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...security at the central government, was the first to resign. He has been under intense criticism for months, the pressure mounting with each new bombing elsewhere in the country. There have been at least 10 major blasts over the past 18 months, the most recent one in Assam. Two Maharashtra state officials fell next: Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took his actor son Ritiesh and the Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma on a tour of the gutted Taj, and Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil, who resigned after he was quoted saying, "Small things do happen in big cities. They wanted...
...important, though, is the testimony of the sole surviving attacker, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, who allegedly revealed his Pakistani identity to police interrogators after being captured. Kasab, who gunned down dozens at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on Nov. 26, is being kept in an unknown location in the state of Maharashtra, whose capital is Mumbai. He has not yet been granted access to a lawyer but will be charged in due course, say state-government sources. According to the police, Kasab left his impoverished parents in Faridkot, Pakistan, and joined the LeT. The group allegedly trained him in weapons and drafted...
...incendiary implications. The details are key, and they seem to fluctuate depending on who is narrating the tale. Indian media have even given the surviving attacker conflicting last names. Some say it is Iman, not Kasab. "There are many doubts that people will have," says Bhushan Gagrani, a Maharashtra government spokesman. "But I don't see a reason not to believe the police...
...Hooda, an army officer who was the commander for today's military operations, hinted that their accents might have been Pakistani.) So far, there have been little more than hints and platitudes from the steady stream of high-profile visitors to south Mumbai: the local strongman Raj Thackeray, Maharashtra state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Member of Parliament Milind Deora. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are said to be on their way to the city, as is opposition BJP leader L.K. Advani. The question is, Will they do anything to better prepare this city, and the rest...
...reported dead, and more than 300 are injured. The injured were brought to local hospitals from the sites of the attacks, which included the Taj and another luxury hotel, the main railway terminus, a caf? and two hospitals. Among the police, 14 were killed and 25 injured. The Maharashtra chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, estimates that there were 20 to 25 terrorists involved, seven of them now dead. (See pictures of the chaos in Mumbai...