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Mumbai Attacks.

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The audacious attack which took a year to plan The attack was planned with military precision. By Rahul Bedi in Bombay and Sean Rayment, Security correspondent Last Updated: 2:27PM GMT 08 Dec 2008 The surviving Mumbai terror suspect is to be injected with a "truth serum" to establish whether he came from Pakistan. Photo: AP Ten terrorists dedicated to fighting for an independent Kashmir were selected for an operation from which they were likely never to return. The tactics were relatively simple: to strike at multiple targets while simultaneously slaughtering as many civilians as possible before going "static" in three of the locations within the city. But such a plan would require a year of planning, reconnaissance, the covert acquisition of ships and speed boats as well as the forward basing of weapons and ammunition secretly hidden inside at least one hotel. Nothin