Posted on 11/26/2008 9:39:53 AM PST by Indian_Fighter_Kite
Mumbai: At least 15 people have been injured in gunfights between two groups in at least three places in Mumbai on Thursday night.
Details are sketchy but it is believed that two gangs fired at each other at outside CST Railway Terminus, Hotel Oberoi and the popular Café Leopold restaurant in Mumbai.
The first shooting took place near the CST police station
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“The timing is no accident. AQ was politically astute enough to swing the Spanish election, and also to avoid forcing Bush over Kerry in 04.
This is happening on AQ’s schedule, make no mistake.”
no doubt at all about that . . . if these guys are worth their weight in salt they got to know the Indians (and maybe the US, UK and Israel also due to who was targeted) are very likely going to counter, and perhaps heavy handidly; what’s the end game here? I’m with you, I don’t think this is over . . .
heightened viligance and situational awareness is going to be the name of the game for the time being
New Delhi TV just announced that there are more than 100 dead in the attacks.
If we had a nice big list of jihad-related targets in Pak. and elsewhere handy, this would seem to be the appropriate time to take out ALL the trash we can reach, no matter how much libs whine and bleat.
C’mon GW, last chance to clean up terrorist trash....
I’d send the gay marriage mobsters over there, task them with seducing every Red Chinese they could, infect them all and then let the mobsters have their legal weddings as a reward for national service.
I would love to see Bush do that while there is still time.
Wishful thinking...
He’s probably part French.
He’ll hand over the keys to the treasury and run.
this big an operation has almost got to leave an identifiable logistics tail, as mentioned by you guys up thread, particularly if some came by sea, as the reports indicate.
someone’s going to get implicated . . . and God help us if it’s a nation-state (namely one the begins with a “P”)
you know what . . . if this had happened 4 weeks ago, we would be calling McCain “President-elect”
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I just saw that CNN map of the places that were hit,,,
Looks like one end of the city to the other,,,
That tells me that they had safe-houses/ammo dumps,,,
This may be one of those “tests”...
I’m sorry to note that the “80 dead” figure has not changed in at least 4-5 hours, and yet there have been reports of a lot of shooting since then, fires, hostages, etc. Also, reports of 900+ wounded and injured...... it’s hard to believe the death count won’t go a lot higher than 80-100 once they get a handle on the whole situation in daylight, clearing out the hotels, etc.
I doubt this was al-Qaida, simply because it has nothing to do with their professed goals.
India has no troops in Iraq. They’re not pressing the Taliban anywhere.
If it were Kashmiri separatists, they wouldn’t have specifically targeted westerners. Their beef is with India, not the US or UK.
This may be a merely internal Indian thing, but the targeting of Westerners also seems to suggest that’s not right, either.
Until we learn who the attackers were, it’s going to be hard to even determine the motive.
stock markets closed: no trading on bse, nse
TANKS...
CNN is outdoing themselves with blaming this on the US WOT.
No time for this, sorry.
AQ till facts say otherwise.
Ping, make sure you all see this.
I think they still want to draw the U.S. into an ethnic and cultural conflict, and thank God GWB did not take the bait, much as people wanted him to.
This action is in line with that goal, since it involves western victims. They may be hoping that India will actually cooperate more with the U.S., thus inflaming more muslims against India and creating more recruits among the Pakistanis who are still on the fence.
This is not a game of "Tag". It's more akin to Chess.
MEP, Sajjad Karim
That’s so crazy IT JUST MIGHT WORK!!!
No rice?
Practicing for the big one in DC on Jan.20th?
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