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US Mulls Coastal Security in Wake of Mumbai

(Newser) - The recent terrorist attack in Mumbai has US officials redoubling efforts to secure America’s coastline, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Coast Guard is planning to increase security by issuing ID cards to workers and installing transponders on boats to keep track of activity in US waters. But some...

Pakistan Admits Mumbai Gunman Is Citizen

Concession comes after India shares 100-page evidence dossier

(Newser) - The Pakistani government finally admitted today that the lone surviving gunman from November’s Mumbai attacks is its citizen, the BBC reports. It’s the first time India’s rival conceded a connection to the terrorist siege, despite weeks of heavy US pressure to comply. The foot-dragging was partly to...

India Offers Evidence Tying Pakistan to Mumbai Attacks

Materials include talks with gunman, phone data

(Newser) - India gave Pakistan the most detailed evidence yet that, it says, ties the militants who attacked Mumbai to "elements" in Pakistan, responding today to weeks of demands from Islamabad for proof of such claims. India has blamed the November attacks that killed 164 people on Pakistani-based militants, but Islamabad...

Pakistan's Own Probe Sees Local Links to Mumbai

(Newser) - Pakistani officials are gradually coming to the same conclusion about the Mumbai attacks as their Indian counterparts: The plot was hatched in Pakistan, and the attackers were trained there by a militant group with long ties to the Pakistani military, the Wall Street Journal reports. The evidence is becoming clear...

Guests Return to Battered Mumbai Hotels

Reopening marks city's quick rebound

(Newser) - Both five-star Mumbai hotels targeted in last month's deadly terror attacks reopened for business yesterday, marking the defiant rebound with glitz and prayer, reports the Los Angeles Times reports. Amid tight security, Bollywood stars and top government officials celebrated at the century-old Taj Mahal—whose flaming building became the iconic...

Mumbai's Posh Hotels Prepare to Reopen

(Newser) - Three weeks after militants went on a murderous rampage in Mumbai, two of the city's high-profile targets are ready to welcome guests again. Both of Mumbai's five-star hotels—the sleek, sea-front Oberoi and the majestic 105-year-old Taj Mahal—will reopen at least some of their sections tomorrow. The main areas,...

India Cans Pakistan Cricket Trip

Tensions still high in wake of Mumbai violence

(Newser) - Government officials have canceled the Indian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan, the Times of India reports, terming the trip unsafe and inappropriate in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks for which it holds a Pakistan-based group responsible. “The government has declined permission to go ahead with the...

Mumbai Gunmen Aired Slights in Cell Phone Calls

During seige, attackers cite Muslim grievances in India, Kashmir

(Newser) - Cell phone calls made by Mumbai gunmen during their attacks last month have shed some light on the motivations behind the slaughter, the Washington Post reports. Two members of Lashkar-e-Taiba who phoned an Indian TV station during the attacks cited the deaths of 1,000 demonstrators—mostly Muslims—in Gujarat...

India Fighter Jets Buzz Pakistan
India Fighter Jets
Buzz Pakistan
Dec 14, 2008 8:20 AM CST

India Fighter Jets Buzz Pakistan

Pakistan downplays 'accident,' while Brown reads riot act to Zardari

(Newser) - India fighter jets crossed into Pakistan territory yesterday before being intercepted by Pakistani aircraft who harried them back to their own nation, according to officials in Islamabad. The jets buzzed two regions where Indian officials charge that terrorists are being trained, reports the New York Times. Pakistan downplayed the "...

Mumbai Thugs Aimed to Squeeze Press With Hostages

Gunman reveals how plans to force media demands went awry

(Newser) - Mumbai terrorists originally planned to take hostages and use them to make demands of the media, a captured gunmen has revealed. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and his partner, responsible for a massacre at the train station, intended to take hostages to a rooftop, but couldn't find a suitable building, reports AP....

Founder of Mumbai Terror Group Under House Arrest

Pakistan also freezes organization's assets

(Newser) - Bowing to global pressure to curb terrorist activities inside its borders, Pakistan today placed the founder of the group thought to be responsible for the Mumbai attacks under house arrest, Reuters reports. Pakistani police encircled the house of Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group and head of its charity...

India: 20 Recruited With Mumbai Gunmen at Large

Police release names, planning details

(Newser) - Indian police say the 10 Mumbai attackers were among 30 recruits selected for suicide missions—and they don’t know the whereabouts of the rest. There was no indication that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were in India, but the police commissioner says news that others were willing to die—provided by...

Minister: Pakistan 'Ready for War'

If India pushes, Pakistan vows to retaliate

(Newser) - Pakistan’s foreign minister escalated the rhetoric against India yesterday, saying the country is “ready for war” if pushed to it over the Mumbai attacks, the Telegraph reports. “We do not want to impose war, but we are fully prepared,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. “We are...

Zardari: Mumbai Attack Targeted Pakistan, Too
Zardari: Mumbai Attack Targeted Pakistan, Too
OPINION
Dec 9, 2008 11:10 AM CST

Zardari: Mumbai Attack Targeted Pakistan, Too

Terrorists sought to impede country's peace process with India

(Newser) - Pakistan played no part in the Mumbai attacks, President Asif Ali Zardari writes in today’s New York Times, except perhaps as a co-victim. The attacks “were directed not only at India,” he writes, “but at Pakistan’s new democratic government and the peace process with India...

New York Cops to Get Machine Gun Training

Academy recruits prepare for Mumbai copycat attacks

(Newser) - The New York Police Department is preparing for the possibility of a Mumbai-style terrorist attack on multiple targets by training all 1,000 of its latest recruits to use M4 automatic machine guns, the New York Post reports. The 2,000 officers in the Organized Crime Control Bureau will get...

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