Officials: Mumbai gunman promised cash for family

[cosmicone]

Source: AP/Yahoo

MUMBAI, India – The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai says he was promised that his impoverished family would get $1,250 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials said Wednesday.

The captive, 21-year-old Ajmal Amir Kasab, is from Faridkot village in the Punjab region of Pakistan, according to the two Indian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details gleaned during a week of interrogation.

Kasab was arrested hours after the three-day rampage began the night of Nov. 26. Photographs of the young man walking calmly through Mumbai's main train station — assault rifle in hand — have made him a symbol of the attacks that killed 171 people, including 26 foreigners.

India has blamed the banned Pakistan-based extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba for the carnage. But in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, expressed skepticism that the man in custody is a Pakistani citizen.

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It is amazing how Pakistanis from top to bottom lie. How can Zardari express skepticism that the man is a Pakistani citizen when he is giving details like his name, his family's names, his address and the names of his superiors?

Furthermore, Pakistan is refusing to hand over 20 terrorists wanted by India!!

[balantz]

1. Looks like you don't care for Pakistanis, period. n/t

[cosmicone]

4. It is the Pakistani military and ISI which I dislike

and the duplicitous shenanigans they pull without the knowledge of the civilian government which are then backed by the very same civilian government that was backstabbed.

A vast majority of the Pakistani people don't want terrorism either but the ISI and military use it as another weapon in their arsenal.

[shoppertunist]

8. Didn't you post a thread calling for the 'balkanization' of Pakistan shortly after the attacks?

Or was that someone else?

[coffeenap]

2. We need to understand that it is likely most suicide bombers,

"crazy" shooters, and saboteurs in the tri-country area are individuals desperate for money and will sacrifice themselves for the promise of security for their families. These actors are not and likely have never been purely ideologically or religiously motivated. When I was working on conflict resolution in the middle east in the eighties, it became very clear that the power of violent fundamentalism grows only out of poverty and desperation.

[ohio2007]

3. ...his impoverished family would get $1,250 ...IF...he died

Wonder if the other stiffs had their families compensated yet.

[rainbow4321]

5. "Security agencies are hoping the US will move on Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders"

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Dawood_confident_Pak...

Security agency sources told TOI on Wednesday that it's business as usual for the underworld kingpin. A few days ago, a couple of his relatives, including Salim Ansari, flew to Pakistan (using their valid Indian passports) to meet him. Sources said the don was so confident that he would not be touched by the Pakistani establishment that he had made no changes in his daily routine.

He continues to phone his contacts in Mumbai. Recently, a contact who fronts for him in the real estate business reportedly sent Rs 120 crore via hawala, sources in the government stated. The hawala channel between Mumbai and Karachi remains busy.
(snip)
Indian security agencies are keeping close tabs on Dawood's movements, as are their counterparts in the US intelligence establishment. It's on the basis of detailed inputs from them that India maintains that Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan. But central agencies question why the Maharashtra government has not taken any action against the D-company here

(snip)

Meanwhile, security agencies are hoping the US will move on Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders, including Abu Hamza and Hafeez Syed. An email sent to a TV channel was traced to an LeT hideout near Muridke in Pakistan's Punjab province. The phone intercepts of the LeT terrorists who executed the Mumbai massacre also reveal their links to Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US_sets_stage_for_st...

US sets stage for strikes if Pak does not act


The United States has set the stage for punitive internationally-backed strikes by India against terrorist camps in Pakistan, if
Islamabad does not act first to dismantle them, by rejecting President Zardari’s alibi that non-state actors were responsible for the last week’s carnage in Mumbai.


Although US officials have not outright approved immediate punitive Indian strikes against terrorist targets in Pakistan, it is clear Rice has bought time for Islamabad to prove its bonafides and promise of cooperation. Pakistan has a ''special responsibility'' and needs to act ''urgently'' she said, even as India has indicated it will wait for a Pakistani response to its demands before any punitive action.

In Washington, experts pressed the administration to expand the scope of punitive strikes to an international level to avoid making it an India-Pakistan issue, particularly since the death toll included citizens of 10 countries.
(snip)
Rice will proceed to Islamabad on Thursday to read the riot act while U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen is expected to arrive in New Delhi as part of U.S playbook to keep a stream of visitors in the region in order to prevent outbreak of immediate hostilities.

[varun]

6. not all suicide bombers come from poor families

as can be seen in the case of 9/11 hijackers.

But it is easy to recruit poor men for this purpose

[Sultana]

7. Hmm, who is funding them?

[pampango]

10. You would think that would be the first question they asked after he told them about the money. n/t

[mithnanthy]

11. That was my first question too...

who is funding them?

[razors edge]

9. The US refuses to hand over terrorists too.

Sounds like BS to me, Drudge is linking to an article claiming that India is using "truth serum" on him. Like any government on earth believes that shit really works.

The real question is, how many volts did it require to get the information desired?

[maddezmom]

12. locking

OP contains broad brush smear against Pakistanis.

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