Mumbai
While most cable news networks covered the story well while the terror attacks in India were in full force … coverage since then has dropped dramatically. This is a significant story on many fronts.
By Thursday November 27th more than 100 people were reported to have been killed, and the toll seemed likely to rise. Several foreigners, including some from America, Japan and Britain, were among the dead. So were over a dozen policemen, including Mumbai’s chief counter-terrorism officer. Up to 100 hostages, including selected American and British guests, were alleged to be held hostage inside a hotel.
If its AQ (and according to my Indian friends, they doubt that) it means a new front has opened in the terror war. If its Pakistan terrorists, the world wide implications are not much better. Still it could be internal Muslim terrorists who have been targeting various parts of India for some time
In the past five months India has suffered from a spate of Islamist militancy, with bomb-blasts in half a dozen cities, including Delhi, Bangalore and Jaipur. A home-grown Muslim terrorist group, the Indian Mujahideen, has been blamed for the spree, in which over 150 people were killed. In a chilling, 14-page admission of responsibility for the Delhi bombings in September, the Indian Mujahideen castigated the counter-terrorism efforts of Mumbai’s police, and promised Mumbaikars future “deadly attacks”.
As India’s first indigenous Muslim terrorist group—so they have often been described—the Indian Mujahideen are a worrying sign. They seem to have evolved from a decade-long campaign by Pakistan-based militants, including many fighting an insurgency in Kashmir, to incite India’s 140m Muslims to revolt. These groups have been held primarily responsible for half a dozen major terrorist attacks in Mumbai in recent years. In 1993 local Muslim gangsters backed by Pakistan-based militants set off 13 near-simultaneous bomb-blasts in the city, killing more than 250 people. In 2006 another co-ordinated bombing spree on Mumbai’s railway killed over 180 commuters. A Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-toiba, was blamed at the time.
Or it could be seperatists. Hot Air has a nice updated roundup. I suggest you scroll toward the bottom for the latest.
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HARRY SMITH: When they, as they were perpetrating their attacks in the beginning, they were clearly, they said, were looking for British citizens, were looking for American citizens. Sadly, so many of the people were killed were Indians.
This recent terror attack proves that security is job #1 for the USA, even in these challenging economy times.
With regard to your caller today saying that this event in India is not significant to the larger war on terror, I have to say that he's whistling past the graveyard.
I guess Obama has to actually be the President in order for the seas to calm, the air to clear, and world peace to descend.
I can hardly wait.
Lib 27. Sadly u r right and my bad for not pointing that out. My friend pointed that out to me last night. I will do better next time.
The thing hear that I am mostly reading is the quote that they the terrorist were looking for Americans and other foreigners. So why were they looking for these groups (?)and what is it about these perticaler peoples that they the terrorist hate so much that they would attept to go on a mass killing of them. I have to wonder if possibly this was not a terriosit attack that maybe this may have been in a few words and not in any way to lessen what happened but some sort of cultually attack or some sort of anger at something else going on maybe dealing with jobs and enviorment or something else in india and was Indians themselves.Yes a terror attack but everywhere you turned everyone and group kept saying that this is by far something completely different, its sad to say your run of the meal terriost attack.Maybe this is after seven years terror groups going back to there base for support and to recuite youth for finding and killing Americans no matter where or when just kill Americans any way any how.
Terrorism, Gary, requires publicity. Muslim terrorists killing Indians, if I may be cynical for a moment, is a one day story to Fleet Street and their American cousins.
As for your theory that this was some sort of "cultual" attack, as opposed to terrorism… this was a suicide attack, plain and simple. Their success, given the unarmed populace and cowardly police, almost inevitable. You grant their nihilism too much credence. Your sort of hand-wringing is exactly why they think this sort attack would work.
I can not help but think of how similiar this loked to recent school shootings ex Columbine..For those cowardly police who many gave there lives and put there lives on the line to save those that they did not know they where greeted as reported with cheers and flowers and apprecation from all those on the screen.Not sure what nihilism means nor your attempt to say that those who look for the reasons of these acts is hand-wringing. I do wonder why so much time and space on the state depts web site seeks out the hows and whys and tries to find solutions to terriousm is hand-wringling and that several wars are being faught on the hopes that setting up new democracys will encougage people in those lands to become democracyised and westerlzied will help end terriousm is hand -wringling and when we stop asking qestions and stop seeking out all points of views and trying to find as many solutions to these attacks and reasons for them that we have become useless in fighting them.I seem to recall that several leading conservite think tanks and now saying war is not the anwser and that terriousm should maybe be treated or faught as a police community action and that root causes need to be part of the anwers. I would point out that I wondered about several things as all should or we become self rightous holier then .. morrally ideologys ourselves, to me something to fear.