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Journalist, author. Books ; Black Tornado, 3 sieges of Mumbai26/11 https://t.co/nmiOL1rxea Operation X https://t.co/FCWgNacMXF
Apr 10 6 tweets 5 min read
In 2010, two years after the horrific Mumbai #26/11 attacks, residents of Jal Vayu Vihar, a housing colony for Air Force and Navy veterans in Mumbai, had a surprise visitor at their doorstep: a Mumbai police SWAT team and an armoured vehicle . That vehicle remained at their gate there for nearly two years. I soon found out why… 1/4 (rep image)Image My parents lived in Jal Vayu Vihar (JVV). It turns out that JVV, was a 26/11 attack target. David Headley revealed this to the NIA team in 2010. Headley’s accomplice #TahawwurRana flew in from the US, and stayed at a hotel in Powai to recce the complex. But why JVV? Because many residents, including my father, were 1971 war veterans- one of them was in the Dhaka surrender ceremony photograph. Rana, an ex-Pak Army officer, told Headley he wanted to kill the veterans to avenge 1971. 2/4Image
Apr 14, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read
Russia’s Black Sea flagship ‘Moskva’ hit by Ukrainian missiles. Esp catastrophic, given the ship’s name. Sister ship Varyag in Kochi this Jan 👇🏻 The 12k ton ARA General Belgrano - sunk during the Falklands conflict in 1982. The Moskva might be the biggest ship kill since then. Image
Feb 22, 2020 12 tweets 4 min read
#TargetMumbai Thread. #26/11 attacks were masterminded by the Pakistan Army’s ISI. 3rd & most sensational instalment in 15 year war on Mumbai — 1993- 2006- 2008- 3 attacks killed 600 + civilians, maimed 1000s, meant to bleed India, target its commercial capital. 1/8 War began after GHQ was convinced its nukes had blunted India’s conventional military superiority post Brasstacks. One terror attack led to another. Hence, Nuclear Weapons Enabled Terrorism (NWET) coined by @TheUdayB- which paralysed Natnl Security apparatus in Delhi.
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