terror attacks in the country.

He has also talked about the Cama hospital operation where top police officers Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salasakar and Ashok Kamte were killed while fighting off the terrorists.

The prosecution is claiming victory and Special Public Prosecutor for the 26/11 case, Ujjwal Nikam told CNN-IBN that the court will now examine Kasab's confession, to see whether it was made under some kind of pressure or whether it was voluntary.

The court also needs to examine his statement to see whether he is telling the truth or not.

"We were about to put the 135th witness in the case on the witness stand when Kasab stood up and said that he wanted to make a confession," Nikam stated.

Nikam also said that no one had ever thought that Kasab, "a dreaded terrorist" would confess.

"He (Kasab) had been trying different tactics for some time now to try and wriggle out of punishments, for example he had said that he was a Pakistani national and when that didn't work he said he was underage. I had always maintained before court that Kasab is a great actor," he added.


KASAB CONFESSES TO 26/11 ATTACKS

 

[Fracker]

It looks to me that Ajmal Kasab is more closer to be an actor rather then terrorist. Once he tell whole story how he done everything, then start denying asking for "Pakistan Lawyer" rather then "Lawyer". Then kicks his own lawyer by saying why you are saying lying. And now.... All this!!

btw what this thread is doing in Pakistan's "Strategic & Geopolitical Issues"???

 

[Pseudo-intellectual]

Indian took lot of time in convincing Kasab to include the name of Hafiz Saeed in the whole incident,whereas everyone knows that he was not involved in this incident.

 

[Maritimer]

Hopefully this will help in speedy delivery of justice and nailing down the masterminds in Pakistan.

 

[s90]

I still dont know how these guys knew inch inch of Mumbai and those hotels....

 

[IceCold]

Quite an actor India found for itself to give Pakistan a bad name. No wonder what is he going to say next.

 

[L'Indien]

Quite an actor India found for itself to give Pakistan a bad name. No wonder what is he going to say next.

troll alert
troll alert
troll alert

 

[L'Indien]

Indian took lot of time in convincing Kasab to include the name of Hafiz Saeed in the whole incident,whereas everyone knows that he was not involved in this incident.

really???...and who is that "everyone" exactly???
you, yourself and your delusional brain!!

BTW, the public prosecutor Nikam believes that this might be a ploy on Kasab's part to escape with a lighter sentence. Also he might be suppressing some more vital information which could be unearthed if the trial goes on.

 

[Khajur]

I still dont know how these guys knew inch inch of Mumbai and those hotels....

They didnt know every inch of Mumbai .

But they had maps of mumbai and specific targets that they planned and did attacked later on.

They reached those specific sites on hired taxis after landing on mumbai sea shore.

 

[HAIDER]

Nothing is acceptable, until Indian govt let Pak official investigate this guy in some neutral venue...otherwise all deliberations has no value.

Musharraf said once
" What RAW is doing , same thing ISI is doing and we can prove ".

 

[pak-marine]

I still dont know how these guys knew inch inch of Mumbai and those hotels....

correcto ! its a big question just how exactly kasab and his mates knew mumbai so well!? doesnt make sense at all !!

 

[pak-marine]

They didnt know every inch of Mumbai .

But they had maps of mumbai and specific targets that they planned and did attacked later on.

They reached those specific sites on hired taxis after landing on mumbai sea shore.

he is 21 years old and sounds like a rag head ! cant speak a word of english how exactly you think he can follow maps! how is that possible that they stoped a taxi after killing dozens in train station walks to the next target... there is some thing fishy here !!!