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Leading Indian national daily in English, The Hindu, published in it’s online edition, the complete sixty-nine page dossier given by the Indian government to Pakistan.

The dossier contains the summary of evidence Indian officials gave to Pakistan. Click this link. The Hindu will open in a new window.

I will post some thoughts on this in days to follow, but bear in mind as you read the dossier:

1. The dossier is in pdf form, you will need Adobe software (if you don’t have it already on your computer).

2. Dates in the dossier follow non-US format: the date is given first, followed by month in the middle. DD/MM/YY

3. Contrary to it’s name, The Hindu is not very pro-Hindu. It is not even jingoistic or patriotic in areas beyond cricket, movies and entertainment. Like most English language media in India, it is intensely leftist, comfortably communist inclined and decidedly anti-Indian-exceptionalism. It is alleged to have pro-China leanings, and is not one of my favorites.  Oddly, it is  quite hip to US pop culture!

4. Those who have followed the Mumbai attacks blow by blow on live tiv or news updates will find no major new “secrets”  in the dossier but will find a fascinating wealth of detail.

5. Often, the same word in Hindi or Urdu will be transliterated into English differently, eg: Quasab, Quassab, Khassab, Khasav, Kassav, Khasab etc. depending on the regional dialect’s phonetic influences. Tip: Arabists tend to use Q for sounds k-K-Kh, while Indists will tend to use Kh. (Americans will recall such recent items as Osama becoming Usama or madrassah becoming madrasa. It’s a matter of degree or simplicity versus so-called authenticity.

6. The all familiar AT sign, @, is used to indicate AKA or also known as.

For convenience the dossier is in three parts, here is a link for each, if you wish to pursue just parts of it:

Link I

The first part of the dossier is the most comprehensive narrative of events that took place at Mumbai beginning the night of 11-26-2008. Here is a detailed account of the materials and methods used by terrorists; their names, aliases, origins, and confession. What happened at each site of attack is related with unflinching detail. The personal effects of the terrorists, and their supplies – all made in Pakistan – are noted with photos. Here you will find official death tallies and names of all foreigners killed by muslim attackers.

Link II. 

This part of the dossier gives photos, graphics and charts purporting the navigational path used at sea, the ammunition used, the cellphones used, some transcripts of phone conversations in Hindustani (mixture of Hindi and Urdu) laced with occasional Punjabi word. This section also gives names of terrorists who operated in different locations, their conversations with the handlers in Pakistan. Most chillingly, it shows their efforts to kill only non-Muslims at these locations.

Link III

This part of the dossier deals with Pakistan’s response via public stance and statements comprising a “continuous prevarication.”  It also details evidence gathered by other world publications etc., what is usually referred to as ‘open source intelligence’.  It also sheds light on the history of Pak involvement in and obfuscation in the past about “evidence”.  It includes a list of Pakistanis living in Pakistan suspected to be trainers, handlers and enablers of the Mumbai attack. These are folks that India wants tried.

A most fascinating read.

Never Forget!