India Hands Mumbai Evidence To Pakistan

Pakistan Starts Pouring Over Alleged Links To Terror Attack, But Insists No Extraditions

(CBS/AP)  India handed evidence Monday to Pakistan that it says links the deadly Mumbai attacks to Pakistani "elements" and called on authorities across the border to investigate further and help bring the culprits to justice.

India has blamed the November attacks that killed 164 people on Pakistani-based militants, but Pakistan has denied the accusations saying India had yet to provide proof.

Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon gave evidence to the Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi on Monday linking the attacks to "elements in Pakistan," said Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

The evidence included material from the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman, details of conversations between the gunmen and their alleged handlers in Pakistan, recovered weapons, and data from satellite phones.

"This material is linked to elements in Pakistan," an official statement said. "It is our expectation that the government of Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations in Pakistan and share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice."

"The material has been received from India. The concerned people are now examining it," a senior Pakistani foreign ministry official told CBS News' Farhan Bokhari, confirming receipt of the intelligence dossier.

Pakistani officials, however, reiterated their refusal to hand over any suspects to India in connection with the terrorist attacks, instead renewing their standing offer to cooperate with their neighbor in the investigation, reported Bokhari, from Islamabad.

The foreign ministry official, who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity, said it was too early to say if Pakistan would use the information handed over by the Indians to prosecute anyone. "There are bits of information, such as transcripts of conversations between the Mumbai gunmen and their supposed backers in Pakistan. Whether this information will be upheld by a court of law is impossible to know."

A second high-ranking Pakistani government official repeated that official position, telling Bokhari, "We do not have an extradition treaty with the Indians. Any prosecution will have to take place in a Pakistani court of law."

India has blamed the three-day siege on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a militant group based in Pakistan, where authorities have arrested at least two men accused of planning the attacks and launched a nationwide crackdown on a charity believed to be a front for the LeT.

India has called on Pakistan to hand over the suspects and dismantle the terror network they say is based across the border. Pakistani leaders say they will try any suspects in the attacks in their own courts.

Among the militant suspects Pakistani authorities have detained are Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a commander of the LeT, and Abrar Shah, a senior LeT figure believed by Indian officials to have planned the attacks, reported Bokhari.

The LeT is officially banned in Pakistan, but Indian and Western officials say its representatives have worked freely under the banner of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), an Islamic charity. In December, Pakistan also banned JuD and ordered the freezing of its bank accounts.

Western diplomat have recently told CBS News that a failure to resolve the dispute could push India to carry out a small-scale attack targeting specific suspected militant locations in Pakistan. The danger is that Pakistan might retaliate and provoke a wider conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.

In the wake of the Mumbai siege, tensions between the rivals have been high, with Pakistan redeploying troops toward India and away from the Afghan border, where authorities are battling militants.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars against each other since they gained independence in 1947, but Indian leaders have made clear they do not want to fight a fourth war. India has been careful not to blame the attacks on the Pakistani government, and Monday's statement again accused "elements in Pakistan," an apparent reference to militant groups.

Pakistan's leaders have recently sought a conciliatory stance. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Sunday the country wanted "good relations with its neighbors. Good relations with India is in the interest of Pakistan. Stability in the region will benefit Pakistan."

Much of India's evidence against the militants comes from interrogations of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only gunmen to survive the attacks. He has reportedly told authorities that he and nine others were Pakistani, and that he was trained in Pakistan and that his handlers are still there.

Pakistan has said it has no record of Kasab as a Pakistani citizen.

The Mumbai attacks began Nov. 26 and lasted for nearly three days. The 10 gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital, including two five-star hotels, the main train station, popular restaurants and a Jewish center.

The U.S. has sent a string of envoys to the region in recent weeks to help defuse tensions. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher arrived in Islamabad on Monday to meet with top Pakistani government officials, the American Embassy in the Pakistani capital confirmed. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor declined to give specifics of Boucher's meetings but said "regional issues" would be discussed.

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What are they "pouring" on it? I am pouring derision on the quality of the editing at CBS.

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Religion sucks. John Lennon said it correctly in his song "Imagine". Which I am listening to right now.

The two, absolutely, worst religions in the world today are Islam and Christianity. Both are filled with so much hate and irresponsibility that the rest of us wonder what the heck is/are their problem(s)? Their philosophies are based on false premises and abject nonsense.

I firmly believe that if WE could rid ourselves of these two religions we, the world, would be so much better off. Just get rid of them!

Peace to all.

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ddaymichael,

I was not talking to you.

You write just like a depraved Zionist apologist that I know of named Michael Totten.

Your tantrum and your blind fear of Muslims is indicative of the brain-wasting disease known as Zionism.

Zionists appear to be afraid of their own shadows, so they lash out wildly in all directions.

They are governed by their own cowardice. That''s why they are destined for elimination, thankfully.

[ddaymichael]

I am not religious, which gives me a big advantage over religious folks in determining right from wrong.

Are you a Zionist?

Or a "Christian"?

Posted by rusure5

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I''m neither, raghead, but I do know what kind of BS rationalization you creatures use to justify your murderous deeds. If you send rockets into Israel, or send some reterded kid into a crowded disco and Israel retaliates, you go into your crying routine..."Oh *** oh dear, look what those terrible Israelis are doing to us now."

"Now this gives us the right..."

You''re all a glob of murdering scum who think the Koran is your, "Get out of hell free card"

It ain''t!

And as to the 70 virgins, what did they ever do to deserve creeps like you?

[rusure5]

RE: "This is the part were I question your intelligence and examine your ancestry for any animal human hybrids."

Posted by cbscrash072

Sounds like something that a depraved Zionist might do.

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re: "you seem to really hate the Jews. according to you, Jews are the only ones that are committing terrorist attacks against the world. Are you Muslim ?"

Posted by ToolMangler

You seem to be misinformed. Many/most Jews do not support Israeli terrorism and atrocities. Also, most Zionists are not Jewish, but are Christians.

Please educate yourself and get your terminology straight if you would like to discuss this topic with me.

The Zionists, Israeli and otherwise, are definitely committing the majority of terrorist attacks around the world.

This is hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with the depraved, sub-human, and sociopathic nature of the Zionist.

I am not religious, which gives me a big advantage over religious folks in determining right from wrong.

Are you a Zionist?

Or a "Christian"?

[cbscrash072]

Really? Its Israel''s fault? Ok! This is the part were I question your intelligence and examine your ancestry for any animal human hybrids.

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And, as we have seen, the Israelis have no qualms about killing civilians, anywhere in the world, in order to further their nefarious goals, as we are seeing right now in Gaza.
Posted by rusure5 at 03:47 PM : Jan 05, 2009




you seem to really hate the Jews. according to you, Jews are the only ones that are committing terrorist attacks against the world. Are you Muslim ?

[rusure5]

As I mentioned before, the chances that Pakistan was behind these attacks are negligible.

They would stand nothing to gain, and everything to lose.

Here is a far more likely possibility:

Why the Israelis might be behind these attacks-

Motive:

The Israelis have an open hatred and fear of all Muslims.

The Israelis know Pakistan is one of the least stable countries in this region of Muslim countries.

The Israelis are making billions of dollars selling weapons and "training" to the Indian government.

The Indians are already paranoid about Pakistan, and the Israelis know that it wouldn''''t take much to coax India into blaming Pakistan for the attacks.

The Israelis would very much like to see the rest of the world hate and fear Muslims as much as they do.

Means:

The Israelis have the planners and weaponry needed to orchestrate a sophisticated attack like this.

The Israelis have the ability to transport attackers into the area undetected.

The Israelis have the ability to analyze security vulnerabilities and to exploit them.

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.

And, as we have seen, the Israelis have no qualms about killing civilians, anywhere in the world, in order to further their nefarious goals, as we are seeing right now in Gaza.

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Looks like you don''''t have any idea what you are talking about.

Are you Israeli or a Zionist?

Posted by rusure5 at 03:18 PM : Jan 05, 2009


Naw, Just like irritating irrational paranoid conspiracy wack-jobs & watch them get all defensive & insulted when someone doesn''t buy into their random brainfarts. I''ll believe (with a grain of salt) the current reports out of the mainstream news sources until a better source is available as opposed to some anonymous poster with a racist vendetta against Jews.
Remember not to be late to the Waffen-SS costume party tonight.