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MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- An Indian official said the coordinated terrorist attacks that killed at least 183 people in nine sites across Mumbai this week could have been much worse.
"We found bullets with them, hand grenades, bombs," R.R. Patil, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state, said at a news conference. "Based on our investigation, we believe they had planned to kill 5,000 people."
Indian authorities also were investigating whether some of the attackers may have gotten away, blending into Mumbai's 18 million residents.
Another top official at the news conference pointed to a connection with Pakistan.
"Yes, the captured terrorist was Pakistani, as the home minister and others have said," said Vilasrao Deshmukh, chief minister of Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located.
"As far as the others, the accomplices, the investigation, the interrogation is under way and the details will become public very soon."
Police and soldiers continued their room-by-room sweep of the Taj Mahal Hotel late Saturday to make sure all trapped guests had been evacuated and no gunmen remained hidden.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari pledged his country's full cooperation with the investigation and vowed to take "the strictest action" if it is found the terrorists were based in Pakistan.
Investigators probing the attacks said they found cell phones and a global navigational device on an abandoned boat floating off the coast of Mumbai, CNN's sister station CNN-IBN reported.
The television station showed photographs of a phone's log that indicated calls had been placed to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
The boat, intelligence officials told CNN-IBN, had been hijacked. The captain was found dead, lying face down with his hands bound behind his back. Four crew members were missing.
Zardari -- whose wife, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated a year ago -- said he was "as committed as can be" to wiping out the terrorists because they also threaten him and his country.
"They may not be the same individuals, but they are definitely the same forces with the same mindset."MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- An Indian official said the coordinated terrorist attacks that... more
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Just two weeks after the US Presidential election, Al Qaeda second-in-command Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri has released a message, which he claims is specifically in response to the election of Obama.
Zawahiri says
Barack Obama has won the presidency of the United States of America, and on this occasion, I would like to send several messages.”
In the message Zawahiri calls Obama “the direct opposite of honorable Black Americans”. He points out that Obama was born to a Muslim father, but “chose to stand in the ranks of the enemies of the Muslims, and pray the prayer of the Jews, although … claim to be Christian, in order to climb the rungs of leadership in America”.
He calls Obama and Secretaries Rice and Powell “House Negroes”, claiming they are confirmation of the words of Malcolm X.
This is not the first time Zawahiri has used the term “abayd al bayt”, which literally translates as slaves or servants of the house. Zawahiri takes the phrase from a statement by Malcolm X, which Zawahiri has quoted in the past. In an interview with As Sahab in May 2007, Zawahiri includes old video footage of Malcom X saying:
"You have to read the history of slavery to understand this. There were two kinds of Negroes: there was that old house Negro and [there was] the field Negro”.
In that message as well, Zawahiri suggested that former US Secretary of State Colin Powell and current US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice were “House Negroes”, the same term that he now applies to US President-elect Barack Obama.
The influence of Adam Gadahn is apparent in these Zawahiri comments, which seem to reflect Gadahn’s perception of current race relations in the United States.
Zawahiri congratulates Abu Umar al Baghdadi, citing the Obama election as evidence that the US has been defeated in Iraq. He encourages the mujahideen in Somalia to continue fighting.
He concludes the message with a threat towards the west:
As for my final message, it is to the American people. I tell it: you incurred defeat and losses from the foolish actions of Bush and his gang, and at the same time, Shaykh Usama bin Ladin (may Allah preserve him) sent you a message to withdraw from the lands of the Muslims and refrain from stealing their treasures and interfering in their affairs. So choose for yourself whatever you like, and bear the consequences of your choice, and as you judge, you will be judged.
This comment is reminiscent of the words of Bin Laden in his pre-election video tape of October 2004, when Bin Laden said:
Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Any nation that does not attack us will not be attacked.Just two weeks after the US Presidential election, Al Qaeda second-in-command Dr.... more
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An NHS doctor accused of attempted car bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport has admitted that according to English law he is a terrorist.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, is alleged to have crashed into the airport in a Jeep laden with petrol and gas canisters.
But he told a jury he never wanted to kill or injure anyone.
Dr Abdulla, from Paisley, and Dr Mohammed Asha, 27, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, deny conspiracies to murder and to cause explosions.
The defence has said that Dr Abdulla and friend Kafeel Ahmed, 28, wanted to highlight the plight of people in Iraq and Afghanistan with a series of incendiary device attacks in June 2007.An NHS doctor accused of attempted car bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport has... more
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Sometimes we make these terrorists out to be infallible and they take credit for being unstoppable but in reality they have "feet of clay." This link includes a paper that is worthwhile reading that tells us how some of the terrorist incidents didn't meet all its goals.
http://thinkingpoints.thengia.org/2008/06/10/indepth-analysis-paper-the-incompetency-of-jihad-released.aspx
In war, each opponent’s effectiveness is judged not only on its military capabilities but on its ability to achieve overall objectives in multiple areas. This scrutiny has been sorely lacking in previous examinations of the overall effectiveness of the terrorist group Al-Qa’ida (AQ). Part of the contributing factor for this has been the media’s tendency to credit AQ with any and all terror related incidents thereby attributing power and means to the terrorists that are non-existent. Despite not exercising direct operational control over the media, AQ is nonetheless well served as the media’s laziness and failure to do proper investigative journalism enhances the terror group’s Information Operation (IO) campaigns.Sometimes we make these terrorists out to be infallible and they take credit for being... more
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A 13-year-old girl became the youngest suicide bomber to wreak havoc in Iraq yesterday, killing five Iraqi guards in a town that has become notorious for deadly attacks by women bombers.
The girl blew herself up in Baquba, on the same day that a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, killing about 30 people and shattering a fragile sense of calm in the capital.
The carnage was compounded by a male suicide bomber who joined the crowd of rescue workers, bystanders and frantic relatives of victims before blowing himself up in a follow-up explosion.
A 13-year-old girl became the youngest suicide bomber to wreak havoc in Iraq... more
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