Posted on 11/29/2008 10:59:19 PM PST by pillut48
"They were 10 gunmen, well-trained and armed with assault rifles and grenades, officials say. They had scouted their targets ahead of time. The knew the hallways and the basements. They even carried bags of almonds for energy. Police say they were Muslim extremists from Pakistan, and may be tied to India's long-running insurgency in the disputed, largely Muslim, Himalayan region of Kashmir..."
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horrific. no nation should have to endure this
horrific. no nation should have to endure this
“Police say they were Muslim extremists from Pakistan...”
Not completely true...ten so far have turned out to be British citizens who are ethnic Pakistanis.
The Madrassas in Britain seem to be doing a booming business nowadays.
Only 10...wow! I would have thought there were more of them.
“and may be tied to India’s long-running insurgency in the disputed, largely Muslim, Himalayan region of Kashmir...””
Oh so that explains why they were looking for Americans and Jews.
100 percent of the terror dudes were from LONDON?
“100 percent...?”
Um, I wrote that 10 men so far had been identified as British citizens, ethnically Pakistani, and I left out that they were Muslim. I never said “100%”.
Don’t know where you got that!?
Well, there were 10 terror dudes in total
10 out of 10 is 100%.
bump for morning read ....it’s gotten late!
I wonder if the Brits will learn something from this, or only bemoan Indians getting killed, and screw the Jews.
Oh so British!
And we saved their asses for this?
Meanwhile, claims that up to seven of the terrorists could have been British men of Pakistani origin, who had connections to West Yorkshire, were being widely discounted.
Well, if the Pakis are truly moving 100,000 more troops to the border of India, I am sure they are being taken off fighting “insurgents” in the border areas with Afghanistan.
Wouldnt be surprised to see Iran funding part of this either.
“I am sure they are being taken off fighting “insurgents”....”
You mean fighting WITH insurgents right?
Muslims....doesn’t matter where they’re from. As Rush would say, “A tiger is a tiger.”
They could have traveled through Pakistan, which would have created the impression they were from there.
“Muslim extremists” is the operative phrase.
I have a lifetime CCW and I don’t leave the House without Walther.
A holy cow wandered through the hotel kitchen once too often.
I would wait a bit on accepting any of these early data bits as fact. I’m sure it’s possible the ID they were carrying was fake, and even designed to throw blame at other countries of origin.
For me, it doesn’t matter where the individuals were from, so much as it matters where and who their ideology, training, and funding come from. After all, is America to blame for the actions of “American Johnny Taliban” (or whatever his name was)?
ONLY TEN terrorists in Mumbai!?
There has to be more than just ten total attackers. There were so many targets simultaneously hit - there must have been more. Perhaps some escaped and those killed/captured totalled ten.
British passports but trained in Pak. Loyalty to Pak/Islam. BINO.
From what I’ve read (and I’ve read waay more hours than is good for me) there were way more than 10, there were ones in Mumbai already - one was working as a cook in the Taj for 10 months - actually two, IIRC. And two elsewhere in the hotel (IIRC) and a couple had been renting a room or two for some days before hand. 10 men could not have possibly done all this at so many locations.
Add another: ...all this at so many locations, for so long.
It takes more than one shift to run a 60-hour action.
2- A lone demonic gunman killed 32 Virginia Tech students in mere hours. The killing stopped, only after the perp. killed himself. Had there been 10 psychotic gunmen working together, with no intention of killing themselves, what would the damage have been? Let's see, at a minimum: 10 x 32 = 320. Again, such killings could have happened in hours! What would the death toll be if all 10 of the hypothetical campus killers were highly motivated, and fought to the death?
That there weren't a greater number of deaths in Mumbai, is testament (thankfully) to the killers incompetency, and to the pressure applied by the LEO’s and other tactical responders, on the terrorists.
Consequently, I don't still don't see any way that ten terrorists could have secured as many sites for as long as they did.
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