MONTEREY, California: March 11, 2011. (By Ahmar Mustikhan) The words Pakistan and Pakistani terrorists were mentioned countless times by an FBI special agent during a seminar in the U.S. military town of Monterey, Calif., Thursday afternoon. Steven Miller, FBI special agent who was posted at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi as assistant legal attaché, made a presentation organized by James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Affairs, recapturing the events of the terrorist attacks on the Mumbai on Thanksgiving eve November 26, 2008. Miller in his presentation “Mumbai Under Siege: Terrorist Attacks of Nov. 26-29, 2008” said the close working relationship that the FBI developed with their Indian counterpart during the Mumbai attack later led to the arrest of Pakistani-American David Headley who had visited Mumbai to provide the 10 Pakistani terrorists with the blueprints of the soft targets that included the main railway station Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Oberoi Trident Hotel, Chabad Nariman House, and Leopold Café. Miller said the terrorists planned even larger number of deaths but failed as they could not find the stairway to a vantage position on the second floor of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus that is used by 3.5 million train commuters each day. “Leopold Café opened within 24 hours,” Miller said, expressing his amazement over the resilience of the Indian public over the tragedy that ripped the financial and commercial capital of India. Miller also praised the general manager of the Taj Palace, Karambir Kang, saying his heroism to protect the hotel guests “was the bravest thing I have ever seen.” Kang stood on the scene of attack to help law-enforcement though his entire family was killed by the Pakistani terrorists who were carrying European hand-grenades, Kalashnikovs, and Pakistan-made guns. He lauded the efforts of the medical examiner of Mumbai who single handedly examined the 164 victims who perished in the attack. The attacks took place less than a week after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari offered the olive branch to India and said Pakistan will not be the first to use its nuclear weapons in the event of a war. Pakistan military generals from Punjab, who control the nuclear button, openly rejected Zardari’s policy. Since Pakistan is a rogue state, Islamabad continued to deny the terrorists were Pakistanis for many weeks after the terrorist attacks. The infamous Inter-Services intelligence, which carried out the attacks and which is accused of running a parallel government in Pakistan, forced the Zardari government to sack Pakistan defense government minister Gen Retd Naseer Durrani from his job after he admitted that the 10 Pakistanis who had plunged Mumbai into the bloody mayhem for three continuous days. Durrani’s confession was deemed as compromising Pakistan’s national security interests and unpatriotic. The terrorist attack left 164 people killed, including 28 foreign citizens from 10 different countries. Miller showed the pictures how the Pakistani terrorists were dressed in Mumbai-style clothing to conceal their identity and mingle among the public. But he said a lot of media reports were based on conjectures. He told a questioner he did not see any evidence that would suggest the terrorists were drugged. Miller also presented the transcripts of the cell phone communications between the terrorists their handlers from Pakistan. He said the terrorists were under instruction not to spare any British or American passport holders and the instructions to them was “For your mission to end successfully you must be killed.” Miller’s presentation included footage from Al Jazeerah television that showed Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh vowing that India will never allow such terrorism acts to be repeated in the future. The seminar attracted dozens of students of the Center Non-Proliferation Studies. George Garner, a student in the final semester of non-proliferation Studies program and who is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and listened raptly to Miller’s presentation. He said students their feet in both in non-proliferation issues and terrorism. “This is part of the terrorism studies program,” he said. Muslim invaders slaughtered as many as 80 million Hindus in successive wars over the centuries. Punjabi Muslim generals in Pakistan think they can repeat history and India will once again be ruled by them, in spite of the fact that as many as 90,000 of their troops surrendered to India without firing a single bullet in the 1971 war that led to the independence of Bangladesh.