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Breaking news: Mumbai attacked
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A group of gunmen has set off a series of attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital. They have taken hostages at two luxury hotels, one of which has suffered at least one massive explosion and is now on fire. Approximately 80 deaths have been reported so far. Reports say that the attackers were targetting people with American or British passports.
The obligatory CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/india.attacks/index.html
A group calling itself "Deccan Mujjahadin" has sent e-mails claiming responsibility, but there doesn't seem to be much information about them.
The obligatory CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/india.attacks/index.html
A group calling itself "Deccan Mujjahadin" has sent e-mails claiming responsibility, but there doesn't seem to be much information about them.
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both, i imagine.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/19/somalia.pirates/index.html
It's possible but given the history of India it's unlikely. There has been a steady rise in bombings in India of late.
Whee, assholes taking advantage of the world being too busy to help other parts of the world.
Possibly. Given the sheer scope of the attacks it really feels like the ISI, Pakistan's Intelligence service, is pulling the strings. Relations between the two countries is getting better which always seems to piss off the ISI and they do have a history of supporting terrorists in India. And this is extremely impressive for a group that no one has heard of before.
MSNBC just had an expert on who estimated from the various descriptions of weapons and explosives it probably only cost that about 5k for materials and transportation. As far as planning and setting up a time table...yeah, the Pakistani intelligence service seems the likely culprit. With simultaneous, multiple attacks on this scale they would have needed a certain degree of expertise to pull it off.
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Al-Qaeda doesn't have much in the way of ties to Islamic groups in India. They already have a source of funding and support via the ISI. A lot of them already have support structures in place and that's really what Al-Qaeda brings to the table for smaller terrorist groups.
What I heard was that he wasn't directly targetted, but he was on the scene with the initial police response to the bombings and then the terrorists attacked the police positions with automatic weapons.
Well primarily those are conflicts between the local Muslim, Hindi and Sikh populations. Stuff targeting westerners is not terribly common.
Sure, then all the little regional independence movements that float about the periphery.
I think the bigger thing about this for me was more that the news actually went over just how much shit has gone down in India in this year alone that I had no idea about. Of course there's also the downside here that it's being speculated this is the start of an internal Islamic extremist insurgency in India, rather then people crossing from Pakistan.
Also I don't know about the 9 simultaneous attacks thing - strictly speaking, in the age of the cellphone this isn't really too difficult to accomplish although I suppose it does imply a level of intelligence and consideration of their plans which makes these guys more dangerous.
EDIT: Also:
I'm calling BS on this. There's a reason you go after westerners, so this is certainly not their primary tagline.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
That's what I originally read through yahoo. Which I suppose would be AP?
Then I continue reading and find that India is actually pretty familiar with terrorist attacks.
So it took a focus on attacking foreigners to draw my attention to it.
Haha I was thinking about this. By paying so much attention, we "give them what they want." In other words, rewarding the terrorists for their actions. On the other hand, though, you can't just ignore it like it's a 2-year-old's tantrum.
"Just ignore him. He'll stop killing hundreds of people eventually."
However,
They're also saying over 100 people have been killed, and 287 injured.
That's weird. Historically the Deccan has been the staging ground for Hindu fundamentalists.
Maybe there is some other meaning of Deccan I'm not aware of.
most media outlets distinguish between american lives and third world lives.
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The Deccan is pretty damn big with room enough for all kinds of craziness, and there are various million+ concentrations of Urdu speaking Muslims, especially around/in Hyderabad (where there was a strong Muslim ruled state up until 1947).
that is a lot of bad news.
My aunt is in India to see her swami.
We lost contact with her two days ago.
I have to admit I am rather worried.
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Also, is it westerners or people with British/American citizenship, the news has been pretty unclear on this?
Isn't it normal for a government to send troops to disaster (manmade and otherwise) areas to keep looting down? Wouldn't a historic hotel be loaded with lootables?
Hello! This made the news a month ago and had double the body count.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26950301/
There was another stampede a month before that, killing 140.