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Mumbai attacks: Terrorists aimed to kill 5 thousand people

by Santosh Mishra on November 30, 2008

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Mumbai: According to the reports, the Mumbai terrorists aimed to kill 5 thousand people, but couldn’t success in their plan.

U.K.’s Daily Mail newspaper reported Sunday, that terrorists engaged in Mumbai killings wanted to kill more than 5 thousand people.

Azam Amir Kasab, 21, the only terrorist to survive a raid by Indian commandos, told authorities that the attacks included 10 terrorists in a heavily orchestrated plan devised six months ago, that hoped to kill 5,000 people — targeting mostly “whites, preferably Americans and British.”

Kasab confessed to being a member of the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has denied involvement in the carnage.

The terrorists reportedly posed as students during a visit to Mumbai a month ago, to familiarize themselves with the city’s roads and to film the “strike locations.”

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