Mumbai Attacker: 'Plan was to kill 5000' and 'kill to my last breath'

Azam Amir Kasav, the only surviving gunman of the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai, told officers, "the plan was to kill 5000" and "kill until the last breath".

The 21-year-old told investigators that their intention was to kill 5,000 people and in particular seek out for 'white targets, preferably British, American and Israelis'.

He revealed that all ten terrorists were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, hoodwinking the navy, police and locals, to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel and then executing American and British tourists.

The Pakistani born who speaks fluent English said, "The attacks were meticulously planned six months ago."

A banned Islamic terrorist group funded with cash raised in British mosques is believed to be behind the Mumbai attacks.

Telephone and radio communications before and during the latest attacks apparently suggest a link between Kashmiri separatists Lashkar-e-Taiba, 'The Army of the Righteous'.

Police insist that Kasav confessed to being a member of the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has denied involvement in the carnage, and claimed he and the others were trained in the Muslim country.

Kasav told investigators, "I have done right and I have no regrets" suggesting a Jihadi character.

A leading expert of terrorism, Bruce Ridel says, "The attacks are connected with the global jihad."

In an analysis on the Mumbai carnage, Bruce says, "Terrorism in India is a complex phenomenon with numerous perpetrators, with the most dangerous terrorist menace coming from groups with intimate connections to the global jihadist network centred around Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda and its allies in the Pakistani jihadist culture."

India has often been listed, Riedel points out, by Bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri as a part of the 'Crusader-Zionist-Hindu' conspiracy against the Islamic world. The targets of the killers in Mumbai fit exactly into the profile Al Qaeda and its partners vilify and plot against.