Posted on 11/26/2008 9:39:53 AM PST by Indian_Fighter_Kite
Motive? They hate infidels. India has been on the recieving end of more Muslim jihad in the last several hundred years than any other country.
Sadly, it would seem that is true. I hated Clinton, but you have to hand it to the jerk, he was POTUS right up until the minute Bush raised his hand and took the oath...remember the mad dash he was making everywhere in AF1 right up until the 11th hour.
It’s the “Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel” and the tower is the new part of the hotel that was built in 1973. From photos I’ve seen it seemed like the tower had at least 20 floors but I don’t know if that’s what the report is talking about.
So do we have a foreign source providing the munitions from offshore to internal Indian Muslim terrorists ? Great way to get some firepower into an internal insurgency. Bring the ammunition by cover of night. Silent and deadly. Have the terrorist get around town with no weapons. They then go to the preassigned boat depot locations. Locked, loaded and ready to roll within 1 mile of target.
Might see more of this around the world, unfortunately. No way to defend against it. Many Italian coastal communities hundreds of years ago were forced to just move inshore away from the pirates infested coastline. Combine that with a local insurgency and we all may be having a world of hurt coming our way.
“Serious interrogating” was me being sarcastic ;)
Grenade went off inside the Trident in the last 15 minutes per live feed
Yup, the tower part of the Taj Mahal seems to be around 20+ stories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Exterior-_Gateway_View.jpg
Not saying there are hostages on the 19th floor there, I have no idea, but that tower does seem to have at least 19 floors.
Idiot reporter on NDTV is going to get soldiers killed as well as persons in the Hotel....”ie. I just spoke to someone on the 19th floor...... Commandos have just entered the area and they have now encircled the building....”
Someone needs to nix this feed asap. Insanity!!!!
Unilever statement:
27 November 2008: We can confirm that Group CEO Patrick Cescau, CEO-elect Paul Polman and a number of other senior executives were in Mumbai at the time of the recent attacks.
Patrick, Paul and the rest of their party are all safe and accounted for. We are continuing to work to ensure the safety of all Unilever employees in Mumbai.
Our thoughts are with all those who have been affected by these events.
http://www.unilever.com/ourcompany/newsandmedia/latestnews/mumbai-1108.asp
Colson made a point of mentioning that Obama met with Bush right after his election more over the WOT than anything else.
CNN just had on a couple of bozo “security experts” who were spouting the total liberal line that jihad terrorism is only about economic resentments etc. and that the Obamessiah will be giving them all hope so that should help end terrorism.
I really could not believe that there are self-styled “terrorism experts” who believe such crap, but there they were on CNN.
Car bomb in Kabul-
The only “terrorism experts” are terrorists : (
I use a babel fish whenever I have to listen to CNN. It automatically negates every thing stated by a guest or anchor babe. That typically gets much closer to the truth.
Some good news, thank goodness.
Per live feed- An American- not sure if he was a businessman or DoS person- but he has been in contact with people inside (I think the Trident)
Brit at the Taj said 30-40 diners from resteraunt herded into stairwell while he slipped away, focus on US and UK passports, also tens(?) of EU politicos at hotel for EU/India summit holed up, current status unknown.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-26-india-shooting_N.htm
John McLaughlin underwhelmed me when he was testified before congress and tonight I thought he seemed “off” when he was being interviewed on CNN... I agree with a comment I read elsewhere, CNN really should switch to CNN Europe when this sort of thing happens, their anchoress is clueless what to even ask.
AP headline on CNN ticker: 101 people killed in Mumbai terrorist attacks
If you are talking about the NDTV, that was a Canadian official who has talked to some Canadian citizens in the Trident.
It was all over the news yesterday.
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