Sophisticated Attacks, but Al Qaeda Link Disputed

ALAN COWELL and SOUAD MEKHENNET
NY Times
Thursday, Nov 27, 2008

A day after the terror assaults in Mumbai that killed over 100 people, one question remained as impenetrable as the smoke that still billowed from two of the city’s landmark hotels: who carried out the attacks?

Security officials and experts agreed that the assaults represented a marked departure in scope and ambition from other recent terrorist attacks in India, which targeted local people rather than foreigners and hit single rather than multiple targets.

The Mumbai assault, by contrast, was “uniquely disturbing”, said Sajjan Gohel, a security expert in London, because it seemed directed at foreigners, involved hostage-taking and was aimed at multiple “soft, symbolic targets.” The attacks “aimed to create maximum terror and human carnage and damage the economy,” he said in a telephone interview.

But the central riddle was the extent to which local assailants had outside support. The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said the attacks probably had “external linkages”, reflecting calculations among Indian officials that the level of planning, preparation and coordination could not have been achieved without help from experienced terrorists, particularly groups affiliated to Al Qaeda. The planning of the attack has profound political implications for both India and its neighbor, Pakistan.

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But the identity of the Mumbai attackers remained a mystery.

An e-mail message to Indian media outlets taking responsibility for the attacks in Mumbai on Wednesday night said the militants were from a group called Deccan Mujahedeen. Almost universally, experts and intelligence officials said that name was unknown.

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5 Responses to “Sophisticated Attacks, but Al Qaeda Link Disputed”

JEH Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I would tend to suspect a country that has already bombed and killed it’s own citizens and invaded other countries several times for it’s own political and financial global domination agenda. I wonder who that could be?
Felipe IV Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It is important to note that distinguished India author and researcher Maloy Krishna has previously detailed in his book “Fulcrum of Evil ISI – CIA – Al Qaeda Nexus” the nefarious workings of Pakistan’s feared ISI Intelligence service as they continue their efforts with the CIA and their combined ‘terrorist groups’ Al Qaeda and Taliban towards plunging our World into Total War:

http://www.cherada.com/articul.....ror-attack
ThomasT Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Yep, Mr Singhaling. if were they, airplanes, sure. Also the Taj and Oberoi would have free fallen, and so would have the Gate of India, being unstruck, such as WT7, bur just across the road. Nah Al CIA DuH would have also have had vapourised all the attackers, but the BBC would still find half alive after the fact. Also dont forget they would all be identified within 24 hours, some by passports found outside the collapsed buildings, and their history all precisely mapped out. This flying school, that apartment, this nightclub, that meeting etc etc. . Defintiely not those mystiques, how clever of you and I. Are we alone in being so smart?
Hal Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“But the identity of the Mumbai attackers remained a mystery.”

Why haven’t we heard from the freed or escaped hostages?
mythicshadow Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
the death of the male

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gnz_9LLN0bs