Article: Conversations with a terrorist; This is Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab unleashing an attack in Mumbai that left 166 dead. Now we reveal the shocking phone transcripts that show how the terrorists were manipulated from Pakistan.(Features)

Byline: Dan Reed

Do you want them to keep the hostages or kill them?' asks Brother Wasi of someone else in the control room. The person replies with a casual grunt, barely audible through the background babble of the news channels playing on a nearby television.

At the other end of the line, 500 miles away, Akasha, a 25-year-old Pakistani, is squatting on the floor inside a besieged building in the centre of Mumbai, with a murdered rabbi's mobile phone in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. He knows this will be his last night on Earth. For his mission to be a success, he must be killed.

The two women hostages are on a bed nearby, trussed ...

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