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#61 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:58 pm

hopefully this horror is over...with the terrorists finally being taken down
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#62 Postby cycloneye » Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:05 am

Now the Indian Autorities are in the phase of the investigation of which terrorist group was responsible for the attacks that many in India are calling "Indias 9/11".

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiap ... index.html

See 24/7 coverage from Mumbai and the rest of India Here and Here
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#63 Postby Stephanie » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:19 am

cycloneye wrote:Now the Indian Autorities are in the phase of the investigation of which terrorist group was responsible for the attacks that many in India are calling "Indias 9/11".


I'm sure it is to them.
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#64 Postby Dionne » Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:17 pm

This attack was entirely different. All urban warfare.

9/11 came in flying.

I'm almost convinced these terrorists around the world are not of the same tribe.

It's simply an occupation.
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#65 Postby Aslkahuna » Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:38 pm

Terrorists live for only one reason-to kill. Often they offer excuses for their mayhem-often political or religious, but they are just that-excuses and frequently bogus. One can try to understand them but the time to do that is when they have all been killed and not sooner. Until that time, all one needs to know is that they are terrorists and the only good terrorist is a DEAD terrorist.

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#66 Postby Ptarmigan » Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:44 pm

India, Pakistan simmer over Mumbai attacks

A tenth militant caught alive told interrogators they wanted to be remembered for an Indian version of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Times Now TV said, quoting an unidentified Defense Ministry official.


This is really horrible! This could India's deadliest terrorist attack. I would not be surprised if Al-Qaeda is somehow involved.
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#67 Postby Ptarmigan » Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:45 pm

Condolences to anyone who loved ones in Mumbai Terrorist Attack. We know what America went through on September 11, 2001, so I feel your pain.
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#68 Postby Ptarmigan » Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:45 pm

Aslkahuna wrote:Terrorists live for only one reason-to kill. Often they offer excuses for their mayhem-often political or religious, but they are just that-excuses and frequently bogus. One can try to understand them but the time to do that is when they have all been killed and not sooner. Until that time, all one needs to know is that they are terrorists and the only good terrorist is a DEAD terrorist.

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Agreed! 8-)
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#69 Postby cycloneye » Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:26 pm

Can you imagine if they do the whole operation that was planned? (Read Below) Thankfully the mass killing didnt occured.

Terrorists plan was to kill 5,000 people
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#70 Postby Aslkahuna » Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:27 pm

A brief comment on Bush's message to the Indian people. The US is not the world's oldest Democracy and in fact it is a Representative Federal Republic and not a democracy.

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#71 Postby Ptarmigan » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:57 am

cycloneye wrote:Can you imagine if they do the whole operation that was planned? (Read Below) Thankfully the mass killing didnt occured.

Terrorists plan was to kill 5,000 people


Oh God! If 5,000 were killed, that would be MUCH WORSE than 9/11. :grr: :cry:
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#72 Postby HurricaneBill » Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:00 am

The current death toll is at 174. (It was revised down from 195. However, as the Taj Mahal Hotel is searched, it may rise. There are fears the final toll may approach 300.)

The deaths:
India: 130+
Israel: 9
USA: 4
Germany: 3
Australia: 2
Canada: 2
France: 2
UK: 1
Japan: 1
Italy: 1
Jordan: 1
Singapore: 1
Malaysia: 1
Mexico: 1
Thailand: 1

Injuries: 239+

India: 200+
UK: 7
USA: 4
Germany: 3
Australia: 2
Canada: 2
Spain: 2
Oman: 2
Japan: 1
China: 1
Philippines: 1
Finland: 1
Norway: 1
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#73 Postby cycloneye » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:11 pm

Things are heating up between India and Pakistan:

The fallout from the attacks is damaging the tenuous relationship between India and Pakistan, said CNN's sister station in India, CNN-IBN.

The Indian government is considering suspending the five-year-old cease-fire with Pakistan and perhaps even ending the dialogue process with the country, sources told CNN-IBN.

Pakistani security officials told CNN that if tensions with India escalate, Pakistan may shift its military forces from the Afghan border east to prepare for any conflict.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiap ... index.html


This is the terrorist that was captured and is talking to the Indian Authorities.He is from Pakistan and has said the operation was planned in Pakistan.

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#74 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:34 pm

Captured terrorist- we were trained and supplied by the Pakistani Navy

From what I've read, India has superior conventional and nuclear forces. It might be time to destroy Pakistan as a base for Islamic terrorism once and for all, or at least blockade Pakistani ports, and selectively target ISI facilities in Pakistan.

Islam recognizes only force. See Osama bin Laden's "strong horse" theory. Restraint is seen as weakness. There is no Christian or Gandhian concept of "turn the other cheek".

If India does nothing, there will be more attacks.
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#75 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:18 pm

An Israel Air Force plane carrying the remains of six Israelis and Jews who were killed in the attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai last week landed at Ben Gurion Airport late Monday night.

In Mumbai on Monday, Israel's ambassador to India, Mark Sofer, addressed the congregation at the Mumbai ceremony. However, all eyes and cameras were on Moshe, who was spirited out of the besieged Chabad House at the start of the rampage. Moshe sat on the lap of an Indian worker at Chabad House, Zaki Hussein, who was one of the two Indians who got the toddler out of the house. Reports detailed how Moshe's Nanny, Sandra Samuel, held on to Moshe as Hussein stood on the steps of the house so the terrorists would not see them.

Samuel did not take part in the ceremony since she was busy applying for her first passport, after the Israel Foreign Ministry gave her permission to come to Israel with the Rosenbergs.

A few times during the ceremony at the synagoguge Moshe called for Sandra while his grandmother calmed him with a bottle of water and a piece of candy. When the time came for the last speaker, Rabbi Itzhak Yeruslavsky, a Chabad leader from Israel, Moshe started crying and calling out "Mommy, Mommy." He refused to be consoled and was finally taken outside.

In a voice choked with sobs, Rivka's father, Shimon Rosenberg, who is the Chabad rabbi of Afula, said: "The Lord gave, the Lord took away, blessed be the name of the Lord,"
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#76 Postby cycloneye » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:34 am

MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- Indian authorities Wednesday defused a bomb at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station -- one of the first locations targeted in last week's terrorist siege, authorities told CNN's sister network in India, CNN-IBN.

Security officials told the network that the location of the bomb at the station, formerly known as Victoria Terminus, was provided by Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, who is in police custody and who has been identified as the only surviving gunman.

The officials said the explosive device was made from RDX, a powerful explosive. Four other RDX bombs planted during the well-coordinated attacks have also been defused and police believe there are no more, the officials said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiap ... index.html
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#77 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:50 am

cycloneye wrote:MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- Indian authorities Wednesday defused a bomb at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station -- one of the first locations targeted in last week's terrorist siege, authorities told CNN's sister network in India, CNN-IBN.

Security officials told the network that the location of the bomb at the station, formerly known as Victoria Terminus, was provided by Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, who is in police custody and who has been identified as the only surviving gunman.

The officials said the explosive device was made from RDX, a powerful explosive. Four other RDX bombs planted during the well-coordinated attacks have also been defused and police believe there are no more, the officials said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiap ... index.html



People may think it was terrible that the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammad, was waterboarded to force him to give up details on planned terror attacks that probably saved American lives, but I'd prefer live Americans to comfortable terrorists, and I have no problems with whatever means of interrogation the Indian military needed to get the information that saved probably one hundred or more Indian lives.
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#78 Postby somethingfunny » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:20 pm

Ed Mahmoud wrote:Captured terrorist- we were trained and supplied by the Pakistani Navy

From what I've read, India has superior conventional and nuclear forces. It might be time to destroy Pakistan as a base for Islamic terrorism once and for all, or at least blockade Pakistani ports, and selectively target ISI facilities in Pakistan.

Islam recognizes only force. See Osama bin Laden's "strong horse" theory. Restraint is seen as weakness. There is no Christian or Gandhian concept of "turn the other cheek".

If India does nothing, there will be more attacks.


Seems more likely to me that the terrorist was trained to SAY he was trained by Pakistan's Navy.

The purpose of terrorism is to influence government policy through violence as opposed to politics. While the immediate goal here might have been simply to kill as many "infidels" as possible....don't you think the ultimate goal would be the instigation of a nuclear war?

This inflammatory rhetoric between Pakistan and India is playing right into global Islamofascism's plans in my opinion.

On the other hand, you're right- there will be more attacks if India doesn't attack Pakistan....these b****ds have been trying to start the ultimate war for over a decade if you haven't been paying attention. The attacks will only get more and more atrocious until they get what they want. That's why the only thing India can do is get serious about their homeland security measures. The onus is on Pakistan to do whatever it takes to destroy the terrorists within their own borders....on their own. Indian involvement can only destabilize a very unstable relationship between those two nuclear-armed nations.

Watch how quickly it all hits the fan worldwide once the first nuclear attack since 1945 is launched. The goal here was not simply the murder of 200 (or even 5,000) innocent people. The goal of Islamic Extremism is Armageddon. We must destroy them, but we can't afford to make any mistakes.
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#79 Postby Aslkahuna » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:07 pm

You realize that the terms Islamofascist and Islamic Extremism are not Politically Correct in many countries including the US because they offend the practitioners of that so called religion. By the foregoing you can see what I think about that nonsense.

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#80 Postby HurricaneBill » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:43 am

Aslkahuna wrote:You realize that the terms Islamofascist and Islamic Extremism are not Politically Correct in many countries including the US because they offend the practitioners of that so called religion. By the foregoing you can see what I think about that nonsense.

Steve


Not to mention that several of the victims at the train station were Muslims.
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