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    • Shishir Gupta Tags : Tahawwur Rana, David Coleman Headley, Mumbai terror attack, FBI Posted: Thursday , Nov 19, 2009 at 0943 hrs New Delhi:
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    Investigators have found evidence to indicate that Tahawwur Rana, arrested along with David Coleman Headley by the FBI for plotting terror attacks on India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, and his wife Samraz Akhtar 'interviewed' visa-seekers in Ahmedabad and Kochi and stayed with relatives in Agra during their 10-day trip to India just before the Mumbai terror attack.

    The couple, who flew into Mumbai from Dubai, returned to the emirate on November 21, 2008. A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to leave for Dubai.

    Born in Chichawatni in Sahiwal district of Pakistan, Rana and his wife put out an advertisement for Canada visa-seekers and “interviewed” them during their stay at the three-star Lemon Tree Hotel (picture above) near Law Garden, Ahmedabad and at the then Taj Residency in Kochi. In Agra, Rana stayed at the residence of his wife’s relatives.

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    Details of Headley’s nine visits to India are also emerging. An American of Pakistani origin, Headley visited Mumbai five times in 2007. He visited India twice in 2008 and once in 2009. In 2006, he spent nearly three months in Mumbai. These were the periods during which he was in India:

    • September 14-December 18, 2006

    • February 22-March 15, 2007

    • March 26-May 20, 2007

    • May 22-June 5, 2007

    • September 2-October 6, 2007

    • October 18-November 3, 2007

    • April 7-April 19, 2008

    • July 1-July 29, 2008

    • March 6-March 17, 2009

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    Interviews with visa seekers?By: waleed ali | 20-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward What a joke. Has any one seen the ads? He was recruiting sleeper cells under the guise of interviews for visa seekers. How stupid can we Indians get?
    Who issued circular and on whose insistance?By: Amit Purohit | 19-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Who issued circular and whose insistance? The order file and notesheets needs to be siezed from the otherwise porous offices in India. was in Modi, Advani, Vajpayee or Jaswant Singh? NO because at that time the honurable Madaam, her puppet servant MMS, the impotent of impotents ShivRaj Patil, the minority minister Antulay, other fundamentalist EAS Ahmed from Kerala Minister of State foreign affairs might have been behind it. All country men especially hindus take your hands out of everywhere and place them on necks of congress person, media backing this ruthless power hungry party, and every individual who supports them and press it till it dries up. This is now the only solution left.
    Who issued circular and on whose insistance?By: Indian | 19-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Amit, I agree with you, you can see my messages, Congress has become Impotent, they donot have guts to punish the terrorists. What can we expect from Old Congress Buddas? They are corrupt, Goons, Match fixers, Bofor Scam, Satyam Scam, Telecom Scam, Bribing villagers in Maharastra...what not? We should kickout these stupid politicians from India. Better our beloved foreign leader and their family should search vacancy in Italy Politics. Stupid congress fit for nothing
    TerrorBy: Bhaskar Kolnad | 19-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward 26/11 happened a year ago.That is nothing new.Such thing is common for us as well as Pakistani terrorists.They still threaten a country like ours with more such attacks.Not Pakistan as a nation ,but terrorists as an outfit giving this. Why our government is pleading with Pakistan to take action against terrorist.They talk as if they are doing a favour by punishing them. US is provided us with evidence earlier.Even now Terrorists planning more such attack.US comes forward with the information.What were we doing when ten Pakistanis entered Mumbai in broad daylight and butchered us. It is time we stop talking.This led to one attack after another.We need to act.We are not just chasing the terrorists to where they came .capture the place from where they operate. It is not difficult for India.Look at Israel.No country today can fool with them.Look at US .They came to Afghanistan chasing AL-Qaida.World trade centre attackers have no place to hide any where in the world today.
    Plight of Poor HindusBy: Bharat | 19-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Recruitments in India for work aborad is becoming a joke. Muslims are coming from gulf countries and recruit muslims to work in oil rich gulf countries. One can understand that muslims are preferred in gulf countries. Now muslims are coming from USA, Canada to recruit muslims from India. Are USA, Canada also muslim countries? Is the foolish UPA govt. understand this? Atleast govt. of India can impose a certain rule whereby recruitments to abroad must be 85% from among Hindus and that justifies the percentage of population in regard to foreign recruitments. Other religious people will also get chance according to their percentage in population. By this, UPA govt. will be doing some justice to Hindus. Or, is the UPA govt. reluctant to impose this rule for fear of certain minority community. Almighty God might be laughing looking into the plight of poor Hindus in India. Poor Hindus have no place on Earth to take refuge if a pathetic condition falls on India due to UPA.
    plight of poor hinduBy: praveen | 19-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward pl note that gulf countries are recruiting only on the basis of experience in particular discipline Majority of muslims are working for menial jobs like shop keeper, grocery shop buisness etc
    One corrupt official enough to invite terror, who gave visas, why they want to visit India?By: Sarath | 19-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Not sure why indian gov. still entertaining Pak nationals inviting with redcarpet and visa, let ban all visas to Pak, Bangla, Afghan, Somali, Sudan, Iran, N.Korea etc., If any want to meet any relatives, let them meet outside india. Once corrupt official or police allowed foreign national, they can easily slip to 1billion people ocean, no one can trace, what they're doing. So thankfully Headly & Rana's case, atleast these Babu's will learn lesson. It looks FBI's warnings worked on them. By inviting indian to Pak, it won't effect, but otherway it effect a lot. Any terror related people can easily penetrate through secured locations in india just because one corrupt official is enough, so India need to rethink their entire strategy of visas to Pak, Bangla and other nationalities. Enough is enough, indian gov. need to strictly control all Critical control points. If not many Mumbai 26th incidents will happen.
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