Confessing is good for the soul ... if not for longevity, it will help a little tiny tad bit when you die ... you will at least feel like you did a good deed.
It is difficult to take away from these articles, what has not been said that could get people in the Islamic world outraged (unless it is a tasteless piece of crap called art in London, or drawings, or arresting someone who committed an assault on another person with his shoe).
Waiting for a universal condemnation - waiting for protests and demonstrations in the streets against what happened ... well, maybe it was Mossad, or the CIA, maybe it was all the work of some Chinese Mastermind, or the Russians, maybe an alien, or Yeti. Until the Islamic world wakes up and demonstrates against these very real crimes that threaten (or could) the viability of life (should someone go to war over this, life would surely be in question) - rather than infantile responses to pride.
Mumbai gunman's confession sheds light on massacre
Dec 13 10:21 PM US/Eastern
By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM
Associated Press Writer
In the confession, Kasab, 21, describes his conversion from an aspiring street criminal to a loyal soldier for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist group banned by Pakistan in 2002 and blamed by India in the attacks.
He came to the organization last year while looking to buy guns to commit robberies after quitting a low-paying job at a catering business. The search led him to several Lashkar "stalls" at a bazaar in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, he said.
Kasab went on to receive rigorous training in weapons handling and other skills, attending at least six Lashkar camps and visiting his parents twice during breaks, he said. Lashkar operatives even lectured recruits on India security and intelligence agencies, and taught them how to evade pursuing security forces.
He said they were shown "clippings highlighting the atrocities on Muslims in India," images of Mumbai locations on Google Earth, and film footage of the train station.
"We were instructed to carry out the firing at rush hour in the morning between 7 to 11 hours and between 7 and 11 hours in the evening," he said. The attacks ultimately started around 9:30 p.m.
After Kasab and nine others were picked among a group of 32 recruits, they headed to Karachi in September and practiced traveling on speed boats.
On Nov. 23, the group was transported to a ship called the Al-Huseini far out at sea.
Shortly after boarding, "each of us was given a sack containing 8 grenades, one AK47 rifle, 200 cartridges, two magazines and one cell phone for communication," he said.
The Al-Huseini's crew, he said, later hijacked an Indian vessel, killing all but one crew member who was temporality kept alive and held at gunpoint to guide them into Mumbai's coastal waters.
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