Investigating the Mumbai Conspiracy

About the Book :

On November 26, 2008, 10 heavily armed men came via ship and boats from Pakistan and held India hostage in Mumbai for over 60 hours. It was the most audacious terrorist onslaught since the 9/11 attack on the United States of America. Over 180 persons were killed and two nuclear armed nations almost came to war over the attack that shook the world.

Who masterminded such an attack? From the evidence gathered by various intelligence and security agencies, it is quite clear that Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), an al Qaida-affiliated Lahore-based terrorist group, which trained and dispatched the attackers, do not have the capability to plan and execute such an armed assault across the seas.

In an explosive revelation, the book pieces together every shred of evidence available in public domain to prove that the Mumbai attack was planned and executed by Pakistan Army and its different agencies, including ISI and Special Services Group.

The book reveals, for the first time in public, how Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani was not only in the know of the attack but had planned every detail of the attack with his close confidants in the Army`s top leadership.

Exposing the true face of Pakistan Army, the book shows how the Army leadership, including former General and President Pervez Musharraf, were playing one of the deadliest games in recent history to provoke a disastrous war among two nuclear-armed nations.

About Author :

Wilson John is a Senior Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation. His areas of research include Pakistan, India`s neighbourhood policy and terrorism. His articles are regularly published both in India and abroad. His chapters on extremism in Bangladesh and terrorism in Pakistan have been published in Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities published in 2005 by The Jamestown, Washington.His other published papers include `Pakistan Under Islamist Siege` in India`s National Security: Annual Review 2004 and `Terrorism in South Asia: Trends and Challenges` in South Asia Defence and Strategic Year Book 2007. He has authored/edited six books?An Admiral`s Fall (Har Anand 1999), Karachi: A Terrorist Capital in the Making (Rupa 2004), Pakistan`s Nuclear Underworld (ORF-Samskriti 2005), co-editor of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (Longman Pearson 2005), Pakistan-Four Scenarios (Pentagon Press2007), The General and Jihad (Pentagon Press) and Pakistan: Struggle Within (ed) (Longman Pearson 2009). His forthcoming book is Coming Blowback: How Pakistan is Endangering the World (Rupa 2009). He writes frequently in The Terrorism Monitor, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, and Washington Times.

Vishwas Kumar is an investigative journalist with special interest in crime, terrorism and human interest related stories/issues. In the last 10 years, he has covered most of the big incidents of crime/ terrorism in Delhi. Among the many scoops and investigative stories, prominent ones include the murder of Indian Express journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, murder of model Jessica Lall, the cricket scandal dubbed as the Hansiegate and the Swiss diplomat rape case. Recent exposes include exclusive stories on happening inside Tihar Central Jail, the Asia biggest prison, the extortion racket run by Dawood Ibrahim`s frontman Romesh Sharma from the jail. At present, Vishwas Kumar is Editor, Investigations, with the MetroNow, a tabloid promoted by two of India`s biggest media houses, The Times of India and Hindustan Times. Vishwas is a Post Graduate diploma holder in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.