Ajmal Amir Kasab

Mumbai:

The ten terrorists from the Punjab province of Pakistan were all trained together, mostly in Karachi, Pakistan.

But they were then split into five groups of two each, and briefed about their task differently. Two terrorists attacked CST station, two Cama Hospital, two went to Leopold's. Two held fort at the Taj and two more at the Oberoi, while another pair were at Nariman House. All ten had student identity cards of different colleges in India and were all in the age group of 19-28.

According to Rakesh Maria, Joint Commissioner of Police, none of these were in touch with each other while the operation was on. The police have been able to create profiles of the terrorists from the only one captured alive, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab (21), held at Girgaum Chowpatty.

Maria said the group entered Mumbai through sea on November 26 around 8 pm.

They had come to Gujarat through a boat from Pakistan. Later they hijacked the Kuber boat at Porbander. The three fishermen were killed and later thrown into the sea, while one sailor Sarang took them in the Kuber boat till the Mumbai coastline. They killed him and kept his body in the Kuber boat, then sailed to the coast on a dinghy (rubber float boat) to Sassoon Dock. They then caught five taxies and went to the assigned places.

Police have recovered 10 AK 56 guns, 10 hand grenades, two packs of eight kg explosives. All carried one bag with them an AK rifle, grenades and bullets with them.

Cops have found a satellite phone from one Ismail Khan who was killed at Chowpatty, and a Global Positioning System that helped them navigate.

Source : Mid Day

How Is He Treated :

Ajmal Amir Kasab has been refused any clothing, except for underwear, to prevent him from choking to death, according to reports.

He is being held in a room with no furniture or fittings or anything he could use to harm himself with.

All his food is tasted in advance by police guarding him, the Independent reports.

Kasab and at least nine others killed about 170 people in a series of coordinated attacks on hotels and public places in Mumbai.

Kasab, 21, is now the Indian authorities' best, if not only, source of information about the planning behind the attacks.

This week detectives plan to use sodium pentothal, a so-called “truth serum”, in order to try and obtain more information from him, despite warnings from experts that the drug often produces unreliable results.

The Mumbai Mirror said the 21-year-old from Pakistan's Punjab province was being routinely moved in order to prevent any effort by other militants to reach him.

He is fed a simple diet of tea and bread for breakfast, lentils and chapattis for lunch and more pulses and rice for dinner.