Video Allegedly Shows India Terror Arrest

CBS News Obtains Exclusive Video Of Train Station Shooter Beaten Before Arrest

(CBS/AP)  A grainy cell-phone video obtained by CBS News shows the moments before police in Mumbai arrested the only living suspect in the 60-hour terror rampage that began last Wednesday and eventually left at least 170 people dead.

The one-minute, 35-second video opens with images that apparently show bystanders and Indian security forces beating a man on the ground with sticks.

The journalist from whom CBS News obtained the video says the man is Ajmal Qasab, who, according to a senior Indian police officer, confessed to interrogators that he is a member of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The low-resolution video shows Qasab being beaten by men in white shirts after he allegedly tried to hijack a car. The photographer says he turned to face a group of bystanders and police holding an assault rifle and shot at them, prompting the violent reaction by the group.

Whistles are heard amid shouting as police signal for more help.

Qasab is beaten repeatedly on the ground before more police arrive and take him into custody.

Joint Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said Qasab told police the group had intended to hit more targets during their attacks on India's financial capital.

"Lashkar-e-Taiba is behind the terrorist acts in the city," Maria told reporters. "The terrorists were from a hardcore group in the L-e-T."

"Ajmal Qasab has received training in an L-e-T training camp in Pakistan," he said. "Our interrogation indicates that the terrorists had other places that they also intended to target."

Police have said Qasab is 21-years-old and a Pakistani national.

Six Americans were among the 172 killed in last week's attacks. President Bush on Sunday dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi in support of India following the siege.

Rice said Monday that the U.S. expects nothing short of complete cooperation in investigations into the terrorist rampage, and Pakistan's response will be a test of the will of the new civilian government.

"What we are emphasizing to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads," Rice said. "I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that's what we expect."

The Secretary of State spoke Monday during a visit to London, where she was to meet her British counterpart David Miliband before traveling to Brussels for a NATO gathering. On Wednesday, following the NATO meeting, she is scheduled to travel to New Delhi, according to her new itinerary.

"We share the grief and the anger of the Indian people but of course Americans were also killed in this attack and they were killed deliberately because they were Americans," Rice said during a press conference aboard her plane en route to London. "That makes this of special interest and concern to the United States."

Qasab is allegedly the same militant gunman pictured in one of the few still photos to surface of the attackers as they besieged 10 locations Wednesday night. An image captured by newspaper photographer Sebastian D'Souza shows a man in his early 20s, believed to be Qasab, walking calmly through Mumbai's train station with an assault rifle at his hip.

Many witnesses have said the gunmen were remarkably calm. D'Souza followed militants operating in the train station, taking photos throughout.

"This is where I got the picture of the two and they exchanged some couple of words and then the guy dropped his bag," said D'Souza, who works for the Mumbai Mirror. "I think it was empty there was no ammo in it - he dropped his bag and then moved forward and kept firing from the hips, never raised the gun, very cool."

Meanwhile, CBS News reporter Celia Hatton says authorities finished removing bodies from the Taj Mahal hotel on Monday, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared, as schools and businesses reopened and commuters returned to work.

Security forces had been scouring the 565-room hotel, seen at left, for booby traps and bodies, and declared the landmark building cleared two days after they killed the last three militants holed up inside.

"We were apprehensive about more bodies being found. But this is not likely - all rooms in the Taj have been opened and checked," said Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagrani.

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The L-e-T has long been seen as a creation of the Pakistani intelligence service to help wage its clandestine war against India in disputed Kashmir.

In April 2006, the U.S. Department of State listed Jamaat-ud-Dawa as terrorist organizations for being an "alias" of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The Pakistani government offered no immediate response.

Speaking earlier Sunday, a spokesman for a Jamat-ud Dawa denied any link to Lashkar-e-Taiba and said he condemned the attack.

"We condemn the killings of civilians. We condemn such killings in a terrorist activity, and at the same time we condemn it happening in the shape of state terrorism, as we see in Srinagar, Kashmir," Abdullah Muntazir said, referring to alleged Indian army atrocities in the disputed Kashmir region.

Despite India's claim, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, said, "I don't think that this is the time for India or anybody in India to accuse Pakistan. It's time to work with Pakistan. Pakistan is now a democracy. India is a democracy. And as two democracies, we need to strengthen each other, rather than fall into the trap of the terrorists, who want us to fight with each other so that they can get greater strength."

India repeatedly has accused Pakistan of complicity in terrorist attacks on its soil, many of which it traces to militant groups fighting Indian rule in the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir. The U.S. has tried to persuade Pakistan to shift its security focus from India, with which it has fought three wars, to Islamic militants along the Afghan border.

As investigations continued into one of India's deadliest terrorist attacks, pressure mounted on the Indian government to account for what went wrong, reported Hatton. Two top security officials resigned over the weekend and India's Prime Minister has vowed to boost the size of the country's anti-terrorism forces, which face criticism for arriving at the scene long after the gunfire began.

[xyno-2009]

There''''s no excuse to beat this poor defenseless, disarmed, muslum after he has been captured. This is a matter that should be taken up with the UN or the ACLU.

Posted by pepperwood2 at 08:19 PM : Dec 01, 2008

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LOL

[pepperwood2]

Qasab is beaten repeatedly on the ground before more police arrive and take him into custody.

What''s going on here? There''s no excuse to beat this poor defenseless, disarmed, muslum after he has been captured. This is a matter that should be taken up with the UN or the ACLU. He deserves to be treated with dignity & respect. Instead of being discriminated against. This will only serve to encourage more of these kinds of attacks. BO & Hillary will bring these people on board an America will clean up its act. So Sadd!

[donevis-2009]

Israel''s national intelligence agency Mossad has been behind a failed coup in Turkey, the Turkish daily newspaper, Milliyet reports.

A secret investigation into detained Ergenekon group members and other studies outside Turkey indicate that Mossad orchestrated the coup plot against the Turkish government, the report says.

Gotta look at the whole picture to see this new offensive. We need real media to look into this stuff and give us real up to date "News". Please do something before the whole world goes crazy!!

[donevis-2009]

terrorist sympathiser ? - nothing in Donevis'''' posts suggest any sympathy to George Bush
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Posted by cause_a at 07:05 PM : Dec 01, 2008

Nice key stroke brian, point well made!!

[impeach___w]

brianwwb ,
It must suck to [CALL EVERYONE] a useless terrorist sympathizer like you.

Seeing you are alive why don''t you so something useful and uplifting for your fellow man. Lots of opportunities other than [CALLING EVERYONE] a terrorist sympathizer.


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Posted by brianwwb

[clathrate]

MikeTotten:

While I agree Israel is just as guilty of bad behavior as its neighbors, it is not a systematic enemy of science, music, and religious freedoms. Israel has Muslims, Jews, and Christians all living together. Yes, Muslims do live in Israel.

These bearded butt-f&#ks attack and kill innocent people in order to establish THEIR version of Islam. And yet, you feel compelled to defend them...very strange.

[donevis-2009]

The organization, using various fictional personalities such as MikeTotten1, are operating an around-the clock massive internet blitz giving them an opportunity to broadcast whatever misinformation they would like to spread about who is responsible for the attacks.


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Posted by brianwwb at 06:45 PM : Dec 01, 2008

As we can see people, another post with the same verbage. These guys are plants and trying to drum up hate. Don''t allow yourself to be convinced and driven to action by hatred until we have all the facts. There has been a horrible crime and we need to find out who in fact started this, not a witch hunt.

[donevis-2009]

Reports coming out from India%u2019s local news sources point to fair skin men. These reports
point out that the room the gunmen had stayed in had four empty bottle%u2019s of assorted liquor laying about. They stated they''re slaughter began from a bar after slamming a beer. It%u2019s a known fact that Islamic Muslims to not drink alcohol. Not even the extremist. So before we all start pointing fingers where the media says we should lets wait for the investigations to bring the facts to a more transparent level.

[donevis-2009]

Posted by brianwwb at 06:38 PM : Dec 01, 2008

Your Judge and Jury on this issue. How can you be so convinced when we haven''t received all the facts yet? So grab yourself up and go enlist with the mossad, if you haven''t already. Go start another war using a country that can afford to fight it for you. We can''t!!

[downsteamjim]

It appears that the attacks were the work of ''Disciples of Deranged Geographers'' who are protesting the change of the name Bombay to Mumbai. The real shame is that this makes as much sense as anything Mike''got the''Trots1 says.

[clathrate]

Yeah, right, the Israelis are behind it...I''m sure there are lots of Pakistani Israeilis these days.

Face it, Pakistan and Kashmir is home to some lunatic Islamists who are hell bent on transforming their country and everything around it back into the stone age. They are the enemies of not just the West, but ALL civilization.

[donevis-2009]

The organization, using various fictional personalities such as MikeTotten1, are operating an around-the clock massive internet blitz giving them an opportunity to broadcast whatever misinformation they would like to spread about who is responsible for the attacks.


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Posted by brianwwb at 06:28 PM : Dec 01, 20

Nice try plant, Is that the company line? You are one of "God Chosen People" so sing on.

[donevis-2009]

As you can tell by the spelling I''ve had a bit of the top shelf stuff myself. Had to do something after watching the market today!!

[donevis-2009]

Posted by zzmonkeyzz at 06:24 PM : Dec 01, 2008

And your a Media plant. Can''t say anything without name calling. The true sign of a rightwing folower.

[zzmonkeyzz]

donevis: you are a complete idiot.

[donevis-2009]

Reports coming out from India local news sources point to fair skin men. Eyewitness''s point to the room they had stayed in had four bottle of good liquor. They started they''re slaughter from a bar after slamming a beer. It%u2019s a known fact that Islamic Muslims to not drink alcohol. Not even the extremist. So before we all start pointing fingers where the media says we should lets wait for the investigations to bring the facts to a transparent level. Oh gosh there I go making a conspiracy theory, uhh never mind!!

[godseyesore-2009]

Looks like Indian Police should turn over capture duties to civilians.

[mrmeatspin]

according to liberals..this guy deserves more rights than the victims because some christian killed mulsims 500 years ago..



and these people will run the white house next year....


if terrorism has stocks..it be the best time to buy because its going to be a very lucrative BUSINESS in the next 4 years..

[biblethumpar]

You forgot cable television! The liberals think the world is a cruel place without cable television!


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Posted by lady_organs ...

so true, they should pick between a fat purple dinosaur 24/7
or a Fat Pastor Hagee...

[piercetheval]

...and yet there are such beautiful examples of the meeting of Hindu and Moslem theology...Sufism, Sihkism, the wonderous acts of Akbar and so much more...isn''t it a pity that the ''extremists'' muck it up.