Capturing the MidEast in short soundbites: poignant reflections by people who understand the complexities of the Middle East. My philosophy is: "less is more." You won't agree with everything that's here, but I'm confident you will find it interesting! Excepting the titles, my own comments are minimal. Instead I rely on news sources to string together what I hope is an interesting, politically challenging, non-partisan, non-ideological narrative.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Mumbai terror shocker: Attackers assisted by American
Pakistani American Mapped Mumbai Terror Targets
-Samyabrata Ray Goswami
[Pakistani American] David Coleman Headley personally visited every target site of the terror strikes last year in Mumbai, carrying out reconnaissance on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Posing as a Jew, he even visited Nariman House, the Jewish Chabad center, in July 2008. Headley, a Pakistani-born U.S. national, was arrest by the FBI last month.
Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, posed as a Jewish American during his Mumbai stay. "The FBI seized a book called [T]o Pray [As] a Jew from him at the time of his arrest in Chicago. He had prepared himself thoroughly to pose as a Jew," a top Mumbai police officer said.
(Calcutta Telegraph-India)
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UPDATE:
Tiny Survivor Doesn't Remember Mumbai Attack -Amy Teibel
Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday with his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack at Chabad House in Mumbai, India.
His caretaker, Sandra Samuel, rescued Moshe from the bullet-raked building. She said he recognizes his parents in pictures, but he no longer cries out when he sees them. The child is being raised by his grandparents.
(AP)
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