Captured CST Terrorist

[Goodperson]

Qasab to be produced in court tomorrow

Press Trust of India
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:55 PM (Mumbai)
The custody of arrested terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman ends on Thursday and the police would seek his remand in one of the 12 cases registered against him in Mumbai terror attacks.

Ajmal, the sole terrorist of the group of ten to be arrested, has been in police custody since November 27 and has been kept in an undisclosed location since then.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said Ajmal was likely to be produced in a magistrate's court at the Esplanade court house in south Mumbai.

The police said there were 12 cases registered in connection with the November 26 attacks and they could seek the custody of the arrested terrorist Ajmal in all the cases. "We have booked Ajmal under sections like murder, attempt to murder, waging war against the nation, conspiracy and relevant sections of the Arms Act and Explosives Act," Maria said.

NDTV.com: Qasab to be produced in court tomorrow

 

[Niazi9]

edited for link

 

[rubyjackass]

Crackdown hints at Faridkot-Mumbai link



Dawn Special Report


KARACHI, Dec 11: The targeting of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa and the rounding up of the activists belonging to the two jihadi organisations appear to have been triggered by information originating in India following the capture of one of the 10 men who attacked several targets in Mumbai towards the end of last month.

During the course of Dawn’s own investigations last week our reporters were able to locate a family who claimed to be the kin of the arrested young man in Mumbai.

The sole survivor among the 10 attackers was named as Ajmal Kasab and was supposed to belong to the village Faridkot in the Punjab. Media organisations such as the BBC and now the British newspaper Observer have done reports trying to ascertain the veracity of claims appearing in the media that the young man had a home there.

On Friday last, the BBC reported unusual activity in Faridkot near Deepalpur. A BBC correspondent located a house in the village, the then inhabitants of which carried the surname of Kasab (or Qasab as the word is often spelt here). But the residents denied any link with either Ajmal or with any Amir Kasab, the name of Ajmal’s father as reported by some of the media.

At the weekend, the Observer in England claimed that it had managed to locate the house everyone was looking for so desperately. Its correspondent said he had got hold of the voters’ roll which had the names of Amir Kasab and his wife, identified as Noor, as well as the numbers on the identity cards the couple carried.

Even though the news stories by both BBC and the Observer made a mention of the LeT, some television channels in Pakistan suggested that a connection between Mumbai and Faridkot could not be established beyond a shadow of doubt.

However, the man who said he was Amir Kasab confirmed to Dawn that the young man whose face had been beamed over the media was his son.

For the next few minutes, the fifty-something man of medium build agonized over the reality that took time sinking in, amid sobs complaining about the raw deal the fate had given him and his family.

“I was in denial for the first couple of days, saying to myself it could not have been my son,” he told Dawn in the courtyard of his house in Faridkot, a village of about 2,500 people just a few kilometres from Deepalpur on the way to Kasur. “Now I have accepted it.

“This is the truth. I have seen the picture in the newspaper. This is my son Ajmal.”

Variously addressed as Azam, Iman, Kamal and Kasav, the young man, apparently in his 20s, is being kept in custody at an undisclosed place in Mumbai.

Indian media reports ‘based on intelligence sources’ said the man was said to be a former Faridkot resident who left home a frustrated teenager about four years ago and went to Lahore.

After his brush with crime and criminals in Lahore, he is said to have run into and joined a religious group during a visit to Rawalpindi.

Along with others, claimed the Indian media, he was trained in fighting. And after a crash course in navigation, said Amir Kasab, a father of three sons and two daughters, Ajmal disappeared from home four years ago.

“He had asked me for new clothes on Eid that I couldn’t provide him. He got angry and left.”

While Amir was talking, Ajmal’s two “sisters and a younger brother” were lurking about. To Amir’s right, on a nearby charpoy, sat their mother, wrapped in a chador and in a world of her own. Her trance was broken as the small picture of Ajmal lying in a Mumbai hospital was shown around. They appeared to have identified their son. The mother shrunk back in her chador but the father said he had no problem in talking about the subject.

Amir Kasab said he had settled in Faridkot after arriving from the nearby Haveli Lakha many years ago. He owned the house and made his earnings by selling pakoras in the streets of the village.

He modestly pointed to a hand-cart in one corner of the courtyard. “This is all I have. I shifted back to the village after doing the same job in Lahore.

“My eldest son, Afzal, is also back after a stint in Lahore. He is out working in the fields.”

Faridkot is far from the urbanites’ idea of a remote village. It is located right off a busy road and bears all the characteristics of a lower-middle class locality in a big city.

It has two middle-level schools, one for girls and the other for boys which Ajmal attended as a young boy. For higher standards, the students have to enroll in schools in Deepalpur which is not as far off as the word remote tends to indicate.

It by no means qualifies as Punjab’s backwaters, which makes the young Ajmal’s graduation to an international “fearmonger” even more difficult to understand. The area can do with cleaner streets and a better sewage system but the brick houses towards the side of the Kasur-Deepalpur road have a more organised look to them than is the case with most Pakistani villages.

The Observer newspaper reports that some locals seeking anonymity say the area is a hunting ground for the recruiters of LeT and provides the organisation with rich pickings.

The approach to Faridkot also points to at least some opportunities for those looking for a job. There are some factories in the surroundings, rice mills et al, interspersed with fertile land. But for the gravity of the situation, with its mellowed and welcoming ambience, the picture could be serene.

It is not and Amir Kasab repeats how little role he has had in the scheme since the day his son walked out on him. He calls the people who snatched Ajmal from him his enemies but has no clue who these enemies are. Asked why he didn’t look for his son all this while, he counters: “What could I do with the few resources that I had?”

Otherwise quite forthcoming in his answers, Amir Kasab, a mild-mannered soul, is a bit agitated at the mention of the link between his son’s actions and money. Indian media has claimed that Ajmal’s handlers had promised him that his family will be compensated with Rs150,000 (one and a half lakh) after the completion of the Mumbai mission.

“I don’t sell my sons,” he retorts.

Journalists visiting Faridkot since Dawn reporters were at the village say the family has moved from their home and some relatives now live in the house. Perhaps fearing a media invasion, nobody is willing to say where the family has gone.

Crackdown hints at Faridkot-Mumbai link -DAWN - Top Stories; December 12, 2008

This answers many questions. Also please note that the newspaper delayed the publication of the interview.

 

[rubyjackass]

The above post shud rule out conspiracy theories about the mumbai.
It is indeed bad to blame someone without evidence.
It is very sad that here people are questioning the very fact of an attack.
Instead people are happy thinking that Indian agencies staged an attack just to appeal to the world.
Mumbai attacks are a fact. Atleast accept it to that extent.

 

[Goodperson]

Captured terrorist Kasab my son, says father in Pakistan
12 Dec 2008, 1335 hrs IST, PTI

ISLAMABAD: Though Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa may disown him, the father of the lone Pakistani gunman arrested for the Mumbai terror
attacks has admitted that the young man whose picture was beamed by media across the world, is his son.

Amir Kasab, the father of Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab, broke down as he made the admission to the influential Dawn newspaper in the courtyard of his house in Faridkot, a village of about 2,500 people in Okara district of Punjab province.

"I was in denial for the first couple of days, saying to myself it could not have been my son... Now I have accepted it. This is the truth. I have seen the picture in the newspaper. This is my son Ajmal," Amir said in his first interview to the media since his son's arrest.

Britain's Observer newspaper and BBC had earlier reported that Iman belonged to Faridkot and had joined the Lashker-e-Taiba some time ago.

The Observer's correspondent had located Iman's home and got hold of the voters' roll which had the names of his parents Amir Kasab and Noor as well as the numbers on their national identity cards.

Reports had said that Iman left home as a frustrated teenager about four years ago and went to Lahore in search of a job. After a brush with crime in that city, he reportedly joined the LeT.

Amir Kasab, a father of three sons and two daughters, said his son disappeared from home four years ago. "He had asked me for new clothes on Eid that I couldn't provide him. He got angry and left," he said.

As Amir was talking to the Dawn's correspondents, Iman's two sisters and a younger brother stood by. Their mother, wrapped in a 'chador', lay on a nearby charpoy.

"Her trance was broken as the small picture of Ajmal lying in a Mumbai hospital was shown around. They appeared to have identified their son. The mother shrunk back in her chador but the father said he had no problem in talking about the subject," the newspaper reported.

Amir said he had settled in Faridkot after arriving from the nearby Haveli Lakha many years ago. He owned the house the family lived in and made a living by selling 'pakoras' in the streets of the village.

He pointed to a hand-cart in one corner of the courtyard and said, "This is all I have. I shifted back to the village after doing the same job in Lahore.

"My eldest son, Afzal, is also back after a stint in Lahore. He is out working in the fields."

Faridkot is located off a busy road and bears all the characteristics of a lower-middle class locality in a big city, the newspaper reported.

Amir said he had little say in Iman's life since the day his son walked out on him. He calls the "people who snatched Ajmal from him his enemies but has no clue who these enemies are".

Asked why he did not look for his son all this while, he said: "What could I do with the few resources that I had?"

Though mild-mannered, Amir became agitated at the "mention of the link between his son's actions and money".

Media reports had said that Iman's handlers had promised him that his family would be compensated with Rs 150,000 after the completion of the Mumbai mission. "I don't sell my sons," Amir said.

Captured terrorist Kasab my son, says father in Pakistan-Pakistan-World-The Times of India

 

[Vinod2070]

Captured terrorist Kasab my son, says father in Pakistan

RR and all other "looks" experts, where are you now?

 

[devgupt]

busy eating their words!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Flintlock]

Kasab spills beans on ISI men who trained his group
11 Dec 2008, 0542 hrs IST, S Ahmed Ali, TNN

MUMBAI: Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist in police custody, has disclosed the names of ISI operatives who imparted training to the terror
module, the cop claimed on Wednesday.

Kasab said Zakiur Rahman provided the 30 terrorists weapons training in a camp at Mansera and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. While 10 of these terrorists took part in the 26/11 attack in Mumbai, the whereabouts of the others are not known.

Another ISI leader, Kahfa, whose first name is not known, acted as a course coordinator and was present all through the training, the police said. He delivered motivational lectures, asking them to sacrifice their lives in the name of religion.

Hafeez Saeed, the seniormost leader in the ISI hierarchy, brainwashed them with jihadi literature every weekend. Kasab has also named Abu Hamza, the prime accused in the 2006 terror strike on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said, "Rahman was with them till the end when they boarded a small boat to reach Al Hussaini. He embraced each one of them before seeing them off.''

Hamza, Rahman and Kahfa used Google Earth on their laptops to show the trainee terrorists the pictures of CST railway station, Hotel Taj, Hotel Oberoi-Trident and Nariman House.

Sources said the police have now forwarded the details of the terrorists to the Union home department for issuing global alerts.

Meanwhile, the two teams of Mumbai crime branch which is in Uttar Pradesh, will return on Thursday with the two suspects__Faheem Ansari and Shabuddin, both accused in the attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur. They have been trained under Abu Hamza. In fact, in 2007, during an interrogation, Ansari had revealed to the UP police as well the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) about Hamza's plan to attack Mumbai by the sea route. "It is too early to comment on the roles of Ansari and Faheem until we interrogate them,'' said Maria.

Kasab spills beans on ISI men who trained his group-Mumbai-Cities-The Times of India

 

[dabloo]

RR and all other "looks" experts, where are you now?

RR had gone to meet Kasab's Father to get some proof. Anyhow what happen to his Kaleva theory.

Thanks
Dabloo

 

[Goodperson]

German envoy speaking about clear evidence on video.
Pak cringes as world tightens screws-News-The Times of India

 

[BanglaBhoot]

Police: Mumbai gunman asks Pakistan for legal help



Dec 13th, 2008 | MUMBAI, India -- Indian police say the surviving gunman in last month's deadly attack on Mumbai has written to Pakistani officials to ask for legal help.

Rakesh Maria, Mumbai's chief investigator, says Mohammed Ajmal Kasab wrote a letter to the Pakistani consulate on Thursday to request "legal aid."

Maria says Kasab also asked to meet with a representative from the consulate.

Maria said Saturday that the letter was forwarded to India's government to relay to Pakistani officials, but it was unclear whether it had been delivered.

A number of Indian lawyers have refused to defend Kasab in his criminal case amid outrage over the attacks that killed 164 people in the country's financial capital.

Police: Mumbai gunman asks Pakistan for legal help - Salon.com

 

[Vinod2070]

Yesterday a TV channel was talking of a 40 minute CD being prepared that will thoroughly expose those behind the Mumbai carnage.

Apparently, it is going to be shared with the UN and other affected countries. Didn't see much of that today.

 

[Goodperson]

Kasab is not aware that his other terrorists are dead, He has been told that they are all taking part in investigations. He has even expressed meeting his mom in Faridkot.

India should not allow consular access to person who were caught red handed killing innocent persons.

 

[GunMan]

It may be slightly off topic...but i'm gonna write it anyway

Its kind of funny that most pakistanis believe when ATS Mumbai claim that colonel Purohit may have provided RDX for samjhota express explosion though Hariayana police think that Amonium Nitrate was used and also he is primaryly accused in Malegoan blasts only which is an ongoing investigation till date.

But all in pakistani media from Himid mir to secutrity sooth sayer like Zaid Hamid even Gen Hamid gul quote Mumbai ATS inquiry and insist all the while that its rouge elements with in AI along with hindutva RSS terrorists who did the mumbai carnage.All these fierce arguments going around here on the thread worn by terrorist Kasab.

People like Zaid hamid talk of conspiracy theories in killing of ATS chief Hemant kirkare(he calls him kurkure) by RAW/mossad to sabotage his investgation aganist so called hindu terrorists claiming Kasab is infact a sikh name Amar singh.

I said its kind of funny because i find it ironical that when the same ATS mumbai say that Kasav is a pakistani national no body in pakistan is willing believe Mumbai ATS.

 

[replyme]

^^^ They only accept what they like.