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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.
[25] [26] [27] His father denied it. [28] Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi , a senior commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba, reportedly offered to pay his family ₨ 150,000 for his participation in the attacks. [ 29 ] Another report said the 23-year-old was recruited from his home, in part, based on a pledge by recruiters to pay ₨ 100,000 to his family if he ...
Names of the victims of the September 11 attacks were inscribed at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum alphabetically by last name initial. They are organized as such: List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G) List of victims of the September 11 attacks (H–N) List of victims of the September 11 attacks (O–Z)
On 26 November 2008 ten heavily armed terrorists entered Mumbai, headed for the city's landmarks, and unleashed attacks that lasted nearly 60 hours. The lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Kasab , is prosecuted; the book pieced together how Kasab was led to his deeds.
To navigate to Mumbai by sea and to find some targets, the terrorists used Global Positioning System handsets. [31] On 2 December, the number of ten terrorists, all coming into Mumbai from Karachi via a hijacked trawler, was repeated by Mumbai Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor. He detailed that the terrorists broke up into five groups of two ...
David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani; June 30, 1960) is an American terrorist.He is known for assisting the Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks; providing multiple surveillance and terrorist reconnaissance missions throughout central Mumbai.
Dawood, India's most wanted criminal, is suspected to have helped the LeT terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26 November. Azhar, founder of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad, is on India's most wanted list of people it accuses of terrorism. India freed Azhar from prison in exchange for passengers on a hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 in ...
The ceremonial opening of the twin towers in April,1973 followed seven years of construction and more than a decade of planning. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the attacks, with more than ...