Transcript: Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone

Here's some detailed information revealing direct ties between the terrorists and their controllers in Pakistan. There is obviously a larger organization behind the ten operators and their controllers, but the plan itself was lo-tech, simple and direct. There was a successful manipulation of the media to both provide a world stage and to get feedback from the live broadcasts

That this attack was so successful and so simple in execution, we can expect it to be a model for other attacks. With the Mumbai attack as a model, any small group of Islamists, anywhere in the world, with a minimum of time and money can duplicate the attack.

FROM YNETNEWS.COM:

Transcript: Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone

Chilling transcripts document phone conversation between gunmen during November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. New Delhi hands tapes over to Pakistani intelligence as proof that attacks coordinated from across border. 'Keep your phone on so we can hear the shooting,' one handler heard saying "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone. The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone.

The ruthless exchange comes from a transcript of phone calls Indian authorities say they intercepted during the November Mumbai attacks. They were part of a dossier of evidence New Delhi handed Pakistan this week that it says definitively proves that the siege was launched from across the border.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday that he did not believe the gunmen were acting alone, and Pakistani state agencies must have had a hand in the attacks.
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