tarpash
Will the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks be connected to al Qaeda by the end of 2008?
There are no official reports of al Qaeda being directly involved in the attacks.
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Suspend date: Wed 24th Dec 2008 9am PST Settlement date: last Thursday 11:37am PSTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Wed 24th Dec 2008 9am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods: Yes: 40%
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randburg
: YES:
The surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told interrogators he had been sent by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and identified two of the plot's masterminds, according to two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry. Lashkar, outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, has been deemed by the U.S. a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida.
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orlin
: No reports of such connection. jake
: Settle as no. No news of any connection. 
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: There are no official reports of al Qaeda being directly involved in the attacks.
Suspend date: Wed 24th Dec 2008 9am PST Settlement date: last Thursday 11:37am PSTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Wed 24th Dec 2008 9am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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‘We thought we were safe... then CNN stepped in!’
From her home in Penarth yesterday, Mrs Shaw said: “We have been asked by the British terror police not to talk to the press.
“But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were.
“The terrorists were watching CNN and they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about us on television. For that reason I would appeal to the media to be very careful about what they broadcast.
“When we left Mumbai there were still around 100 people trapped there.”
She added: “People talk to one another on mobile phones and that gets broadcast and the terrorists knew from that.”
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2008/11/29/we-thought-we-were-safe-then-cnn-stepped-in-91466-22368124/
The surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told interrogators he had been sent by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and identified two of the plot's masterminds, according to two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry. Lashkar, outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, has been deemed by the U.S. a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida.
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