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21:14, 29 NOVEMBER 2008 BY NICK OWENS
The only terrorist to be captured alive in the Mumbai massacre hasrevealed how he was ordered to: “Kill until your last breath.
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The only terrorist to be captured alive in the Mumbai massacre has revealed how hewas ordered to: “Kill until your last breath.”
Azam Amir Kasav – dubbed the Smiling Assassin after his grinning face was flashedaround the world as he gunned down commuters at Mumbai’s CST railway station –said he and his fellow terrorists were told by their commanders to carry on firinguntil they themselves were dead.
Nine of the 10 men who set sail from Pakistan on Wednesday did just that – butKasav survived with bullet wounds.
Yesterday it emerged he cracked in hospital when he saw the mutilated body ofanother terrorist being wheeled towards the morgue and begged: “I do not want todie. Put me on saline.”
Under interrogation Kasav, who speaks fluent English, made a series of dramaticconfessions to Indian police.
He revealed terrorist planners had visited Mumbai a month ago to take photos andfilm the spots they wanted to hit, including the Taj Mahal Palace hotel where it isnow suspected two “sleeper” terrorists were working as a chef and waiter.
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He also revealed that his Pakistani gang had slit the throat of a coastguard beforesailing into Mumbai to launch their killing spree.
Once holed up inside the Taj they texted their fanatic pals to brag they were eatingcurry while slaughtering guests.
News of the confession came as the first pictures emerged from inside the luxurioushotel where the bloody three-day siege ended yesterday.
Indian police will use the evidence of 21-year-old Kasav, from Gipal Pura in Pakistan,to help track the brains behind the plot which is now feared to have claimed morethan 300 people.
Kasav was captured alive after fleeing Mumbai’s railway station in a stolen Skoda onThursday evening. As he sped off he was involved in a gun battle with a policeofficer. Kasav took two bullets, the officer was killed.
The young killer had pretended he was also dead, but as his body was taken tohospital police saw him move and anti-terror officers pounced.
Kasav eventually told detectives that he was among a group of 10 who left Karachiin Pakistan on one boat for the 500-mile journey to Mumbai.
Six miles from Mumbai they overpowered a fishing vessel called Kuber, hoping to usethe local boat to pass through a checkpoint. But the plan failed when a coastguardcutter approached them.
When the cutter was alongside they struck and one of the coastguard had his throatslit while the other was made to navigate the men onwards to Mumbai.
Four miles out, they dumped the vessel before switching to dinghies to enter India.Each man had an AK47 machine gun, 50-bullet magazines and eight hand grenades.
Kasav told police their aim had been to create another 9/11: “The Taj was to bereduced to rubble – and we had the ammunition to do it,” he said.
Last night more details began to emerge of the horror inside the Taj and the OberoiTrident hotels during the siege.
Terrorists had ordered the chefs to cook them chicken and lamb curry, which theyfeasted on while picking out hostages to kill. Groups of terrified guests were tied andbound with bed sheets, marched into rooms and ordered to urinate on one another.
Before people were shot they had their wallets emptied and were stripped of all theirjewellery.
According to survivor reports, the gang had whooped with joy as news broke thatintelligence chief Hemant Karkare and other policemen had been killed outside.
A police source told the Sunday Mirror: “The ballroom was the control room used bythe attackers. They packed it with satellite phones, mobile phones, computers andTVs. We are going through all the information now to see what we can find.”
The Indian Army finally brought the siege at the Taj to an end yesterday whenhundreds of soldiers stormed the building just after 7am, killing the remaining threeterrorists.
Now the grim task of calculating the final death toll in the city will begin. Thecurrent estimate is 195 but many officials expect it to reach over 300.
Lines of ambulances queued outside the Taj ready to move the 100 or more deadbodies which are still inside.
A fireman battling the blaze inside the 530-room Taj said: “There are bodieseverywhere, I have never seen anything so bad. We have to work around all the
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bodies to put the fires out.”
Thousands of Indians arrived at the gates of the hotel and spontaneous applausebroke out when exhausted-looking soldiers walked out of the building at the end ofthe siege. Some people wandered around quietly clutching images of friends feareddead in the attack. But others cheered as they celebrated an end to the terror.
The British Embassy in Mumbai said about 40 Britons caught in the attacks flewhome yesterday.
Millionaire British businessman Andreas Liveras, 72, was shot dead during theatrocities and another 16 Britons were injured.
Seven are still in hospital, at least two with serious injuries. At least 22 foreigners areknown to have died, including victims from Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy,Singapore, Thailand and France.
A spokesman for the British Embassy said: “We believe all the British victims havenow been accounted for.”
He said the embassy did not believe any of the terrorists are from the UK, endingspeculation of a British link to the attacks.
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