I'm sure Gandhi would be rolling in his grave had his ashes not been spread into the Ganges.
"India convicts Pakistani in ’08 Mumbai rampage; Militant may get death sentence in court today" by Emily Wax, Washington Post | May 4, 2010
NEW DELHI — A Pakistani militant was found guilty yesterday of waging war on India during the brazen November 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people and strained relations between the nuclear-armed rivals....
The planning of the Mumbai attacks stretched to Chicago, where David Coleman Headley, 49, arrested in a Chicago airport in October, acknowledged attending training camps sponsored by Lashkar-i-Taiba and changing his name from Daood Gilani to avoid notice in India....
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FBI Case File: Chicago Case Collapsing
Pakistan Needs to Imitate India
So HEADLEY was/is a U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENT, huh?
And his patsy?
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 22, who bowed his head during the verdict, will be sentenced today and could face the death penalty.
It was an emotional day for many Indians, because Kasab is the lone surviving gunman from the gun-and-grenade ambush on India’s financial capital, a powerful strike at the city that has been at the forefront of India’s economic boom.
Kasab was videotaped by security camera during the 2 1/2-day siege, crazy-eyed and shooting up the city’s busiest railway station....
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The Lone Patsy of the Mumbai Myth
What is with the Hindu wristband?
A total of 610 witnesses testified during Kasab’s trial, which ran for 271 days and produced a 1,522-page verdict that was read aloud yesterday in a packed courtroom on the jail premises in Mumbai, where Kasab is being held for security reasons.
Well, how can you doubt that cover-up, 'er, verdict?
Judge M.L. Tahiliyani acquitted two Indians who had been accused of helping plot the attacks.
Those must have been the RAW handlers, 'eh?
Office workers and schoolchildren across the country gathered at television sets to watch the verdict for the attacks that are known in India as 26/11, mirroring the way Americans refer to the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington.
India's Inside Job
The Mumbai Myth Takes Hold
It certainly does in the AmeriKan newspaper.
The world watched on live television as hostages from around the globe were terrorized for days at two luxury hotels and a Jewish outreach center, and Indian commandos struggled to kill the gunmen....
Yup, all a BIG, AGENDA-PUSHING PRODUCTION!
On the world stage, the Mumbai massacre brought relations between India and Pakistan — which have fought three wars — to a new low. The Obama administration wants to ease tensions on the subcontinent and has been urging both sides back to the table. That way, Pakistan could focus on fighting the Taliban on its western border with Afghanistan.
So says the lying, agenda-pushing newspaper.
At talks at a regional conference last week in Bhutan, the countries’ prime ministers agreed to begin rebuilding relations. But in a chilling reminder of the fragility of those talks, a terror attack warning in India all weekend kept many families locked indoors and sparked debate on Sunday talk shows about whether negotiations are realistic.
Related: Pakistan-India Peace Talks Torpedoed by Terrorists
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Yeah, their timing is IMPECCABLE, isn't it?
India says the group Lashkar-i-Taiba, based in Pakistan, whose name means “Army of the Pious,’’ ordered the November attacks. During the announcement of Kasab’s verdict, the judge said India had evidence that Kasab was a part of Lashkar-i-Taiba. India has been frustrated over Pakistan’s slowness in dismantling the group....
Yeah, whatever.
See: India's Mass Graves
I'm sure Pakistan is sick of the mass-murdering Indians in Kashmir but I rarely ever read about that.
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Lots of "terrorists" and "terrorism" though!
MUMBAI, India --An Indian judge said he would decide Thursday whether to sentence to death the only surviving gunman in the bloody 2008 Mumbai attacks....
Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam asked for the death penalty, which is rarely handed down in India.
That is Gandhi-like of him, isn't it?
"It would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed," he said.
It would seem just after a mockery of a trial.
Drawing on ancient Indian epics, Shakespeare and Urdu poetry in his wide-ranging plea, Nikam said Kasab's crimes were so heinous they defied language....
I can think of some pretty good descriptions.
The Times of India, India's most widely read English-language newspaper, said in an editorial Tuesday that Kasab and the other gunmen were merely "foot soldiers," while the real masterminds remained unpunished.
"Now, it is up to New Delhi to ensure that the work done by the special court and by the investigators, both Indian and foreign, is not wasted. It must continue to exert pressure on Islamabad," the paper said.--more--"
NEW DELHI — The lone surviving Pakistani gunman in a 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai was sentenced yesterday to die for his role in the bloody siege that killed about 166 people and strained relations between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan.
Ajmal Amir Kasab, 22, convicted of killing 52 people, sat still in the courtroom looking ashen and staring at the floor. He wept as the judge, M.L. Tahiliyani, sentenced him to death by hanging for four offenses, including murder and waging war against India.
Hopefully that will teach ALL YOU KIDS OUT THERE not to become ENTANGLED with BACK-STABBING INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES selling you a LOAD OF SHIT!!!
Ten militants attacked a railway station, two five-star hotels, a restaurant, and a Jewish outreach center in the November 2008 siege of Mumbai, India’s financial nerve center. Surveillance cameras showed Kasab shooting people with an automatic weapon at the railway station before police arrested him on the first night of the attack.
According to lawyers and police officers present in the courtroom, the judge said, “The common man will lose faith in the courts if this man is let loose, if death is not awarded.’’
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In New Delhi, Law Minister Veerappa Moily called the death sentence “a message to all terrorists: If you land in India, you will meet this fate.’’
In the run-up to the sentencing, television channels across India ran heated debates about whether Kasab should be executed — a rare penalty in India. In bazaars across New Delhi, people gathered around community television sets watching the news at beauty salons, grocery stores, and TV showrooms. At one pharmacy shop, a small group of men clapped when the verdict was announced....
Why don't you just open up his neck and start sucking down the blood right now?
Under the Indian judicial system, Kasab has the right to appeal in a higher court, which will scrutinize the sentence, after which he can also take his case to the Supreme Court. Legal analysts said he also can appeal to the Indian president for mercy.
Wouldn't get my hopes up.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, more than 300 convicts — including the 1991 assassins of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi — have been on death row for years. About 50 mercy petitions are pending with President Pratibha Patil. The last execution took place in 2004....
What is it with murdering your Gandhis, India?
PEACE is NEVER PREFERABLE, is it?
But relatives of Mumbai victims are impatient with the long judicial process and say the government should not spend more money keeping Kasab alive and in custody....
I give up on the Indian people.
The high-profile 17-month trial took place in a temporary courtroom inside a prison complex. The day before the verdict, Indian media quoted prison sources as saying that Kasab was singing a popular Bollywood song in his solitary cell. The court proceedings were largely conducted in the Marathi language, which Kasab, who is from Pakistan, does not speak. He often giggled and dozed off in court.
Was he tortured, drugged, or just nuts?
All three, huh?
India has blamed the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-i-Taiba for engineering the Mumbai attacks. Six men are in custody in Pakistan for aiding the gunmen in carrying out their attacks. India has handed over several dossiers of evidence against the group and has demanded the extradition of its chief, Hafiz Sayeed.
Oh, well, who could doubt Indian bullshit and forgeries?
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Also see:
Mumbai Cover-Up Complete
Almost.
One more soul to take.
Oh, yeah, the peace talks that never go anywhere and are never seriously followed up on by governments or press because they are not interested in peace.
If they were, we would have it.
We also know why and for who$e wi$he$ there i$ no peace.
"India, Pakistan agree to restart peace talks" by Associated Press | April 30, 2010
THIMPHU, Bhutan — The prime ministers of India and Pakistan agreed yesterday to resume peace talks between their top diplomats and work toward rebuilding trust shattered by the deadly 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that New Delhi blamed on Pakistani militants.
Officials said Manmohan Singh of India and his Pakistani counterpart, Yousuf Raza Gilani, agreed on the need to normalize ties, dogged by some six decades of hostility since both gained independence from Britain.
They deputed their foreign ministers to meet at a later date to discuss the resumption of a wide-ranging formal dialogue that began in 2004 but was suspended after the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
The two prime ministers met for more than one hour in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, on the sidelines of a summit of South Asian leaders. It was their first meeting in eight months.
India’s foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao, said Gilani assured India that Pakistan would not allow its territory to be used for terrorist activity directed against India and it would expedite the trial of suspects of the Mumbai attacks it is holding.
Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, signaled that he thought the resumption of the dialogue was a formality.
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I'm sorry I didn't take that fleeting brief very seriously, readers.
It's what I'm getting in my newspaper, world -- the point of this blog.
So you can see what we receive for news here in my little corner of the world.
