Jihad Watch: "Keep your phone on so we can hear the shooting," Mumbai jihadists were commanded

January 7, 2009

"Keep your phone on so we can hear the shooting," Mumbai jihadists were commanded

More on this story. "Transcript: Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone," from the Associated Press, January 7:

"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.

The dossier made no mention of any Pakistani officials or agencies.

Indian leaders have made clear they do not want a military conflict with Pakistan, and Pakistan's intelligence chief said there will be no war over the Mumbai attacks. [...]

"We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, told German news magazine Der Spiegel. "We know full well that terror is our enemy, not India."

The Mumbai transcripts, which were obtained by the newspaper The Hindu, show that the 10 gunmen who carried out the attacks were in close contact with their handlers throughout the siege. India says the handlers directing the attacks that left 164 dead were senior leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group.

"There are three ministers and one secretary of the cabinet in your hotel. We don't know in which room," the handler told a gunman inside the Taj Mahal hotel at 3:10 am on the first night of the attack.

"Oh! That is good news. It is the icing on the cake!" the gunman said.

Shoot Jews, save Muslims

The handlers told another team of gunmen who had seized a Jewish center to shoot hostages if necessary.

"If you are still threatened, then don't saddle yourself with the burden of the hostages. Immediately kill them," he said.

He then added, "If the hostages are killed, it will spoil relations between India and Israel."

"So be it, God willing," the gunman replied.

Six Jewish foreigners, including a rabbi and his wife, were killed inside the Jewish center.

Later in the night, nearly 24 hours after the attacks began, the handlers urged the gunmen to "be strong in the name of Allah"

"Brother, you have to fight. This is a matter of prestige of Islam," the handler said. "You may feel tired or sleepy, but the commandos of Islam have left everything behind, their mothers, their fathers."

The gunmen were told several times not to kill any Muslim hostages. [...]

But as for the unbelievers:

"Keep your phone switched on," a handler said in the midst of the siege, "so that we can hear the gunfire."

More excerpts: "'Aag lagao,' LeT told Mumbai killers," from the Times of India, January 2 (thanks to Infidel Pride for the translations):

[...] According to sources, details of Voice over Internet Protocol calls between the jihadis holed up in the Taj and Trident hotels and Nariman House and their Lashkar bosses in Pakistan provide a chilling account of the remorseless efficiency with which the massacre of innocents was choreographed.

Conversations between the terrorists and top Lashkar leaders, identified as Zarar Shah, Abu Hamza and Abu Qafa, is now a crucial part of the clinching evidence of Mumbai attacks being a handiwork of the ISI-backed Pakistani terror tanzim.

Though the Lashkar leaders used VoIP to mask their identity and the origin of calls, cooperation from foreign agencies, including the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, helped Indian investigators access the call details. [...]

Terrorists were repeatedly exhorted to start fires. "Aag lagao, aag lagao" ["Set (it) on fire"] is the instruction that the terrorists were repeatedly given at all the three sites of attack from their bosses who, obviously, intended to maximise casualties.

The Pakistan-based leaders told their wards at Nariman House to kill the Israelis. The terrorists were also asked to spare Muslims in the two hotels -- a directive which conflicted with the task of indiscriminate firing assigned to Mohammad Ajmal Kasab and Ismail at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Cama Hospital and other places that led to the death of 39 Muslims. [...]

The banter gave way to some seriousness after the arrival of commandos. "Fauj aa rahi hai, cover lo" [Troops are coming, take cover]. But there was no display of panic, with the Lashkar commanders, confident that flushing out the terrorists was not going to be easy for the NSG jawans, asking them to eat khajoor, not to get tired and take turns to sleep. "Thakna nahin hai" [Don't get tired], was one of the instructions as the LeT leaders were clearly aware that the fidayeen squad was ready to die fighting. [...]

One of the bosses did not seem perturbed or even concerned when told by a terrorist that he had been badly injured. "Aakhiri waqt aa gaya hai, namaaz ada karo" [The last moments have arrived, recite the namaaz], said the composed voice at the other end, according to sources. Invoking jihadi logic, the handler asked the wounded terrorist -- "do you have a message to give"?

Posted by Marisol at January 7, 2009 10:40 AM
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I love the "fight" the terrorists are in - armed Jihadists versus innocent, defenseless civilians...

Posted by: DJM

at January 7, 2009 10:50 AM

"We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, told German news magazine Der Spiegel.

That sums up pretty much what we think of Islam and Mohammedans. This comes from the mouth of Pakistani Mohammedan. The vile, despicable and diabolic Mohammedan cowards. Islam is disgusting.

Posted by: savsiv

at January 7, 2009 10:52 AM

""Aakhiri waqt aa gaya hai, namaaz ada karo" [The last moments have arrived, recite the namaaz], said the composed voice at the other end, according to sources."

Namaaz = Salaat (Islamic prayer)

"salaat" is Arabic, "namaaz" is from the Pahlvi language, originally Persian brought to India by Zoroastrians

http://www.tolueislam.com/Parwez/QD/QD_1_01_01.htm

Posted by: DenverRodeo

at January 7, 2009 11:13 AM

This is sociopathic behavior. There such be no doubt that Islam was founded by a sociopath, is a religion for sociopaths, is a religion that recruits sociopaths (prisons) and turns normal humans in to passive participants who tolerate sociopathic behavior done in their name.

Posted by: tanstaafl

at January 7, 2009 11:37 AM

Biden and Kerry are going to Pakistan to pay 15 billion $ in jeziya so that it can wage jihad against India for ten more years. Stay tuned. Its coming soon.

Posted by: Naresh C.

at January 7, 2009 1:31 PM

Let's be clear. ISI is responsible. Pakistan is responsible. This is a fact. Any sane minded people knows this thru pakistan's non-action. Pakistan's claim that it was a 'non-state actor' doesn't hold any water. Three months after the house arrest, the murderous will be set free.

Go Isreal! Go India!

Posted by: Infidel#1

at January 7, 2009 1:55 PM

"Keep your phone switched on," a handler said in the midst of the siege, "so that we can hear the gunfire."

A perverted form of perverted phone sex...The listener got a thrill out of it, otherwise what was the point? He identified himself with the act, in the same way a snuff film addict identifies himself with those acts. This is the reason that so many captured terrorists have beheading and torture videos in their possession...They identify with the act and get a perverted, and depraved, sexual thrill out of it.
Dong it themselves is even better...Allah willing, and he has been more times than I can count...

Posted by: duh_swami

at January 7, 2009 2:02 PM

"We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha...

This is supposed to be a distinction with a difference?

Posted by: Eastview

at January 7, 2009 2:47 PM

"Out of our minds" is Islamic for "honest with infidels."

Posted by: jdamn

at January 7, 2009 5:21 PM

I have found this url http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/latest_col.php?id=81 where you get a real flavour about what Pakis really think. Here is a sample from Muhd. Amir; Please read and comment there too.

Pakistan Army and Intelligence agencies are the only patriotic organizations in Pakistan that can serve our country. Corrupt politicians and so called "Democracy aka Hypocrisy" is not a workable model for Pakistan and for the entire Muslim Ummah.

Democracy has already proved to be a filed system. It is a Masonic/Illuminati system and a building block for NWO (New World Order) of Dajjal. Being Muslims our religion has given us a system of Khilafat. We should try to implement it and if not then at least we should support our army to administer state under the directives of Shariah (Divine Laws).

Khilafat is not difficult to implement but in current situation I think it's very difficult and requires major overhauling in the Administration side of Arab countries. Mossad spy girls, who are residing in the houses of Arab administrators, will never like the idea of Khilafat to integrate whole Muslim ummah.

I suspect Queen Rania of Jordan is a mossad spy agent. Allah (S.W.T) knows better but if you critically analyse her affair with king abdullah then you will reach the same conclusion.

Posted by: keeping low

at January 7, 2009 5:45 PM

"Out of our minds" is Islamic for "honest with infidels." -- jdamn

Of course! Now it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Eastview

at January 7, 2009 5:48 PM

keeping low...You keep using Allah (S.W.T.)

Are you a Mohammadan or are you just being sarcastic??

Posted by: duh_swami

at January 7, 2009 6:37 PM

"I suspect Queen Rania of Jordan is a mossad spy agent. Allah (S.W.T) knows better but if you critically analyse her affair with king abdullah then you will reach the same conclusion." -- keeping low

I won't waste time on the other conspiratorial nonsense you spouted in the first part of your post above, but would like to inquire about the statement referring to an "affair." Queen Raina (nee Rania Al-Yassin) was born in Kuwait to "Palestinian" (whatever that means) parents and is Abdulla's wife (not just a consort, as was her step-mother-in-law, Hussein's fourth wife, Queen Noor, American born as Lisa Halaby, daughter of Najeeb Halaby, ex-CEO of Pan Am before it went belly up). Abdullah was the son of another of Raina's step-mothers-in-law, Hussein's second wife Muna (British borne, nee Antoinette Avril Gardiner). Now, while these consanguinity relationships are fascinating, albeit needing a roadmap to figure out, as with most Muslim marriages, what you're alleging sounds like it could have come right out of a gossip rag. There is an age difference between the two, to be sure (Abdallah was born in 1962, Raina in 1970, so the age difference is ~18 years - nothing at all compared to Mohammad's 40-something years when he "married" Aisha) but this surely isn't the problem. Abdullah and Raina were married in 1993, when she would have been 23 years old, practically a spinster by Islamic standards.

So, what's your problem with all this? Most of us here don't read the Arabic gossip sheets, so you'll have to enlighten us with your analysis.

Posted by: Eastview

at January 7, 2009 6:58 PM

Typo correction: in my previous post it should have read "...age difference is ~8 years...", and further noted that this is within the norms of civilized societies.

Posted by: Eastview

at January 7, 2009 7:04 PM