Pakistan Takes Heat Over Mumbai Massacre

India Demands "Strong Action" Against Those Behind Deadly Attacks; Details Emerge About Gunmen's Training

(CBS/AP)  India demanded Monday that Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, and Washington pressured Islamabad to cooperate with the investigation.

The only known surviving attacker told police that his group trained for months in camps operated by a banned Pakistani militant group, learning close-combat techniques, explosives training and other tactics for their three-day siege.

A grainy cell-phone video obtained by CBS News shows the moments before police in Mumbai arrested the suspect.

Teams from the FBI and Britain's Scotland Yard met with top Indian police as they prepared to help collect evidence, a police official said.

Soldiers removed the remaining bodies from the shattered Taj Mahal hotel, where the standoff finally ended Saturday morning, with at least 172 people dead and 239 wounded. The army had already cleared other siege sites, including the five-star Oberoi hotel and the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group.

McKinney and Jan Taylor of Virginia were trapped for nearly two days in the Taj Mahal hotel as gunshots and explosions echoed outside their room. One of the gunmen's bullets actually pierced their hotel room door.

"Every time there was an explosion out in the hall, I'd open the door just a little bit," Mr. Taylor told CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric. "And about the fourth time I opened it, I start startled some person out in the hall, slammed the door real fast and locked it and about that time he fired at the door and it missed me by about six inches."

When newspaper photographer Sebastien D'Souza heard explosions at Mumbai's main train station, he grabbed his camera and tracked the militants for 45 minutes, reports CBS News' Celia Hatton.

"They know what they're doing. I think they wanted maximum damage because they killed randomly, anybody," D'Souza told Hatton.

India's financial hub returned to normal Monday to some degree, with parents dropping their children off at school and shopkeepers opening for the first time since the attacks, which Indian authorities blamed on the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

"I think this is the first Monday I am glad to be coming to work," said Donica Trivedi, 23, an employee of a public relations agency.

Jewelry stores, clothing shops and food kiosks in a winding side street near the Jewish center were back in business. But the normally bustling street was half-empty, and business owners said customers were slow in returning to an area so close to the violence.

The 60-hour attack, apparently carried out by 10 gunmen, exposed glaring weakness in India's security forces and police. In the past two days, the country's top law enforcement official has resigned and two top state officials have offered to quit amid growing criticism that the attackers appeared better trained, better coordinated and better armed than police.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to strengthen maritime and air security and look into creating a new federal investigative agency.

While the cross-border rhetoric between Pakistan and India has increased since the attacks, both countries - by their often-antagonistic standards - carefully refrained from making statements that could quickly lead to a buildup of troops along their heavily militarized frontier.

In India, Pakistan's high commissioner to the country met with Foreign Ministry officials and was told that "elements from Pakistan" had carried out the attacks, said ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash. His phrasing, though, carefully avoided blaming the Pakistani government.

The commissioner was told that India "expects that strong action would be taken against those elements," Prakash said.

India's demands were reinforced by the United States as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who will visit India later this week, said the perpetrators of attacks "must be brought to justice."

Pakistan must "follow the evidence wherever it leads," she said during a visit in London. "This is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation, and that's what we expect."

Pakistan has repeatedly insisted it was not behind the attacks. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said Monday the gunmen were "non-state actors," and warned against letting their actions lead to greater regional enmity.

"Such a tragic incident must bring opportunity rather than the defeat of a nation," Zardari told Arj television. "We don't think the world's great nations and countries can be held hostage by non-state actors."

Pakistan said its foreign secretary "condemned the barbaric attacks" and again pledged his country's cooperation during a meeting Monday with India's high commissioner in Islamabad.

The sole surviving attacker, Ajmal Qasab, told police that his group trained over about six months in camps operated by Lashkar in Pakistan, learning close-combat techniques, hostage-taking, handling of explosives, satellite navigation, and high-seas survival skills, according to two Indian security officials familiar with the investigation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the details.

Lashkar has murky ties to a group called Deccan Mujahadeen, which said it planned the siege, reports Hatton. Deccan Mujahadeen has just sent out a new email warning Mumbai's airport and its highways are its next targets.

Lashkar was banned in Pakistan under pressure from the U.S. in 2002, a year after Washington and Britain listed it a terrorist group. It is since believed to have emerged under another name, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, although that group has denied links to the Mumbai attack.

Qasab told investigators the militants hijacked an Indian vessel and killed three crew members, keeping the captain alive long enough to guide them into Mumbai, the two security officials said.

The men, ages 18-28, then came ashore in a dinghy at two different Mumbai areas before slipping into the city in two teams, officials said. The gunmen struck at several sites, including a train station, where they mowed down police and passersby; the Jewish center; and the two luxury hotels, representing the city's wealth and tourism, reportedly seeking out Westerners.

A Muslim cemetery rejected the corpses of the nine dead gunmen and its officials said "Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime."

"People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim," said Hanif Nalkhande, a trustee of the influential Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7½-acre Badakabrastan graveyard in downtown Mumbai.

While some Muslim scholars disagreed with the decision - saying Islam requires a proper burial for every Muslim - the city's other Muslim graveyards are likely to do the same.

The 19 foreigners killed were Americans, Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, Singapore and Mexico.

At the Jewish center, Israeli emergency workers sorted through the shattered glass and splintered furniture to gather the victims' remains. At one point, one of the men opened a prayer book amid the rubble and stopped to pray.

Indian officials said their country would persevere.

"This is a threat to the very idea of India, the very soul of India," said Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country's top law enforcement official. "Ultimately the idea of India - that is a secular, plural, tolerant and open society - will triumph."

[rudy6543]

Can''''t say that I really care, rudy6543, but if you are going to go around reporting people, then at least try to stay on-topic, and try not to make so many false claims, otherwise you end up looking like a hypocrite/Zionist.



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Posted by MikeTotten1 at 12:31 AM

Like you do?

[rudy6543]

Clintons words in 2003 Rudy - not hate radio - CLINTONS OWN WORDS AFTER THE WAR HAD STARTED.


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Posted by brianwwb at 12:32 AM

It doesn''t matter what Clinton said. The reality was otherwise. And yes, hate radio cites Clintons and whomever else they can find tripped over their own words.

[rudy6543]

Posted by MikeTotten1 at 12:21 AM

From now on, each and every time you post the same post over and over, I am going to report it as spamming. You either start posting original thoughts, or you will quickly get banned from this area. Yes, your last post was reported as spam.

[rudy6543]

"When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."



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Posted by brianwwb at 12:16 AM

Sorry, but inspectors on the ground had already clarified that this was no longer the case. The inspectors were doing their job. Pointing to old references that side step reality has been the trademark of hate radio, which I find is losing ground rather quickly.

[rudy6543]

Posted by brianwwb at 12:03 AM
Why are you using someone else''''''''s name?

Posted by rudy6543

I seemed to be the rage at the time I chose to - like singingrick etc.


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Posted by brianwwb at 12:05 AM

Doing so discredits you. You have some valid points, but I know Brian would never pull out such worthless stats for the purpose of justifying a totally unnecessary war.

[rudy6543]

Posted by brianwwb at 12:03 AM

Why are you using someone else''s name?

[rudy6543]

The Pakistan government is not to blame, but they should publicly denounce the jihadis for what they are- maniacs. Good Muslims everywhere should come out in force against terrorism.
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In all honesty, there are many who do. However, it would be nice to see them come out at the level they do when some kid names a teddy bear Muhammed.

[nor-one]

India is wasting it''s time getting ready to attack Pakistan. They should do what the US did after 9-11, when your attacked by one country you should attack back at a different one. When saudi arabia attacked the US (9-11) they had to attack sadamm who had nothing to do with it. I think India should attack France. That would make the US their colition partner!!

[runningralph]

The Pakistan government is not to blame, but they should publicly denounce the jihadis for what they are- maniacs. Good Muslims everywhere should come out in force against terrorism. The fact that they don''t denounce terrorism causes the rest of the world to denounce Islam.

[jackobyte]

Yeah India will persevere because of its gigantic birth rate but no thanks to those corrupt and incompetent goverment employees. The country is corrupt from its core, it will never be sorted unless the corruption and undue affirmative action is stopped first.

[runningralph]

jowand, my friend, I ask you to read my post again. In fact, I did point out the difference between the crime of an American maniac and a jihadist maniac. And the Italian murder was indeed reported to be a Satanic worship crime. The main difference is that many people don''t consider jihadists to be maniacs.

[sk_w]

can''t blame the pakistanis. they had their own hotel attacked (marriott in islamabad). mostly pakistanis died in that one. this proves that ruthless terrorists will attack anywhere. besides, what would pakistan possibly gain from this.

[jowand]

The Pakistani government is not at fault any more than the American government is at fault for American maniacs. But Pakistan should try to show jihadis for what they are- maniacs.

Posted by runningralph at 09:28 PM : Dec 01, 2008

They are not moral equivalents, you''re trying to tie the murder in Italy to a satanic cult is a zero.
Muslim terrorists reside in terror friendly countries who turn a blind eye to what they are doing and even aid these terrorist.
Nice try on your part though

[jowand]

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.

Posted by donevis at 07:11 PM : Dec 01, 2008

The Arabs Muslim that flew the planes in the Twin Towers were drinking for weeks in t!tty bars in FLorida. All is forgiven when you die a martyr for the Muslim cause, even if you blow up a bus load of school kids in Iraq. With the added bonus that you get PsOS like you and the phony mike totten1 to be your appologists.

[runningralph]

Freaked out maniacs go to another country and commit murder in the name of religion. Is the Pakistani government at fault? Freaked out maniacs can be found in any country. Does the name Amanda Knox ring a bell? She is an American college girl that murdered a British girl in a Satan worship ritual in Italy. Is the American government at fault? What is the difference? Here''s the difference. Amanda Knox is a recognized by everyone as a freaked out maniac. The freaked out maniacs that attacked in Mumbai are are part of a large contingent and were well organized and financed. They were part of an international group whose sole purpose is death and destruction of infidels. They were jihadis. They are held up as heroes by many in Pakistan and other Islamic countries. That is the difference between jihadis and other maniacs. The Pakistani government is not at fault any more than the American government is at fault for American maniacs. But Pakistan should try to show jihadis for what they are- maniacs.

[jowand]

Opportunity:

The Israelis have been training the Indian security forces for some time now.

The Israelis are sending %u201Cinvestigators%u201D to the scene, giving them an opportunity to reach whatever conclusions they would like to about who is responsible for the attacks.

Posted by MikeTotten1 at 07:56 PM : Dec 01, 2008

Behold the the looney conspiracy man is at it again posting his lies and fiction which have nothing factual to do with the realty of the murders in India.
Impersonating a genuine news blogger like Mike Tooten too, you are indeed a desparate needy man.

[scallywag8]

I think the terrorists remains should be flushed down a city toilet so every time someone has to take a dump it will send a message.

[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. Eyewitness reports stated they''re attack and slaughter started 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.