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...from Pakistan's government about last November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, officials purportedly admitted that at least five of the 10 gunmen who killed more than 160 people during the three-day rampage were of Pakistani origin. Although investigators in Islamabad had previously confirmed that the lone surviving gunman (in Indian custody) is Pakistani, they had repeatedly denied that the others were from their country. The report, which was expected to be made public by Feb. 13, also says the plot was hatched via the Internet in Dubai and an unnamed European country...
...lone surviving gunman, according to police sources, spoke of how, in the remote jihadi training camps where he was indoctrinated, instructors would rail against the sinful city of Mumbai, decrying its excess and materialism and corrosive foreign influences. The worldly aspirations of Mumbai's diverse millions, they said, would be cowed by a spectacle of fire and brimstone. In the immediate aftermath, the attackers appeared to have gotten their way. All hope did seem abandoned amid the din of public grief and fury with a government many felt incapable of protecting its people...
...images out of Mumbai since Nov. 26 - a wild-eyed gunman in cargo pants and T shirt, black smoke engulfing the grand dome of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a cherubic toddler robbed of his parents - the one hardest to grasp is Mumbai without people. Driving toward south Mumbai on the morning after the attacks, the city's normally teeming streets were emptied of life. In one sense, this was lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed...
...Security Guard, an elite Army unit, that the agony of the ornate and historic hotel was nearing an end. As most of the city slept, the Taj suffered at least six more massive blasts into the early hours of Saturday. But by day, unconfirmed reports had the last terrorist gunman run to ground. Now, as the city slowly comes back to life, its residents are grappling with the attacks' emotional and financial impact...
...Finland School Rampage A 22-year-old student killed 11 people, including himself, at a trade school in the town of Kauhajoki, some 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Helsinki, in the world's deadliest school shooting since gunman Cho Seung-Hui massacred 32 at Virginia Tech in April 2007. The incident bore eerie similarities to a killing spree that left nine dead at another Finnish school last November. In both cases, the perpetrator posted ominous videos on YouTube shortly before the attack. The Kauhajoki killer, identified as Matti Juhani Saari (below), had been interviewed by police in connection with...