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...Saad al-Husseini may be a member of a banned political organization, but he's feeling the wind at his back. At the entrance to al-Mahalla al-Kubra, one of Egypt's largest industrial towns, the tall, bearded "independent" Member of Parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood - whose members are regularly arrested and tortured by the state - hops into a car, buoyed by signs of local dissent. "There are two strikes in Mahalla today," he says, cheerfully. "We will show...
...which operates like a union but without official recognition. "Since December 7, 2006, when the workers of [Misr Spinning and Weaving Company] factory went on strike, that was a historical day. It was the first and the biggest strike in Egypt. And the strikes haven't stopped since," says Husseini...
...Karachi port, says Abbas Ali, who runs a launch business. "Once mariners reach the deep sea, they can do anything, smuggling, drugs, whatever. There are not enough people to check all the boats." From the launch, the team boarded another boat and then a ship named Al-Husseini, which is thought by Pakistani investigators to be registered in the name of an Islamist group associated with LeT. Each militant was given a sack containing "eight grenades, one AK-47 rifle, 200 cartridges, two magazines and one cell phone for communication...
Qasab and the team turned on their GPS devices at 6:54 a.m., establishing a spot near Koti Bandar, about 93 miles (150 km) southeast of Karachi, as their starting point. Al-Husseini encountered an Indian fishing trawler, the M.V. Kuber. Qasab's confession states that "once they reached Indian waters, the crew hijacked an Indian fishing vessel." But the Indian dossier and intelligence sources describe the scenario slightly differently: the sources suspect that the operator of the ship, Amar Singh Solanki, might have been lured into Pakistani waters with the promise of money for smuggling...
Solanki was asked to take a more dangerous cargo than contraband. His four employees were moved onto Al-Husseini, where there were seven other LeT members already on board, the Indian dossier states. The four crew members were later killed. Solanki took on the 10 passengers carrying huge backpacks full of weapons and dried fruit and then navigated the boat about 550 nautical miles (1,020 km) to Mumbai, until the trawler stopped at a point just 4 nautical miles (7.5 km) from the city...