French president condemns Mumbai attacks with offer of intelligence assistance

Source: Xinhua | 11-30-2008 11:25

DOHA, Nov 29 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy here Saturday condemned the deadly attacks in India's Mumbai with an offer of intelligence assistance.

Sarkozy made the condemnation and pledged the offer in sideline remarks of a UN-sponsered international conference on financing for development which opened in the Qatari capital Doha on Saturday.

Strongly condemning the attacks as "barbarity in its most exact sense of the word," Sarkozy stressed that "no cause that can make that acceptable."

The French president revealed that he had contacted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and told him that French intelligence services would cooperate to the utmost to help India to face up to the "insane, gratuitous, barbaric terrorism."

In one of the most violent terror attacks on Indian soil, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack as militants used heavy machine guns, including AK-47s, and grenades to strike at the city's most high-profile targets, killing at least 143 and injuring hundreds of others, according to a Mumbai police commissioner late Friday.

Editor:Du Xiaodan