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Over three harrowing days in late November 2008, Mohammad Amir Ajmal Qasab, a 21-year-old Pakistani, and nine other gunmen stormed various locations in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai, detonating bombs, hurling grenades and killing more than 170 people. After being captured, Qasab - the only gunman not to be killed by Indian security forces - admitted to being a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based extremist group that allegedly masterminded the attacks. In May, he pleaded innocent despite overwhelming evidence, including videos and photographs, that places him at the scene. But on July 20, he shocked...
...confession, he claimed that he and another gunman had orders to take hostages in the Chatrapathi Shivaji train station, where at least 58 people were killed...
...rare, and crime is uncommon - though what little there is tends to draw headlines. In 2008 two fishermen were shot along the trail in Virginia, allegedly by the same man who had slain two campers near the same spot in 1981. The shooting victims both survived; the alleged gunman, Randall Lee Smith, died days later, apparently from injuries he suffered in a truck accident while fleeing from police. (Read "Top Six Sanford Tweets...
...Washington Holocaust Museum Shooting On June 10, a gunman opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a security guard before the assailant was struck by return shots. Law-enforcement officials said the 88-year-old suspect, James Von Brunn, had ties to white-supremacist groups. He served prison time after carrying guns into Washington's Federal Reserve Building...
...murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, 67, has already been reconstructed in chilling detail: the threats to Good Samaritans who tried to intervene, the single shot in a Wichita, Kans., church, the wailing wife, the gunman's powder-blue getaway car decorated with a red rose - an antiabortion emblem - and a Jesus fish. But specifics about the suspected shooter, Scott Roeder, 51, are only just starting to emerge. Roeder had been following, and decrying, Tiller's work - which included performing abortions after 21 weeks - for years. Early reports on Roeder, who was taken into custody shortly after the shooting...