DEVELOPING: Terror Attacks Strikes India's Mumbai

[namvet]

DEVELOPING: Several sites in Mumbai, India's financial capital, were hit Wednesday night by a wave of terror attacks, reportedly aimed at Americans and Britons, that left dozens dead and hundreds injured as Indian forces battled with terrorist gunmen to free hostages from two luxury hotels.

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Scores Killed In Mumbai Attacks

INDIA: ISLAMIC JIHAD SHOOTINGS, BOMB BLASTS UPDATED: KILL OVER 700, HUNDREDS INJURED:"MASSIVE TERROR ATTACK" UNFOLDING

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[red states rule]

A muslim group has claimed responsibilty and they are targeting westerners.

How will the left blame Pres Bush for this????

[namvet]

A muslim group has claimed responsibilty and they are targeting westerners.

How will the left blame Pres Bush for this????

this may just be the beginning.

[5stringJeff]

India should be able to stand on its own, militarily. But this is really sad.

[crin63]

Its truly sad to see the loss of life. I predict its gonna get worse.

Interesting that it didn't happen until after our elections. When I read the headline I figured it was just Dims orchestrating more financial chaos so that their dear leader could implement more regulations later.

[April15]

India is aligned with the western world. The religious nuts are trying to use fear to get India to return to Sharia law. And dis-associate from the western ideals it has embraced.


OH! and it's Bush's fault. There ya happy?

[Yurt]

India is aligned with the western world. The religious nuts are trying to use fear to get India to return to Sharia law. And dis-associate from the western ideals it has embraced.


OH! and it's Bush's fault. There ya happy?

[manu1959]

India is aligned with the western world. The religious nuts are trying to use fear to get India to return to Sharia law. And dis-associate from the western ideals it has embraced.


OH! and it's Bush's fault. There ya happy?

so those indian civilians deserved it becuase they would rather be "western" than religious zelots......

you were probably pro spanish inquisition in your previous life....

[April15]

so those indian civilians deserved it becuase they would rather be "western" than religious zelots......

you were probably pro spanish inquisition in your previous life....

I was a worm in a previous life as I know the ins and outs so well! Happy Thanksgiving.

[April15]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

[namvet]

and if these are Islamic terrorists India will probalby blame it on Pakistan..you then you 2 nuke power confronting each other. and we'll probably get sucked into it.
It is not clear the degree to which the Pakistani government can control the situation. But the Indians will have no choice but to be assertive, and the United States will move along the same line. Whether it is the current government in India that reacts, or one that succeeds doesn’t matter. Either way, India is under enormous pressure to respond. Therefore the events point to a serious crisis not simply between Pakistan and India, but within Pakistan as well, with the government caught between foreign powers and domestic realities. Given the circumstances, massive destabilization is possible * never a good thing with a nuclear power.

This is thinking far ahead of the curve, and is based on an assumption of the truth of something we don’t know for certain yet, which is that the attackers were Muslims and that the Pakistanis will not be able to demonstrate categorically that they weren’t involved. Since we suspect they were Muslims, and since we doubt the Pakistanis can be categorical and convincing enough to thwart Indian demands, we suspect that we will be deep into a crisis within the next few days, very shortly after the situation on the ground clarifies itself.

URGENT: Indian Forces Fight for Control of Hotels, Jewish Center; Indian Officials Probe Possible Pakistan Connection
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[April15]

Namvet,
After tonights news I think you are correct in the hypothesis. Not good for the world.

[namvet]

first time ive heard "Jewish Center " my god if they have jews they'll kill em. and Israel will retailate !!!!

this attack was long overdue. will they now activate their cell here with the change of power coming up????

[Kathianne]

There's little doubt this was a very well organized attack, by committed terrorists. The implications to the US are huge, indeed Biden's warning about challenge to Obama is coming forward more quickly than could have been anticipated. Links at site:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...BlNDlhMzhiY2Q=

Both of the above [Mark Steyn]
Andy wrote yesterday about our confused thinking re events in Bombay:

The obsession over whether al Qaeda or its endless jumble of affiliates pulled off the operation is a misguided attempt to mimimize the challenge. The bin Laden network is not unimportant, but it is tapping into something that is much bigger than itself.

We're reluctant to address that "bigger than itself" elephant. All jihad is local: If rockets are fired at Israel, it's a failure to settle the Palestinian question. If an NHS doctor drives a flaming Cherokee into the check-in desk at Glasgow Airport, it must be Tony Blair's foreign policy. The Jerusalem Post's headline writer poses the question:

Homegrown Terror Or International Jihad?

False choice. The answer is: Homegrown terror in the service of international jihad. Clearly, India has had a Muslim problem to one degree or another in the 60 years since partition, but increasingly those locally driven grievances have been absorbed within the global pan-Islamic ideology. What strikes you, as the dust clears in Bombay, is that one assault provided an umbrella for manifestations of almost every strain of Muslim grievance.

There's the local element - the fatal shooting of the city's anti-terror squad, and other prominent officials. There's the crusader element - the targeting of British and American passport holders. There's the Jew-hating element - the Munich massacre nesting within the more general carnage.

And there are the more ironic nuances of jihad: British subjects were to be found not just among the victims but among the perpetrators.

To pose the question as that Jerusalem Post headline is to miss the point. Moreover, the global ideologues correctly see our determination to attribute every attack to purely local phenomena unconnected to any bigger picture as a sign of weakness.

[retiredman]

There's little doubt this was a very well organized attack, by committed terrorists. The implications to the US are huge, indeed Biden's warning about challenge to Obama is coming forward more quickly than could have been anticipated.

are you suggesting or implying that, if McCain had won, this attack would NOT have happened?