Mumbai Attacks

[smeaglegolum]

Shchinese Id**t refrain from posting stupid posts here. You worry about your chinese brothers.

 

[dr.umer]

Shadowy Mujahadeen target Hindu-Muslim divide​

27 Nov 2008

The spectacular terrorist attacks in Mumbai are the latest in a series of assaults that are straining relations between Hindus and Muslims and threatening to aggravate tensions between India and Pakistan.

While no one is certain yet exactly who is responsible, one possible suspect is the Indian Mujahedeen, a group that emerged about a year ago.

It has claimed responsibility for a series of previous attacks, including one in the city of Ahmedabad on July 26 in which the attackers caused an explosion in the city's crowded old quarter, then set off car bombs at the hospitals where victims were being taken. Another attack in the Rajasthani city of Jaipur took 60 lives in May. Some of the bombs were carried on bicycles.

The group has typically sent e-mails to news organizations giving just a few minutes warning before its attacks. They claim to be driven by various injustices to Muslims, such as attacks on Muslim residents of Ahmedabad in 2002.

Little is known about the group that reportedly took responsibility for yesterday's attacks, the Deccan Mujahedeen.

The Deccan Plateau is a huge terrain covering much of southern India.

But there is speculation it may have links to the Indian Mujahedeen. That group, in turn, has been linked to the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, which the Indian government outlawed in 2001.

In an account this fall, which was questioned by a skeptical Indian media, police said that Indian Mujahedeen had recruited disgruntled Muslims from north India, enlisting them from a region known for providing criminals for the Mumbai mafia.

In recent months, the mysterious attackers have hit centres from Delhi to Bangalore to Surat, claiming more than 200 lives this year. India's Home Ministry reports that there have been 64 bomb attacks in the past six months alone.

As recently as Sunday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was calling for urgent action against the terrorist threat. "I only wish to emphasize here that time is not on our side," he said.

Most of the attacks have been against so-called soft targets such as markets and religious sites.

Yesterday's attacks differed from the others in that the attackers singled out two luxury hotels frequented by foreigners, seeking out foreign nationals and reportedly taking some hostage in an apparent attempt to terrorize overseas visitors and perhaps disrupt India's booming trade with the outside world.

It was also much more sophisticated than most previous attacks. While earlier attackers usually used crude improvised explosives, these ones had automatic weapons and grenades.

"You have a huge group of dedicated gunners who have been trained to go into these hotels," said Reva Bhalla, an expert with the private intelligence company Stratfor.

"These things take a lot of co-ordination. They were very well armed and they had a plan."

The attack recalled an assault by Kashmiri militants armed with automatic weapons on the Indian parliament in New Delhi in 2001.

The Mumbai attacks are bound to strain Hindu-Muslim relations as Hindus blame Muslims and Muslims complain they are being unfairly accused of harbouring extremist sympathies.

India's roughly 150 million Muslims often complain that they are second-class citizens, most of them poor and many discriminated against by their Hindu neighbours. But so far, few have gravitated to the cause of international jihad.

The nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, has accused the coalition government, led by Mr. Singh's Congress Party, of being soft on terrorism.

BJP politicians and other Hindu nationalists often argue that Muslims are conspiring to take over or undermine the predominantly Hindu country.

In fact, at least some of the terrorists appear to be Hindu. This month, police arrested 10 Hindus associated with a group, New India, suspected of plotting one bombing.

The Mumbai attacks are also expected to aggravate relations between India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947. India blames most terrorist attacks on militant groups based in Pakistan or Bangladesh.

When a suicide bomber killed 41 people in an attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul in June, India said that Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, was to blame.

 

[shchinese]

Shchinese Id**t refrain from posting stupid posts here. You worry about your chinese brothers.

pure nationalism gets you nowhere.

you are comfortably sitting in your home in the US, while your poor brothers are fighter terrors using those WWII rifles. at the same time, the current regime of India are spending big $$$ on aircraft carriers which even Japan/Korea (the biggest two ship builders in the world) doesn't have one.

 

[smeaglegolum]

pure nationalism gets you nowhere.

you are comfortably sitting in your home in the US, while your poor brothers are fighter terrors using those WWII rifles. at the same time, the current regime of India are spending big $$$ on aircraft carriers which even Japan/Korea (the biggest two ship builders in the world) doesn't have one.

This is not time for comparisons. If you want to do open a different thread and do there. Don't bring off topics here.

 

[cqjjccwj]

Support for India! Must eliminate these terrorists！

 

[s90]

I never even saw these type of guns in PK

Terror attack planned by Lashkar

They dont look like Jihadis,clean shave wearing western clothes

 

[dr.umer]

Europe plans to send plane to Mumbai: Spanish consul​

27 Nov 2008

MADRID: European nations plan to send a plane to India to fly their citizens out of Mumbai, where coordinated attacks by Islamic militants left at least 100 dead, Spain's consul in the city said Thursday.

"I know that there are two initiatives: one from the Spanish government to send a plane, and an initiative on the European level to send a larger plane to allow all Europeans to travel," Cesar Alba said on Spanish National Radio.

Alba said all Spanish nationals in Mumbai had been located, with about 20 having taken refuge in the Spanish consulate.

Spanish media reported that two Spaniards were hurt in the attacks.

The head of the Madrid regional government, Esperanza Aguirre, escaped unhurt from a shootout at her hotel in Mumbai, a government spokesman said. She was to arrive back in Madrid on Thursday morning.

Officials said at least 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the gun and grenade attacks across India's financial capital that began late on Wednesday.

Army commandos laid siege Thursday to two luxury hotels where gunmen held foreign guests hostage.

 

[ejaz007]

Terror attack planned by Lashkar


New Delhi: Ten people reportedly sneaked into Mumbai via the sea route from Karachi and carried out a pre-planned and well-orchestrated strike in India under the aegis of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit.

A report on Times Now quoted intelligence agencies as saying that the timing of the terror attack coincided with efforts at peace talks between the newly elected regime in Pakistan and the authorities in India.

The militants reportedly used speed-boats to get from the coast of Karachi to Mumbai and then spread out into the southern part of the city and spread mayhem around the central business district by storming two major hotels and opening indiscriminate fire at several places.

The report quoted the intelligence agencies as saying that this information came from one of the captured terrorists after last night's heist in India's financial capital that saw more than 87 people lose their lives and 200 being injured with a few hostage dramas continuing for nearly 12 hours.

The report also said that there was no group called the Deccan Mujahideen and the e-mail has been traced back to a fictitious IP address in Russia. It said that the hawkish elements in Pakistan stage-managed this terror attacks to coincide with the visit of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was to visit Chandigarh today in the company of his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, a trip that has since been cancelled.


Terror attack planned by Lashkar - National News ? News ? MSN India - News

Business as usual. ISI sends a ship to mumbai to offload terrorists and then returns to Karachi while your navy was in bed fast a sleep. From this it seems your navy works 9 to 5 and not like a dedicated armed force 24 hours a day.

Things are proceeding the way I have already stated towards a standoff.

 

[ejaz007]

US agencies monitoring India attacks
Updated at: 1415 PST, Thursday, November 27, 2008


WASHINGTON: The U.S. administration is continuing to monitor a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai but said it was not aware of any American casualties, despite reports that Westerners were targeted.

The Justice Department said the FBI was monitoring the situation closely and was prepared to offer assistance if Indian authorities asked for it but said it had not yet received such a request.

At the State Department, deputy spokesman Robert Wood said all official Americans were safe and accounted for at the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai, which also is known as Bombay. He could not address reports that Westerners may been targeted in the attacks or were being held hostage.

US agencies monitoring India attacks

 

[sunny_aus]

Yeah right, didn't you guys claim the same in Samjhota Express blast?
Guess who else was responsible?

It’s common sense Neo. Friendship and terrorism can’t continue together. Terrorism may be a just business for Pakistan either in Afghanistan or in India but it all takes lives.

Every major terror threat involves Pakistan: CIA

WASHINGTON, Nov 14: CIA director Michael Hayden has warned that every major terrorist threat confronting the world has ties to Pakistan.

In a speech to the Atlantic Council on Thursday, Mr Hayden also claimed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding in Fata.

Every major terror threat involves Pakistan: CIA -DAWN - Top Stories; November 15, 2008

 

[dr.umer]

Euro MP caught up in armed hotel siege​

27 Nov 2008

North West Euro MP was among guests under siege in their Mumbai hotel during an attack by gunmen.

Sajjad Karim, speaking by mobile phone from a barricaded basement room, said he and others had fled from machine-gun fire and had no idea why the hotel was targeted.

He said: "I was in the lobby of the hotel when gunmen came in and people started ADVERTISEMENT running. There were about 25 or 30 of us.

"Some of us split one way and some another. A gunman just stood there spraying bullets around, right next to me. I managed to turn away and I ran into the hotel kitchen and then we were shunted into a restaurant in the basement. We are now in the dark in this room and we've barricaded all the doors. It's really bad."

Mr Karim is part of a delegation of Euro MPs visiting Mumbai ahead of the forthcoming EU-India summit.

He said that as he ran from the lobby, he saw people falling but did not know the extent of any casualties. He said it seemed to be a "random attack".

Mr Karim defected from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives in the European Parliament a year ago.

The attack was one of at least seven co-ordinated around the city at luxury hotels, a station and a tourist restaurant.

A senior police officer said several people were wounded, and police were fighting the gunmen. He said "the terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed. The encounters are still going on and we are trying to overpower them."

The gunmen's targets included two luxury hotels, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark. Mr Karim was staying at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai.

 

[ejaz007]

Hostage crisis end at Taj Hotel, 40 bodies found
Updated at: 1405 PST, Thursday, November 27, 2008


MUMBAI: The hostage drama in Mumbai’s landmark Hotel Taj has ended as 40 bodies have been recovered during the rescue operation.

According to Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) A N Roy, all the hostages inside Taj have been rescued. However, hostage-like situation at Trident hotel continues. Meanwhile, two explosions were heard from the hotel.

Even at the Nariman House, many people are feared to be taken as hostages.

Nine foreigners are among the 100 killed in the attack that also left over 300 people injured.

Hostage crisis end at Taj Hotel, 40 bodies found

 

[Flintlock]

There is an unprecedented sense of unity across the country.

Both the government and the opposition are working together, and L K Advani promised to cooperate with the Prime Minister and stand alongside him as he handles this crisis.

The crowds near the Taj Mahal Hotel were chanting "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Jai Hind".

 

[thorosius]

Truly a human tragedy!

I wanna say two things:

1. Considering the scale of the attack, where the hell was all the Hindustani security establishment etc? Probably busy in Afghanistan or taking a "co-ordinated" nap. They should disband their RAW, military and other organizations. Use the money to feed the millions of hungry inside their country. That would be a far better use of the money.

2. Already, Hindustani news is blaming Pakistan for these. And without any investigation. Its like a deja-vu. Americans after hours of 9-11 blamed Osama bin Laden, while FBI still has Osama listed as a suspect. Seems like Hindus have imported more than weapons from their American masters. (Or perhaps Americans imported the technique from Hindus)

You guys should better try to sooth the greviences of minorities inside India and your neighbours. While you are at it try to improve your human rights record too. You won't have to see days like these again.

And a word of advice: Stop messing inside other countries, its always bad for the health. Live with peace if you can.

 

[s90]

Indian Navy woke up this morning:

Coast Guard hunts for suspected terror ship

MUMBAI: The Coast Guard on Thursday launched a major search for a ship 'M V Alpha' by which the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks are
suspected to have reached the shores of the metropolis.

Two aircraft, choppers and Coast Guard vessels have been pressed into service to find the ship, a Coast Guard spokesman said.