(This article was first published on 27 November 2008)
The dust has yet to settle on the unfolding tragedy in Mumbai. At the time of writing, hostage situations persist in the Oberoi Hotel and the Nariman House, and commandos are still clearing the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Officials have not fully agreed on the chronology of events that have left at least one hundred people dead (including the city's anti-terrorist chief Hemant Karkare) and injured hundreds others, but the verdict is already in: this is the worst attack India has ever seen.
A sketch of what happened so far: on Wednesday night, armed gunmen landed by sea on various parts of glitzy south Mumbai, lobbing grenades and shooting indiscriminately as they stormed two hotels, a children's hospital, the city's major train station, and a high-rise complex home to many Israeli families. The militants took numerous hostages in the hotels, specifically targeting British and American citizens. They remain holed up in the Oberoi hotel and in the Nariman House.
What makes this "India's 9/11", as it is being dubbed in the Indian press? India and Mumbai, in particular, are certainly no strangers to terrorist attacks. Bomb blasts have shaken towns and cities across the country for fifteen years since the massive attack on the Bombay Stock Exchange in 1993. Just two years ago, bombs on Mumbai's commuter rail system killed nearly two hundred people. Only half that number of people have perished so far in the last day's violence.
It is the nature of the attacks that separates them from their numerous predecessors. The militants targeted iconic symbols - the majestic Gateway of India, the domed Taj hotel, the steepled Victoria Terminus - of the country's financial centre. Where prior attacks were concentrated on more pedestrian market places and public transport, today's militants hit the hub of the city's political and business classes and cultural glitterati. Prominent mumbaikars clutter the 24-hour news channels, recalling their visits to the famous Taj and expressing concern for loved ones and friends currently trapped in the hotel. For an elite that almost always emerges unscathed from violence in the country, the attack comes as a visceral shock.
Indeed, the attack was calculated to draw unprecedented media attention. Going after foreigners guaranteed the glare of the global spotlight (tabloids in the UK, for instance, were depressingly quick to spin an attack on the "heart of the heart of India" as an attack simply against the west). Sports pages around the world also report on events in the city, as numerous international cricket matches scheduled in Mumbai will have to be re-arranged. Most importantly, perhaps, the run-and-gun tactics of the militants - as opposed to more routine bomb blasts - provided an ongoing drama perfect for the hungry cameras of India's many news networks. Such violence has plagued the hinterland gripped by Maoist insurgency, and continues to scar strife-torn Kashmir. The citizens of India's metropolises, however, never imagined machine guns and grenades reaching their cities, their streets.
So if the character of the threat is novel, is its source new as well? Maybe not. Indian officials have long accused Pakistan's shadowy ISI intelligence service of planning and assisting terrorist incidents in the country. A heretofore unknown group - the "Deccan Mujahideen" - has claimed responsibility for the attack. But investigators suspect the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-backed Islamist militant group. Commandos heard the militants speaking in a Pakistani dialect of Punjabi. Investigators also suspect the gunmen to have landed from the sea, launching speedboats from a hijacked fishing trawler that has been found five miles off the coast. Lashkar-e-Taiba has been training maritime forces in Karachi, the Pakistani coastal metropolis. While relations have generally improved between New Delhi and Islamabad in recent years, further proof of Pakistani involvement may suspend the diplomatic thaw.
Within New Delhi itself, the fallout may be more consequential. The principal opposition party - the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - often uses terrorism as a stick to beat the ruling Congress Party-led coalition. The Congress government trimmed much of the tough, anti-terror Patriot Act-style legislation put in place by the previous BJP-led government. With elections upcoming and the Congress increasingly nervous, the clamour for more aggressive and invasive counterterrorism may win the day. As one TV talking head insisted, the west's approach ought to be followed: "We have to compromise on individual freedoms. In the west, the citizen is being made much more transparent. That is what we must do as well."
Comments
the main question is who is behind these attacks and what is the intended message. what needs to be explored also is what impels these apparently educated men capable of executing a sophisticated plan, to join terrorist groups, rather than pursue constructive activities. why can't such people be induced by the govt. or their own community wean them from these acts. has there been any attempt to engage such groups in a dialogue or try to understand their grievances?
It is high time we started to take a much tougher stance on Muslim Terrorism and to those who promote it. We can start by tackling the Radical Mosques which preach bile and hate in our cities. We can start by deporting many of these radical preachers who are all too willing to preach hate of our societies while enjoying our protection. A number spring readily to mind.
I think when people are trying to voice an opinion, and no one is listening, they simply shout louder (i.e. with a gun). Silencing them, alienating them, targetting them I feel will only aggravate the problem. We need to look at the real roots of the problem
the answer is, of course, yes.
Jim Reed
My dear owly, you are naive in the extreme. You and George Bush.
"Getting Tough" is not containing violence;
"Getting Tough" is causing violence to spread.
"Getting Tough' is counter productive.
Vengeance and Revenge (Getting Tough) are not viable strategies.
Getting Smart makes more sense.
"ayeaye" is right, but do THEY listen to anyone else? The attitude of the ayatollahs (Khomeini &c) is not promising.
In the next story the first line is “The discussion in the last few years about a possible United States assault on Iran's nuclear facilities” If you look at Mumbai you will see it is the home of the India's Advanced Technology Vessel; a nuclear submarine program. This is close to going operational this year thanks the co-opting of Israel scientists into the project. The submarine is in the Mazagon dockyard in Mumbai. The vessel is based on the Soviet Charlie II-class design cruise missile type vessels to support this India have a number of foreign-produced cruise missile systems in its arsenal such as the Russian Sunburn missile. The development of such a weapon system has one task to attack Pakistan. So if it’s ok for the USA to Attack Iran for the sake of world peace then could this be something similar.
Sad and indeed terrible when everyone hopes for peace and sustainable progress!
Much bothered about signals like this and what they can do to put a "wedge" on change-idea in national and international politics and diplomacy.
Hopefully policy-makers worldwide will let themselves be guided by calmness and reason: not rush, but take the time to think about the best way to deal with challenges like kind, which the world has seen here and there in recent times.
The trend is frightening!
India is historically a "peace" trademark: thinking of "Ghandi". All will look-on-to-see wisdom in handling hopeless/meaningless act of this kind.
Regtrogression is not the best answer for the progress people need in order to put through difficult development in economic and social sectors.
Lawrence Efana [oD enthusiast]
Just one of the many terrorist attacks, that can be expected from moslim radicals. It is a striking fact that these gruesome acts are restricted to terrorists of the islamitic faith.
Let the peace process between India and Pakistan continue. This is the only way, whatever happened in Mumbai is part of the price to reach this objective. LONG LIVE WORLD PEACE
Being the largest Democracy on the
planet does not mean being free from this hassles. This event is
going to show many people in Western Nations how India will cop with
it. India can benefit and give evidence of its democratic values,
something post communist China can effort, no matter how far it is driving
its “Charm-Offensives” to make business and profits in an increasingly unequal statehood.
Talking about “India's 9/11” is
already the step into the wrong direction, - it will just make
matters worse. The American empire has been dismantled in just 7
years because of this WOT. The last what India needs is that kind of
Hindu-Terrorists, it would unleash an avalanche of violence all over
the entire sub-continent and get it into the troubles of independent
movements with all that “freedom-fighter-terrorists” who are
always the grave digger of any sort of society.
Blaming Pakistan, even bringing
Pakistan into a light it might be responsible is sheer ridicules, -
everyone who knows about drug trade connections knows that Pakistan
and India are able to cooperate better with each-other.
Latest events show that the old rule divide et impera still produces horrible crimes against humanity. Fundamental islam is spreading unabated terror, dead and sufferings, now for already more then 10 centuries, to various parts of the world where people have choosen their own, different way of development. Britain, the former colonial power, which over decades, no, over centuries, has put additional burning wood into the conflict, should take also take full responsibillity for its imperial failure and mistakes! Aggressive Islam is has been set on its own track and nobody ever tryed to stop them, prevent for instance massacres commited against various peoples on the Indian Subcontinent, against the Armenian nation, Kurds etc.Whole nations have been humiliated, disapeared, assimilated, others recovered, to see the reemergence of the menace of infamity, intolerance and supremacy theories of stupid man and women united arround agressive islam. THose crimes should be stopped and the
The most important question is "WHY?"
1. Why did this happen? Home-grown or imported, terrorism is always a reaction when you do not listen to genuine grievances and try to address them. It is a protest in desperation, and the more delay is made in resolving the issues the more widespread it gets. Criminal elements can easily take over desperate persons and use them for their own vile purposes. It gives criminals to ultimately strike a deal with the authorities while the simple people who have been really wronged become the victims.
2. Why some people are willing to die while killing others? It is stupid to think that they just hate our lifestyle. Only an imbecile like American president G W Bush can utter this nonsense. Others repeat it because either they are themselves responsible for creating the trouble or they want to use it as a smokescreen.
3. Why the government is still harping on Pakistan ISI behind the bloody masacre. It's always been a tit for tat between RAW and ISI. A matter of 'pan calling the pot black'. Let's ask the two military-led organization to have mercy on the civilians and stop killing innocent people in both the countries.
4. Why the Investigator who blamed an Indian army officer for another bloodshed killed in the recent Mumbai episode? News reports said another official who was related this Invetigator was also shot by the 'terrorists'.
5. Why some people think the only way to eradicate terrorism is to massacre entire communities? Nothing can be more insane. Targeting a community just because they conquered some territories and ruled there for centuries in the name of Hindutva is the most insane thing. Aryans too were outsiders who invaded India millenniums ago and are still ruling it. Isn't it interesting that the most hated Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was the one to give the Maharaja of Jaipur the royal title of "Sawaai" which means a quarter better or more chivalrous than a common man.
6. Why real issues creating terrorism are not addressed? Despite the sane voices of intellectual stalwarts like Arundhati Roy why the people of Kashmir are being denied their birthright. Hasn't this inhuman Indian policy emboldened Pakistan to annex a part of Kashmir?
7. Why is Indian media so blind and biased? Check reporting on Indian TV channels and on the net; they seem to have a sick knack for naming Pakistan as the culprit, a country ruled by incompetent fools that itself is in turmoil and has been a target of the worst form of terrorism.
Come on friends, let's come to our senses. If we do not open our eyes to see what horrible things are coming next and do something effective to change the ground situation, the entire region is going to see the beginning of a global holocaust. The third world war. Stop injustice. Honour human rights everywhere. Do not let the friendship of your allies refrain you from speaking out the truth and supporting it.
You say terrorist attacks are because of ISI v/s RAW tit for tat? Ridiculous.
How many operations has RAW done inside Pakistan that required a tat from the ISI? Let's be realistic here a bit.
I do however, like the suggestion that we need to treat the root cause, which is that Muslims in India are 'subjugated' (terrorist's own stated reason for attacking us) Let's take a moment to examine how minorities have fared in Pakistan itself shall we? These are facts:
Post independence, % of Hindu population in Pakistan = around10-12%. Today? It's around 2-3%. Some way to treat minorities eh?
Arundhati Roy, who you call 'sane' as well as you, need to look at the other side of the story, and stop making one sided simplistic arguments. She, for example always brings up the suffering of Muslims in India, while ignoring the plight of minorites in Pakistan. Always harps about Kashmiri muslims suffering in India while ignoring the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. Why? If you, consider all this 'sane', then you are simply blind to the other side of the story isn't it. I am not siding with Hindu extremists, nor do I deny they exist. I detest them as much as anyone. I however hate the one sided thinking and playing up of one side of the story by the likes of Roy. Until she displays a shred of fairness in her views, I will continue to think of her as nothing more than a dingbat who has been given too much air time by the media.
I am an Indian born American citizen. I am not a Hindu, nor Muslim, I am simply an Indian at heart. I would love to see a united India, with it's Hindus, Muslims and all other defeat terrorism by strengthening our security, and stand slidly united against a common enemy.
The U S and UK are offering advice, namely that a diplomatic solution must be aimed at, to the land of Gandhi. The advice is good - a pity that these countries did not take their own advice when invading Afghanistan
A fine article and well-reasoned. What I find remarkable is Pakistan's swift, obvious and I think genuine desire to try and help. Their Senior ISI officer's despatch to India may be seen as 'window-dressing' to some, but I think it does show that Pakistan's faltering and uncertain leadership wants to be seen as a responsible neighbour. I just hope that the BJP do not start talking-up Pakistan's alleged complicity in the facilitating of the attack. Yes it seems that Pakistani nationals have been involved, but I do not think supporting such an outrage is in Pakistan's interests, Islamabad has its hands full with it own neo-Taliban.
This was a well-planned operation with a determined and fairly well trained team, who were not the normal cannon-fodder that are used for the standard fare of IED attacks. These young men and those that sent them had an agenda - yes to terrorise, but they needed international media present (and many agree) the sustained nature of the attack was for that pupose.
Not wishing to mud-sling against Indian security agencies, but it is worth bearing in mind an inadequate initial security force response can often make an adversary force look far more effective than it actually is.
I'm not sure what the terrorists intended, apart from a terrifying spectacular. If they intended to avenge the deaths of their co-religionists in riot after bloody riot, especially in Gujarat 2002, then they have just made a big mistake. Because one effect of this attack might well be to mobilize public opinion behind the BJP and its unsavoury fascist associates. We can also expect to see the abandonment of the recent investigations of "hindutva" terror bombings, on the plea that there is much bigger fish to fry.
So if no one has gained anything - not the terrorists, nor the people they terrorized, then what can we salavage from this horror?
Perhaps the only worthwhile gains - if sufficient wisdom prevails - are (a) an urgent nation-wide realization of the need for communal peace and reconciliation, and (b) a long overdue audit of our national security apparatus which apparently believes - despite several bombing incidents in Mumbai and Maharashtra - that the NSG commandos should be kept only in New Delhi, and that only Muslims and Maoists make genuine terrorists. Also (c) we need a drastic overhaul of our justice system that allows the real crooks of communal and other violence to go scot free, to become Chief Ministers, MPs. corporate CEO's, police chiefs and prime ministers in waiting, while innocents are locked up indefinitely.
It's amazing, how entire peoples still can be led by the noose in a particular direction, just because it matches their biases.
It helps in such a situation to raise the question of "cui bono?" -- who benefits?.
@KR and @gautams hinted at an internal situation of India herself, to which I cannot add anything else. However, the language hostile to Pakistan 'during and after Mumbai' is clearly worrying, because it leads one to reach a different conclusion. India and Pakistan have no choice but to cooperate regionally (if not, they both stand to lose greatly) and they both have cleared ground to just do that with the IPI-gaspipeline project (from Iran via Pakistan to India), which was bitterly opposed by the United States.
The project looks so greatly promising, that even China signalled an interest in it last summer. However, if the rhetoric hostile to Pakistan gets ignited again, the IPI will be shelved for sure.
One really should look into this direction, because it reveals an all too familiar pattern, last executed "to plan" in Iraq: create sectarian strife and mobilize the masses (emotionally) against the other side, so that they forget their common interests.
Seen as a geostrategic problem by the United States for maintaining control of the region (hence the Afghanistan-grab), the IPI is a thread to the long term interests of Washington in the region, bypassing land-locked Afghanistan in the south of it -- gas from Central Asia no longer would be needed. IPI is vital for the energy need of the two countries and it is immensely helpful for building a bridge of trust via a mutual dependency on good will, also to ultimately extinguish the smoldering Kashmir-problem, which needs a rational approach, also in the interest of the Kashmiris.
That fascistic elements in the BJP work hand in glove with the CIA does not surprise -- but these should be identified by those, who are interested in peace and collaboration on the subcontinent. I am convinced that the United States intelligence community has its signature under Mumbai. This mad operation does not make any sense, otherwise.
Cracking down on Muslims in India is not going to remove the cause of this problem. Hindu Extremists have been involved in killing sikhs, muslims, christians and others and that is thought process that has even invaded the Indian Intelligence Agency and Army. Unless we recognize the epidemic Hindu zionist-type fanatacism we will never be able to understand the real causes of this violence. Also, we as Indians should stop meddling in Pakistan's affairs. Our involvement in sub-nationalists movements in Pakistan, our presence in Afghanistan and our role in promoting terrorism and unstability inside Pakistan has to stop.
Being a muslim I can tell you that you will not find muslim reactions encouraging or changing until the west is ready to made concessions and there is some international justice. If Israel is going to continue to get unflinching support from the west and if UN, IMF and World Bank has no credibility since it is just a tool in the hands of imperialists. Do you think we will just take your hand just cause u talk of friendship. Things need to change, can all the western nations put together get Israel to change even one of its cruel acts??? ofcourse not, the west is powerless in their hands. Muslims will not take any effort or talk of peace seriously because we know that Zionists banks and corporations and global elite own you all. Great democratic nations like US and UK were conned into war by their own governments by concocting 911 and the 7/7 bombings in UK, then we have little faith that the west is willing to or able to do anything about international injustice.
When Israel's nuclear arsenal/stocks is 10 times more then any other country in the region then how do you think u can talk of peace.
Shashi Tharoor (relative of Kanishk?) in his Guardian piece (28nov08) said:
“the terrorists are claiming to be acting to redress the grievances of Indian Muslims” but didn't elaborate.
Let me quote from Arundati Roy’s articles “The New India” from ZSpace (October 2008) and the Repressive State (San Francisco Aug 2004):
” In the pogrom (in Gujarat, March 2002), between 1,500 to 2,000 Muslims were massacred on the streets, women were gang-raped, 150,000 Muslims were driven from their homes and today they live in ghetto conditions, economically and socially ostracized in Gujarat…
” In Iraq, the Americans have 135,000 troops, and in Kashmir, India has something like 700,000 security personnel of different kinds: the army, the police, the paramilitary, the counterinsurgency… in a situation that almost amounts to war, an estimated 80,000 people have been killed since 1989. Thousands have simply "disappeared."
That should give anyone an idea of the accumulated anger waiting to explode in vengeful acts.
Peace please!
Do we have democracy in the world? we will when there is even distribution of wealth. the good news is North indian classical music is played by both muslims and hindu's, and muslims that play the music know and respect hindu culture and mythology. Muslim and Christian fundamentalists need to let other cultures live and survive.
Think Again where they causing confusion? Scrape away the dust. Look at the motive? If you wanted to kill thousands in India this was a bad plan, Mumbai is one of the most congested cities in the world there are better placed to attack it they just wanted numbers. If they wanted to kill just westerners it was the wrong town, the beaches in Goa have the hip youth similar to Bali. Or better still they could have kept it local, the Kashmir Himalayas one of the most beautiful regions on earth which attracts thousands of westerners every year? They were looking for UK and USA passports; why passports? Did they need to be that exact? They also took out the more upmarket hotels, not the type used by the thousands of backpackers? The question is, were they looking for specific names on those passports or a class of person? In other words was this a random terrorist attack or a very specific hit?
Look at the city Mumbai it has been a shipbuilding city since the old British East Indian Company today it is the home of the India's Advanced Technology Vessel; a nuclear submarine program. This is close to going operational thanks the co-opting of Israel scientists and western shipbuilding experts into the project. The submarines are based on the Soviet Charlie II-class design cruise missile type vessels are near completion at the Mazagon dockyard in Mumbai. To arm this vessel India has a number of foreign-produced cruise missile systems in its arsenal such as the Russian Sunburn missile. The development of a Charlie class weapon system has one task to attack Pakistan. Now if you look at Karachi, the main seaport in Pakistan. It had a chain of attacks on Christian and Western targets in 2002. Suicide car-bombers struck in Karachi, killing 11 French naval engineers. The Frenchmen had been helping Pakistan's navy develop an advanced submarine, the Agosta B-90, at the city's naval dockyards. The development of an Agosta B-90 class weapon system has one task to attack India.
this is internal, the hindu fascist,
Prgaya case mystrey
Three Police officers killed for investigating the Pragya case.
Indian army personnel caught collaborating with Pragya(BJP, RSS, Bajrang Dal, Sangh Parivar)
Underworld was tired of the above police officers being very just,
shoot at sight and these police officers did not take prisoners. Hence
a collaboration.
These elements got together and created a scene just to get rid of
the three police officers. (the families of the slain police officers
refuse to take the charity money from Modi)
Why Mumbai? Why not Kashmir? Why Not Gujarat?
Because Pragya was being tried in Mumbai a State run by congress.
Because Maharashtra is a Congress state and elections due in the near
future, BJP wants to be a strong contender. And BJP needs money from
underworld to spend on elections. Underword wants Mumbai to run it's
dirty business without any obstacles.Obstacles were the three fine
Police Officials.
Understand this. The LET wants Kashmir, attacks there would be
understanding. Attacks in Gujarat by LET, may be. No link there, but
then again maybe because Muslims were macassered by Modi. But it is
highly unlikely. Mumbai too far for LET and no adwantage at all.
This has to be them i.e. the BJP and Underworld.
There is no agreed definition of terrorism, but, according to the CIA, terrorism is the « premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience. »According to former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, his country (the USA) is « the greatest purveyor of violence in the world ».That same country finances the worse kind of terrorist acts, the extermination of a large part of the population in Palestine as well as carries out acts of barbarity against defenceless citizens in both Afghanistan and Iraq.The US officially has the greatest army of mercenaries in the world, Blackwater, with 140,000 "contractors".
In recent history, people have witnessed terror against Native Americans, Aborigines, Maoris, Vietnamese, Indians of the sub-continent, Algerians and more.While the lands of the Aborigines, Maoris and Native Americans have been stolen, India became independent at the cost of partition giving birth to Pakistan and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).But the world is still witnessing European terror through invasion of sovereign countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and the murder of hundreds of thousands of their people.The terrorist occupation of Palestine by Jewish Europeans, the killings of her people, including women, children and babies have been going on for half a century !
For her part, India is still occupying Kashmir, which was part of Moghal Hindustan, against the will of the Kashmiris, and committing unspeakable acts of terror against them.It is also a common practice for States which perpetrate and sponsor acts of terrorism to organise false flag operations against their own people and allies in order to blame the 'enemies' and rally support for their 'cause'.Often, they are caught but they are above the law.For example, members of the Irgun Jewish terrorist movement dressed up as Palestinian army officers attacked the British HQ at King David Hotel in 1946 Palestine.During the six-day war in 1967, the Israelis attacked USS Liberty and murdered many US non-combatants in an attempt to blame it on Egypt and suck the Americans into the war. (Ref. Phil Tourney, survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty).Apart from the official conspiracy theories, it has been demonstrated that the 9/11 terror attacks against the World Trade Centre (WTC) and the Pentagon in 2001 were an inside job with Israeli involvement.In January 2000, Indian intelligence detained 11 'Muslim preachers' on the ground of hijacking conspiracy, but they turned out to be Israeli nationals sent with false passports to infiltrate Muslim organisations in India and were released.Similarly, the five dancing Israelis arrested on 9/11 « as suspected conspirators » when they were celebrating the attacks against the WTC were all released.[Ref. The Record, New Jersey, 12 Sept 2001].On 13 Sept 01, The New York Times reported that the group of five men (who turned out to be MOSSAD agents) had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack.
The recent terror attacks against the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan on 20 Sept 2008 had the hallmark of a military operation and not that of "Muslim terrorists"!Similarly, the well planned and sophisticated attacks in Mumbai on 26/11 by attackers against various targets, including the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Hotels, killing around 200 people have immediately been blamed on "Pakistan, Al-Qaeda and British Muslims".The Indian authorities say there were 12 such attackers, but many others 'escaped'.
There is no denying that the United States and Israel have been grooming India to become a regional superpower for their benefits.In so doing, they have to persuade India that she is a victim of terror herself, especially from her enemies in Pakistan, occupied Kashmir and Muslim extremists within India proper.
Lal Krishna Advani, former Deputy Prime Minister of India [2002-2004], former President of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), strong advocate of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) and current Leader of the Opposition, met the heads of the MOSSAD when he visited Israel in June 2000 and advocated "closer India-Israeli cooperation on all security matters". [Note : Israelis were responsible of security during both the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks!].In the same year, The Times of India reported on the Israeli presence in India : « Israeli counter-terrorism experts are now touring Jammu and Kashmir and several other states in India at the invitation of Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani to make an assessment of New Delhi's security needs.The Israeli team, headed by Eli Katzir of the Israel Counter-Terrorism Combat Unit, includes Israeli military intelligence officials and a senior police official. »Indiahas forged a strategic alliance with Israelto perfect India 's methods of occupation of Kashmirwhere all Indian atrocities, mass graves of Kashmiris, shootings of civilians, rape and human rights abuses are brushed under the carpet like the atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians.
The US have allowed India to set up military training camps in Afghanistan, and they are training, arming and financing rebels who are being sent to Pakistan to destabilise the government. The MOSSAD, Hamid Karzai and India are fuelling ethnic insurgency in South West Pakistan where China is building a strategic port. In addition, with her nuclear and military deals with the US and the launching of an Israeli satellite as the MOSSAD increases its control of India, India seems to pay lip service to her diverse peoples with a high risk of further partitions of India. Remember, it was India which financed and armed East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to breakaway from then West Pakistan.She also boasted the sinking of alleged pirate ships within Somali coastal waters (19 Nov 08) to help the US and pro-US Saudis. Given India's behaviour, she should have been better prepared to prevent and deal with such attacks and not leave her people and visitors open to such risks.In this light, the Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil and National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan have submitted their resignations (Sunday, 30 Nov 08).
The first reaction of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to blame Pakistan.But witnesses suggested that the attackers « are probably members of an Indian militant group rather than foreigners » (The Independent, 27 Nov 08).It is also reported that the attacks were claimed by an unknown group called « Deccan Mujahideen » and the « Indian Mujahideen » from South India and trained in Bangladesh.Other suspects are a Kashmiri freedom group called Lashkar-e-Taiba held responsible for the bomb attacks on trains in 2006 and, of course, Al-Qa'ida which, apart from being a CIA-MOSSAD database, is a non-existant organisation.The Indian government asserted that some of the attackers were British-born Pakistanis from Leeds, Bradford and Hartlepool.It was also alleged that some have Malaysian and Mauritian links.
But, in spite of pointing his finger at Pakistan, in a telephone conversation with Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani on 28 Nov 08 PM Manmohan Singh urged Gilani to send his spy chief to share intelligence over the Mumbai attack.Pakistan has agreed to send a senior official to India.It does seem very strange that, even though there may be 'Pakistanis' among the attackers, Pakistan would be responsible for such an attack after President Asif Ali Zardari recently told the Indian government that Pakistan would not be the one to resort to first use of nuclear weapons, an announcement welcomed by India. It seems more likely to be the work of external forces, with internal complicity, which do not want peace between those two sister countries and sister communities.The plan is clearly to provoke a war between India and Pakistan as Pakistanis want to detach themselves from US murdering ventures.
As reported by Andrew Buncombe in Delhi, The Independent Thursday, 27th November 2008, « most of the attacks have been blamed on extremist Muslim groups but, in recent weeks, police have rounded up 10 members of what they say is its first Hindu terror cell ».In early November 2008, the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), headed by Hemant Karkare, arrested 10 Hindutva extremists, including Dayanand Pandey (a prominent religious leader of Uttar Pradesh) belonging to Sangh Parivar, an umbrella organisation comprising the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bajrang Dal, and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, in connection with the 8 Sept 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts in a Muslim cemetery in Maharashtra killing dozens of Muslim pilgrims and injuring scores more.The ATS investigation has uncovered connections with the Israeli MOSSAD whose Indian home-grown agents have infiltrated many Hindu organisations in India, as well as connections between the Indian military and Hindu extremist groups.In the very early hours of the Mumbai attack on 26/11, the unknown terrorists eliminated Hemant Karare, Head of the ATS, along with Mumbai's additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte and high-level police officer Vijay Salaskar, The Times Of India reported.The killers must have had inside information as Indian security services have been infiltrated.One of the 'unknown' terrorist caught on CCTV camera at the Chattrapati Shivaji railway station wore a sacred Hindu wristband.The victims included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Indians, Britons, Americans and a Mauritian.
India has the strength to overcome this trauma.She must and she will take all necessary measures to prevent such carnage happening again on Indian soil and make all efforts to live in peace with her neighbours and resolve the issue of Kashmir peacefully.At the same time, India must look at the underlying causes of this serious problem and review her association with the perpetrators of terror and occupation around the world as well as the infiltration of terrorists into local organisations and her security services.India must return to her non-aligned philosophy, demand the removal of all terrorist occupiers from nearby countries and the closing of the terror base at Diego Garcia Mauritius.India must understand that she does not form part of the European West which is in quest of hegemony and world domination.If India allows herself to be recruited into this Axis of Evil, the destruction and further partitions of India seem inevitable.India's 'security' arrangements with Israel and the US may well be the source of her problems as they do not serve Indian interests.
Everybody in India is holding BJP and saffron wing responsible for all kinds of millitancy! What sort of bullshit it is they know very well. As if all of the blasts and killings are done by BJP. BJP/saffron hardliners cannot do anything as they have no international funding agency like muslim jihadis. Muslim injustice!!! Huh, look who are talking about justice. Muslim salafi fanatics are most pampered by our nation and entire west. They need them, irrespective of their crimes towards humanity and their own community as well. Without talking about their barbarism no honest and real democratic discussion can take place.
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