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player ready...The only suspected gunman still alive after last November’s deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, who for months denied any involvement in the three-day siege, on Monday calmly told the judge at his murder trial, “Sir, I confess to all my crimes.”
With that surprising admission, Ajmal Amir Kasab began explaining in detail how he and nine others journeyed from Karachi, Pakistan, to Mumbai on a boat, then laid siege on India’s financial capital with a rampage that paralyzed the city, left 166 people dead and frayed the already strained relations between two nuclear nations.
Kasab’s confession came only days after Pakistani authorities gave India a dossier acknowledging that Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist group, was behind the attacks.
Kasab told Judge M.L. Tahiliyani each attacker had been given a bag with an AK-47 rifle, a pistol, eight hand grenades, cell phones and several magazines of rounds.
Once they arrived in Mumbai, Kasab and a partner he called Abu Ismail attacked the Chatrapati Shivaji railway station and Cama Hospital. Ismail was killed by police at a local beach, and Kasab surrendered, authorities said. The other gunmen then attacked two luxury hotels and a Jewish center. The siege ended at the Taj Mahal hotel, where Indian commandos killed the gunmen.
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