Kasab is going to get a shot of dope,something he seems to have been quite used to.It is excellent that he has been seen by the US and Israeli intel agencies as the proof of {Pak's guilt and complicity is absolutely essential for India to trumpet to every corner of the globe.Who is our min for Information?He has an almight role to play now,winning the propaganda war before the baloon goes up.
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Mumbai gunman says he was paid $1,900 for attack - as new CCTV emerges
( Investigating Team Video/Reuters)
CCTV of gunmen walking across a car park after a shooting spree at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station in Mumbai
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai
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The sole Mumbai gunman to be taken alive has said he was paid 150,000 Pakistani rupees – about £1,300 or $1,900 – for his part in the attacks that killed nearly 200 people, according to police.
"He has said the payment was 1.5 lakhs (150,000) of Pakistani rupees," Rakesh Maria, the joint commissioner of Mumbai police, who is one of the interrogators questioning Azam Amir Kasab, told The Times.
Police are also investigating a possible link to the United States – a mobile SIM card found with the terrorists which possibly came from New Jersey. "Nothing is confirmed, but we are looking at this and have made enquiries with mobile operators," Mr Maria said.
Police to use 'truth serum' on gunman
Kasab was one of two gunmen who killed 56 people at Bombay's main train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, on Wednesday. Pictures of the casually dressed, boyish gunman brandishing an AK47 have become a definitive image of the worst terror attack in India in 15 years. Nine other terrorists were killed.
A dispute over the origin of Kasab is placing a strain on India's rapidly deteriorating relationship with Pakistan.
Mumbai police say the "baby-faced gunman" is a poor 24-year-old primary school drop out from a village called Faridkot in Pakistan's south Punjab region. They say he has confessed to being recruited by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a notoriously brutal Pakistan-based terrorist faction created to fight Indian rule in Kashmir, to carry out the Mumbai strikes.
That – or a similar account of events – is thought to be cautiously being given credence by Western intelligence officials.
Mumbai police say that Kasab was trained in camps in Pakistan for up to 18 months by ex-army officers. American intelligence officials suspect that for former officers from Pakistan's powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) gave training, according to today's New York Times.
In response, however, Pakistan's government has denied any knowledge of Kasab and has said it can not find any trace of him in three villages named Faridkot in south Punjab.
Today, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, from Delhi, to diffuse tensions between the two nuclear-powered neighbours. Yesterday she said: "We believe Pakistan has a central role to play in this [the investigation], to make certain that these terrorists cannot continue to operate and operate in this fashion,"
Police interrogators have told The Times that they are poised to settle the matter of Kasab's background through the use of "narcoanalysis" – a controversial technique, banned in most democracies, where the subject is injected with a "truth serum".
The method was widely used by western intelligence agencies during the Cold War before it emerged that the drugs used – typically sodium pentothal – may induce hallucinations, delusions and psychotic behaviour.
Deven Bharti, a deputy police commissioner in Mumbai and one of the interrogators, said that there was "no doubt" that Kasab will be subjected to "narcoanalysis".
The drug – probably sodium pentothal – will be administered through a drip and will lull Kasab into a trance-like state. Usually, a forensic psychologist then questions the prisoner.
Such methods are banned in the UK and the US, though some security officials suggest they should be adopted in terrorist cases in the West -- and some experts believe they already are.
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Meanwhile, Indian officials remain under pressure to account for the lax handling of last weeks crisis.
The deployment of India's elite troops to the two luxury hotels that were stormed by terrorist gunmen may have been delayed for hours by red tape that calls for a written request to be made to the Indian Navy before they are dispatched, it emerged today.
An Indian defence spokesman based in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) told The Times that standing orders demand that a letter be sent to the Indian Navy before its Marine Commandos – or "Marcos" -- troops are ordered from their barracks.
He said that the paperwork was eventually sidestepped last Wednesday, but not until it became apparent to millions of television viewers across the world that India's commercial capital was under a massive, co-ordinated terror attack.
Despite the Marcos – regarded as the "best of the best" of India's military – being based in Mumbai they did not reach the Taj Mahal Palace and Oberoi hotels until 1.30am – about four hours after the terrorist gunmen had stormed the buildings.
By that stage the militants had consolidated their positions and trapped hundreds of staff and guests.
The defence spokesman said that the troops were eventually dispatched after the chief secretary of Mumbai made a request by telephone to the chief of staff of Western Naval Command in Mumbai.
"We do not deploy troops unless we are told to," he said.
It was also reported that a private firm has withdrawn its explosives sniffer dogs from Bombay's railway system after failing to be paid.
