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A bomb disposal squad officer, center, takes a suspicious box to the police station after defusing a bomb at Chhatrapati Shivaji train station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. (AP Photo)
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at a press conference at U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, Dec. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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It quickly became clear during the siege that the gunmen knew their way around the massive Taj Mahal hotel, shown above. They deftly maneuvered through the vast complex, drawing out a standoff with police surrounding the building for 62 hours. (AP PHOTO)
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Indian Muslims shout anti- Pakistan slogans at a protest in New Delhi, India, Dec. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
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In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Nov. 30. (AP PHOTO)
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Islamabad has a "special responsibility" to cooperate with the investigation into the attacks, which Indian and U.S. officials have blamed on militant groups based in Pakistan.
During a joint press conference with Rice, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, "there is no doubt the terrorist attacks in Mumbai were perpetrated by individuals who came from Pakistan and whose controllers are in Pakistan."
India's defense minister summoned the army, navy and air force chiefs to warn them to be prepared for terror attacks from the air and the sea in the wake of growing criticism about slack security.
The bomb squad defused the two 8-pound bombs, said Assistant Commissioner of Police Bapu Domre, but it was not immediately clear why the bombs hadn't been found earlier.
The suspected militants sprayed Chhatrapati Shivaji train station with gunfire last Wednesday night, but authorities reopened it and declared it safe Thursday morning. The crowds of commuters quickly returned the station, one of the country's busiest, and it has been serving millions of passengers in the days since.
Rice, in New Delhi as part of a U.S. effort to ease tensions in the region following the attacks, said the United States expects all "responsible governments" to help with the investigation and "Pakistan has a special responsibility to do so and to do so transparently, urgently and fully."
"The responsibility of the Pakistani government should be one of cooperation and of action," she said.
Mukherjee vowed to bring the suspected Muslim militants to justice but said "what action will be taken by (the Indian) government will depend on the response that we have from the Pakistan authorities."
Defense Minister A.K. Antony told his military chiefs that they needed to improve intelligence coordination so that security forces can act on all credible threats, according to a ministry statement.
The statement said Antony discussed beefing up maritime security and "reviewed in detail the preparedness against any possible terror threats from air."
Defense Ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar said the moves were a precaution and not based on concrete intelligence.
"We saw how they came through the sea routes," Kar said. "We are not ruling out any threats. It's a preventive measure."
Authorities believe the gunmen responsible for last week's attacks reached Mumbai by boat after launching from Karachi, Pakistan.
Indian and U.S. officials have blamed Pakistani-based groups for the attacks and have pressured Islamabad to cooperate in the investigation.
"I have said that Pakistan needs to act with resolve and urgency, and cooperate fully and transparently," Rice said during a press conference in New Delhi. "I know too this is a time when cooperation of all parties who have any information is really required."
Rice said it was too early to say who was responsible for the attack, but: "Whether there is a direct al Qaeda hand or not, this is clearly the kind of terror in which al Qaeda participates."
So far investigators have not found the fingerprints of bin Laden in Mumbai, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. But, there is evidence al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani group believed to be behind the attack, are growing closer - sharing communication links, training camps and the same deadly mission.
"Their objective is essentially a global jihad," Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told Orr.
India has called on Pakistan to turn over 20 people who are "fugitives of Indian law" and wanted for questioning, but President Asif Ali Zardari said the suspects would be tried in Pakistan if there is evidence of wrongdoing.
"At the moment, these are just names of individuals - no proof and no investigation," he said Tuesday in an interview with CNN's Larry King. "If we had the proof, we would try them in our courts and we would try them in our land and we would sentence them."
A week after the attacks, more details of intelligence failures began to emerge, drawing further criticism to authorities already blamed for moving slowly and ineptly during the 60-hour siege carried out by 10 gunmen.
Navy chief Sureesh Mehta earlier called India's failure to act on multiple warnings "a systemic failure."
A senior U.S. intelligence official confirmed to CBS News that India was given multiple warnings, including from the U.S., that Lashkar-e-Taiba was conducting reconnaissance on hotels in Mumbai in the months before the siege.
India's foreign intelligence agency also had warnings as recently as September that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks on Mumbai, according to a government intelligence official familiar with the matter.
The information, intercepted from telephone conversations apparently coming out of Pakistan, indicated that hotels might be targeted but did not specify which ones, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about the details.
Authorities said Tuesday that ex-Pakistani army officers trained the gunmen behind the attacks - some for up to 18 months.
India has stepped up the pressure on its neighbor after interrogating Ajmal Qasab, the only surviving attacker, who told police that he and the other nine gunmen had trained for months in camps in Pakistan operated by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports that there is more detail emerging of the preparation and planning that went into the attack. Qasab has said they trained for months at a number of camps located in different regions of Pakistan. A senior Indian police official said "they underwent training in several phases, which included training in handling weapons, bomb making, survival strategies, survival in a marine environment and even dietary habits."
Little was left to chance. Not only did the terrorists arrive with bags of almonds to help sustain them through the hours of the siege, police say they used amphetamines to stay awake, reports MacVicar. One British newspaper, The Telegraph, goes further, and claims traces of cocaine, and even LSD were found in post-mortem examinations of the gunmen's bodies.
The training was "meticulous and rigorous," said a security official who spoke on the customary condition of anonymity.
The official said the gunmen sailed from Karachi in a Lashkar vessel that brought them to the waters near an Indian vessel they hijacked, the MV Kuber.
They killed three crew members and dumped their bodies in high seas, but kept the captain alive so that he could guide them into Mumbai.
The captain was killed some three nautical miles off Mumbai's coast, the official said.
Police were questioning the owner of the MV Kuber, from which investigators recovered a global positioning system that belonged to the attackers.
American officials said there is reason to suspect that the terror attacks were the work of a group at least partly based in Pakistan, although they've stopped short of mentioning Lashkar by name.

While he didn't identify the group, the Indian government has attributed the 2006 attack to Lashkar and the Students Islamic Movement of India.
Last week's attacks against hotels, a restaurant and other sites across this sprawling city killed 171 people, including 26 foreigners, officials said Wednesday. The death toll was revised down from 172 after authorities realized they had counted a victim twice.
"More bodies being found is ruled out," Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagrani said.
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See all 97 CommentsMosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
I''m sure that this visit by a do-nothing, know-nothing, soon to be forgotten miscreant will spur Pakistan to change its ways. The only thing that will cause Pakistan to sit up and take notice will be to stop the flow of no strings attached dollars that is currently flowing to them.
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Nothing else will do.
Posted by jbrown88881
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Very well said and absolutely true.
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 08:55 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Wow, that''s the same as the list of Hillary''s accomplishments in all her time as Senator.
Maybe she''ll do better as Sec''y of State. What do you think?
Not that THAT ever stopped them...
Posted by newster1 at 08:56 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Is Obama a "half-breed," too? How is his lineage different from Rice''s?
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Posted by goldchest at 09:01 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Sorry, our country is busy dumping money on wealthy exectives of huge businesses that have run their companies to the brink of bankruptcy and sent jobs away from the country and put workers out of work here, and they promise to do more of the same in exchange for the billions of dollars they want to get.
Busy, busy, MUCH too busy...
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 08:55 AM : Dec 03, 2008
I think you might have missed one. No wait, you got ''em all.
Posted by JesusEyes at 09:07 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Why should they when they have a Republican president to blame?
Posted by cntrymuzksux at 09:08 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Please list Hillary Clinton''s accomplish as Senator.
I think you might have missed one. Nope, that''s all of them.
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Is there some big meeting at work this morning? At ALL COMPANIES????
I wouldn''t know. I DON''T WORK FOR A BIG COMPANY ANYMORE.
This is ominous...
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Posted by txgrouch2007 at 09:08 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Geez, all along I thought it was a conspiracy. Course, I think the worlds flat and the moon''s made out of green cheese.
They found something IMPORTANT to talk about.
Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:56 AM : Dec 03, 2008
He''s warming up for Hillary Clinton to be Sec''y of State for Obama.
Say, isn''t Hillary from the south? And isn''t Obama a "half-breed?"
Wait, I thought we were getting a "change..."
Posted by AnitaY417 at 09:52 AM : Dec 03, 2008
That''s not the only thing terrorists use cocaine for.
They''ve found it very useful for BRIBING PEOPLE...
In closing, how will Hillary handle Pakistan and India? I don''t think she''ll mince too many words.
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
Posted by spinproof at 10:22 AM : Dec 03, 2008"
You have pointed out rightly that no moderate Islamist or cleric never open their mouth or release a statement condemning any terrorist''s. They need to express that how un Islamic it is. Looks like they silently approve such ghastly acts.
People seem to forget thAt the United States is the biggest terrorist nation of them all. Nobody in their right mind would listen to these nazis in power right now. NO MORE NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, EVER AGAIN.
Mosque and Madarassa are used to spew venom and hate on non Muslims and recruitment ground for tomorrows killers.The footprint of every global Terrorist passes through Pakistan.It is the only country that runs Terrorist training camps on its soil.It is the only Nuclear armed country whose Army has trafficked its Nuclear Weapons and also the only country threatening to use them if ever attacked.
I plead with the audience to please put pressure on your Leaders to take out these Nuclear Weapons now.Tomorrow may be too late!
God Bless!
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Posted by spinproof at 10:22 AM : Dec 03, 2008
Exactly! Although, I must add that my children''s pediatrician is a Muslim and from Pakistan. I''m a catholic, white woman who thinks he''s a wonderful and caring doctor. Always extra concerned about his patients and practicing here for decades.
I think Muslim leaders in the middle east should start talking the talk. Walking the walk, in the shadow of the U.S. is not working. We have to fight this fight to protect ourselves, but should not have to take the lead in other countries.
If you had ANY IDEA what a racist comment that was, you probably would have chosen a different word.
Look up "the c-word" at the end of that sentence. Find out the ORIGINS of that word.
Posted by goldchest
Watching video of these "indoctrined" students is downright chilling.
You seem to forget how much money this country gives to your sorry butts so you can eat and have some since of being civlized.Go talk to China and see how much aid they will send.I say keep our money here and let them provide for themselves.
If you had ANY IDEA what a racist comment that was, you probably would have chosen a different word.
Look up "the c-word" at the end of that sentence. Find out the ORIGINS of that word.
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Posted by txgrouch2007 at 10:58 AM : Dec 03, 2008
txgrouch2007 - "Cakewalk" = a game at a children''s festival, where the P.T.A. provides baked goods and cakes. Nothing remotely "racist" about this and I don''t care about any history of the word.
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Posted by olFishGut at 11:08 AM : Dec 03, 2008
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pakistan tells Mumbai "stop fighting it makes it harder for us to kill you....listen to the liberal media..you guys are defeated"
Get over the race card stuff.The man is no longer holding anybody down.He is now the the man and the excuses are over.Sometimes you get what you don''t want.
worried about the reputation of a terrorist..
just like in africa..to solve the problem..take the liberals out
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