26/11 And "Myth of Saffron Terrorism" - Part Three

26/11 And "Myth of Saffron Terrorism" - Part Three

Happenings on 26/11...

How Ten Terrorists reached Mumbai...official version.

The journey of 10 Pakistani terrorists started on 23rd November 2008; i.e. three days before 26/11 when the 10 Pakistani terrorists and their support personnel boarded a small boat near Karachi port. They travel to the high sea where all of them were transferred to a container vessel named Al Fouz . This container vessel takes them near Gujarat in the the Indian waters, where the 10 terrorists and their crew were transferred to a Pakistani fishing trawler. The trawler enter Indian waters near Gujarat port and locates Indian fishing trawler "Kuber". The Pakistanis highjack "Kuber, transfer 4 of Kuber's crew member on the Pakistani trawler and leave the main navigator named Tandel on "Kuber". Tandel is asked to navigate towards Mumbai, on which he said, he did not have enough diesel to go to Mumbai. Pakistanis were well prepared for this situation and transferred 6 full barrels of diesel on "Kuber". 

The 10 Pakistani terrorists traveled for two and and a half days on "Kuber". During this travel, terrorists were constantly watching the travel path on GPS to ensure that the boat was going in the right direction. On 26/11 late afternoon, they reached 4-5 miles outside Mumbai coast and they started seeing Mumbai coast outlines. At this point, they stopped "Kuber", inflated their rubber dinghy, attached the propeller engine to it, packed their back packs with arms, ammunitions, communication devices and food supply and jumped onto the rubber dingy to reach Mumbai port.

But before leaving "Kuber" they slit the throat of Kuber's navigator, Tandel so as to wiped out evidence of how terrorists reached Mumbai. They were also instructed to sink "Kuber" and throw away satellite phone before embarking journey in rubber dinghy. But as they were transferring goods on the rubber dinghy, someone saw a big boat approaching towards them with speed and one of the terrorist shouted "Navy". Everyone panicked and quickly jumped on the rubber dinghy, leaving behind satellite phone on "Kuber" and forgot to sink "Kuber". 

Later, this satellite phone and "Kuber" became vital evidence to prove what route these 10 terrorists took to reach Mumbai.  

The terrorists landed at fisherman's colony named "Bhai Bandarkar Colony" in Colaba area of South Mumbai, at around 8.45 PM on 26/11. This area is also known as Badhwar Park. 

What happened after Pakistani terrorists reached Mumbai?

Let's see the map of location where these 10 terrorists got off.

Bhai Bandarkar Colony in Colaba Mumbai.

The terrorist landed near the place marked with red pin in the above map. As you can see, this landing place is inside a gulf and requires precise navigation skills. A small mistake at night time would have taken them into a totally wrong spot. There are quite a few sensitive location near this landing place, like navy Nagar, Army area, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) etc where there is always lot of security. If they had drifted few miles away, they could have been caught by the police. It is a bit surprising to note that they had fed accurate coordinate for landing.

Question - How was it possible for the 10 semi literate Pakistani terrorists to navigate so precisely to the exact landing location, that too in an unknown city and at night time? Or is there a possibility, someone local was helping them to navigate correctly? This aspect, even if was investigated, was never made public by the investigating agencies.

After getting down at the seashore near Bhai Bandarkar Fisherman's colony,  the terrorists started walking towards the main road through the narrow lanes of the densely populated fisherman's colony. Unfortunately, there was India's cricket match going on on the TV and hence most of the people were indoor, glued to the TV and the narrow lanes were deserted. But still, one person got suspicious and asked the terrorists as what they were doing in their colony? One of the terrorists curtly replied in Bumbaiyya Hindi (slang version of Hindi spoken in Mumbai) to mind his own business. These terrorists were taught to speak Bambaiyya Hindi! Later Kasab too confessed that they were taught to speak Bumbaiyya Hindi so that they should easily blend with the local Mumbai people.

Question - If the terrorists were sent to kill people and get killed at the end, then why they were taught to speak Bambaiyya Hindi? Pakistani terrorists had done terrorist attacks in India earlier too but at that time, they were not taught to speak Hindi.  Why they were taught this time? 

The only logical possibility could be, if the terrorists had created a hostage situation, then the Bambayya Hindi speaking terrorists would have disguised authorities as they were Indians. Kasab had confessed that they were instructed to take innocent people as hostage and extend the fear of terror much longer. 

The controversy of the cabs....

Earlier police version said, the ten terrorists paired up and hired FIVE cabs to go to the five target locations. But Sr. Inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale who was the chief investigating officer for 26/11 attacks has written in his Marathi book, "Kasab Ani Mee" (Kasab and I) that only 8 terrorists hired FOUR cabs to go to 4 locations. The 5th pair used rubber dinghy to reach hotel Trident. Police say, that dinghy later drifted towards the same fisherman's colony where terrorists had landed earlier. The abandoned dinghy was spotted by the fisherman in that area and was handed over to the police.

I really doubt this story because the road distance between where the terrorists landed and the hotel Trident is less than 2 Kilometers. in fact, this distance was the shortest distance amongst all other targets. Hiring a cab was the best possible method to reach hotel Trident quickly. Then why did they use rubber dinghy to go to the hotel Trident? 

Please see the map below showing the distance between two locations.

Distance between Bhai Bandarkar fishrman's colony and hotel Trident

Another important point that does not match the story....

The Hotel Trident is directly facing Arabian sea. If the rubber dinghy was left there for a free drift then it would have drifted into the open sea. But it was spotted inside the gulf, where terrorists had landed earlier. It is highly unlikely that a rubber dinghy left in the open sea would drift inside the gulf!

We do not know the time when this dinghy was spotted by the fisherman and at what exact location hence we cannot say with certainty in either way. But it certainly looks very odd that only one pair used rubber dinghy and others used cabs. But for now, we will go with the official version that FOUR cabs were used.

Cab bombing...

After the terrorists got down from the cab, they left the IED bombs in the cabs. But instead of keeping bombs in all 4 cabs, they kept the bombs only in THREE cabs! After about an hour, two out of the three cabs were completely destroyed in the bomb blast. Police say, the terrorists kept the bombs in the cab so as to create panic in Mumbai. The plan was, when the bombs explode in different parts of Mumbai, public would think there is a large scale attack on Mumbai and panic would set in.

I doubt this theory too because, the intended outcome of such random bombing at night time in south Mumbai was not sure. The bombs could have exploded in a remote place when the cabs are parked at night time.

The first cab was taken to the restaurant Leopold Cafe in Colaba. The bomb in this cab exploded near Mazgoan area killing cab driver and two other ladies on the road.

The second cab was taken to the CST railway station. This bomb exploded in Vile Parle, killing cab driver and a passenger.

The third cab was taken to hotel Taj. But here, the cab driver was suspicious about the passengers. When they got down at hotel Taj, the terrorists left the bag laced with the bomb in the cab. But the alert cab driver spotted the bag immediately and called back the terrorists to take the bag. The terrorists came back and picked up the hand bag pretending as though they had forgotten.

The suspicious cab driver was still watching them walk towards the hotel Taj and noticed, just few feet away the terrorists left the same bag near the police beat post, in front of the hotel Taj. He thought of alerting the police but suddenly heard the burst of gunfire and saw people running crazy on the road. The firing in hotel Taj continued and there was an utter chaos on the road. The cab driver had to wait till police arrived there. He showed the bag to the police and the bomb squad was commissioned to defuse the bomb. A major catastrophe was averted because of alertness from the cab driver.

But later when police tried to search for this cab driver to record his statement, get details of the terrorists and make him a witness, he was never found! The police searched every possible clue but he was never to be found again. He was vanished in thin air.

This whole episode of cab driver at Taj hotel is written in details by Sr. Police inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale in his book. I am sure, this fact is not known to lot of people.

Question - India's all investigation agencies like Mumbai police, CBI, MI, IB and even RAW were involved in the investigation and still, how come this cab driver was never found? Indian investigation agencies are dam smart and if they decide to crack the case then they would do it at any cost. Then how come all of them could not find this crucial eye witness who saw the terrorists right from the time they landed? This is really very strange.

The fourth cab went to Nariman House (Jewish center). There was no bomb in this cab, nor there is any mention of this fourth cab driver in the police investigation nor his cab was found! This cab driver was never called as a witness in the court. Nobody knows anything about this fourth cab. Suspiciously strange.... why this fourth cab was not bombed?

If the instruction was to plant bombs in the cabs so as to create panic in different parts of Mumbai, then why fourth cab did not have the bomb? Hence I doubt this police theory.

Since only THREE cabs out of FOUR were bombed, I am getting following questions.

Question - Is it not possible that only three cabs were hired and not four? And these three cabs were bombed because the terrorists did not want the cab driver to report involvement of some local person/s who was/were guiding the terrorists? Two cab drivers were killed but the third cab driver survived the bombing but he too disappeared permanently, never to be found again! Was he deliberately made to disappear? This looks very suspicious. Why this angle was never investigated?

Question - Let's talk about the mystery of 4th cab. Is it not possible that 4th cab was never used and some local person drove the pair to the Nariman House in a private car? And this is the reason the fourth cab was never bombed, its driver was never identified and there was no mention of the fourth cab? The Nariman House is not a major tourist attraction in Mumbai. Locating this address in a densely populated residential area would have made it very difficult for the Pakistani terrorists who were strangers in the city. Hence is it not possible, some local person drove them to the address?

Question - Is it possible that the 5th pair too, that went to the hotel Trident was dropped in the same private car? And that is the reason police are saying, no cab was used here and a rubber dinghy was used to reach hotel Trident?

These are very obvious questions and Police had no answers as they never investigated this angle.

This all is very suspicious but there is no police investigation on this. I really doubt these Pakistani terrorists did not get any local help.

Let's Understand what ams and ammunitions terrorists carried from Pakistan.

Terrorists carried following Arms, Ammunitions and other items in their back sack.

Terrorists carried following items with them when they reached Mumbai.These details are given in the book written by Sr. Police Inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale.

1) AK47 rifle - 1 each

2) Automatic Pistol - 1 each

3) Hand grenades - 8-10 each

4) AK47 magazines - 8 each (each magazine has 30 bullets, total 240 bullets per terrorist)

5) Pistol magazines - 2 each (each magazine has 7 bullets)

6) Khanjar (Indian dagger) - 1 each

7) Dry Fruits - 2 Kg each

8) Indian currency - Rs 4000 to Rs 6000 each

9) Nokia mobile - 1 each

10) Headphones - 1 each

11) GPS - one for the group

12) 8 Kg RDX with IED - 1 each

13) 9 volt battery - 3 each

14) Other small personal items.

If we calculate weight of all these items then it comes to about 25-30 Kg, which in line with what we see in the video of terrorists walking with back sack.

Question - The terrorists fought a fierce gun battle for 68 hours with the agencies. The ammunitions they they carried from Pakistan was not at all sufficient to fight the gun battle for three days, then the question is, where did they get the ammunitions to fight such a long battle? If you see the photos and videos of the destruction, you can realize, this kind of carnage could not be done with the ammunition that they carried from Pakistan.

The answer is given in the book written by Sr. Police inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale. He writes, the CCTV footage in hotel Taj was showing terrorists going in and out of a room number 630 regularly. The police guessed that the terrorists must have off loaded their ammunitions in that room and that is why they were going in that room to replenish their ammunitions. Later when Navy commandos "Marcos" raided the room, they found ammunitions stored in that room!

See the video of carnage at hotel Taj. It is impossible to do this kind of destruction with 240 bullets, 8-10 hand grenades. Do you think this kind of destruction can happen with the arms they carried from Pakistan?

https://youtu.be/qO3-Z_3X5Pg

Question - Is it not possible that the room # 630 that the terrorists were visiting regularly was already stashed with ammunition prior to the attack? The terrorists were aware about this room and that is why they were frequenting in that particular room.

There were rummers that this room was booked couple of days before 26/11 with a fake ID and someone smuggled arms and ammunitions in this room before 26/11. May be this rummer is false but one thing is sure, terrorists could not have fought 68 hours gun battle with 240 bullets, 8-10 grenades and 4-5 RDX explosives. They must have got replenishment from somewhere but we do not know who did it and how it was done. Police are completely keeping mum on this very sensitive issue. If you ask any arms expert, he will say, it is impossible to fight this kind of war for 68 hours with just a small quantity of ammunitions.

Fake ID's of the terrorists with their Hindu names and Hindu outfit...

When the operation was over, police had nine dead bodies and one arrested terrorist Ajmal Kasab. All of them had fake ID's with Hindu names. The address on the ID was accurate, but no one ever lived there with that name at that address. As a result, police investigation proved that they were fake ID's. But it is interesting to note that all these addresses, which are from the different parts of India were accurately collected by someone! This shows, someone did do a good intel collection of interior parts of India. These details are given in the book written by Sr. Inspector Ramesh Mahale.

The fake names and the address of the Pakistani terrorists were as follows.

1) Ismail Khan (Abu Ismail)

Hindu name - Ramesh Vilas Verma

Address - House # 21/B Mamta Nagar, Nigol Hyderabad, Telangana

2) Imran Babar (Abu Nakasha)

Hindu name - Arjun Kumar

Address - 13/2 S. K. Apartments, Indira Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana

3) Nasir Abu Umar

Hindu name - Dinesh Kumar

Address - 781 Hooda Colony, Saroor Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana

4) Hafiz Arshad - (Abdul Rahaman Bada alias Hayaji)

Hindu name - Raghubir Singh Ranjit Singh

Address - Plot # 673-4V, Ilis Bridge, Ahmedabad, Gujarath

5) Abdul Rahaman Chota (Saquib)

Hindu name - Arun Vikram Sharma

Address - Plot # 36A, Ganga Colony, New Delhi

6) Fahadulla (Gang leader)

Hindu name - Rohit Deepak Patil

Address - 313 S.K. Apartment, Indira Nagar, Vijay Nagar Colony, Hyderabad, TL

7) Ajmal Aamir Kasab (Abu Mujahid)

Hindu name - Sameer Dinesh Choudhary

Address - 254 Teacher’s Colony, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore, Karnataka

8) Soheb (Abu Soheb)

Hindu name - Sudhir Nair

Address - Could not be read because ID card was partially burnt.

9) Javed (Abu Ali)

Hindu name - Kishore Naidu

Address - Could not be read because ID card was partially burnt.

10) Nazir Ahemad (Abu Umer)

Hindu name - Prakash Kumar

Address - Could not be read because ID card was partially burnt.

In all the earlier attacks before 26/11, where Pakistani terrorists were involved, they never tried to take a fake Hindu name. They attacked as a Pakistani terrorists and died as a Pakistani terrorists. Then why they were given Hindu names for 26/11 attacks? This is certainly indicating some sinister conspiracy.

The terrorists wearing saffron wrist bands.....

See the red/saffron threads on Kasab's right wrist. Indicating Hindu identity

Look at Ajmal Kasab's picture taken at the Chatrpati Shivaji Terminus. You can clearly see the saffron color thread on his right wrist. Traditionally, Hindus wear this kind of thread on their right hand. But for 26/11 attacks, all Pakistani terrorists were wearing this thread on their wrist.

Conclusion -

1) It is very clear that Pakistani terrorists were using Hindu names, they were wearing saffron threads and they were speaking Bambaiyya Hindi, shows they were trying to disguise as Hindus. 

When they had come to India to kill innocent people and at the end, they were supposed to get killed...then where was the need to disguise as Hindus?

The reason for this disguise was, police would see Hindu identities, saffron threads on the wrist  on the terrorist's bodies and conclude that these terrorists were Hindus. This would put the blame on Hindus and prove the "Saffron Terrorism" theory floated by the senior UPA ministers and ATS chief Karkare, Param Bir Singh. 

Again, time line is important here. UPA ministers floated the idea of Saffron Terrorism during the first week of Nov 2008 and within few weeks, Pakistani terrorists conduct 26/11 attacks, under the disguise of Hindu identity.

This clearly shows a possible link between UPA ministers and Pakistan for 26/11 attacks!

If Kasab was not caught alive....and if IB had not intercepted live conversation between terrorist and their Pakistani handlers... and as per the plan, if all the terrorists were killed then the blame would have certainly come on the Hindus. 

2) It is difficult to believe that 10 half educated, Pakistani terrorists would enter Mumbai city illegally at night  time by sea, move around the city INDEPENDENTLY like a pro and take entire Mumbai city for hostage for 68 hours. This is unimaginable to do this, without a local help.

3) It is difficult to believe that terrorists fought a fierce gun battle for 68 hours with the limited ammunitions that they had carried from Pakistan. It is possible, they might have got the replenishment of arms and ammunitions after reaching Mumbai. But this part was never investigated.

There were total 7 major attacks in Mumbai on 26/11. The locations of the same are given below.

There are tons of articles, videos and news clips on what happened in these locations on 26/11 hence I will not spend time is elaborating the same

Rather in the next part, I will give very shocking details about how Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar and two constables were killed near Rang Bhawan theater. I will give some disturbing details of what role Police played in these killings and other details that you might have never heard. It may lead to believe, these officer's death was not by fluke but by design. 

See you in Fourth and Last part of this story.