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| India accuses ISI of planning and executing Mumbai attacks |
| 2010-07-15 |
| Pakistan's intelligence agency controlled and coordinated the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a top Indian security official said, in what is the most direct accusation yet of Pakistan by India in the attacks that killed 166 people. The accusations come as the foreign ministers of the two countries are going to meet in Islamabad to attempt to rebuild a fragile peace dialogue that was shattered by the attacks. It appeared to be an attempt to ratchet up the pressure on Pakistan to prosecute people, whom India says, were deeply involved in the attacks. In an interview published on Wednesday, Home Secretary GK Pillai accused Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of playing a key role the attacks. "It was not just a peripheral role. They (the agency) were literally controlling and coordinating it from the beginning till the end," Pillai told the newspaper. Pillai said that new information about the role of the agency had emerged from the interrogation of David Coleman Headley, an American who pleaded guilty in the US in March to being involved in the planning of the attacks. Headley, the son of a former Pakistani diplomat and an American woman, was arrested in Chicago last year and has pleaded guilty to scouting the hotels and other sites in Mumbai that were targeted by the militants. He was subsequently questioned by Indian investigators. "The sense that has come out from Headley's interrogation is that the ISI has had a much more significant role to play (in the attacks)," said Pillai. Pillai also pointed the finger at Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba founder. India wants to put Saeed on trial, who now heads the Jamaatud Dawa. "The same goes for Hafiz Saeed. He was also not a peripheral player," Pillai said. Pillai added that he was hopeful that Pakistan would share information on steps it has taken against the Mumbai planners. "We have given them a whole series of data and information that we have. We have given them the names, we have given them the descriptions, we have given them what their height is or their complexion is," he said, adding: "Now it is up to them." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 India has like ten times the resources, so they should plan an incredibly lethal counterattack against the Pakis. If they want to keep it "clean", they could just target a whole bunch of the most vehement anti-India ISI. Maybe take out some of the more radical madrassas at the same time. A few thousand casualties. There is more where that came from. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-15 09:07 |