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US stands with India in its quest for justice, says Trump

US stands with India in its quest for justice, says Trump

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ On the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attack, President Donald Trump on Monday said that the United States stands with the people of India in their quest for justice. In the barbaric attack unleashed on November 26, 2008 by 10 LeT fedayeen from Pakistan, 166 people, six of whom were US nationals, were killed.

‘On the ten-year anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack, the US stands with the people of India in their quest for justice,’ Trump tweeted. ‘The attack killed 166 innocents, including six Americans. We will never let terrorists win, or even come close to winning!’ he said.

Kia Scherr, whose husband and a 13-year-old daughter were killed in the attack, thanked the President for his tweet. May this day serve to remind us that love overpowers hate. This is the strength no bullet can kill. This is our true power. Thank you,’ she said.

At a solemn event ‘in memory of the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks’ at the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC, a top American counterterrorism official called on Pakistan to bring Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives and other terrorists to justice.

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