Martin Samuel / Times of London:
Mumbai police to use truth serum on ‘baby-faced’ terrorist Azam Amir Kasab  —  Indian police interrogators are preparing to administer a “truth serum” on the sole Islamic militant captured during last week's terror attacks on Mumbai to settle once and for all the question of where he is from.

Ajamal Amir Kasab, seul tireur capturé vivant, est devenu un symbole des attentats qui ont dévasté l'ancienne Bombay, faisant 171 morts, dont 26 étrangers. (AP)

(Image above by keerthi). Today marks one week since the attacks in Mumbai that killed and injured hundreds (BB post #1, BB post #2). Skimming headlines this morning in the Times of India, the post-attack narrative has now turned to the possibility of punitive strikes on Pakistan by India, with some Indian media implying US support -- things could get a lot scarier, fast, given that both nations have nukes. US Secretary of State Rice just arrived, and on this same day, they've found bombs in the Mumbai train station that was an attack site. One of the other aftermath stories I've been following: what tech devices the attackers used to orient themselves and coordinate communications before, during, and after the attacks. VOIP phones, SIM cards, and Garmin GPS units, among them. Some of this information is apparently the result of interrogation with the one known surviving attacker, and is being printed in Indian tabloids, so I'm not sure of how reliable all of this is. Anyway, snip from one more reputable account: [T]he terrorists who carried out the rampage in Mumbai procured with ease five cell phone SIM cards -- three of which were being purchased from Delhi's Karol Bagh area while the rest from West Bengal's 24 Parganas district, interrogation records of the only arrested ultra have revealed. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman has told interrogators that right through the fighting, the Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarters in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir remained very much in touch with them, frequently calling their mobile phones via a voice-over-Internet service. The government last year imposed strict rules on the issuance of SIM cards by cellular services operators following the Mecca Masjid blasts in Hyderabad in May, where terrorists had copiously used cell phones to trigger improvised explosive devises and send text messages to their handlers in Pakistan. Here's another account: Each man was equipped with a Kalashnikov rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition and grenades. The group also had at least one state-of-the art Garmin global positioning system set, and several mobile phones fitted with SIM cards, which have now been determined to have been purchased in Kolkata and New Delhi. Three men had larger bags, packed with five timer-controlled Improvised Explosive Devices. More about the attackers, who were apparently men in their early twenties, from Pakistan: They apparently took large amounts of cocaine and LSD before and during the attacks to stay awake, in an altered state of consciousness. And, a random, weird thing: one attacker captured alive by the Indian authorities is shown below in a CCTV camera still. Remember how Indian TV news was reporting that his shirt read "CRSA," speculating that this was some new terror organization, when the attacks were taking place? Well, take a closer look. That's "VERSA", with the rest of the word cut off -- "VERSACE." Loren Coleman has more. Previously: Suketu "Maximum City" Mehta on the Mumbai attacks - Boing Boing India: Mumbai Attacks, Day Two; tech speculation - Boing Boing Maximum City: exhausting and beautiful love-note to Mumbai - Boing ... Blasts kill hundreds in Mumbai: local bloggers react - Boing Boing Boing Boing tv Update: Econopocalypse, Julie Amero, Holiday Gifts ... India: 80+ Reported Dead, 200+ injured in Bombay Terror Attacks ......br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=f1e36eac4e9c1902f70be8d3ce4c3581amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=f1e36eac4e9c1902f70be8d3ce4c3581amp;p=1" border="0" //a

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