Azam Amir Kasav, also known as Mohammad Ajmal Mohammed Amin Kasab, is a captured Mumbai terrorist. He is the only one of the terrorist in the Mumbai terrorist attack and siege that was not killed. He is giving interrogators information.

He was photographed looking confident and virtually swaggering as he entered the Mumbai train station (CST) with the intent of taking as many lives as he could. Hours later, he was in the hospital begging for his own life.

Azam is a 21-year-old Islamist terrorist from tehsil Gipalpura in Faridkot in Pakistan. He is one of ten who were sent to Mumbai, India to create an ‘Indian 9/11′ and planned to blow up the Taj Hotel. They had enough explosives to prosecute their plans. The ten were sent out in pairs to two to different locations to create havoc and mayhem and kill as many people as possible. Azam and his partner started out at the train station. They moved on from there to Girgaum Chowpatty. They were interrupted by police and engaged in a gun battle. Azam was shot and his partner was killed, but not before they killed police officers. Azam himself killed assistant police inspector Tukaram Umbale.

Azam played dead when he was shot. The two terrorists were taken to the hospital. It was on the way to the hospital that policemen noticed that Azam was breathing. When he got to the hospital his wound was treated. It was then that he begged the medical staff to save him. He begged for his life saying he didn’t want to die.

After his wound was treated he was taken to an ‘undisclosed location’ by Indian interrogators. Its reported that he refused to talk for a minute or two, but it didn’t take long under ‘intense questioning’ for him to start telling everything he knew. He described how the group of islamic terrorists traveled from Pakistan to India and how they knew so much about their targets. He gave the name of the people responsible for the planning and what they had planned to do.

According to sources the young terrorist has given the investigators vital leads including how the chief planner of the Mumbai terror plot had come to the city a month ago, took picture and filmed strategic locations and trained their group and instructed them to “kill till the last breath.� Every man was given six to seven magazines with fifty bullets each, eight hand grenades per terrorist with one AK-57 , an automatic loading revolver and a supply of dry fruits.

Azam reportedly disclosed that the group left Karachi in one boat and upon reaching Gujarat they hoisted a white flag on their boat and were intercepted by two officers of the coast guard near Porbandar and while they were being questioned one of the terrorists grappled with one of the officers slit his throat and threw the body in the boat. The other officer was told to help the group reach Mumbai. When they were four nautical miles away from Mumbai there were three speedboats waiting for them where the other coastguard officer was killed. All the ammo was then shifted into these three spedboats they reached Colaba jetty on Wednesday night and the ten men broke up into groups of two each. Four of these men went to the Taj Mahal hotel, two of them to the Trident hotel, two towards Nariman House at Colaba and two of which Azam was one moved to CST.

Azam, who was at Nair hospital for nearly four hours, was taken away by the intelligence agencies in the early hours of Thursday to an unknown location after the hospital authorities had removed the bullet from his hand and declared that his condition stable. But it seems the police grilling was so intense that before he left the hospital for an undisclosed location he pleaded with the police and the medical staff to kill him. “Now, I don’t want to live,� he said.

As time is going by, Azam is giving more information. Its a good thing the Indian interrogators are questioning him. They don’t seem to have the constraints that American interrogators would have. Hopefully, the American left will leave them alone and let them do what they are apparently pretty good at doing … extracting information.




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