KASAB: THE FACE OF 26/11

Rommel Rodrigues

Nov 2010 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

On 26 November 2008 ten heavily armed terrorists entered Mumbai. They headed for the city’s iconic landmarks and the mayhem they unleashed lasted nearly 60 hours. The audacious terror attacks jolted Mumbai like never before. Even as they mourned; the residents of Maximum City demanded answers. But the information they got in return—accounts of the investigation; government rhetoric; newspaper reports; television features; books and even a film—was sketchy at best. Meanwhile; the courts continued with their prosecution of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab; the lone surviving 26/11 gunman. The broad picture available to the public is of the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and its ringleaders such as Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi training; arming and dispatching ten young men in a boat to attack India’s commercial capital. All we have been told about Kasab is that he was just another recruit brainwashed into carrying out the plot against Mumbai. Kasab: The Face of 26/11 breaks new ground by painstakingly piecing together Kasab’s terror trail. The narrative follows Kasab through the bylanes of Pakistani villages and cities as he made his way towards PoK; the dense forests where the terrorist-training camps are situated; the trains; buses and jeeps he boarded; the Indian vessel he and the others hijacked en route to Mumbai’s shores; Kasab’s capture and incarceration. Rommel Rodrigues’ path-breaking investigative journalism fleshes out for the first time the well thought-out planning and organization that lay behind the attacks of 26/11.

Ratings and reviews

Very informative and interesting book. Shocked to find that there are lots of differences between the movie and the book regarding various subplots. Don't know which one to believe.

Very detailed, though the ending was very abrupt. However in some places, the detailing was way too much and unnecessary

He ran from his house bcz he fought with his dad bz his dad could not afford new clothes on ed .he ran with a friend and soon met the members of laskare Taiba and became its part.