India ready to inject surviving Mumbai jihadi with truth serum; Update: Jihadis’ website registered in U.S.?

posted at 4:00 pm on December 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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He claims he’s from Pakistan, Pakistan claims there’s no proof. Much depends on the answer, needless to say.

Police hope to discover whether gunman Azam Amir Kasab came from Pakistan through the use of “narcoanalysis” – a practise banned in most democracies.

The technique was used during the Cold War before it emerged that barbiturate sodium pentothal induced hallucinations, delusions and psychotic manifestations.

Police have reason to believe he’s from somewhere called Faridkot, but it turns out there are several villages by that name and no one’s sure which is the right one. Residents of the most likely candidate, in Punjab, insist they’ve never heard of him or his surname. Are they lying to keep Pakistani police out of their hair? Could be, but in fact our boy doesn’t fit the profile of someone from a poor backwater. He speaks fluent English, for one thing, and told cops that he was sold to Lashkar e-Taiba by his father when it’s unlikely that a “draftee” would be chosen for a mission this important. He’s the one who’s probably lying. Or maybe he was just high at the time, as I suggested he might have been in one of my earlier posts. I wonder, is LSD the best thing to take while executing an intricate paramilitary operation?

Indian analysts tell Reuters that a retaliatory strike against Pakistan is unlikely since it hasn’t worked before and wouldn’t achieve much now except to replace the current government with a more radical one. I’m not sure how “international pressure” on Pakistan to purge the jihadis in its military and intel services is supposed to work either, though. If the U.S. and UK press too hard, Pakistan can’t comply without looking like a western puppet; if Russia and China press too hard … er, why would they press too hard? They’ve never done so before. If anything, Pakistan’s doing them a favor by keeping a potential superpower preoccupied.

ABC claims that as many as 14 jihadis could be on the lam and headed to New Delhi for a follow-up attack, but read all the way down for an amazing detail. The training for Mumbai might have begun a year ago or even earlier, a detail corroborated by the Journal’s account of two jihadis arrested by Indian police who confessed they were part of a gang that entered Mumbai and then split up into pairs … after arriving by sea. The date of that arrest? March 2007.

Update: Not only is the website for Lashkar’s “charity” hosted in the United States, they’re registered under their actual name. Any enterprising tort lawyers want to teach Dreamhost a painful lesson?

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