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The US Remembers Victims of 26/11 Mumbai Attack

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The US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo on Tuesday 26 November marked the 11th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack by remembering the 166 innocent victims, including six Americans. The brutality of the attack shocked the entire world. “It is an affront to the victims and their families that those who planned the Mumbai attack still have not been convicted”, he said.


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  1. Pompeo was briefing media-persons in Washington DC. He also offered condolences to a United States citizen, Anil Raj of California, who was killed in a terrorist attack on a UN vehicle in Kabul on November 24th. There were five other civilians who were injured, including staff.

  2. The US Secretary of State went to describe Iran as the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Stating that President Trump and he were following closely the protests that have recently broken out across that country, Pompeo said the Iranian people are, once again, on the streets because of the regime’s poor economic management. And instead of addressing their grievances, Tehran has responded with violence and by blaming those outside of the country.

  3. Last week, the regime shut down the internet to prevent the truth about the protests from getting out, Pompeo said and went on to add that he asked Iranians to share their messages with the United States so they could expose and sanction abuses of the Iranian regime.

  4. Last week, an Iranian dissident, Massoud Malvi, was assassinated in Istanbul after he defected to Turkey from Iran.

  5. There is overwhelming and growing body of evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is committing human rights violations and abuses against individuals in mass detention, Pompeo observed. Turning to the Chinese Communist Party, he said “w’ve all seen the “Xinjiang Papers” released in recent days. They detail the Chinese party’s brutal detention and systematic repression of Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang”.

  6. It’s not just Muslims that are the largest target of the CCP’shostility. Christians, Tibetans, and other minority groups have also felt the CCP’s heavy hand of repression. On a different note, however, Pompeo congratulated the people of Hong Kong on free, fair, and peaceful district council elections on the 24th of November.

  7. Pompeo drew attention towards the Venezuelan and Cuban people stating they continue to suffer at the hands of despotic actors who put their own interests above the interests of their people.

  8. Today, the US Secretary of State said, the United States is taking action to prevent Cubametales from circumventing U.S. sanctions. This action will further squeeze the illegal, profitmaking scheme Cuba carries out to help the illegitimate dictator Nicolas Maduro and his unraveling network of corrupt advisors.

  9. Cubametales is a Cuban state-run company and the primary facilitator of illegal oil imports from Venezuela. To further contain their action, we are putting sanctions on another Cuban company, Corporacion Panamericana S.A., pursuant to Executive Order 13850, Pompeo added.

  10. Cubametales was sanctioned back on July of 2019. It has since had trouble finding companies willing to conduct business with it.

  11. When asked – do you believe that the U.S. and Ukraine should investigate the theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that hacked the DNC emails in 2016? Pompeo replied, there were many countries that were actively engaged in trying to undermine American democracy, our rule of law, the fundamental understandings we have here in the United States. And you should know we were diligently, diligently working to make sure that we addressed each of them with every tool of American power that we had.

  12. There are non-state actors too who are out there acting in ways that are deeply inconsistent with what we’re trying to do to protect our elections, Pompeo added.

  13. On being asked about Turkey and the S-400 – the question whether Turkey is testing the S-400on F16s, Pompeo said yes it’s concerning. We are hopeful. We’re still talking to the Turks. We’re still trying to figure our way through this thing.

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The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday 26 November and lasted until Saturday 29 November 2008. At least 174 people died, including 9 attackers, and more than 300 were wounded. More Info

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