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He is Kasai -butcher - not Kasab, Kassav or Quassab

 One junior policeman involved in Iman’s early questioning described the process as a little comical. He said: “Here we were talking to the most important suspect we had ever questioned, but we couldn’t understand half of what he was saying and he couldn’t understand us!”

The Hindu a widely circulated English language  national newspaper of India  cleared up one of the confusing items in the reportage of last week’s Islamic terrorist attack. In a front page story it explains how so many different names were attributed to the only captured gunman.  More quotes from The Hindu:

Muhammad Amin Kasab, Azam Amir Kasav and Azam Amir Kasab are just some of the names that have figured on print and television reports, much to the delight of Pakistani critics, who argue that the terrorist is a fiction invented by India.

The confusion over Iman’s surname, investigators told The Hindu, stemmed from the fact that the Mumbai Police officers who first questioned him were Marathi speakers, unable to communicate with the south Punjab resident.

While recording Iman’s particulars — his name, address, family details and, in line with standard Indian practice, caste — the officers spoke to the arrested terrorist in Mumbai’s unique Hindi patois.

Iman, mumbling in pain owing to the injuries he had sustained, correctly answered the question about his caste, replying that he hailed from the Kasai (butcher) community. The Marathi-speaking Mumbai Police officers recorded this as Kasav or Kasab, a name unknown in Pakistan or, for that matter, in Maharashtra.

It was only when native Hindi and Punjabi-speaking officers interrogated Iman that the error was corrected.

(Emphasis added)

A killer by any name is still a killer  -  that photo of him taken by Sebastien D’Souza of Mumbai Mirro will for ever live in infamy. He has a lot of blood on his hands, baby face or not. Death penalty is called for.