Kasab blatantly denies participating in Mumbai terror attacks

vIndianz.com (18 Dec, 2009) — Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only gunman on trial for the terrorist attacks on Mumbai last year, has a fantastical and a completely different story to tell. Kasab on Friday withdrew his declaration of guilt before a special Mumbai court and alleged that he came to Mumbai on a visa 20 days prior to the attacks on November 26 previous year.

mumbai-attack He claims to have come to Mumbai to work in the film industry however was detained on the night of November 25 and was implicated in the 26/11 case.

Kasab’s astonishing withdrawal of his own declaration of guilt made on February 20 this year before a magistrate came whilst his statement was being recorded at the start of the second phase of the terror attacks trial before Special Judge M L Tahilyani.

Amongst other things, Kasab said that he was pressurized into making a confession by the magistrate and said that he was not there during the attack on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus (CST).

“I was not present in the CST and I did not open firing inside the railway station,” he claimed.

Kasab discarded the evidence of an eyewitness, Bharat Tamore, that he had seen the Pakistani terrorist and his nine compatriots when then they got down from a ship at Badhwar Park. Kasab claimed that he did not know anything regarding the dingy. “I saw the dingy for the first time in the Court,” he said.

He denied having spoken to Pakistani militant leaders who supposedly aimed at the terrorist attacks from Pakistan and said that witnesses can recognize him because his pictures had appeared in Indian newspapers and TV channels.

Kasab admitted to the fact that he had met David Coleman Headley, the suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba leader detained in the US, although the court told him that Headley had nothing to do with his trial.

“Do baatein bolkar katham karna chaahtha hoon, aaj bhi mujhe bolne ka mauka nahin mila tho,” said Kasab. (I want to finish by saying two lines, if I don’t get a chance to speak then.)

The judge cut him short and told him that he had to respond to all the questions the court put to him. Kasab has denied every the charge leveled in opposition to him throughout the eight-month long trial.

Kasab and nine other Pakistan terrorists sneaked into Mumbai through sea in November, 2008 and went on a assassination spree. Kasab was the lone to be captured alive.

The trial in the case, which is being heard at Mumbai’s high-security Arthur Road Central Jail, is currently in its final lap with more than 250 witnesses examined by the prosecution.

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Kasab blatantly denies participating in Mumbai terror attacks

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