Comments on: Whodunnit?: Thinking aloud about the Mumbai terrorist attacks

By: rAGHAV

rAGHAV — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:18:07 +0000

Pakistan was created by the British to ensure that India stayed in a state of civil war after the colonial masters left. The intelligent services of Pakistan are CIA trained and funded, and have used Pakistan as a means of lunching attacks on India.

By: ps ray

ps ray — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:51:57 +0000

Naxalites target government interests in their own backyard where they operate from. And they do not commit suicide attacks nor is their mission to kill as many civilians as possible. The Mumbai attack is a suicidal attack even though no suicide bombs were used. It was more like kill as many people as possible before you get shot. Atleast one of the captured terrorist was a Pakistani. All the pictures of them suggested they are rather young which is a striking trademark of Islamic terrorists. You can’t guess the group involved by analyzing the method of attacks at a very high level. Civil airplane attacks were a first for 9-11. There is a first for everything. Terrorists stay one step ahead. All the terrorist attacks in India thus far that targeted the common public mercilessly are linked to Islamic Terrorists operating from within or outside India.

By: George Washington

George Washington — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:23:37 +0000

Who they were and what their reasons were does not matter in the corporate media. This was a great thanksgiving gift to the Terror Spin-Meisters who will turn this into a Muslim-Dr. Evil bad guy event. One thing for sure- A leftist attack against a financial district will not be reported honestly. no way, no how. The phone call to Pakistan thing is hysterical- keep telling yourselves that!

By: tas

tas — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:12:10 +0000

I disagree that the 9/11 attacks weren’t in the AQ MO before 9/11 because one facet of them was: suicide bombing. They found a new way to stage a suicide bombing, but the origins of that attack could be directly traced to previous Islamist methods of operation. Even the fact that 9/11 was a bombing can be traced to the 1993 WTC attacks, which was also a bombing. One was with a truck and one with planes, the latter had never been done before, but both attacks, never the less, were bombings.

I think this further highlights the difference between 9/11, post-9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Mumbai attacks. This was not a suicide operation or simply a few bombings. This was a military-style operation. So it’s reasonable to ask if any government’s military is involved in it — or to ask what military these terrorists used to be apart of. Because some of them have to be at least ex-military from somewhere.

As for why the majority of causalities are Indians, Mumbai has a population of 13 million. If we knew the populations of traveling Americans, Israelis, and Brits at the time of the attacks and turned the causality figures into percents, I’m sure the percent of foreigners killed would be much higher. Let’s say there are 100 Indian causalities: 100 / 13,000,000 = .00000769. But if there were, say, only 1000 Americans in the city and 5 of them died, 5 / 1000 = .005. The causality numbers look a lot different in that light.

By: The Heretik : Starry Eyed Again

The Heretik : Starry Eyed Again — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:32:46 +0000

[...] we were so busy worrying about Iraq and the terrorists there. . . . Given the history, the surprise may be how events in India did not happen sooner. Toss in two nuclear powers, ethnic, and sectarian [...]

By: Manu

Manu — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:55:02 +0000

Thinking is futile when your information set is puny. Before 9/11, the MO of flying planes into buildings was not AQ.

Tough to say who exactly it is yet. We know that they are muslims and cops have traced phone calls to Karachi.

Also – of the 125+ casualties only 10 odd are non-Indians.