Topic: 2008 Mumbai Attacks

Manila says arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

MANILA/BOSTON (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people over a hacking operation that targeted customers of U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based militant group.Those arrested on Wednesday in Manila were paid by the same ...

Philippines say arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

MANILA/BOSTON (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T's system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.The Philippines' Criminal ...

Pakistan, India herald new era of dialogue

VILLINGILI ISLAND, Maldives (Reuters) - India and Pakistan hailed progress in diplomatic ties on Thursday, promising to open a "new chapter" in their fraught relationship at a next round of formal peace talks.Lasting peace between the nuclear-armed rivals is seen as essential ...

US slaps sanctions on 2 Pakistani militant leaders

US officials on Wednesday imposed financial sanctions on two leaders of a Pakistan-based militant group with links to the Al-Qaeda network.The US Treasury Department named Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, leaders and founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a group on ...

U.S. looks for links between Kabul, Mumbai attacks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. agencies are looking into possible similarities between the September 13 attacks on U.S. and NATO targets in Afghanistan, and the November 2008 attack by militants on civilian targets in Mumbai, India.Current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials told Reuters ...

Blast e-mail suspect detained in Indian Kashmir

Police in Indian Kashmir on Friday detained a man suspected of sending an e-mail claiming responsibility for a bomb at New Delhi's High Court that left 13 dead.The unverified e-mail, which said the Pakistan-based militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) carried out Wednesday's ...

Rival claims to Delhi bomb blast

Indian federal investigators examined Thursday two unverified claims by militant groups that they were behind a deadly bomb blast at New Delhi's High Court that left 12 people dead.One emailed claim purportedly sent from Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), a Pakistan-based Islamist militant group, ...

Analysis: Blast another blow for "clueless" India government

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A spate of audacious and deadly terrorist attacks on high profile targets in India is unlikely to be stopped anytime soon because the response by the government, slammed by one tabloid as "clueless," has been half hearted and ...

Delhi High Court 'terror' bomb kills 11

A powerful bomb hidden in a briefcase ripped through a crowd outside New Delhi's High Court on Wednesday, killing 11 people and injuring 76, many of them petitioners waiting for legal hearings.The device was placed near an entrance gate reception area, where ...

Islamists deny links to Pakistani arrested in US

A powerful Islamist militant group Monday denied links to a Pakistani man arrested in the US on charges of providing support to the outfit blamed for the deadly Mumbai attacks in 2008.Jubair Ahmad, 24, stands accused of providing material support to Pakistan-based ...
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