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During and immediately after the 2008 Mumbai attacks the news media worldwide broadcast incorrect factual information on a scale often seen in a fog of war. Erroneous reporting on the 2008 Mumbai attacks included false information concerning the number of attackers, their nationality, their organizational affiliations, origins, and the methods of transport they had used.
The day after the attacks, however, the Indian government asked Mumbai citizens to cease updating Twitter with live coverage of police activity. [110] The New York Times and the BBC offered live text coverage online, as did many Indian bloggers. [110] [111] A map of the attacks was also set up, using Google Maps. [112]
David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani; June 30, 1960) is an American terrorist.He assisted the Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks, providing multiple surveillance and terrorist reconnaissance missions throughout central Mumbai.
Ali Abbas Rizvi quoted a source as saying, "They [India] may have wanted to know whether the PAF was on five-minute alert or cockpit alert, and thereby find out the reaction time". [ 62 ] On 19 December, private intelligence agency Stratfor, in its latest report, said, "Indian military operations against targets in Pakistan have in fact been ...
TodayTix is a digital ticketing platform for theatrical and cultural events. Founded by two Broadway producers, TodayTix's free mobile apps for iOS and Android provide access to theater shows in New York City, London, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
Faheem Ahmed Ansari, an Indian from Mumbai, is a suspected collaborator. His group of six Indian men were initially arrested in connection with an attack on a police station in northern India. Ansari had also carried out reconnaissance of targets in Mumbai earlier in the year. He was caught with hand-drawn sketches of 8 to 10 Mumbai landmarks.
On 30 September 2006, CNN reported that "The Indian government accused Pakistan's military spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, of planning 11 July Mumbai train bombings that killed 209 people". [16] The New York City Police Department was intensely concerned about the attacks, citing their simplicity and lethality.
The 2008 Mumbai attacks [14] (also referred to as 26/11 attacks) [15] [a] were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organisation, carried out 12 shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.