Naval Warships, Aircrafts scouring seas for `Mothership`

NAVY, COAST GUARD CAPTURE 'MOTHERSHIP'

Updated on Thursday, November 27, 2008, 00:00 IST

Mumbai, Nov 27: The Indian Navy and Coast Guard have caught the 'mothership' called MV Alpha, 112 km from here, that reportedly smuggled the terrorists in Mumbai from Karachi.

A CG spokesman said that searches were being carried out on board the ship but declined to elaborate.

"The Naval and Coast Guards ships have since this morning intercepted and checked antecedents of all the vessels operating or moored around the metropolis," Vice-admiral J S Bedi Flag Officer Commanding in Chief Western Naval Command said earlier in the day.

The surveillance of large areas of the Arabian Sea is still on, Bedi said as he disclosed that two Naval War Ships along with vessels from the Coast Guard, Helicopter and Dronniers Maritime reconnaissance Aircraft were involved in the massive sea-hunt.

These comments come in the wake of eye-witnesses saying they had seen young men in their early twenties carrying heavy rucksacks disgorge from High Speed Boats off the Gateway of India.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has said earlier today that the terrorists got ashore in South Mumbai from boats.

"We have been boarding number of vessels and so far we have found that most of the ships searched has valid papers," the Admiral told a news channel.

Damle said the Navy was assisting Mumbai police and NSG in the operations against the terrorists.

On security measures initiated by the Navy, he said that in the past one year offshore patrol vessels 'Sujata' and 'Sharda' and Fast Attack Craft Bangaram have been extensively deployed for patrolling duties off the coast of Kerala and off the Lakshadweep islands. These ships also monitor the Sea Lanes of Communication or SLOCs passing close to Kerala and Lakshadweep, he said.

He said the recent decisive intervention by the Indian Navy off the coast of Somalia is a timely reminder that the Navy is capable of protecting the country's maritime interests.

He said the Indian Navy's initiative to take action against Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden has been recognised all over the world.

Bureau Report

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God help the ppl who did it and God help those who sufferedBut God please help them most , who just say and do nothing -miser - Delhi

listen bro what was happend in asam state with musilmswhat was happend in gujratbut iam not in the favour of themthis not good action that kill the innocent peoplethat they are doing mubaimy angasit this action done by people -think positive -

Dear Bros,,, It is this time when all the devils ov world must be very happy to see that their divide and rule is working so well !!Those world`s biggest producer of arms and ammo are happy to see that people of two countries are thirsty for each other`s blood no matter ISI or RAW both are working for or against humans u can understand point is wats been happening in pakistan for last 2 yrs specially, who is sponsopring that ?? answer is RAW from its safe houses in afghanistan so what do you think the other side will be sitting like duck? dear we the citizens should see that our politicians try to shine their glories with blood baths of innocent citizens so try to understand and dont be radical , we truly respect and love all our indian brothers and wish them safe and secure life there -proud pakistani - earth

well done indian navy and coast guardswe are proud to have such strong armed forcesbut it would be better for the govt of india to equip our navy with more sophisticated arm and vessels so tht it can patrol our coastlines -kanishka - mumbai

This is an act of a cowardYou cannot kill innocent people to get recoganized No religion or race on the face of this globe says that you have to kill in order to be known This is insane India has come a long way economicaly & now its time to focus its attention more on the safety of its citizens They must work together towards creating various agencies like ICE,FBI,secret service & offcoarse IRS so that every body contributes equally in form of taxes to safe gaurd this great country against any terrorist threat -Sandeep Mhaske - Los Angeles

All day long i was at office and was royally pissed at these f militants how can someone just like that come to my country and harm my brothers and sisters, if somebody with A LITTLE authority is reading this, please dont kill them pleasehand them over to the families of there victims and let these people decide there fate Cut each of there body part and leave them to bleed to death slowly and all the terrorist who are living at our mercy in jails should be slautered -NG and DJ - india

once i said why we need a train to pakistanwhy we need close ties with them agian i would like to warn my people in india unless we do not finish all the trades, relations with them and unless we seal our entire border with them we can not stop this kind of terror attacks i m not against any nation nor its people but i wanna make sure the security and peace of my country once we got it then we can think of a train to pak or any other ties with them -sharma - usa

declare for one more partition now between Pakistanis and hindus==through all these muslims out of our country==as along as they are here we cannot progress in any front and they are the most trustworthy===the citizenship of india is only for hindus!!!! nothing else!!!! ==in the meanwhile amar singh, lallu and mrarjun singh`s appeasement of muslims are responsible for this attack -indian - India

hey guys, cant u see or think? is pakistan in a state so dat it can plot such a thing??it is itself attacked byu terrorists,it is attaced by america on daily basis by thier drones,it economy is about to collapse, pakistan is in NO WAY involved in this thingand tell me sumthing guys,how the hell 10-12 guys can carry so much ammo??did they bring TRUCKS of bullets?i dont understand how the hell they kept firing for 27 hours n more??think before you say anything friendspakistan has nothing to do with itv r very sorry for indiaRegards -A thinker - Pakistani

Erase Pakistan from the world map -Raj - NY

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