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...complained of being shot at by foreign fishermen with water cannons and firearms. "The first pirate gangs emerged in the '90s to protect against foreign trawlers," says Peter Lehr, lecturer in terrorism studies at Scotland's University of St. Andrews and editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. The names of existing pirate fleets, such as the National Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia or Somali Marines, are testament to the pirates' initial motivations...
...With the question of Qasab's age set aside, the prosecutor launched a full frontal attack on Pakistan - the unnamed but ever-present fourth defendant on trial in Mumbai. (Qasab's co-defendants are Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Sheikh, both Indians, who were arrested before the Mumbai attacks but are suspected of helping with some preliminary planning.) As he outlined the details of the case, Nikam focused his argument on the second charge of "waging war against the government of India." The attacks, he said, had "the definite target of capturing Kashmir." (Lashkar e Taiba, a jihadi group that...
...resolve the standoff, Tahiliani told Qasab, "Please stand up." Addressing the open court, Tahiliani concluded, "If one looks at Accused No. 1, it looks that he is definitely above 21." At that, he decided to dismiss the application, leaving the door open to making a later inquiry into his age if it became necessary. (See pictures of Mumbai after the 2008 attacks...
...should be done," says Swati Mehta, Coordinator of the Prison Reforms Programme at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi. If a defendant claims to be under 18, she says, the judge is required to order medical tests or investigate school records or other documents that might establish age. (Pakistani officials have acknowledged that Qasab is a Pakistani, but have given no proof of age. It's common in South Asia for births to go unrecorded.) The defense attorney could have also pressed further but instead accepted the decision...