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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 6:42:24 PM
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todd_t
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Any info on who is responsible?
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 7:33:44 PM
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Any info on who is responsible?
Apparently a group called the Deccan Mujahideen.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 7:36:40 PM
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Sri-Lankan, or a pack of Al Qaeda wanna-be's?
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 7:37:08 PM
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Any info on who is responsible?
One of my first thoughts after hearing about the incident was "how will they blame Bush for this one"?
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 8:16:04 PM
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Jhud
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Sri-Lankan, or a pack of Al Qaeda wanna-be's?
From what I have been reading they appear to be similar to the Indian Mujahideen, or Lashkar-e-Taiba from Pakistan.
I have no idea, but it seems certain they are large, well coordinated, and well funded.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 9:01:11 PM
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I also read that the stated name of the organization may be false in a ploy to throw Indian officials off their trail.
Whoever they are, they don't sound like a group of morons who cooked up this plan in a garage. They also clearly used surprise to their advantage.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 9:14:01 PM
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so sad. I just don't understand why no many how many times terrorism strikes...no matter how angry or hopeless a person is...to kill? To take innocent lives?
I work with a lot of Indians so I have been hearing about this all day. I have invitations to go to India and Mumbai was a destination I wanted to go to. Such a beautiful culture marred by this strife.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/26/2008 9:39:42 PM
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It is very sad. We live in a very evil world. Try to look at it from God's perspective. How do people think that He sees it because that is the right and only true way to look at it?
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/27/2008 3:48:31 AM
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Awful, let's all pray for the people affected by this.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/27/2008 3:47:24 PM
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'Just got word from Yahoo! News that the Taj Hotel is finally secured by Indian authorities/special forces; now it seems the other hotels/locales seriously hit by Deccan Mujihadeen wit be seriously dealt by the NSG (National Security Guards) and India's Marine Commandos (a.k.a. Marcos).
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/28/2008 9:08:18 AM
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Sri-Lankan, or a pack of Al Qaeda wanna-be's?
With the sketchie reports it is difficult to tell, but from what I have gleaned so far they are either Al Qaeda wanna-bes or a branch of Al Qaeda.
One of the folks arrested is a Pakistani national.
I am sure that with India's "Humane" interrogatikon tatcits they will find out who is responsible.
Personally I would think that the teooroist seeking out U.S. and U.K foks would tend to point towards Al Qaeda, as the Sri Lankan rebels tend to be more intent on destroying the Indina Government and thier control over Sri Lanka.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/28/2008 9:02:13 PM
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I am sure that with India's "Humane" interrogation tactics they will find out who is responsible.
If they can bag any of the terrorists alive.
I heard this afternoon that some of them were working as kitchen staff at the Taj Hotel in order to infiltrate the building, and get as much intel as possible on its layout. It seems this attack had been in the planning stages for some time.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/29/2008 2:36:05 AM
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I heard this afternoon that some of them were working as kitchen staff at the Taj Hotel in order to infiltrate the building, and get as much intel as possible on its layout. It seems this attack had been in the planning stages for some time.
Gee, I wonder if the same type of thin could happen here in the USA? Nah... Not with an Obama adminsitration and a majority democrat congress. Why, the rest of the world is going to love us because of our comapssion..... 
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/29/2008 3:19:39 AM
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Latest updates concerning the terrorist siege of Mumbai:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_india_shooting
It seems that they got the last of the Deccan Mujahideen guys; now it seems to be daunting task of recovering the slain--including two Synchronicity members, and a rabbi. 
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/29/2008 11:20:43 AM
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This can happen anywhere and even right now before Obama comes into office. Americans are far more focussed on the bottom line than on security, and always have been. More and more employers are hiring temp staff workers so that they do not have to offer benefits or pay wages/payroll taxes, and temp agencies are not exactly interested in or set up for national security screening on laborers. If employers need workers, they deliver them and that's how they get paid.
In particular, hotel industry jobs are low-wage and high turn-over, and thus far more accessible to anyone wanting to set up a terrorist attack. Most of the employees are foreign nationals, and probably most of those are illegals with false work permits/id/etc. The hotels are not interested in checking to see if an employee's credentials are real or not- that's why they go thru temp agencies. They just need someone on the floor doing the job, and it's the temp agency's responsibility to check people out.
This is a very real threat regardless of who is in the Oval Office. And unless Americans are willing to pay for the increased Homeland Security, CIA, and FBI staff and equipment needed to better police temp agencies and resident aliens as well as home-grown terrorists in general, it will continue to be a very real threat.
It appears to be muslim terrorists who were striking at India as an ally of the US, the UK, and Israel. Reports are still sketchy but the dead at the Jewish center are reported as the rabbi, his wife, and possibly some children. Their son Moshe, was saved by the nanny who ran out with him as the attack started.
India is not as religiously tolerant as the US and there have been years of clashes between Hindus and Muslims, and for the past decade or so attakcs by Hindu extremists on Christians- especially since the Dalit- the Untouchables- have chosen Christianity over Hinduism for the spiritual freedom offered by faith in Jesus. With this event, I am afraid that there will be renewed and increased violence between Hindus and Muslims in India, and this can be an explosive tragedy beyond what it has already been.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/29/2008 5:24:40 PM
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Gee, I wonder if the same type of thin could happen here in the USA? Nah... Not with an Obama administration and a majority democrat congress.
What are you talking about? Who has ever said that America is terrorism-proof under any administration?
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/29/2008 5:49:02 PM
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If they can bag any of the terrorists alive.
I heard one report that they had three caught alive, but the news at the present is so sketchey that one just cannot put much stock in it.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 11/29/2008 5:55:00 PM
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Gee, I wonder if the same type of thin could happen here in the USA? Nah... Not with an Obama administration and a majority democrat congress.
What are you talking about? Who has ever said that America is terrorism-proof under any administration?
I think we have done will for over seven years, but with the promised cut back on survelance and interrogation techniques that Obama has pormised; who knows.
I also think that the knowledge that the terrorist had that Bush would definately come after them, they have held back on attacking us. I mean I do not think anyone can legitamately say that it has been a good seven years for Al Qeada.
If they think that Obama will just sing Kum-Ba-ya; then we may well be in for some of our own disasters.
I can only hope that all of Obama"s peacenik type rhetoric was just that; rhetoric.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 12/1/2008 1:35:21 PM
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Sri-Lankan, or a pack of Al Qaeda wanna-be's?
No matter what you call them, they are MUSLIM.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 12/1/2008 2:00:37 PM
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Yes they are moselms, but they are (in this instance) more Pakistanis. The group they seemed to be from was one dedicated to seperating the kashmere province from India and joining it to Pakistan.
Our (Messianic Jewish) congregation has drafted a letter to the rabbi of the local Chabad-Lubavich house expressing our condolences on the Chabad rabbi and his wife being killed by the terrorists in Mumbai.
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RE: Terrorists strike in Mumbai India - 12/1/2008 2:09:07 PM
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Just the DAY BEFORE the attacks happened...I had gotten in the mail a magazine, and noticed a full-page ad for the Taj Mahal Hotel in it......thought it looked pretty neat. I had never heard of it before.
Then, the next day...this happened.
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