More learned about gunman in Mumbai attacks
Money promised to his impoverished family.
The Associated Press
WFLS News
Date published: 12/3/2008
MUMBAI, India (AP) - Security officials in India say they're
learning more from the only gunman to be captured during last
week's terror attack in Mumbai.
They say he told them he was promised that his impoverished
family would get about $1,200 if he died fighting for militant
Islam.
They say he also told them that he and the nine gunmen killed
during the attack were selected for the Mumbai rampage after
intensive training by the extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, based in Pakistan.
According to Indian officials, the captive is from a village in
the Punjab region of Pakistan. Pakistan's president, interviewed on
CNN, expressed skepticism that the man is a Pakistani citizen.
The captive, Ajmal Amir Kasab, was arrested hours after the
three-day rampage began.
Photographs showed him walking calmly through Mumbai's main
train station, holding an assault rifle.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Date published: 12/3/2008
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