December 2, 2008 (LPAC)--British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted that there is ``no evidence'' of British nationals involved in the Mumbai terror rampage. Brown and the major British press followed up Sunday's coverup with continued statements that there is ``'No Evidence' of U.K. Mumbai Link,'' with Brown telling BBC that ``he had spoken to India's prime minister who `at no point' suggested there was evidence of any terrorist of British origins.'' Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that it is "too early to say whether or not any of them was British,'' reported The Australian today. Instead, the British Empire's extended media was pointing the finger at Pakistan, hoping to inflame a confrontation between India and Pakistan. ``Mumbai Attacks: India Says All the Militants Were From Pakistan,'' screamed the Torygraph today. But as more details came out during the course of the investigation on the ground in India, cracks in the British cover story emerged.
The Australian also reported today that ``Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Maharashtra state [where Mumbai is located]... was quoted on an Indian television station as saying that British citizens had been detained,'' even though BBC and other British Sunday press yesterday claimed the same minister denied the British involvement. The Australian also said on Dec. 1, ``British MP Patrick Mercer, a former Tory security spokesman, said he had been given information that at least two of the terrorists had credit cards and other identifying documents that linked them to Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in northeast England.''
The Daily Mail online, on Sunday, Nov. 30 reported that ``Mumbai terrorists were 'funded by cash raised in U.K. mosques'" citing the 2006 conviction of a Coventry, England man for funneling money to the Lashkar e-Toiba (LET), the group behind the attack. The Mail also reported ``firebrand British-based Muslim preacher Anjem Choudhary backed the terrorists and said any Britons killed or held hostage were legitimate targets because they should not have gone to India. Choudhary, right-hand man to preacher of hate Omar Bakri, said Britain and America is at war with the Muslim world and their citizens must keep off the battlefield.''
Likewise, the cover story that there were ``only'' 10 or 11 terrorists involved is being questioned. An official police investigator reported that 15 blankets, winter coats, and personal items including toothbrushes were found on the abandoned boat used by some of the attackers to infiltrate into Mumbai, and a police officer from a Mumbai district station is quoted saying that as many as 13 terrorists could still be at large, planning other attacks.
A well-informed Washington intelligence source reported that there are anomalies coming from the police investigation, such as several unused caches of weapons that were found, suggesting that more attacks were planned. He also noted that officials of the FBI, British security services, and other intelligence agencies of countries whose nationals were attacked, will be joining the official investigation.
